The first Acuitus auction will take place on February 11th at the Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, Portman Square, London W1 and already includes major instructions from investments funds.

Richard Auterac comments: “We expect the growing momentum of 2015 to continue well into 2016 and having reached a critical volume of transactions we expect our sales to attract wealth managers and IFA’s looking to place client’s funds into direct real estate investments.

Acuitus’s last auction demonstrated the continued growth in investor demand for commercial property which has been evident throughout 2015 with the total amount realised last year rising 19% from 2014 to a record of over £286m. The percentage of properties selling successfully also reached an unprecedented level of 91% overall with sales for institutional and banking client achieving even higher success.

Acuitus auctioneer, Richard Auterac, comments: “December was an emphatic conclusion to our 2015 auctions. Investors were out in force and had an appetite for all the sectors across a wide geographic spread. This included high street retail which as we forecasted, has now started to attract interest from expert investors in the retail sector.”

"Good quality secure income investments were being snapped up by the growing volume of national and international private investors who recognise the convenience of having a wide choice of investments in one catalogue. We feel strongly that this makes it the most efficient and transparent route for placing private equity into commercial real estate.”

“A growing number of major sellers are now favouring our multi-channel Internet-enabled live auctions which are clearly demonstrating their unique ability to harness huge amount of private equity openly and quickly in person, online and by phone."