More than £27m raised for clients in Clive Emson Auctioneers’ first auction of year
HOLE LOT: Named after a previous owner’s love of golf, a house with structural movement at the seaside resort town of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, called Puttas End, fetched £138,000, which was £13,000 above guide price following 17 bids (lot 166). PICTURED ABOVE, the cul-de-sac property was among 177 lots listed in the first online auction of eight this year by Clive Emson Auctioneers, regional land and property auctioneers covering southern England; more than £27m was raised for clients.
Clive Emson Auctioneers bid in the new year with more than £27m raised for clients from 177 lots listed across southern England.
In the first online auction of eight this year, 75% of lots went under the hammer.
“It was a fantastic start to 2026 for us,” said James Emson, Managing Director.
He added: “We were instructed on a number of properties where ownership had remained in the same families for many decades.”
Cavendish Villas at 23-25 Cavendish Street, Ramsgate, Kent, sold for £261,000; it was the first time in more than 100 years that ownership of the freehold building, previously occupied by a firm of solicitors and with 20 rooms over three floors, exchanged hands (lot 11).
In Dover, Kent, a semi-detached house bought in 1957 for £1,700 went for £196,000, which was £41,000 above guide (lot 29).
Let at £38,400 per annum, a mid-terrace house let as a care home in Ilford, Essex, fetched £628,000 (lot 143) while a plot of land at Bury Road, Lawshall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, adjacent a care home, sold for £125,000 (lot 96).
With a rental income of £8,260 pa, a freehold residential investment in Streatham, London, went for £227,000 (lot 3).
In Epsom, Surrey, 12 lock-up garages sold for £241,000 off 24 bids (lot 131) and 11 for £186,000 off 60 bids (lot 27). Last October 29 sold for a total of £333,000 in similar bidding wars and, last July, 11 went for £187,000.
With planning permission to add a two-bedroom house at the back, a mixed residential and commercial investment at 75 Stoke Road, Gosport, near Portsmouth in Hampshire, was bought for £172,500; rents for the shop and the flat had not been increased since the current tenant took up occupancy 22 years ago (lot 85).
An end-terrace house with two bedrooms in Glastonbury, Somerset, fetched £140,000 (lot 125).
In Plymouth, Devon, in a receivership instruction, six flats in need of extensive refurbishment sold for £396,000 following 114 bids, having started at £251,000 (lot 177).
On the outskirts of St Ives, Cornwall, a three-bedroom coach house with four garages and parking went for £209,000 (lot 174).
The next online auction by Clive Emson Auctioneers, in its 37th year, concludes on 26 March, with bidding live from 48 hours beforehand.
Lot entries close on 2 March, with the catalogue online from 5 March.
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