A few auction properties for you today to whet the appetite!

Here's a lovely 2 bedroom cottage with charm by the bucketload. With plenty of character features, that pretty stone exterior, and that garden with decking and Welsh valley views... this one is perfect for owner occupiers, but also worth a look for investors as well :-)

Ok, who's looking for a project property? This former church in Cheshire not only looks lovely on the outside, it's also great on the inside too, and offers a wonderfully bright interior thanks to loads of natural light pouring in from a multitude of pretty windows

In a first for an East Midlands property auction house, Graham Penny Auctions is TODAY set to launch its first television advert.

The advert, launching on ITV1 East Midlands at 12.45pm in the Loose Women advert break, features an animated Graham Penny explaining the reasons why selling a property by auction could be the way to secure the best deal.

Managing Director Andrew Parker explains: “Graham Penny has been a regular property expert on Homes under the Hammer for over 10 years which has led to him becoming a bit of a local celebrity in the East Midlands, therefore it made sense for him to

People buy at auction for lots of reasons. They may want to move quickly or they could be looking for a plot of land to build on, a repossession, or quite simply they want a quick purchase without the risk of gazumping.

Also, many buyers looking for investments buy at auction as a catalogue full of properties gives them lots of opportunities to choose from.

Buying a property at auction is both exciting and potentially profitable. It avoids all of the lengthy purchasing procedures that you usually have to endure and the risk of everything falling through at the 11th hour. At an auction, as soon

Richard Abbey held John Earles first Land and Property auction of the season. Six very different lots were being offered and to a fantastically over full auction room at Henley Golf & Country Club. With excellent bidding. Richard achieved some remarkable results for the firm’s clients.

Lot 1 – Barn at Salters Lane, Bearley, Stratford-upon-Avon £100,000

This lot started with auction with very strong bidding, with a reserve of £60k this barn achieved a selling price of £100,000.

Lot 2 – Langley, Stratford-upon-Avon £52,000

With a good local interest in this arable/pasture land the bidding took

Sales were brisk at Auction House London’s latest auction (14 April 2016) during which almost £16m (£15,567,480) was raised in sales.

Fears that the introduction of a new 3% Stamp Duty on second homes and buy-to-let investments would dampen the market failed to materialise, and 79% of lots on offer were sold.

These included a number of properties which attracted fierce bidding and sold above their guide price.

Auction House London Director, Jamie Royston said, “We really didn’t know what to expect at the first auction since the Stamp Duty rises were brought in at the start of April. But with

Selling property at one of our future auctions will be cost effective, simple, fast and stress free. If you feel that this method of sale might be right for you, why not get the ball rolling and get in touch for a FREE VALUATION via our PROPERTY ENQUIRY FORM.

Selling at auction also widens the potential market, not only will there be buyers who want to make it their home, there'll also be investors, developers and property dealers interested in buying. In many cases an auction could prove to be the best method for selling your property and not just a last resort.

Some of the benefits of

Auction House - the UK’s biggest auctioneer in terms of lots sold - has recorded its highest performing first quarter in the nine year history of the company.

Between January and March this year, the award-winning auctioneer sold an impressive 729 lots from 939 offered – a figure which is over 14% up (14.3%) on 2015 volumes – representing a success rate of 77.6%, and raising a total of £92.2 million.

Commenting on the figures, Auction House Founding Director Roger Lake said: “This is another set of excellent figures for the brand, helped in no small measure by the hectic push for completions

Leading land broker Aston Mead is advising councils without up-to-date local housing plans in place to act quickly before the Government steps in to write their plans for them.

Local authorities have been given until March 2017 to produce a local plan in accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), which was introduced in 2012.

However, with less than a year to go, recent research suggests that fewer than a third of local planning authorities outside London have an up-to-date NPPF-compliant plan. Aston Mead Land & Planning Director Adam Hesse said: “It’s absolutely

The new levels of buyer demand being seen in the commercial property auction room are helping create unique circumstances in which to sell assets.

The volume of sales at Acuitus’s two Q1 auctions is 70% up on the corresponding period last year and success rates, averaged at 95%, have been similarly buoyed by investor demand.

Acuitus auctioneer, Richard Auterac, comments:

“We are seeing an unprecedented set of market conditions with investors turning to property in increasing numbers because of the broader macro-economic scene and being able to access readily available finance to gear-up their

Property auction house Bigwood, part of the SDL Group, has acquired the largest and most successful auction house in the East Midlands, Graham Penny.

Graham Penny Auctions hold regular auctions in Derby, Leicester and Nottingham and will make the SDL Group’s auction operation the largest in the UK outside of London.

The acquisition will double the total sales of the Group’s auction division to more than £160 million per annum, taking it in to the top four nationwide.

The SDL Group, the national property services group with interests in surveying, valuations, lettings and estate agency, has