All Guide to auctions supplement articles
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Insight
Q&A: ‘The market will carry on’
Allsop’s George Walker and Richard Adamson tell Daniel McGrath about the auction house’s ballroom return and what’s in store for 2023
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Insight
Reasons to be cheerful: insight into the 2023 auction market
Despite new regulations coming into force and interest-rate hikes hitting the affordability of nance, many experts are upbeat about this year’s prospects for commercial property auctions. Tim Clark reports
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News
Guide to Auctions supplement - March 2023
Auction houses are upbeat about the prospects for 2023 as the market remains resilient; a Q&A with Allsop’s commercial and residential directors on the firm’s return to the ballroom, how ‘Trussonomics’ affected the market and the future outlook.
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Guide to Auctions introduction - March 2023
There’s nothing like a bit of economic uncertainty to shake up the auctions market. On the one hand, it helps create a supply of properties as homeowners and landlords seek quick sales. On the other, it limits the potential number of buyers, with financing becoming more expensive and redevelopment margins ...
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Insight
The remote revolution
Auctions had to move online at the outbreak of Covid-19, but are they set to stay virtual or will ballroom sales return?
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Insight
Q&A: Robin Howeson discusses Savills’ next phase
Head of auctions Robin Howeson tells Property Week what’s in store for Savills’ growing team.
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Insight
Back to the ballroom?
Over the past year, the auctions market has more than proved that it can adapt with the times. While the retail sector is still weighing up the high street’s future and the office sector is frantically encouraging employees to return, auction houses have had a whale of a time.
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Guide to Auctions supplement May 2022
Savills’ new director of national auctions Robin Howeson on how he got into the business, prospects for the firm’s growing team and the wider market outlook - Advantages of the virtual sales format mean few are considering a return to ballroom sales any time soon
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Insight
Why investors are snapping up shopping centres at auction
Shopping centre owners are unloading assets at auction for rock-bottom prices. Jessica Newman finds out about the new generation of investors snapping them up
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Insight
Auction market has proved its resilience
Who would have guessed that more than a year after we were plunged into lockdown that the auction market would prove to be one of the most resilient parts of the property sector?
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Insight
Auction life before and after Covid-19
Property Week assembled some of the UK’s leading auctioneers to talk about the challenges and opportunities created by the Covid pandemic – and how soon we will see the return of ballroom sales
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Online
Crisis brings out the best in people
The Covid-19 pandemic and the need for social distancing has brought about change and upheaval to everyone’s lives, but for auction houses, whose very lifeblood involves a large room filled with lots of people, adapting to a new way of doing things presents a very interesting and unique challenge.
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Online
Robust security is essential to online auction success
The idea of moving property auctions online is not revolutionary. At Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH), we have been carrying out online auctions for more than three years and moved exclusively online with the creation of 574 in January 2019.
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Online
The appetite for auctions remains strong
At the start of the year the auction industry was flying high, with reports of the ‘Boris bounce’ strengthening confidence for both buyers and sellers.
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Online
Changes in seller activity will generate new opportunities
Our auctions are going to play a vital role for commercial property investors in the coming months.
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Markets
Homes Under the virtual hammer
Covid-19 has driven the auction market online. Property Week examines the new normal and asks if we will ever get back to the ballroom.
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Markets
Q&A: Gurpreet Bassi on growth ambitions
Bond Wolfe has made a big splash since it launched in 2019, and Property Week finds out how the business is doing now.
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Insight
A beginner’s guide to buying at auction
As a first-time buyer, attending an auction can be a daunting prospect. Here, Emanuele Midolo provides a survival guide for the uninitiated
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Insight
A beginner’s guide to selling at auction
Preparation is key to a successful sale at auction. In this guide, Helen Crane takes you through the steps you need to take to ensure that your property achieves the best possible price when it goes under the hammer