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Acuitus July auction offers £5m of income

The forthcoming Acuitus auction on July 11th will offer 91lots which generate income of close to £5m. With guide prices from £50,000 to £2.5m, the auction will feature properties entered lots...

Acuitus sells £30.7m at May auction

Following a tumultuous few weeks in the press for the UK retail sector, investors at the Acuitus auction on May 24th exercised extreme caution. The auction raised £30.716m from the...

May auction offers 90 lots

The Acuitus auction on May 24th will feature 90 lots representing around £7m of rental income.  Guide prices range from £50,000 to £5.75m with lots being entered for sale by...

Shopping centres value analysis

Analysis of shopping centre values across Europe A special feature by PropertyEU has taken an in-depth look at the European Shopping Centres Market. The article asks the question ‘Are shopping...

Investors target quality as March auction raises £33.5m

Nearly a third of the lots which sold at Acuitus’s second auction of the year achieved yields of 6% or lower as investors continued to target high quality assets. The...

Investors look to year ahead

The latest Acuitus/MSCI Investment seminar reflected on how the auction sector had fared in 2017 and also analysed the first sales of this year. MSCI’s Luke Pakes reported on the...

Catalogue launched for March auction

The Acuitus auction on March 28th will feature 62-lots encompassing retail, office, industrial, ground rent and leisure assets which generate current total rental income of around £3.4m. Guide prices for...

Investors make steady start to year as auction raises £27.57m

At its first auction of the year, Acuitus raised £27.57m from the sale of 43 properties. Picking up on last year’s trend, private investors continued to target lots of around...

New bridging loan for auction acquisitions

Specialist property lender Octopus Property and Acuitus Finance, have developed a pre-approved, non-regulated bridging loan product for investors who buy at Acuitus auctions. The product is designed to address the...

Catalogue launched for first 2018 auction

The first Acuitus commercial property auction of this year will feature 60 lots and will take place on February 14th. The properties in the auction represent around £3.4m of rental...

New IPF guide to investing into commercial property

The Investment Property Forum has launched a new version of its commercial property investment guide for financial advisers. The guide is intended to provide an objective overview of the attributes of UK...

Final 2017 auction takes Acuitus past £300m

The final Acuitus auction of the year saw the sale of 79% of the investments offered and realised £42m. The firm has now sold more than £300m of assets during...

Catalogue launched as private investor buying booms

The final Acuitus commercial property auction of this year will feature 80 lots and is set to attract the growing number of private investors who are buying through the auction...

HNWIs dominate as October 2017 auction raises £64.09m

Commercial properties that sold for more than £1m were again prominent at Acuitus’s latest auction which raised £64.09m with a success rate of 82%. Acuitus Chairman, Richard Auterac, commented: “Many...

Catalogue launched for October auction

The fifth Acuitus auction of the year on October 19th will feature 96 lots that produce around £6.8m of income. Featuring a wide range retail, office, leisure, industrial and ground...