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Oil well among July auction lots

The catalogue for ourJuly auction features 62 lots with guide prices ranging from £40,000 to £2.1m. The sale will include a variety of properties spanning retail, office, industrial, ground rent...

Sustained buying as May auction raises £27.89m

Sustained buying by private property companies and high net-worth individuals saw Acuitus sell 80% of the lots at its May auction and raise £27.89m. Auctioneer, Richard Auterac, commented: “There’s a...

Large lots feature in May auction

The catalogue for the Acuitus commercial property auction on May 23rd features 10 properties with guide prices of £1m or more. The sale will offer a total of 51 properties...

Buyers look beyond politics as April auction raises £28m

The April Acuitus commercial property auction raised £28m from the sale of 79% of the lots offered as buyers looked beyond the political deadlock surrounding the UK’s exit from the...

Investment seminar focuses on retail and finance

The latest Acuitus/MSCI Investment seminar reflected on how the retail sector – which drives a high proportion of auction room sales – is faring. MSCI’s Luke Pakes reported on the...

Strict investment criteria shapes first auction of 2019

Acuitus got off to a quick start to the year with its first auction selling 23 properties and raising £17.3m in front of a busy and vibrant room of buyers....

cPAD shows how retail dominated 2018

The latest Commercial Property Auction Data (cPAD) Market Flash shows  that in 2018 retail assets comprised their highest proportion of all sales since the start of the cPad series. The...

Acuitus launches first catalogue of the year

The first Acuitus auction of 2019 will feature 46 lots including a wide range of retail, office, industrial, ground rent and leisure assets. The lots produce total rental income in...

Strong final 2018 auction takes Acuitus to £240m

The final Acuitus commercial property auction of the year saw the sale of 59 lots for a total of  £34.89m. This took the total volume of Acuitus sales in 2018...

80 lots in final Acuitus auction of the year

The final Acuitus auction of 2018 will feature 80 lots which produce total rental income in excess of £4.3m. Guide prices for the retail, office, industrial, ground rent and leisure...

Investors broaden buying scope as Acuitus sells £46.25m

The volume of sales completed this year by commercial property auction house, Acuitus, approached the £200m mark as its latest auction raised £46.25m with a success rate of 77%. A...

120 lots in Acuitus October catalalogue

The Acuitus commercial property auction on October 18th will feature 120 lots encompassing a range of office, retail, ground rent and leisure assets. The lots produce income in excess of...

Seminar charts shift in sentiment

The latest Acuitus/MSCI Investment seminar looked at how investor sentiment had substantially shifted between the May and July auctions and how the market had adapted to changing economic conditions. MSCI’s...

cPad – year-on-year sales remain robust

Richard Auterac analyses the Summer round of commercial property auctions. Auctions is a sector laden with statistics but it is only if you study them hard that they begin to...

Acuitus sells £37.3m with 80 per cent success rate

In what was its largest sale of the year to date, the latest Acuitus commercial property auction achieved a success rate of 80% and the sale of £37.3m of assets...