Clive Emson Plans its Biggest Online Auction Yet - 6th May 2020

Posted by Clive Emson Auctioneers on 29th April 2020 -

The regional auctioneer will offer 64 lots, covering southern England, the West Midlands and South Wales.

Managing director James Emson said: “Our May auction has a variety of stock, including houses, flats and commercial premises where the property particulars were prepared before the national lockdown. Some of the lots going under the virtual hammer don’t require viewings, such as development sites, ground rents and land.”

Vacant properties can be viewed virtually with walk-through videos and additional photos.

Emson added: “The national lockdown has meant that land and property investors, and agents, are doing even more research online – there is wealth of data and information which can be readily accessed so that bidders can make relatively informed decisions without a physical inspection.”

Sale highlights

The May sale covers Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Essex, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, Kent, London, Norfolk, Surrey, Sussex, Wiltshire and the West Midlands.

Highlights include a converted church house in the South Downs National Park said to have been built for the Duke of Norfolk in the 1880s. The Old Church at The Street, Houghton, near Arundel in East Sussex, is guided at £480,000 to £520,000 and has most recently been used as an antiques shop.

Other lots include a 0.1-acre parcel of land on the edge of a residential area in Cambridge, close to a science park campus (£1,000-plus) and 118 acres of moorland near Liskeard in Cornwall (£35,000-£40,000).

A four-bedroom detached property at Colchester in Essex is guided at £200,000-plus, a 0.77-acre plot of land close to houses in Barry, South Glamorgan (£75,000-£80,000), and a 0.26-acre site near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, with views across open countryside (£25,000-£50,000).

Also for sale is a mixed commercial and residential property at Totland Bay on the Isle of Wight (£450,000-plus), a part-renovated, semi-detached house near Petersfield, Hampshire, with views to the rear over Harting Down on the South Downs Way (£300,000-plus) and a six-bedroom house and former coach house near Cranbrook in Kent (£500,000-£510,000).

A yard with a garage/store between two houses in Plumstead, London, has an estimate of £150-155,000 and a three-storey terraced residential property in Sheringham, Norfolk, half a mile from the coast, is guided at £220,000-plus.

Just over half an acre of land at Godalming, Surrey, is guided at £30,000-plus, a timber bungalow in east Wiltshire, on the western edge of the New Forest (£140,000-£160,000) and a plot of land in a residential area of Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands (£15,000-£20,000).

Clive Emson recorded £14m of sales from its online auction in March, a success rate of 70%.