NATIONAL PROPERTY AUCTION CATALOGUE Thursday 30th April 2020 at 10.30am BROADCAST LIVE ONLINE AT WWW.SDLAUCTIONS.CO.UK WITH REMOTE BIDDING ONLY 0121 233 5046 www.sdlauctions.co.uk NATIONAL PROPERTY AUCTION Thursday 30th April 2020 BROADCAST LIVE ONLINE WITH REMOTE BIDDING ONLY CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR TELEPHONE, PROXY OR INTERNET BID Auction commences at 10.30am Lots 1 - 60 Restarts at 2.30pm Lots 61-112 2 | www.sdlauctions.co.uk Closing date for next Auction: 7th May 2020 - Entries Invited MESSAGE FROM THE AUCTIONEER Andrew Parker Managing Director & Auctioneer at SDL Auctions Welcome to our first National Property Auction I would like to start by thanking you all for your continued Our years of experience running auctions across the country support and understanding throughout the lockdown. has shown us that selling a property is often born out of necessity and this crisis is not going to change that. If anything, To have 1,800+ people watch our March auctions live video some sellers will have an even greater need for the speed and feed and have more than 400 remote bidders was fantastic. security provided by an auction sale, maybe due to financial I’m even more delighted to announce we have an amazing 112 issues or bereavement. lots filling the pages of this month’s catalogue. We’re not here to take advantage of people’s difficulties but we Following the success of our live-streamed auctions in March, feel we have a duty to those sellers who need to realise their we have now decided to change the format for our April and assets now, rather than wait for the crisis to pass. We know May auctions and will be holding a national property auction on there will always be demand from investors, regardless of Thursday 30th April and Thursday 28th May. The auctions will circumstances, so we are confident that auction remains the be run via live video feed on our website and with internet, best method for achieving the best prices for sellers in today’s proxy and telephone bidding. market. This will mean we will not hold our regular regional events, Following the government’s advice, we are not currently able to which would have taken place at Nottingham Racecourse, the carry out viewings. Instead, we have set up YouTube playlists AJ Bell Stadium in Manchester, Pride Park Stadium, Villa Park for each of our auctions where we will be posting video tours of Stadium and the King Power Stadium, instead our monthly our properties wherever possible. If you visit our website and national property auctions will feature lots from across the find the property you’re interested in, there will be a button on whole country. the right to view the video tour. I will conduct the auctions alongside my wife Rachael – our East As usual, we have created this auction catalogue featuring all Midlands regional property manager – from the auction studio the lots for sale which can be downloaded as a PDF and viewed at our head office. We will be the only people in the room, so the rules of social distancing will be maintained. as an electronic book on our website. We will not, however, be printing hard copies of our catalogue this time. Just as in a standard room auction, buyers will be able to place bids on the internet, by telephone and by proxy. I will handle I would like to reassure our customers that our team are all proxy bids from the rostrum, Rachael will manage the internet working from home and using our robust phone and email bids and we will have a remote team communicating telephone system which allows us to work remotely and stay connected bids to the auction room via Microsoft Teams. with updates on our lots and auctions. We have broadcast our auctions on live video feeds for many years, managing multiple You can find the remote bidding form at the back of this remote bids each auction day, so our sellers can be assured this catalogue or on our website. is a tried and test way for us to operation our auctions. And what a fantastic catalogue of lots we have on offer for our The SDL Auctions team are working remotely via their usual first national property auction. The locations of the properties telephone numbers, providing the same high level of service illustrate that there are no geographical boundaries when it that buyers, sellers and estate agent partners expect. To find comes to selling with SDL Auctions. What’s more, topping that out more about selling a property, and to request a non-contact magical figure of 100 lots confirms that we are providing a valuation ahead of our next national property auction on much-needed service to sellers, many of whom simply cannot Thursday 28th May, call the team now on 0800 304 7879 or wait until the crisis is over. visit our website at www.sdlauctions.co.uk. *Please see Buyer’s Terms for definition of guide price www.sdlauctions.co.uk | 3 and auction fees MEET THE NATIONAL TEAM Andrew Parker Rory Daly Graham Penny Louise Jefferies Managing Director & Auctioneer Founder & Chief Auctioneer Auctioneer Commercial Director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Vejay Pal Robert Stone Andy Thompson Martin Bond Neal Hume Head of Auctions (West Head of Auctions (East Head of Auctions (North Head of Auction Partners Valuer Midlands) Midlands) West) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Chris Theocharides Carl Finch Laura Wiles Alex Senior Emily Waterland Commercial Valuer Senior Valuer Valuer Valuer Regional Property Manager [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Rachael Parker Sarah Miles Natasha Batik Emma Holness Sally Bull Regional Property Manager Regional Property Manager Property Manager Property Manager Property Manager [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 4 | www.sdlauctions.co.uk Closing date for next Auction: 7th May 2020 - Entries Invited MEET THE NATIONAL TEAM Ally Rowell Lennie Knight Jess Gaunt Alison Jeffery Suky Chana Property Manager Property Manager Property Manager Accounts Manager Administrator [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Margaret Thompson Abigail Selwood Linda Hopkins Sam Rashid Simon Oldfield Administrator Operations Manager Legal Administrator Regional Sales Manager Key Account Director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kate Hutton Chrissie Watterson Jessica Royce Morgan Lee Annabelle Brough Corporate Account Head of Marketing Campaign Launch Business Development Operations Manager Manager Operations Manager Support Specialist [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sara Mosley Gemma Johnson Dean Slack Rachel Clarkestone Kaine Brown Auction Expert Auction Expert Auction Expert Auction Expert Auction Expert [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] *Please see Buyer’s Terms for definition of guide price www.sdlauctions.co.uk | 5 and auction fees FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q. WHAT ORDER WILL THE LOTS BE OFFERED IN? Q. CAN I MAKE AN OFFER PRIOR TO THE AUCTION? A. The Lots are offered as listed in the catalogue A. Yes, some sellers will consider selling prior to the auction but only (Yes we are asked this question frequently!) on the condition that an unconditional contract is exchanged before the auction with a cleared funds deposit. Q. CAN I VIEW THE PROPERTIES BEFORE THE AUCTION? A. We are not currently offering viewings for any of our properties, Q. HOW CAN I MAKE THIS OFFER? however many of the properties now have virtual tours available, A. Offers must be made in writing or by email to which you can view on our website. [email protected]. Verbal offers will not be accepted. Offers may not be acknowledged, but you will be contacted within 7 Q. WHAT IS A RESERVE PRICE? A. A reserve price is the price stipulated as the lowest acceptable by days if your offer is accepted. the seller. This figure is confidential between the seller and Q. CAN I HAVE THE PROPERTY SURVEYED BEFORE THE auctioneer. AUCTION? Q. IS THE GUIDE PRICE THE SAME AS THE RESERVE PRICE? A. Yes, your surveyor must contact us for access. A. No, not always. The guide is an indication given by the auctioneer. Where the guide price is a bracket figure, the reserve cannot exceed Q. DO SOME LOTS NOT SELL? the top end of the bracket price. If the guide price is a single figure, A. Yes, if a reserve price is not reached the lot will not sell. We then the reserve can be up to 10% in excess of this. continue to market most unsold properties after the auction so you may still purchase these lots, however all post-auction sales are Q. HOW DO I REGISTER TO BID AT THE AUCTION? under auction terms. A. You will need to pre-register a remote bid, either a telephone, internet or proxy bid. This can be done by filling out the form on our Q.