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Tuesday, 13 August 2013
New venue for Tudor Estates Network Auction’s September auction
Our September auction will take place at our new national auction room at the Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch on
September 4th.
The move to the famous Cumberland Hotel in the heart
of London’s West End raises Tudor Estates Network Auction’s auction profile
even further and makes it even easier for buyers to attend and bid.
Making it easy for buyers to bid enhances the chances
of a successful sale and online bidding has also successfully been introduced in
addition to in person, proxy and telephone bidding.
Richard Worrall has also joined Network Auctions as Auctioneer
and Partner Development Manager. Richard is a well-known and experienced
auctioneer who will be working with Network Auctions’ partner agents in growing
their auction businesses as well as helping from the rostrum.
The September auction has lots included by seller
clients including lenders in possession, local authorities, executors, PLC’s
and asset managers as well as properties from private individuals and
investors.
This
wide range of sellers ensures an interesting selection of lots including public
houses, family homes, fully let and vacant investment properties, land,
commercial premises and properties with redevelopment potential.
National expertise combined with local knowledge creates
the opportunity for clients to enjoy a successful sale. This combination of
national, local and regional marketing, coupled with good quality advice on
guide prices and reserves, makes for a positive outcome.
The
full catalogue will be available approximately two weeks before the sale.
If
you have a property that you are considering disposing of, David Kirkman of
Tudor Estates Network Auctions will be pleased to discuss the best method of
sale with you.
David Kirkman of Tudor Estates Network Auctions
can be contacted on 01702 346818 or by email at davidkirkman@tudorestates.co.uk
or via their website at www.trustintudor.co.uk
Monday, 22 July 2013
Richard Worrall joins Network Auctions as Partner Development Manager
Leading UK auction house Network
Auctions are delighted to announce that experienced auctioneer and property
professional Richard Worrall has joined them as Auctioneer and Partner
Development Manager.
Richard, who started his career
in estate agency in 1985, was a Director of Thompson Wilson in High Wycombe
between 2001 and 2011 before becoming consultant property auctioneer to the
Property Sharing Experts Group in the West Country. He has also acted as consultant
auctioneer for many estate agents across the UK.
Richard joins Network Auctions to
develop their growing partner agent network and to help provide even greater
communication between members as the organisation looks to build on its
successes and the strong foundations laid to date.
His appointment coincides with
Network Auctions moving their London based auction room to the iconic
Cumberland Hotel in London’s West End.
Toby Limbrick, Director of
Network Auctions said: “We are delighted to secure someone of Richard’s calibre
for this important role within our growing business. Richard has an exceptional
record of developing auction business and of working with estate agents and is ideally
qualified to help us take Network Auctions to a new level.”
Richard Worrall said: “I am
delighted to be joining Network Auctions at this exciting time. They already
have an excellent network of agents with whom I look forward to working and
adding to in the weeks and months ahead.
Our move to the Cumberland Hotel
auction room will help raise our profile even higher and we have exciting plans
for a new auction service that we will be announcing in the coming weeks.”
Richard expects to be very busy
in his new role but, away from the office, likes to play and umpire cricket,
take part in amateur dramatics as well as cook and enjoy the odd glass of real
ale.
Tudor Network Auctions can be
contacted on 01702 346818 or via their website at www.trustintudor.co.uk/auctions
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Tudor Estates Network Auctions new London auction room
Following their highly successful move to holding their
regular auctions at the Glaziers Hall in central London two years ago, Tudor
Estates Network Auctions have announced that they will be holding their future
auctions at the famous Cumberland Hotel at Great Cumberland Place, Marble Arch
in W1, a venue long associated with successful auction sales.
The new location at the Cumberland Hotel is superbly located
in the very heart of London with excellent public transport links and
connections and the facilities at the hotel are first class.
David Kirkman at Tudor Estates Network Auctions said:
“Running our auction sales in Central London for the last two years has proven
to be a huge success as it has opened up our regular sales to an increasingly
large number of potential buyers. Our time at the Glaziers Hall has served us
well but we are now growing at such a rate that we felt it was important that
our auction room and facilities were also upgraded.
The Cumberland Hotel is an iconic venue with a long history
of holding successful auctions and our partner agents, their clients and
potential buyers will benefit from the even greater exposure we will be
creating by this move.”
Auctioneer and Network Auctions Director Guy Charrison
added: “The market exposure for our auction sales is now immense with online
bidding having become an integral part of our offering alongside the
traditional “in the room”, telephone and proxy bidding arrangements.
The move to the Cumberland Hotel adds to this exposure and,
because of its excellent central location, will, I am sure, result in even more
bidders being present in the room at our sales.”
Tudor Estates Network Auctions first sale at the Cumberland
Hotel will take place on Wednesday 4th September at 1pm and Tudor
Estates Network Auctions are now inviting lots for inclusion.
For more
information or to discuss including property in a forthcoming auction, please
contact David Kirkman of Tudor Estates Network Auctions on 01702 346818 or by
email at davidkirkman@tudorestates.co.uk or via their website at
www.trustintudor.co.uk/auctions
Monday, 24 June 2013
Do you have any advice on getting valuations?
The first thing you need to bear in mind is
that valuing property is not – and never can be - an exact science. In the end,
your home is worth precisely what someone is actually prepared to pay for it - and that can be hard for any
agent to predict with absolute accuracy, whatever the state of the market.
That said, some
agents do tend to be over-cautious in their valuations. Others, meanwhile, routinely
over-value - with every intention of talking the vendor into accepting a price
reduction almost as soon as they have won the instruction!
The standard response
to this conundrum, of course, is to get a number of valuations (normally three)
from different agents, and then simply eliminate the highest and lowest in
favour of the one in the middle. Nevertheless, it is not impossible that one of
the other valuations is actually nearer the mark.
So, how do you tell? The important thing is to understand how each
agent arrived at his or her figure. What did they base their opinion on? You
need to see evidence of the prices achieved for similar properties in the area
– known in the trade as comparables. And you need to understand not only the
similarities the agents have taken into account, but also the differences. Is
your home in better or worse condition? Does it possess additional features?
Does its location compare more or less favourably? Also, you need to know the
age of these comparables. Precisely how long ago did those properties actually sell
for those prices? If it was a while, you need the agents to explain what has
changed since, and what adjustments they have made in order to take account of
those altered circumstances.
These days, of course, you can do quite a lot of
checking yourself, online: websites like www.myhouseprice.com and www.ourproperty.co.uk provide data on sale prices gleaned from the Land Registry. However,
you really shouldn’t need to. Any agent worth his or her salt should provide
you with all the evidence to support their valuation, without you having to ask
for it.
So – my advice is to go for the agent who makes the most convincing case for
their valuation – whatever the figure they arrive at!
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