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What’s going on in the auction world
In 2009, I was working at JLL when the market was still in shock after the Global Financial Crisis and everyone was looking for pointers as to the way forward. In response, JLL produced a research paper analysing what was happening in the commercial property auction market and compared it with the...
In March the highest number of lots was put under the hammer since 2008 (3,263 lots). A decade ago the economy was in the midst of a credit crunch and the auction market saw...
The residential auction sector has certainly gone from strength to strength recently. Ignoring the anomaly of February 2016, when there was an unprecedented spike in transactions...
January is a difficult month for property auctions as there are too few to give any meaningful statistics. Indeed, in January there were just 9 auctions in the UK offering 430...
409 residential lots were offered in January 2018 - a 4% increase on last year (393), but the amount raised dropped by £5 million to £25 million (down 16%). There were no major...
What’s going on in the auction world.
Why there is no cause for concern in the foreseeable future.
An update from the auction world.