Insight

Investors make steady start to year as auction raises £27.57m

At its first auction of the year, Acuitus raised £27.57m from the sale of 43 properties. Picking up on last year’s trend, private investors continued to target lots of around...

New bridging loan for auction acquisitions

Specialist property lender Octopus Property and Acuitus Finance, have developed a pre-approved, non-regulated bridging loan product for investors who buy at Acuitus auctions. The product is designed to address the...

Catalogue launched for first 2018 auction

The first Acuitus commercial property auction of this year will feature 60 lots and will take place on February 14th. The properties in the auction represent around £3.4m of rental...

New IPF guide to investing into commercial property

The Investment Property Forum has launched a new version of its commercial property investment guide for financial advisers. The guide is intended to provide an objective overview of the attributes of UK...

Final 2017 auction takes Acuitus past £300m

The final Acuitus auction of the year saw the sale of 79% of the investments offered and realised £42m. The firm has now sold more than £300m of assets during...

Catalogue launched as private investor buying booms

The final Acuitus commercial property auction of this year will feature 80 lots and is set to attract the growing number of private investors who are buying through the auction...

HNWIs dominate as October 2017 auction raises £64.09m

Commercial properties that sold for more than £1m were again prominent at Acuitus’s latest auction which raised £64.09m with a success rate of 82%. Acuitus Chairman, Richard Auterac, commented: “Many...

Catalogue launched for October auction

The fifth Acuitus auction of the year on October 19th will feature 96 lots that produce around £6.8m of income. Featuring a wide range retail, office, leisure, industrial and ground...

New Commercial Term Loan from Acuitus Finance

Acuitus Finance has collaborated with a lender to design a new term loan product for commercial investment properties. Designed for small portfolios or single properties, the new loan aims to...

Investors hear about auction prospects

Around 100 investors gathered at the latest Acuitus/MSCI Investment seminar to hear about the market outlook as we head into the final quarter of the year. MSCI’s Luke Pakes gave...

Acuitus appoints new Investment Director

Specialist commercial property auction and investment house, Acuitus, has appointed Peter Mayo as an Investment Director. Commenting on his appointment, Acuitus Chairman, Richard Auterac, said: “The auction sector is attracting...

Is Bridging Finance becoming more attractive?

Bridging Finance has often been seen as an expensive form of finance, which allows property buyers to move quickly to secure properties with a short buying period. Typically, bridging finance...

Larger lots on the increase in sale room

Recent commercial property auctions have highlighted the growing presence of large value lots in the sale room. The latest cPad sector analysis reports that at auctions in May, although the...

Viewpoint: PropTech and Auctions

In his latest EG Viewpoint column, Richard Auterac considers the impact of proptech on the auctions sector: “Auctions should be one of the areas of the property business most amenable...

Acuitus hits 2017 high as July auction raises £52.4m

Acuitus recorded its biggest auction result of the year as the sale of 83% of the lots offered at its July sale raised £52.4m. Of the 67 lots sold, a...