2025 year-end auction review

The Acuitus Commercial Property Annual Auction Report brings together the key trends, numbers and insights from what is shaping up to be a record-breaking year for the UK commercial property auction market.

Drawing on the long-running Acuitus cPad data series, it highlights how investors have navigated a challenging macro-economic backdrop while still deploying substantial capital into well-priced opportunities.

Review contents:

• Market performance at a glance: the headline numbers and what they say about 2025’s momentum.
• Demand hotspots: where buyer appetite has been strongest — by sector, geography and lot size.
• Pricing and yields: how values are evolving across sectors, and what that means for income and value-add strategies.
• Competitive bidding: the locations and lot sizes attracting the most intense interest.
• Auctions evolving: the growing impact of livestream online sales and changing buyer/seller dynamics.
• Portfolio strategy: how auctions are being used for rebalancing and capital recycling.

With easing debt costs, stabilising values, and continued – but selective – appetite for income-producing and value-add assets, we remain cautiously optimistic for market progress in 2026.

The full report can be downloaded here