AUCTIONnews
CORNWALL
Life’s a beach
It’s time to get the dune buggy out and head for Cornwall
‘The lot comprises
– but not just to any old beach, this could be your very own
beach. Colliers CRE is set to auction Upton Towans Beach at 71 acres of superb
Gwithian, near Hayle in Cornwall. The lot comprises 71 acres
of superb golden beach and five acres of sand dunes.
golden beach and five
What price, surfers paradise? Guide price for the freehold
acres of sand dunes.’
is just £50,000; bargain of the year! Where’s my board?
SWINDON NORTH WEST
Farmhouse achieves £220,000 above guide Winners at
Bidders battling to win ownership in Swindon in June the guide price even when a fair amount of work
Haydock Park
of a Wiltshire farmhouse that had of £800,000 to £850,000 was is required to bring the property up
not been on the market for 76 forgotten as three bidders battled to modern standards.” Countrywide offered
years drove the price beyond £1 to make sure they became the Two parcels of land alongside 28 properties at their
million at auction, far exceeding next owners. After one dropped the house were offered each of June auction and
the estimate. out, the other two continued until about six acres with guide prices 23 were sold, with a
Avon View Farm, at The Star, the fight was won with a bid of of £30,000 to £35,000. Again total sale value of £2,041,500.
Holt, near Trowbridge, is a Grade £1,020,000. there was strong interest, with Mark Tanton, Countrywide
II listed stone built farmhouse with “There was a determined air both eventually going to the same Chief Auctioneer said, “There
eight bedrooms and set in almost of excitement as the auction got local buyer. The first lot, with two was a huge buzz of activity
39 acres of land that goes down underway at the Hilton Hotel,” said access points and a former stable with two and three bedroom
to the banks of the River Avon, auctioneer Kit Harding, of Carter yard, achieved £60,000 (£9,836 properties in most demand.
where there are fishing rights. Jonas. “Clearly, there is very much per acre) and the second, pasture, We continue to see an increase
When it went under the hammer of an appetite for farmhouses £34,000 (£5,397 per acre). in the number of parents
buying properties at auction
in a bid to help their children
to get on the property ladder
while a number of buyers were
happy to pay comfortably
above the guide price as they
still see property as a sound
investment.”
The auction took place at
Haydock Park Racecourse
and the next event covering
properties in the North West
will be on 16 July 2009.
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64 JULY-AUGUST 2009 PROPERTYdrum
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