Auction Categories
The UK auction market covers everything from multi-million pound property to house clearance lots. Find your category below.
Residential Property
Houses, flats, bungalows, and residential development plots sold at auction. Often includes repossessions, probate sales, and properties requiring renovation.
Commercial Property
Offices, retail units, industrial premises, and mixed-use buildings sold at auction. Includes investment lots with sitting tenants and vacant possession sales.
Land & Development
Agricultural land, building plots, development sites, and woodland sold at auction. Ranges from small garden plots to multi-acre sites with planning permission.
Classic & Vintage Cars
Pre-war, classic, and modern classic vehicles typically over 25 years old. Includes barn finds, concours-quality restorations, and rare marques from specialist auction houses.
Vehicles & Transport
Modern cars, vans, motorcycles, caravans, and commercial vehicles sold at auction. Includes fleet disposals, ex-lease vehicles, and seized goods from bailiff sales.
Fine Art
Paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and photography from Old Masters to contemporary artists. Ranges from affordable works under £500 to museum-quality pieces.
Antiques & Collectibles
Ceramics, glass, silver, metalware, rugs, clocks, and general antiques. Covers everything from Georgian silverware and Moorcroft pottery to vintage toys and militaria.
Jewellery & Watches
Fine jewellery, diamonds, gemstones, and luxury watches including Rolex, Patek Philippe, and Cartier. Ranges from estate jewellery to investment-grade pieces.
Wine & Spirits
Fine wine, rare whisky, vintage champagne, and spirits sold in specialist auctions. Covers investment-grade Bordeaux, Burgundy, single malt Scotch, and collectors' bottles.
Furniture & Interiors
Period furniture, mid-century modern, designer pieces, and decorative arts. Includes Georgian to Art Deco antiques plus contemporary designer furniture and lighting.
Industrial Machinery & Plant
Factory equipment, CNC machines, printing presses, packaging lines, and construction plant from business closures and asset disposals. Often sold in bulk or as going concerns.
Agricultural & Farm Equipment
Tractors, combine harvesters, livestock handling equipment, and farm sundries. Includes dispersal sales from retiring farmers and dealer stock clearances.
Electronics & Technology
IT equipment, servers, telecoms infrastructure, audio-visual gear, and consumer electronics. Sourced from corporate refreshes, liquidations, and government surplus.
Fashion & Luxury Goods
Designer handbags, haute couture, vintage fashion, and luxury accessories. Includes authenticated Hermes, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton alongside vintage textile collections.
Books & Manuscripts
Rare books, first editions, maps, autographs, and historical manuscripts. Ranges from incunabula and illuminated manuscripts to modern first editions and signed copies.
Coins & Medals
British and world coins, military medals, orders and decorations, banknotes, and tokens. Covers Roman hoards to modern commemoratives and campaign medal groups.
Musical Instruments
Pianos, guitars, violins, brass, woodwind, and vintage audio equipment. Includes professional orchestral instruments, vintage electric guitars, and recording studio gear.
Sporting Memorabilia
Football shirts, cricket bats, boxing gloves, Olympic collectibles, and sporting art. Includes match-worn items, signed memorabilia, and vintage sporting equipment.
Police & Government Surplus
Seized goods, unclaimed property, lost luggage, and government asset disposals. Includes vehicles, electronics, cycles, tools, and miscellaneous confiscated items.
House Clearance & General
Mixed-lot general sales from house clearances, probate, and deceased estates. The treasure-hunting category where undervalued items frequently surface among everyday household goods.