In the beginning of April, we had to opportunity to put on an auction for a property in West Bromwich. The house that stands at 39 Springfield Crescent was rough around the edges, but all this 3-bedroom semi-detached home needed was a buyer with a vision for its potential. Through our hard work and personable…
Category: property
Woks, Wheels and Watches – variety is the spice of life for an asset valuer
In the last three months the Biddle & Webb team has been asked to value a wide range of commercial assets including the machinery in a tyre recycling plant, the contents of a Chinese restaurant and most recently the fittings and tools at a jewellery shop. The instructions typically come from lawyers or other professions…
Asset Valuations – Just about Everything under the Sun
What do wedding dresses, tyre recycling machinery and three barns in a farmer’s field have in common? Not immediately obvious but they are all items Biddle & Webb’s asset valuation team have been asked to value. We supply specialist asset valuations and inventories to predominantly landlords and their advisors usually solicitors or accountants, so they…
How should one value a property – or is it just licking your finger?
I have discovered that the property market is awash with self-proclaimed experts. Recent Biddle & Webb auction successes confirm what, in reality, we already know: in a crowded saleroom, it is ultimately the buyers who set the price when the gavel falls. Our recent sale of an end terrace house on Moor Green Lane is…
Why we never accept cash offers like estate agents
On Saturday 12th October we auctioned two more fantastic properties in Birmingham and we are delighted to say both properties sold! However, it is the story behind the first property that we think is of interest. I came into the process after members of the family had almost agreed to market the property located on…
Selling your property at auction!
We are proud to be Birmingham’s auctioneers and it was the Biddle & Webb name that introduced me to the vendor of our most recent property lot. The auction sale of a property on Talbot Road came to Biddle & Webb as the client initially needed help with the contents of the house. With our…
What will we find next?
As part of my role within the probate team at Biddle and Webb, I prepare inventories and valuations for deceased estates, and also assist with court of protection valuations. We have recently undertaken clearance of the sellable items from a deceased estate in Henley-In-Arden. In the process we have retrieved a vintage Fordson tractor, uncovered…
Supporting Lord Mayor’s Charity & Acorns Children’s Hospice!
Biddle and Webb loves supporting local charities and last Friday was a unique night for us as a company. We were hosting two of the largest charity auctions on the same night. Jeremy was at Acorns selling lots of memorabilia from the Peaky Blinders set whilst I was supporting the team at the Lord Mayor’s…
Last Years’ Biggest Achievements
I am by instinct someone that prefers to look forward to personal targets and business goals rather than look back. What’s gone is gone. However the seasonal break is the one time of the year when I allow myself to reflect back on past events. Maybe it’s the long dark evenings sat at home with…
Happy to go the extra mile…at least to Surrey
Biddle & Webb sell a property for £460,000. Not much of a news story as we are property auctioneers. However, if I take you behind the headline figure there is a story. It starts with me sitting in a solicitor’s office, a lovely Georgian building a mile or two away from our Birmingham saleroom. The…