Essential Information Group

Monthly News Update

August 2007


David Sandeman, Managing Director Welcome to the August newsletter highlighting auction activity in the month of July. In terms of auctions covered this was our busiest month ever with 171 property auctions being held. The number of lots offered also set new heights at 4,440 lots.

Whilst August is traditionally the holiday month, we are covering over 45 auctions that will be offering over 880 lots for sale. If you have just had a break from work I hope it was good and for those of you about to take a break, enjoy.

Kind regards

David Sandeman
Managing Director
davids@eigroup.co.uk
Essential Auction News
171 property auctions were held throughout the UK in July 2007. We will compare these results to those of July 2006. There is also a regional breakdown of statistics.
 
Overall Statistics July 2007
Number of Auctions Held in the UK 171
Total Lots Offered 4,436
Total Lots Sold 3,107
Percent Sold 70%
Total Realised £718,225,269

National Auction Analysis
July saw a small increase in the number of lots offered though the percentage down was down 5% on July last year at 70%. This is however a higher figure than May and June of this year. The same trends, though not so marked, are seen for the rolling quarter and year as well.

  Last Month Last Quarter Last Year
  July 2007 July 2006 Increase May - July 2007 May - July 2006 Increase August 2006 - July 2007 August 2005 - July 2006 Increase
Lots Offered 4,436 4,346 2.1% 12,002 10,345 16.0% 37,031 32,746 13.1%
Lots Sold 3,107 3,263 -4.8% 8,452 7,886 7.2% 27,733 24,847 11.6%
Percent Sold 70% 75% -6.7% 70% 76% -7.6% 75% 76% -1.3%
Total Raised £718,225,269 £812,955,343 -11.7% £1,801,861,453 £1,861,695,253 -3.2% £6,185,355,197 £5,340,527,805 15.8%

Regional Auction Analysis
Given the national trends for the rolling quarter, it is no surprise to see the majority of regions seeing an increase in the number of lots offered. The story is different though for regional sales rates and amounts raised. The North East still has sub 50% sales rates whilst the South East and South West are in the 70's - 80's.

Location Map Column May - July 2007 May - July 2006 Increase
South-West Lots Offered 1089 833 30.7%
Lots Sold 822 658 24.9%
Percent Sold 75.5% 79.0% -4.4%
Total Raised £193,446,765 £167,289,994 15.6%
North-East Lots Offered 639 584 9.4%
Lots Sold 264 347 -23.9%
Percent Sold 41.3% 59.4% -30.5%
Total Raised £62,202,500 £60,188,400 3.3%
East Anglia Lots Offered 240 251 -4.4%
Lots Sold 192 201 -4.5%
Percent Sold 80.0% 80.1% -0.1%
Total Raised £54,937,500 £71,664,050 -23.3%
North-West Home Counties Lots Offered 712 573 24.3%
Lots Sold 523 452 15.7%
Percent Sold 73.5% 78.9% -6.9%
Total Raised £232,922,000 £219,895,750 5.9%
West Midlands Lots Offered 1430 1147 24.7%
Lots Sold 1014 891 13.8%
Percent Sold 70.9% 77.7% -8.7%
Total Raised £187,844,750 £176,616,052 6.4%
Scotland Lots Offered 254 226 12.4%
Lots Sold 145 153 -5.2%
Percent Sold 57.1% 67.7% -15.7%
Total Raised £44,390,150 £40,420,000 9.8%
London Lots Offered 1281 1253 2.2%
Lots Sold 1066 1064 0.2%
Percent Sold 83.2% 84.9% -2.0%
Total Raised £485,961,151 £441,517,053 10.1%
Yorkshire and The Humber Lots Offered 952 935 1.8%
Lots Sold 694 713 -2.7%
Percent Sold 72.9% 76.3% -4.4%
Total Raised £144,026,545 £146,487,215 -1.7%
South-East Home Counties Lots Offered 1663 1446 15.0%
Lots Sold 1297 1174 10.5%
Percent Sold 78.0% 81.2% -3.9%
Total Raised £404,954,000 £379,977,575 6.6%
North-West Lots Offered 1958 1743 12.3%
Lots Sold 1196 1206 -0.8%
Percent Sold 61.1% 69.2% -11.7%
Total Raised £200,423,980 £213,628,114 -6.2%
Wales Lots Offered 883 642 37.5%
Lots Sold 596 476 25.2%
Percent Sold 67.5% 74.1% -9.0%
Total Raised £90,663,874 £126,993,650 -28.6%
Northern Ireland Lots Offered 2 3 -33.3%
Lots Sold 2 1 100.0%
Percent Sold 100.0% 33.3% 200.0%
Total Raised £205,000 £108,000 89.8%
East Midlands Lots Offered 899 709 26.8%
Lots Sold 641 550 16.5%
Percent Sold 71.3% 77.6% -8.1%
Total Raised £144,657,938 £111,757,900 29.4%


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