Midlands Business News

Major regional auction house CPBigwood has been appointed by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council for a further two years.

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A host of properties sold for way above their guide price at another hugely successful CPBigwood auction. Some 100 lots were offered, 82 sold and a total of £7.9 million was raised. Jonathan Hackett, partner and head of auctions for CPBigwood, said: “Even though prices were strong it didn’t take away from there being some [...]

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CPBigwood are set to take property investors on a “summer holiday”.

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Jonathan Hackett, partner and head of auctions for CPBigwood, highlights what to watch out for when bidding at auction.

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One of Warwickshire’s best known estate agents is to hang up her keys on April 30 after 30 years with the same business.

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Big hearted staff at property agents CPBigwood have been totting up their 2012 charity effort.

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An incredibly rare gallantry medal awarded to a Lichfield-born railway worker for saving the life of a child is set to come under the hammer at Wolverhampton Auction Rooms on Friday 19th April

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Some houses will still pull in multiple offers despite the difficult state of the market, an expert has asserted.

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Derby-based property auctioneers, Graham Penny Auctions are flying for the flag for the city after topping the Essential Information Group’s (EI Group) league table for the highest sales across the whole of the Midlands during 2012.

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Redundant nursing homes and community centres were the star attraction at the latest CPBigwood auction, with some going for around double the asking price.

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Disabled students’ efforts to find work in Birmingham and the Black Country are set to bear fruit. Queen Alexandra College, a Harborne-based independent specialist college of further education, helps those aged 16-plus who have visual impairment and other issues. Now, so they can get a career start, it is taking over a former fruit and [...]

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Eight nursing homes and community centres are up for auction as the social care sector continues to react to changing circumstances.

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Is there a doctor in the house?

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Low prices and great deals are again proving top attractions as property specialists CPBigwood launch their first auction of 2013.

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Hot off the heels of Bamfords relocating to Peak Shopping Village, the celebrated auction house is playing host on 20 February to a real bobby-dazzler, as Dickinson’s Real Deal decamps to Derbyshire for the day, with its celebrated presenter and antiques expert David Dickinson. The popular ITV show visits locations throughout the UK inviting people [...]

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Talk of the pub trade falling flat is being overdone, according to CPBigwood director Ian Tudor. He is highlighting the number of hostelries being re-opened under new ownership and insists that where they are closing for good many are in fact extremely attractive propositions, offering a huge variety of alternative uses. His comments come as [...]

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A Birmingham charity has slashed the price of a former care home by more than half, cutting hundreds of thousands of pounds off, in a bid to find a buyer.

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Planning changes, which will allow empty offices to be converted into new housing without the need for planning permission, are a step in the right direction, according to Brett Williams of agents CPBigwood.

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A letter penned by the maternal aunt of one of music’s most enduring legends is set to sell at auction on the 15th February 2013

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Midland agents CPBigwood have won the property management contract for a major residential scheme in Coventry.

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A Grade II Listed Castle Bromwich landmark with past links to nobility and the church is to come up for auction through property agents CPBigwood.

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Cuttlestones’ Wolverhampton Auction Rooms is set to increase the number of Specialist Collectors’ Auctions it hosts in 2013 following a successful first year in business.

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Whilst the residential property market continues to suffer the effects of the economic downturn, Graham Penny Estates, which is based on St James’ Street in Derby, has enjoyed its most successful year to date.

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Penkridge auctioneers & valuers Cuttlestones is celebrating having raised an impressive £8,188.07 for Katharine House Hospice during 2012.

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Impressive performances across a packed catalogue at Staffordshire Auction House Cuttlestones’ 7th December Fine Art auction were topped off by the sale of an important military antique with links to Lord Horatio Nelson.

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CPBigwood has appointed a new head of marketing to spearhead the firm’s continuing growth.

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CPBigwood’s December auction notched up an 81 per cent success rate with more than £8.3 million being raised on the day.

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Biddle & Webb Auctioneers of Birmingham are hoping for a victory in the saleroom as The Gold Presentation Cup for the 1958 Grand National will go under the hammer on the 8th December in their Christmas auction.

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Following news of the move of Bamfords of Derbyshire from Matlock to Peak Village, the Rowsley based Shopping Centre is delighted to announce that the official launch of the celebrated auction house in its new home will take place with special guests on Wednesday 5 December.

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Hair today and, for most Movemberers at property agents CPBigwood … gone tomorrow!

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Santa has come early for Christmas auction-goers as CPBigwood’s sack bulges over with goodies.

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An award-winning children’s nursery group is to convert a former library in the Warwickshire village of Studley into its administration and training headquarters. It has been taken over by the Bright Kids brand in an overall £150,000 purchase and investment deal, with property agents CPBigwood advising on the sale on behalf of Warwickshire County Council. [...]

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Property agents and auctioneers CPBigwood have taken on two apprentices for the first time.

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Following the launch of their Leek, St Edwards Street office earlier this year, Bagshaws have recently expanded their team with the appointment of auctioneer and chartered surveyor, Ben Furnival.

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It’s getting hairy down at property agents CPBigwood …

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Few historic figures command such reverence as Lord Horatio Nelson. Over 200 years after the great British naval hero was mortally wounded in action at the Battle of Trafalgar, his influence is such that items linked to him are highly prized by an international community of collectors.

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The name’s CPBigwood and the property agents are on a James Bond mission to raise as much as they can for Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice after offering to run the auction at the charity’s upcoming 007 Ball.

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Property agents and auctioneers CPBigwood have strengthened their internal financial systems.

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Time moves on for one of Birmingham’s most historic properties as CPBigwood’s latest auction produced total sales approaching £6 million.

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CPBigwood has opened a London office to service clients in the capital and the South-east.

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An intrepid trio from local auction house Cuttlestones took on the Three Peaks Challenge last weekend in an effort to bring the company, which has auction rooms in Penkridge and Wolverhampton, closer to its target of raising £10,000 for Katharine House Hospice; its nominated Charity of the Year.

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Staffordshire and West Midlands auction house Cuttlestones is celebrating a particularly strong performance in its first ever two-day Fine Art & Antiques auction.

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The latest successful auction by Nottingham-based chartered surveyors, heb has resulted in a bargain property selling for almost three times its original guide price.

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Property agents CPBigwood have just agreed the first major sale out of their new Birmingham city centre office at 104-106 Colmore Row.

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CPBigwood has acquired Leicestershire firm Lloyd Property Management for an undisclosed sum.

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The Birmingham city centre apartment market is back in business and developers need to start building, according to a CPBigwood expert.

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Property agents CPBigwood have access to a free insurance deal covering the ups and downs of the market.

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The George has been slain by the economic dragon stalking the Black Country. The former hostelry at 34 Birmingham Road, Oldbury, yet another pub to fall on hard times, is to go under the hammer at the latest CPBigwood auction. Described as “a prominent, freehold public house with further development potential”, it has a guide [...]

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For the second consecutive year, a member of the team at leading property auctioneers Graham Penny Auctions has been named Auctioneer of the Year by the National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers (NAVA).

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A succession of historic properties is set to go under the hammer at CPBigwood’s latest auction.

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