Business asset auctions in Bristol
We run auctions and private treaty sales for businesses in Bristol, Bristol, and the towns around it including Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Yate, Thornbury, Portishead, Clevedon, Keynsham, Nailsea. Sales are catalogued and held on your premises, or we collect the assets and sell them from our own premises when that suits better. Bidding is online and open to trade buyers across the UK.
Bristol has a large aerospace and defence sector at Filton, with a supply chain of precision machining, composites and test firms across the north fringe. Avonmouth and Severnside form one of the largest distribution areas in the south west. National warehousing, food and drink, chemicals, waste and recycling and vehicle import operations are on the port estate. Construction, printing, packaging and general engineering are spread through the city. Main industrial areas include Avonmouth, Cabot Park, Central Park at Severnside, St Philips Marsh, Brislington, Ashton Vale and Emersons Green. The port at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock handles cars, bulk and containers.
The M4 and M5 meet at Almondsbury, and the M32 runs from M4 junction 19 into the city centre. The M49 links the M4 and M5 across Severnside. The A4 Portway runs from the centre to Avonmouth. Bristol Temple Meads is the main railway station. The Avonmouth estates are flat with wide roads, while some inner city sites are tighter for low loaders.
Services in Bristol
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Business retirement auctions in Bristol
Selling the machinery, stock and fittings when an owner retires and nobody is taking the business on.
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Business closure auctions in Bristol
Turning the contents of a closing business into money before the lease ends and the keys go back.
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Surplus equipment sales in Bristol
Selling the machines, tools and kit a working business no longer uses, without disrupting what it still does.
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Machinery and engineering auctions in Bristol
CNC machines, lathes, mills, presses and workshop equipment sold to a trade market that knows what they are worth.
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Factory and workshop clearance in Bristol
Selling everything on a commercial site and managing its removal so the premises can be handed back clear.
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Business relocation and downsizing sales in Bristol
Selling the equipment that will not move to the new premises, timed around the move itself.
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Liquidation and insolvency asset sales in Bristol
Sales run on the instruction of administrators, liquidators, lenders and landlords, with the records they need.
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Complete site dispersal auctions in Bristol
One sale for the whole site: production machinery, tooling, spares, racking, offices and the vehicles outside.
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Stock clearance auctions in Bristol
Surplus inventory, discontinued lines and bulk trade stock sold in lots sized for trade buyers.
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Plant and construction equipment auctions in Bristol
Excavators, dumpers, generators, compressors and site equipment sold with the checks plant buyers expect.
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Commercial vehicle and fleet auctions in Bristol
Vans, trucks, trailers and whole fleets sold with the paperwork sorted and finance settled.
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Warehouse and logistics equipment sales in Bristol
Forklifts, pallet trucks, racking, conveyors and handling equipment from warehouses that are closing or changing.
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Catering and hospitality equipment auctions in Bristol
Commercial kitchens, front of house furniture and bar equipment from restaurants, hotels and pubs.
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Private treaty sales in Bristol
A negotiated direct sale for a single high value machine or a situation where an open auction is the wrong route.
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Collective auctions and single item consignments in Bristol
Smaller quantities and single items placed into a shared sale alongside other vendors' lots.
What tends to come to auction here
- Equipment from aerospace and defence businesses
- Equipment from distribution and logistics businesses
- Equipment from engineering businesses
- Equipment from food and drink businesses
- Equipment from waste and recycling businesses
- Equipment from construction businesses
- Equipment from printing and packaging businesses
Guides and questions
- Preparing machinery and equipment for sale
What to do in the days before viewing so machines fetch what they should. Isolate and make safe, clean but do not repaint, find the tooling and manuals, sort out access, and avoid the mistakes that cost sellers money.
- How used machinery is valued
Buyers pay for what a machine will do for them, less what it costs to get it out and running. This guide explains how make, hours, tooling, demand and removal cost feed a guide price, and why that price is not book value.
- Do you cover the whole of the UK?
- Will overseas buyers bid?
- Can you sell the building or the lease?
- Do you sell from the restaurant or take everything away?