Business asset auctions in Liverpool
We run auctions and private treaty sales for businesses in Liverpool, Merseyside, and the towns around it including Bootle, Kirkby, Huyton, St Helens, Warrington, Birkenhead, Widnes, Runcorn. 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.
Liverpool has a large port, and much of its industry is tied to freight. Container and bulk cargo handling at the docks supports haulage, warehousing and freight forwarding firms across Bootle, Kirkby and Speke. Car plants and their suppliers are in Halewood and Speke. Pharmaceutical and biologics manufacturing is concentrated in Speke as well. Food and drink production, construction and waste processing are spread across the city. Main industrial areas include Knowsley Industrial Park, Liverpool International Business Park, Estuary Commerce Park and the dock estate at Seaforth and Bootle.
The M62 ends at the edge of the city. The M57 links Knowsley to the M62 and M58, and the A5036 runs to the port. The Kingsway and Queensway tunnels cross the Mersey to the Wirral and the M53. Liverpool Lime Street is the main railway station. Access for low loaders is good on the outer estates and tighter on the older dockside roads.
Services in Liverpool
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Business retirement auctions in Liverpool
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 Liverpool
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 Liverpool
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 Liverpool
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 Liverpool
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 Liverpool
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 Liverpool
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 Liverpool
One sale for the whole site: production machinery, tooling, spares, racking, offices and the vehicles outside.
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Stock clearance auctions in Liverpool
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 Liverpool
Excavators, dumpers, generators, compressors and site equipment sold with the checks plant buyers expect.
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Commercial vehicle and fleet auctions in Liverpool
Vans, trucks, trailers and whole fleets sold with the paperwork sorted and finance settled.
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Warehouse and logistics equipment sales in Liverpool
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 Liverpool
Commercial kitchens, front of house furniture and bar equipment from restaurants, hotels and pubs.
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Private treaty sales in Liverpool
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 Liverpool
Smaller quantities and single items placed into a shared sale alongside other vendors' lots.
What tends to come to auction here
- Equipment from port logistics businesses
- Equipment from automotive businesses
- Equipment from pharmaceuticals businesses
- Equipment from food and drink businesses
- Equipment from warehousing businesses
- Equipment from construction 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 I need to be there on collection day?
- Can this happen while the site is still trading?
- Can the stock be sold from somewhere other than our premises?
- Can I keep using the machine while it is marketed?