Business asset auctions in Norwich
We run auctions and private treaty sales for businesses in Norwich, Norfolk, and the towns around it including Great Yarmouth, Wymondham, Dereham, North Walsham, Attleborough, Aylsham, Diss. 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.
Norwich is the commercial centre for Norfolk and much of its business base is tied to farming and food. Food and drink processors, agricultural machinery dealers and packaging firms are found across the city and the surrounding villages. Automotive engineering is concentrated at Hethel to the south. Broadland Business Park and the Norwich Airport industrial area have warehouse and distribution units, with Longwater at Costessey and Rackheath adding trade and light industrial space. Vulcan Road and Salhouse Road are older estates with smaller workshops.
Road links are the A11 to Cambridge and the M11, and the A47 east to Great Yarmouth and west to King's Lynn. The Broadland Northway carries traffic around the north of the city between these routes. Norwich railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line to London. Rural sites beyond the ring road may need a smaller vehicle for collection.
Services in Norwich
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Business retirement auctions in Norwich
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 Norwich
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 Norwich
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 Norwich
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 Norwich
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 Norwich
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 Norwich
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 Norwich
One sale for the whole site: production machinery, tooling, spares, racking, offices and the vehicles outside.
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Stock clearance auctions in Norwich
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 Norwich
Excavators, dumpers, generators, compressors and site equipment sold with the checks plant buyers expect.
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Commercial vehicle and fleet auctions in Norwich
Vans, trucks, trailers and whole fleets sold with the paperwork sorted and finance settled.
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Warehouse and logistics equipment sales in Norwich
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 Norwich
Commercial kitchens, front of house furniture and bar equipment from restaurants, hotels and pubs.
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Private treaty sales in Norwich
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 Norwich
Smaller quantities and single items placed into a shared sale alongside other vendors' lots.
What tends to come to auction here
- Equipment from food and drink manufacturing businesses
- Equipment from agricultural engineering businesses
- Equipment from automotive engineering businesses
- Equipment from construction businesses
- Equipment from printing businesses
- Equipment from offshore energy supply chain businesses
Guides and questions
- Auction or private treaty: which route to choose
Auction gives you a fixed date and an open market. Private treaty gives you a negotiated price and privacy. This guide sets out when each route suits, what you give up with each, and why many sales use both.
- What insolvency practitioners need from an auctioneer
For office holders realising physical assets. Covers the instruction letter, the asset schedule and valuation basis, retention of title, finance and HPI checks, site security, health and safety during the sale, and the reconciliation you need for the file.
- What happens to unsold lots
Not every lot sells, but the site still has to be cleared. This guide covers why lots go unsold, private treaty after the sale, lowering or removing the reserve, a later sale, scrap and WEEE recycling, and what disposal costs.
- Can you clear the whole building as well as sell the equipment?
- What if we are not sure whether a machine is moving?
- Can you sell plant from a live site?
- What if a buyer approaches me directly?