Business asset auctions in Peterborough
We run auctions and private treaty sales for businesses in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, and the towns around it including Stamford, Huntingdon, Wisbech, March, Spalding, Oundle, Whittlesey, Corby. 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.
Peterborough has a large engineering base with a long link to diesel engines, agricultural machinery and precision manufacturing. Food processing, packaging and printing firms are also common, and the city has become a distribution point for the East of England. Fengate, known locally as Eastern Industry, is the largest estate and has units from small workshops to national depots. Orton Southgate and Woodston in the south hold engineering works, warehousing and trade counters. Lynch Wood is mainly offices. The Gateway site at Alwalton has large logistics sheds beside the A1(M).
The A1(M) passes the west of the city with junction 17 for the A605 and junction 18 for the A47. The A47 crosses east to Wisbech and Norwich and the A15 runs north to Lincoln. The A1139 parkway links the estates to each other. Peterborough station is on the East Coast Main Line.
Services in Peterborough
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Business retirement auctions in Peterborough
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 Peterborough
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 Peterborough
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 Peterborough
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 Peterborough
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 Peterborough
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 Peterborough
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 Peterborough
One sale for the whole site: production machinery, tooling, spares, racking, offices and the vehicles outside.
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Stock clearance auctions in Peterborough
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 Peterborough
Excavators, dumpers, generators, compressors and site equipment sold with the checks plant buyers expect.
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Commercial vehicle and fleet auctions in Peterborough
Vans, trucks, trailers and whole fleets sold with the paperwork sorted and finance settled.
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Warehouse and logistics equipment sales in Peterborough
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 Peterborough
Commercial kitchens, front of house furniture and bar equipment from restaurants, hotels and pubs.
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Private treaty sales in Peterborough
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 Peterborough
Smaller quantities and single items placed into a shared sale alongside other vendors' lots.
What tends to come to auction here
- Equipment from engineering businesses
- Equipment from logistics businesses
- Equipment from food processing businesses
- Equipment from agricultural machinery businesses
- Equipment from printing businesses
- Equipment from construction businesses
- Equipment from manufacturing 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.
- What if some of the equipment is on finance?
- What happens to items on finance or lease?
- Can you sell vehicles that still have finance on them?
- Do I have to deliver the items to you?