Business asset auctions in Reading
We run auctions and private treaty sales for businesses in Reading, Berkshire, and the towns around it including Wokingham, Bracknell, Newbury, Basingstoke, Maidenhead, Henley-on-Thames, Theale, Slough. 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.
Reading is best known for office parks such as Green Park, Thames Valley Park and Arlington Business Park at Theale, but it has a solid industrial base beneath them. Battle Farm Trading Estate on Loverock Road and Portman Road holds engineering workshops, vehicle repairers and trade suppliers. The Robert Cort Industrial Estate and units along Cardiff Road and Basingstoke Road add warehousing and light manufacturing. Theale has larger distribution and industrial units near the M4. Construction contractors and plant hire yards are common across the area.
The M4 has three junctions for the town: junction 10 for the A329(M) and Wokingham, junction 11 for the A33 and Green Park, and junction 12 for Theale. Reading station is on the Great Western Main Line with services to London, Bristol and the south coast. Heathrow Airport is about 25 miles east.
Services in Reading
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Business retirement auctions in Reading
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 Reading
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 Reading
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 Reading
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 Reading
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 Reading
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 Reading
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 Reading
One sale for the whole site: production machinery, tooling, spares, racking, offices and the vehicles outside.
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Stock clearance auctions in Reading
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 Reading
Excavators, dumpers, generators, compressors and site equipment sold with the checks plant buyers expect.
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Commercial vehicle and fleet auctions in Reading
Vans, trucks, trailers and whole fleets sold with the paperwork sorted and finance settled.
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Warehouse and logistics equipment sales in Reading
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 Reading
Commercial kitchens, front of house furniture and bar equipment from restaurants, hotels and pubs.
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Private treaty sales in Reading
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 Reading
Smaller quantities and single items placed into a shared sale alongside other vendors' lots.
What tends to come to auction here
- Equipment from technology businesses
- Equipment from logistics businesses
- Equipment from construction businesses
- Equipment from engineering businesses
- Equipment from motor trade businesses
- Equipment from food and drink businesses
- Equipment from printing 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 sell from a site that is still operating?
- What checks do you make on vehicles and plant?
- Who pays the buyer's premium and VAT?