RETIREMENT AUCTIONS
Retirement auctions for business owners
When it is time to step back, we manage the complete sale of your equipment, vehicles and stock: valued properly, sold properly, and cleared without drama.
A working life deserves a proper finish
Most owners only retire once, and the workshop or yard represents decades of careful buying. You should not have to become an auctioneer in your final months of trading to see it sold well.
We handle everything: honest valuations, a sale timed around your last day of trading, and a site left clear at the end. You stay in control of the decisions; we do the work.
How a retirement sale works
Valuation & advice
We visit, value everything, and talk through timing, including whether to sell as one auction or run down stock first. No obligation, no pressure.
Cataloguing
We photograph and describe every lot on site. Well-kept equipment with history sells well, and we make sure buyers can see it.
The auction
A timed online auction marketed to the trade, usually with viewing days at your premises. You can be as involved, or as hands-off, as you like.
Clearance & handover
We manage payment, collection and loading, and leave the premises clear for the landlord, the buyer or the next chapter.
What a retirement sale includes
The workshop
- Machine tools and equipment
- Welding and fabrication kit
- Tooling built up over decades
- Benches, vices and stores
Vehicles & plant
- Work vans and wagons
- Forklifts and yard plant
- Trailers and attachments
- Private plate and cherished items
Stock & materials
- Finished and part-finished stock
- Raw materials and steel
- Spares and consumables
- Shop or trade counter stock
The premises
- Racking and storage
- Office furniture and records
- Compressors and services
- Everything down to the kettle
Situations we understand
No successor
The family is not taking the business on, so the assets are the pension. Every pound at auction matters.
Selling the premises
The building is sold or the lease is ending, and the contents must be gone by completion day.
Partial retirement
Keeping a small operation going and selling the rest? We help you decide where the line falls.
Health pressures
Sometimes the decision is not made freely. We move quickly and take the burden off the family.
Partnership wind-up
Partners going separate ways and needing an independent sale everyone can trust.
A planned exit
Retirement set for a date years out? We help you plan the sale so trading winds down smoothly.
Why owners choose us
Respect for the business
This is a life’s work, not a lot number. We treat the sale, and the people, accordingly.
You can talk to us
A Manchester office, real people, plain answers. Call any time and speak to the person handling your sale.
Everything handled
Valuation, sale, money and clearance through one team. Your only job is deciding what happens next.
Proper prices
Marketing to trade buyers nationwide means your equipment goes to people who know what it is worth.