Bond Wolfe · UK property auction

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Bond Wolfe is an independent Birmingham firm with the West Midlands as its core market, selling across the UK in around six livestream auctions a year. Sales start at 08:30 with online, telephone and proxy bidding, and the house describes itself as the UK’s leading live-streamed auctioneer. The catalogue covers residential and commercial, vacant and investment, land and development, garages, ground rents, renovation and mixed use, and Bond Wolfe publishes its forward diary unusually far ahead.

Region: Birmingham and the West Midlands as the core market, selling across the UK.
Auction calendar: Around six sales a year, each a livestream remote bidding auction starting at 08:30, with online, telephone and proxy bidding. The forward diary is published well in advance.

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Bond Wolfe

How Bond Wolfe legal packs are structured.

Since December 2025 every Bond Wolfe lot has carried a Docuwise AI legal pack summary through Auction Passport. Bond Wolfe flags these explicitly as the work of an independent third party and as AI-generated - they are a navigational aid to a long pack, not a solicitor’s assessment of what the documents mean for your bid.

Legal packs are free on each lot under “Lot information”, uploaded as soon as they arrive from the seller’s solicitors, so availability varies through the marketing period. Amendments are handled through a site-wide addendum page updated as changes arise, which also lists sold-prior and withdrawn lots - a single place to check rather than a per-lot hunt. Bidding runs on an Auction Passport account with EIG, card details are held with SagePay, and anti-money-laundering checks go through Credas. The administration fee is published at £2,700 including VAT, though Bond Wolfe notes it can vary for local authority lots, and the deposit is ten per cent or £5,000, whichever is greater. Completion is usually 28 days. Bond Wolfe also produces 360° video tours for most vacant lots and runs block viewings with no appointment, which makes remote assessment of condition more practical than at most houses - though condition remains the buyer’s risk.

Pack conventions at Bond Wolfe

Legal packs are free on each lot under “Lot information” and are uploaded as soon as they arrive from the seller’s solicitors
Every lot carries a Docuwise AI legal pack summary through Auction Passport - flagged by Bond Wolfe as independent and AI-generated, not a solicitor’s review
A site-wide addendum page is updated as changes arise and also lists sold-prior and withdrawn lots
The administration fee is £2,700 including VAT on the fall of the gavel, which can vary for local authority lots
The deposit is 10% or £5,000, whichever is greater; completion is usually 28 days
Bidding runs on an Auction Passport account with EIG; card details are held with SagePay and AML checks go through Credas
360° video tours are produced for most vacant lots, and block viewings run with no appointment

What Bond Wolfe sells

Residential and commercial, vacant and investment, land and development, garages, ground rents, renovation stock and mixed use. Renovation and vacant lots put condition and planning history to the front, while the ground rent and investment stock turns on lease terms and rent review provisions. The 360° tours help with the physical picture, but they do not touch the legal position - which is where the reviewable risk sits.

For how the process works across every house, see our auction legal pack review page.

A realistic example

Three findings from a Bond Wolfe review.

Anonymised illustrations, chosen to be representative of the issues that arise on Bond Wolfe lots. Every report rates each finding red, amber or green and sets out what to do about it.

F-01 Red

Renovation lot with unconsented structural alterations

Load-bearing alterations are evident but no building regulations completion certificate appears in the pack, leaving a regularisation cost and a potential lending obstacle.

F-02 Amber

AI pack summary relied on in place of a review

The Docuwise summary supplied with the lot is AI-generated and produced by an independent third party; it identifies documents but does not assess what they mean for this bid.

F-03 Green

Addendum page carries no entry against the lot

The site-wide addendum shows no amendment, sale prior or withdrawal against this lot as at the date of review.

Anonymised examples · illustrative only · not drawn from any identifiable lot

The review

The Bidq review for Bond Wolfe lots.

Upload the pack, answer five questions, and an SRA-regulated solicitor reads every document against a structured framework - title, special conditions, searches, leases and tenancies - returning a bid posture, category scores and numbered R/A/G findings.

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The full process is set out on how it works, and you can read a complete report on the sample report page.

FAQ

Bond Wolfe - common questions.

Quick answers on coverage, turnaround and how Bidq fits alongside your solicitor.

Bond Wolfe supplies an AI legal pack summary. Do I still need a review?

The Docuwise summary is supplied on every lot through Auction Passport, and Bond Wolfe flags it explicitly as the work of an independent third party and as AI-generated. It is a useful way to navigate a long pack. It is not a solicitor’s assessment of what the documents mean for your bid, it reaches no position on whether to proceed, and no one has signed it. A Bidq report is reviewed by an SRA-regulated solicitor and ends in a bid posture with numbered findings and recommended actions.

Where do I find changes to a Bond Wolfe lot?

Bond Wolfe runs a site-wide addendum page updated as changes arise, rather than publishing amendments only against individual lots. It also lists lots sold prior and withdrawn. That makes it a single place to check before bidding - worth doing on the morning of the sale, since sales start at 08:30.

What will a Bond Wolfe purchase cost beyond the hammer price?

The published administration fee is £2,700 including VAT, payable on the fall of the gavel, though Bond Wolfe notes it can vary for local authority lots. The deposit is ten per cent or £5,000, whichever is greater, and completion is usually 28 days. Special conditions can add further buyer contributions lot by lot, which the report identifies and quantifies.

Bond Wolfe offers 360° tours and block viewings. Is that enough to assess a lot?

For condition, they help considerably - more than most houses offer, and block viewings need no appointment. But condition is only one half. Auction lots are sold as seen and the physical risk is yours whatever you have viewed; the legal position, which is where the transaction-shaping risks usually sit, is not visible on any tour. The two assessments are separate and both are worth doing.

Bond Wolfe sales start at 08:30. How does that affect preparation?

It compresses the final morning. There is no useful window between waking and the first lot, so the addendum check and any final questions to the seller’s solicitor need to happen the day before. Where a pack is reviewed close to the sale, the 24-Hour Report is the tier built for that timetable.

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