Hollis Morgan · UK property auction

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Hollis Morgan is a Bristol firm with a regional headquarters in Clifton, covering Bristol and the West Country and describing its sales as the largest monthly land and property auctions in the region. Auctions run monthly at noon through a fully interactive live online saleroom, with telephone, proxy and online bidding. The catalogue is organised around lot character rather than sector - property needing modernisation, unusual and unique property, development opportunities, HMOs, freehold blocks of flats - which reflects a house that sells the awkward as readily as the conventional.

Region: Bristol and the West Country, from a regional headquarters in Clifton, with lots across Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Bath and Herefordshire.
Auction calendar: Monthly live online auctions starting at noon, run through a fully interactive live online saleroom with telephone, proxy and online bidding.

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Hollis Morgan

How Hollis Morgan legal packs are structured.

Hollis Morgan does something most auction houses do not: it tells you when a pack is finished. A note is added to the document list confirming the auction pack is complete once the seller’s solicitor informs them no further information is due, which removes the usual uncertainty about whether more documents are still to come.

Legal packs are free and available around the clock on an EIG portal after registering with an email address and password. Where a pack is not yet ready it is sent automatically when received, and registrants are updated by email as new information is added. The completeness marker is the distinctive feature: a note confirming the auction pack is now complete appears once the seller’s solicitor confirms nothing further is due, which lets a buyer know whether they are reviewing a finished document set or a partial one. Pre-auction offers are accepted only through an online form and only after the complete pack has been inspected. Bidder onboarding is unusually heavy for a regional house, running to four stages and requiring two forms of identification and source-of-funds evidence before an invitation to bid is issued. Completion is a recommended eight weeks, materially longer than the 20 working days or 28 days common elsewhere.

Pack conventions at Hollis Morgan

Legal packs are free and available around the clock on an EIG portal after registering
Where a pack is incomplete, registrants are emailed automatically as documents are added
The document list is marked “auction pack now complete” once the seller’s solicitor confirms nothing further is due - an explicit completeness signal most houses do not give
Pre-auction offers are accepted only through an online form, and only after the complete pack has been inspected
Bidder onboarding runs to four stages, requiring two forms of identification and source-of-funds evidence before an invitation to bid is issued
The buyer’s premium is published at £1,500 plus VAT, with a security deposit of £6,800 released at the end of the auction if unsuccessful
Completion is a recommended eight weeks rather than the more common 20 working days

What Hollis Morgan sells

Property in need of modernisation, prime family homes, unusual and unique property, rural homes, development opportunities, land and building plots of one to twenty units, HMOs of five to twenty beds, freehold blocks of flats of two to twenty units, commercial property, garages and parking, and probate stock. The blocks of flats and HMO strands are the demanding ones: both turn on tenancy schedules, licensing, service charge arrears and management arrangements rather than on anything a viewing reveals.

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

A realistic example

Three findings from a Hollis Morgan review.

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

F-01 Red

Freehold block with unrecovered major works expenditure

Works have been carried out without the consultation the leases and statute require, leaving the sums at risk of being irrecoverable from the leaseholders and falling on the freeholder.

F-02 Amber

Pack not yet marked complete at the date of review

The document list does not yet carry the auction-pack-complete note, so further documents may be added and the pack should be re-checked before bidding.

F-03 Green

Eight-week completion consistent with the funding route

The recommended eight-week completion gives materially more room than a 28-day contract, and matches the drawdown timetable on the facility contemplated.

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

The review

The Bidq review for Hollis Morgan 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

Hollis Morgan - common questions.

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

Hollis Morgan marks packs as complete. What does that actually tell me?

It tells you the seller’s solicitor has confirmed no further information is due, so you are reviewing a finished document set rather than a partial one. Most auction houses give no such signal, which leaves buyers guessing whether more is coming. If the note is absent when you review, the pack should be re-checked before you bid - and a Bidq Supplement covers anything material that lands afterwards.

Why is Hollis Morgan registration so involved?

Bidder onboarding runs to four stages and requires two forms of identification plus source-of-funds evidence before an invitation to bid is issued - heavier than most regional houses. It is a bidding requirement rather than a legal-pack matter, but it takes time, so it should be started well before sale day rather than in the final week.

Completion is eight weeks. Is that an advantage?

Usually, yes. A recommended eight weeks is materially longer than the 20 working days or 28 days most houses impose, which gives more room for a funding drawdown and for resolving anything the pack leaves open. It is worth confirming against the contract for your lot, since your funding is drawn against the actual contractual date rather than the recommendation.

Do you review HMOs and freehold blocks of flats?

Yes, and they are among the more demanding lots in the catalogue. On an HMO the review covers licensing status, planning use and the compliance evidence supplied. On a freehold block it covers the tenancy or lease schedule, service charge accounts and arrears, whether statutory consultation has been carried out on major works, and any rights the leaseholders hold to acquire the freehold.

Can I make an offer before the auction?

Hollis Morgan accepts pre-auction offers only through an online form, and only after the complete pack has been inspected. That makes the review directly relevant to the offer route as well as the bidding route - you are expected to have read the documents before an offer will be entertained at all.

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