Bid on Strakers lots with the legal position priced in - not exchanged blind.
Strakers is an independent firm of land and property auctioneers covering Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Oxfordshire, with the auction desk sitting as its own branch inside a six-office estate agency. Seven timed online sales run each year. The catalogue is deliberately selective: Strakers steers good-condition homes towards private treaty and reserves the auction for renovation stock, property with legal or structural issues, plots, land and investments - much of it sold by councils, housing associations, charities, trustees, solicitors and banks.
- Region
- Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Oxfordshire.
- Auction calendar
- Seven timed online sales a year. The bidding window opens at 8am on auction day and the first lot closes at 5pm, with each subsequent lot ending a few minutes later. There is no room and no live stream.
Page reviewed 4 September 2026
How Strakers legal packs are structured.
The bidding window opens at 8am on auction day and the first lot closes at 5pm, with each subsequent lot ending a few minutes later. Lots therefore close in a staggered sequence through the evening rather than all at once, which changes how you manage bidding across several lots in one sale.
Legal documents prepared by the seller’s solicitor download from a link on the lot page, and any addenda added by the auctioneers are listed in the same place - so the pack and its amendments sit together in one lot-level data room rather than in separate locations. Sellers are asked to have the pack ready ideally a couple of weeks before the sale. Strakers tells buyers explicitly to check the special conditions for any additional costs payable in addition to the purchase price, and that instruction carries weight here because the buyer’s fee is not published as a scale: the catalogue states that the administration fee amount is specified lot by lot within the particulars or the special conditions. A £3,000 bidder security applies, taken only if you are the successful bidder, and the deposit is ten per cent subject to a £3,000 minimum. A designed catalogue PDF is published for each sale carrying the full conditions of sale.
Pack conventions at Strakers
- Timed online only - no room bidding and no live stream
- Lots close in a staggered sequence from 5pm rather than all at once
- Legal documents and any addenda sit together in the same lot-level data room, reached from the lot page
- A £3,000 bidder security applies, taken only if you are the successful bidder; the deposit is 10% subject to a £3,000 minimum
- The buyer’s fee is not published as a scale - the catalogue states the administration fee is specified lot by lot in the particulars or special conditions
- A designed catalogue PDF is published for each sale carrying the full conditions of sale
- Six to eight open viewing days typically run in the build-up to a sale
What Strakers sells
Houses, cottages and bungalows for renovation, property with legal or structural problems, building plots and development sites, agricultural land and woodland, garaging and parking, and commercial and residential investments. Because Strakers actively steers straightforward homes away from the auction, the catalogue is weighted towards lots that exist precisely because something about them needs explaining - which is where a pre-bid review earns its place.
For how the process works across every house, see our auction legal pack review page.
Three findings from a Strakers review.
Anonymised illustrations, chosen to be representative of the issues that arise on Strakers lots. Every report rates each finding red, amber or green and sets out what to do about it.
Anonymised examples · illustrative only · not drawn from any identifiable lot
The Bidq review for Strakers 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.
The full process is set out on how it works, and you can read a complete report on the sample report page.
Strakers - common questions.
Quick answers on coverage, turnaround and how Bidq fits alongside your solicitor.