Sutton Kersh · UK property auction

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Sutton Kersh has been running property auctions in Liverpool for more than forty years and remains the city’s best-known auction name, selling across Liverpool and Merseyside. Around seven sales run each year, each live-streamed with a live auctioneer but with no in-room bidding at all - every bidder registers for remote bidding. Sale-by-tender and private treaty listings run alongside the auction, and the house publishes a full thirteen-sale date grid across the current and following year with paired catalogue-closing deadlines.

Region: Liverpool and Merseyside, with more than forty years selling throughout the city.
Auction calendar: Around seven sales a year, each live-streamed with a live auctioneer and remote bidding only - there is no in-room bidding. Each sale has a catalogue closing date roughly four weeks ahead, published as a paired date grid across the current and following year.

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Sutton Kersh Auctions

How Sutton Kersh legal packs are structured.

Sutton Kersh publishes its buyer-side costs in more detail than almost any other house, down to a £10 registration fee and the refund timings for unsuccessful bidders. That transparency is genuinely useful, but the total is substantial and needs modelling in full rather than reading line by line.

Legal packs are uploaded to the site as soon as they are available, and you can sign up for alerts when documents are added or updated. Oversized items - architects’ plans and similar - may need inspecting in person at the Cotton Street office, which is a real constraint for a remote or overseas bidder and worth identifying early. The addendum is defined as updates, revisions or amendments to the property information within the catalogue, and forms part of the legal information for the sale. The published fee schedule is unusually granular: a £10 registration fee, a £5,000 bidder security deposit per lot, a total entrance fee per lot of £7,160, and a Buyer’s Administration Charge of 1.35% plus VAT subject to a minimum of £2,160 including VAT. The deposit is ten per cent subject to a £5,000 minimum, with the balance due within 28 days. Unsuccessful bidders are refunded within 48 hours by bank transfer, or up to seven days where a card hold was taken.

Pack conventions at Sutton Kersh

A trading name of Countrywide Estate Agents Limited
Live-streamed with a live auctioneer, but no in-room bidding at all - every bidder registers remotely
Legal packs are uploaded as soon as they are available, with alerts when documents are added or updated
Oversized documents such as architects’ plans may need inspecting in person at the Cotton Street office
The published fee schedule is unusually granular: a £10 registration fee, a £5,000 bidder security deposit per lot, a total entrance fee per lot of £7,160, and a Buyer’s Administration Charge of 1.35% plus VAT subject to a minimum of £2,160 including VAT
The deposit is 10% subject to a £5,000 minimum, with the balance due within 28 days
Unsuccessful bidders are refunded within 48 hours by bank transfer, or up to seven days on a card hold

What Sutton Kersh sells

The catalogue is not broken down by lot type on the Sutton Kersh site, and sales run to substantial volume - well over two hundred lots at a single sale. In a Liverpool catalogue of that size, terraced residential investment stock, tenanted property and smaller commercial units are the common shapes, but the mix should be read from the particular catalogue rather than assumed. Sale-by-tender and private treaty listings run alongside and follow different rules again.

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A realistic example

Three findings from a Sutton Kersh review.

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

F-01 Red

Tenanted terrace with a tenancy the pack does not evidence

The particulars describe the property as producing an income, but no tenancy agreement, deposit protection evidence or rent schedule appears in the pack to support the figure relied on.

F-02 Amber

Documents available only for inspection at the office

Oversized plans are held at the Cotton Street office rather than uploaded, so a remote bidder cannot review them from the pack alone and should arrange inspection before bidding.

F-03 Green

Buyer costs fully quantified from the published schedule

The published fee schedule allows every buyer-side cost to be modelled precisely before bidding, with no undisclosed charge arising from the special conditions for this lot.

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

The review

The Bidq review for Sutton Kersh 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

Sutton Kersh - common questions.

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

What will a Sutton Kersh purchase actually cost me?

More than the headline, and it is all published. There is a £10 registration fee, a £5,000 bidder security deposit per lot, a total entrance fee per lot of £7,160, and a Buyer’s Administration Charge of 1.35% plus VAT subject to a minimum of £2,160 including VAT. The deposit is ten per cent subject to a £5,000 minimum, with the balance due within 28 days. The transparency is helpful, but the total is substantial and belongs in the bid calculation in full.

Some documents are only available at the office. What if I am bidding remotely?

Sutton Kersh holds oversized items such as architects’ plans at its Cotton Street office rather than uploading them, so a remote or overseas bidder cannot review them from the pack alone. Identify early whether your lot has any, and arrange inspection or ask for copies before bidding. The report flags where the document set refers to material not supplied.

There is no in-room bidding. How do I bid?

Every bidder registers for remote bidding - the sale is live-streamed with a live auctioneer, but nobody bids from a room. Registration runs through the auction platform with identity checks, and it takes long enough that it should not be left to sale week. The review is separate from the mechanics and applies however you bid.

How far ahead are Sutton Kersh sales published?

Unusually far - a full date grid spanning the current and following year, with each sale paired to its catalogue closing date roughly four weeks ahead. That gives a clear planning window: once a catalogue closes and packs go up, you know exactly how long you have, and can order a review at the start of that window rather than the end.

What if I am bidding on a tenanted Liverpool lot?

Then the occupational documents carry the value. The review establishes whether each tenancy is evidenced by an agreement in the pack, whether the rents stated reconcile to the schedule relied on, whether deposits have been protected, and what arrears or notices are disclosed. Where the income is asserted but not documented, the report says so rather than assuming it.

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