The Bidq podcast
Before You Bid
A weekly read of the documents that decide whether an auction lot is a good deal - the legal pack, the title register, the special conditions, the lease - and what each one costs you if you skip it.
Episodes
- Episode 7 · 19 Oct 2026 · 9:11
Special Conditions of Sale at Auction
The standard conditions are the same for every lot in the catalogue. The special conditions are written for yours, by the seller’s solicitor — and that is where the costs that are not in the price, the deposit, the completion period and the occupier all sit.
Written from our full guide: read it here.
- Episode 6 · 12 Oct 2026 · 8:52
Buying a Short Lease at Auction
Short-lease flats are priced at a discount that is somebody else’s estimate of a bill you have not had quoted. Why eighty years is the line, what the 2024 Act has actually brought into force, and the seller’s notice worth asking about.
Written from our full guide: read it here.
- Episode 5 · 5 Oct 2026 · 9:24
Rights of Way and Access at Auction
Access is the cheapest thing in a legal pack to check and the most expensive thing to be wrong about. Where rights of way are written down, the four ways one arises, and why three of those four never reach the Land Registry.
Written from our full guide: read it here.
- Episode 4 · 28 Sept 2026 · 8:27
Vacant Possession at Auction
The one auction risk that doesn’t convert into money. What “vacant possession” actually obliges a seller to do, the six ways it is defeated, and what buying subject to a tenancy means now Section 21 has gone.
Written from our full guide: read it here.
- Episode 3 · 21 Sept 2026 · 8:14
What an Auction Lot Really Costs
The hammer price is not the price. The buyer’s fee, the seller’s legal costs, the apportionments and the stamp duty - every one of them knowable before you bid, and most of them missing from the spreadsheet.
Written from our full guide: read it here.
- Episode 2 · 14 Sept 2026 · 5:09
The Auction Deposit and Completion Date
The deposit is due the same day the hammer falls. The completion date is contractual, not aspirational. Both are in the legal pack before you ever raise your hand.
Written from our full guide: read it here.
- Episode 1 · 7 Sept 2026 · 8:46
How to Read an Auction Legal Pack
A hundred and forty pages land in your inbox nine days before the auction. What each document is for, what to pull out of it, and which line items are real cash rather than theory.
Written from our full guide: read it here. Filmed version: watch on YouTube.
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