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William H Brown hits 98%

William H Brown (Liverpool)’s most expensive lot at its recent auction at Leeds United Football Club was a vacant house in Abbey Park Road, Grimsby, arranged as two flats, that made £66,500. A vacant house in Park Lane, Rothwell, Leeds, realised £55,000. The sale raised £732,550 from 98% of the 35 lots.

Shonki Brothers put on a parade

A freehold parade of four shops with first-floor residential in Main Street, Newbold Verdon, Leicester, made £301,000 at Shonki Brothers’ auction last week at the city’s football club. A bungalow in Uppingham Road/Spencefield Road with 0.12 acre (0.04ha) of land with outline planning for a house contributed a further £200,000 to the £1.3m auction at which 14 out of 15 lots sold (94%).

Stage right for Michelmore Hughes

Studio Cottage, a 130-year-old stone building in West Street, Ashburton, with a garage at lower-ground floor, was recently sold by Michelmore Hughes for £98,000, against an original guide of £70,000. The garage was used as a theatre until the mid-1960s and features a cast iron fireplace set into the wall.

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