The next Acuitus sale will test the market for good-quality high street retail in strong regional locations.
Lots will include two Monsoon and Accessorize stores, one in Hereford, Herefordshire, and one in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire.
The Hereford investment has been put up for sale by a major fund manager. It is let for 25 years from 1996, produces £170,000 pa and is guided at £975,000.
The Henley lot, with a 10-year lease from 2017, produces £105,000 pa and is guided at £1.9m-£2m.
Other high street lots include a Wilko store in Stamford, Lincolnshire, with a 15-year lease from 2008, which has been put up for sale by a pension fund. It produces £93,800 pa and is guided at £1.3m-£1.35m.
Also in Stamford, a Hotel Chocolat store on a 10-year lease from 2018 and producing £47,000 per annum, is guided at £900,000-950,000.
Chairman and auctioneer Richard Auterac said the sale should prove a real bellwether of sentiment around good high street retail.
Away from retail, the sale will also offer a 140,000 sq ft vacant office complex in Aberdeen with a guide of £1.25m. The offices were previoulsy occupied by oil field services company Baker Hughes, which was bought by GE in 2017. The takeover prompted occupational consolidation.
The office complex is being offered as a potential redevelopment opportunity, most likley as residential.
The 80-lot sale will take place on 5 December at the Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, W1.
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