By Gurpreet Bassi, Founder and Chief Executive - Bond Wolfe Auctions
We started 2020 with huge optimism and our first auction of the year was the largest and most successful auction to ever be held outside of London. We sold 203 properties and raised over £20.2 million in sales (with a success rate of 96%).
Rumours had started to circulate that a virus originating in China was heading over to West at a rapid pace. I did not think for a second that it would affect us directly.
When the lockdown was announced in March, my initial thoughts were that we would all go home for 2-3 weeks and then come back to work and hold our already scheduled May auction.
How wrong I was!
In the coming weeks it became very clear that we would not be returning to the “normal way” of doing things for the foreseeable future.
As a company that was still young, but which was growing rapidly and now widely acknowledged as the number one auction house in the Midlands.
In our first year we also manag...
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