How an office-holder takes plant, vehicles and equipment to sale: settling title and charges, discharging the duty to obtain a proper price, and building a record that stands up. Written for administrators, receivers, liquidators and the solicitors and lenders instructing them.

Trade buyers do not make money on the gap between hammer price and retail. They make it on landed cost, stock turn and buying where they have an edge. How the numbers actually work once the buyer's premium and VAT are in them. All figures illustrative.

What happens between winning a lot and the asset arriving at your yard: the invoice including the buyer's premium and VAT, collection by appointment from the seller's site, the storage and abandonment provisions, hauliers, abnormal loads and export. Price the move before you bid.

UAG does not mechanically inspect or test assets or provide condition reports. How to work the registration, the MOT records available through GOV.UK, the paperwork and the photographs before you bid, and how to price what the van will need alongside the buyer's premium and VAT.

The hammer price is where the cost starts. The full build-up on a UK trade auction purchase: buyer's premium, VAT on the lot and on the premium, collection, and the work the asset needs before it earns. All percentages illustrative.

Lots close at staggered published times, and a valid bid in the final 10 minutes resets that lot's countdown to ten minutes from the bid. What that means for sniping, maximum bids, reserves and provisional bids, multiple lots and the way you run closing day.

A buyer's pricing method, not a formal valuation: comparable sold prices, the drivers that move plant values, and the arithmetic that turns a priced machine into a maximum hammer bid once the buyer's premium and VAT are divided out. All figures illustrative.

Closing restaurants, pubs and hotel kitchens put commercial catering equipment on the market, offered lot by lot. What comes up, what gas, electrical and water supplies the equipment needs, who is qualified to install and commission it, and how to work out the full cost including the buyer's premium and VAT before you bid.

Repossessed and receivership farm machinery is often poorly documented. How title and the vendor's authority to sell work on recovered stock, what may be missing from the machine, and how to get it off a farm site. UAG does not mechanically inspect or test assets or provide condition reports. Every figure here is illustrative.

Auction usually wins on price and choice; a dealer usually wins on warranty and convenience. Here is how the two routes compare for commercial vehicles and plant, and how to decide.

CNC and workshop machinery sells well at auction when you confirm it powers up, check the spindle, ways and tooling, check the power supply, and budget for removal. Here is what matters before you bid.

How a business, trader or administrator turns retired vans and trucks into cash at auction: choosing the route, what to provide, what you receive, and how settlement works.

The checks that matter on a used excavator or telehandler, how to read the hours, and what a winning bid really costs once buyer's premium, VAT and transport are added.

Where UK trade buyers find commercial vehicle and machinery auction deals online, how trade auctions differ from consumer car sites, and how to judge a genuine deal by the all-in cost.

Ex-fleet HGVs and trucks sell well at auction when you check the right things and budget the all-in cost. Here are the checks that matter, the compliance you need, and what a winning bid really costs.

How timed online, live webcast and on-site auctions differ, how proxy bidding and increments work, and how to take part step by step in a UK industrial sale.

How a business, administrator or receiver turns surplus plant and machinery into cash at auction: choosing the route, setting a reserve, what you receive, and how settlement works.

Auction is often the fastest way to turn surplus or distressed business assets into cash at a defensible value. Here is when it is the right route, how it works for sellers, and how to get the best realisation.

When a business closes, its assets have to be turned into cash for creditors. Here is how UK liquidation and insolvency auctions work, where an independent valuation fits, and what sellers and buyers should expect.

Excavators, telehandlers, dumpers and forklifts sell well at auction when you inspect properly and bid on the all-in cost. Here is the full process, an inspection checklist, and what a winning bid really costs.