SDL Auctions North West held a reception for property professionals at the Grand Pacific bar in Manchester to mark its regional launch in the North West.

CEO Rory Daly told invited guests that SDL Auctions move into the north west was proving a great success and was in recognition of the underlying strength of the regional property market in the area.

To mark SDL Auctions’ growth in the region, he announced that they were offering free entry to anyone wanting to sell their property in the next auction at the AJ Bell Stadium on Thursday 12 October.

SDL Auctions North West team includes senior residential valuer (and negotiator Award winner!) Andy Thompson, and commercial auction surveyors Peter Eustance and Howard Elliot-Jones.

The owner of the two-bedroomed terraced house at 25 Stanway Street in Moston, Manchester bought it for just £54,600 last summer but has now sold it for £70,500 – a rise of more than 29 per cent.

The vendor, local property investor Alexander Ellis, said, “I’m very pleased at the near- 30 per cent price increase I’ve managed to get in just one year by selling this property with SDL Auctions North West.”