Covid-19, Our Strategy
Update as at 16/3/2020.
With auction sales being held in a public arena we are keeping a close watch on advice and directions from Central Government and how this may impact on our sales.
At this time we continue with our plans to hold our next scheduled auction on 7th April .
We shall be extending the time available at our open house viewings to allow prospective buyers a degree of social distancing should they desire.
As to the auction itself, on the assumption that there are no regulations imposed preventing the physical auction taking place we shall hold the sale.
We shall ask prospective purchasers that have returned from a country listed in the government guidelines that would require a period of self-isolation to have completed that period of isolation or make alternative arrangements and bid via telephone. Similarly those prospective purchasers that believe they may have been exposed to the virus and not completed a period of self-isolation will also not be able to bid at the auction but via telephone.
Once we are closer to the auction date itself, we shall issue specific timings for the day and will publish a schedule of which batches of lots shall be offered within certain time slots. We can only do this when we know which lots may have been sold or withdrawn before the auction and this schedule will confirm for example “ Auction Commences 10:30 am – Lot …. Not to be offered before 12 noon – Lot … Not to be offered before 2pm etc .etc .
Our venue at the Grand Connaught Rooms is highly efficient carrying out regular deep cleans and at our last sale, and moving forward provided a number of anti-bacterial hand gels stations for all customers to utilise.
If circumstances arise that prevent us holding the auction at the venue we have a number of contingency plans. These will include lots that our clients still want offered transferred to our digital auction platform whereby buyers will be able to bid in a live auction both directly via the internet or via telephone. Some lots may be transferred to a binding tender whilst others could be deferred to a later auction. We shall keep you informed of any changes either affecting the auction in its entirety and that of individual lots listed within the sale.
Clearly events will dictate how we react so please keep a close watch to this news section of our web site for regular updates. Once the auction marketing is underway as of Friday 20th March, if you are a registered user of this site and have opted in to receive our newsletters you shall receive updates automatically.
