Auction & Sale
Maximising your financial return on unwanted hospitality assets is essential, whether you need to offset the cost of buying new assets or pay back creditors during a liquidation. However, the process can be intimidating and time-consuming for businesses, especially during a hotel or restaurant renovation. At The Hotel Clearance Company, we offer hospitality furniture and equipment sales as part of our comprehensive clearance services. Find out more below…
How Do Hospitality Asset Sales Work?
Our hospitality asset sales process is 100% transparent and designed to be as simple and stress-free as possible whilst also allowing you to get the maximum return on your hospitality assets.
We start with a consultation to ensure we can tailor our approach to suit your individual business needs, whether you need a quick turnaround for a refurbishment project or are looking for support with your liquidation process. We’ll find out what you need and when you need it, and we’ll create a detailed plan of action. We don’t just focus on the high value items – our service is thorough, ensuring everything that can be sold is sold instead of being taken to landfill.
Once your clearance requirements have been established, we will get straight to work removing and storing your hotel furniture and assets, using our secure storage facilities. We will then use the following avenues to rehome your unrequired hotel furniture and assets:
- Our ‘Little Black Book’ of qualified regular buyers who buy via private treaty sales
- Partnerships with leading specialist auction houses
What Can We Sell for You?
- Hotel furniture (beds, desks, sofas)
- Restaurant and bar furniture (tables, chairs, stools, bars)
- Appliances (fridges, freezers, ovens, dishwashers)
- Electronics (computers, printers, televisions)
- Catering equipment (cutlery, commercial ovens, crockery)
- Linens (bed sheets, tablecloths, pillowcases)
- Decor (paintings, prints, sculptures, ornaments)
- Gym equipment (treadmills, weights, lockers, benches)
Selling at Auctions vs Private Treaty Sales
Both options are effective ways of getting the most value back from your hospitality assets, but the best one for the job depends on a variety of factors. If time is of the essence because you’re on a tight schedule or need a return on your assets as soon as possible, then a hospitality asset auction might be the best way to go. Auctions are typically faster processes than private treaty sales – the auction date is set, and once it’s held, sales can be completed quickly. This set auction date also provides more certainty, which can be ideal during the planning process.
Whether you’ll get a larger return at auction or when selling via private treaty is difficult to say, as it can depend. Auctions create a competitive environment where buyers bid against each other, potentially driving up the price. However, if we can find the perfect buyer for your assets privately, this could result in a higher sale price. Auctions can also be a great place to sell items in bulk, such as restaurant chairs or hotel furniture. This allows for a faster, more streamlined process than when selling these items one by one.
Why Sell Your Assets Instead of Disposing of Them?
Selling your unwanted hospitality assets either at auction or via private treaty sales comes with many benefits. Whether you’re going through liquidation or planning a refurbishment, maximising your financial return on these assets is a boon, and can help you to pay back your creditors or offset renovation costs.
It can be tempting to dispose of your unwanted assets at landfill to save time spent organising sales and money spent on storage, which is why we eliminate this temptation by handling everything for you as part of our comprehensive hospitality clearance service. By minimising your storage costs, we’re able to make selling at a hotel liquidation auction far more financially viable for you. This also saves you money on landfill taxes and minimises your impact on the environment.
We have a highly experienced professional team, who can work in any environment. For work on construction sites, we also have a specialist team who all hold CSCS accreditation, allowing us to work alongside even the biggest and most prestigious main contractors to get your project completed.
Hospitality Furniture and Equipment Sales with The Hotel Clearance Company
If you’re looking to discuss your hospitality clearance requirements in more detail, get in touch with The Hotel Clearance Company. Whether your business is due to go through a refurbishment, a change in property use, or you are liquidating assets, we are here to help. We specialise in maximising financial returns for our clients through the use of pub furniture auctions, hotel liquidation auctions, and restaurant furniture auctions.
Our expert team can be contacted by calling 020 8123 8241 or visit The Hotel Clearance Company and fill out our online contact form.
Our asset valuation services mean we can help you offset the cost of your clearance project by identifying valuable items that can be sold through private treaty sales or auctions.
If you’re interested in learning more about our services, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. You can reach us by phone at 020 8123 8241 or by our online contact form. We look forward to hearing from you soon!