Clive Emson achieved an 89% success rate at its latest Kent auction, its smallest this year both in catalogue size and sales receipts.
The firm raised £8.7m from 60 lots, down from May’s £14.9m and March’s £9.4m. Last June’s figure was £12.6m.
But the 89% success rate was higher than the auction house’s year-to-date average of 85%.
Highlights of the June sale included an 11,000 sq ft Victorian Methodist church in Tunbridge Wells, which sold for £900,000 off a guide of £500,000-£600,000.
A former Conservative club in Sittingbourne, containing a ground-floor bar with an office above, sold for £122,000 off a £60,000-£65,000 guide.
And a two-bedroom terraced house in Dover, guided at £65,000 to £68,000, sold for £107,000.
The sale took place at the Kent County Show Ground in Maidstone on 13 June.
