The Broadway, Newbury, Berkshire

FOR SALE BY ONLINE AUCTION!! Probably September/October (unless sold beforehand)

A Commercial Investment – Let and Producing an income of £20,000 per annum. Prominent Position opposite The Clock House – edge of pedestrianised shopping centre. Lease for a Term of 10 years from 2nd March 2023.

2 beauty treatment rooms on the ground floor – 1 large treatment area at the front with 1 other separate treatment room behind at the rear of the building.

On the first floor, reception area and a separate Aesthetic/treatment room at the front of the building with kitchen and 2 toilets.

Second floor, two further rooms currently used as storage.

DESCRIPTION / LOCATION: A Grade II Listed building (formerly known as Old Oak Parlour) with late 18thcentury refronting of an older building.  Features include good original double shop front with segmental bowed shop windows with small panes, narrow pilasters, and projecting cornice.  The shop doorway includes a rectangular fan light and panelled door.  At the rear the two-storey brickwork with wide weavers’ windows to first floor with small panes.  The property has painted brickwork beneath a tile roof with brick ridge stack.  A prominent and outstanding location by the Newbury clock tower and at the junction of Oxford Street, London Road, and The Broadway.

The property was reroofed about 10 years ago and the details are in the Legal Pack with some more recent new sash windows.

Newbury is a thriving market town on the western outskirts of Berkshire.  The Broadway and North Brook Street are two of the principal shopping streets in the Town Centre, leading to Bridge Street which passes over the Kennett Canal into Market Place.  Newbury Town Centre is an outstanding commercial centre with a wide range of shop and office occupiers, the home to the Newbury Building Society with the wide streets and Market Place often hosting special events attracting visitors from neighbouring towns and villages.  There are local car parks within a quarter of a mile. 

Current use – Class E Commercial, Business and Service.

Accommodation over three floors

FLOOR AREA: Taken from VOA website.  Ground floor retail and offices (59.1 sq m), first floor office (33.2 sq m), second floor offices (17.1 sq m).

RATEABLE VALUES: £16,000 – The Ground Floor.  £8,500 - The Upper Floors.

EPC: D88

SERVICES: Mains water, electricity, gas, and drainage.

TENURE: Freehold subject to a Lease for 10 years from 2ndMarch 2023. No break clause.

LOCAL AUTHORITY: West Berkshire Council

VIEWING: By appointment with the Owner’s Sole Agents and Auctioneers,Martin & Pole, Wokingham.

The Solicitors: Knights PLC, Rivergate House, Newbury Business Park, London Road, Newbury RG14 2PZ Contact:  Hemant Amin.   

THE CONDITIONS OF SALE:  are included in the Legal and Information Pack available from the Auctioneers prior to the Auction Sale and online at  .  A copy of the Conditions of Sale will be attached to these Particulars to form part of the Contract.

*  Property Auctioneers are required by the ASA to explain to prospective buyers the definitions of Price Guide and Reserve.  The Reserve is the minimum price set by the seller at which the auctioneer can sell the property.  The reserve can be set and agreed at any point up to the start of the auction or indeed can be changed during the auction.  The reserve can be lower than the guide price, the same as the guide price or up to 10% above the guide price.  In accordance with ASA guidelines the guide price can be changed at any time up to and including the day of the auction sale.  If the guide price is changed, we will endeavour to advertise the new guide price at the earliest opportunity.  A list of final guide prices will be published in the auction room immediately prior to the sale.  This may be the first opportunity to publish changes.

IMPORTANT NOTICES

Identification of the Buyer: To accord with the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 as amended:

For online auctions: To register no less than 24 hours before the start of the auction on the AMS platform (accessed via our website) which requires proof of ID to accord with the above regulations.  The registered bidder, if successful, is the Buyer.  If it is intended there should be two or more parties or a company bidding, the regulations apply to all parties including company directors.

For Public Auctions: The same regulations apply, with registration no less than one hour before the start of the sale.

Buyer’s Fee: A charge of £900 (inc VAT), payable only by the successful Buyer, will be due to the Auctioneers Martin & Pole.  An appropriate VAT receipted invoice will be issued.

Signing the Memorandum, Payment of the Deposit and Buyer’s Fee

The Auctioneer is authorised to sign the Memorandum/Contract on behalf of the Buyer.  The successful bidder at an online auction is liable to pay the deposit and the Buyer’s Fee of £900 inc vat at the conclusion of the sale or for a sale by public auction, on the fall of the hammer.  The deposit and Buyer’s Fee should be paid directly into the allocated Martin and Pole Client B account.

Property Details: We have endeavoured diligently to ensure the details of this property are accurate. We have not tested the services, appliances, or fittings (if any) referred to in the details.  We recommend that each of the statements is verified and the condition of the property and of the services, appliances, and fittings (if any) is investigated by you or your advisers before you finalise your offer to purchase, bid for the property or enter into a contractual commitment.

Stipulations: The property is sold with all faults and defects whether of condition or otherwise and neither the Seller nor the Agents of the Seller are responsible for any faults or defects or for any statements contained in the Particulars of the property prepared by the Agents.  The Buyer hereby acknowledges that he has not entered this Contract in reliance on any of the said statements and they have satisfied themselves as to the correctness of each of the said statements by said Agents in relation to or in connection with the property.