Established 2020 · Capped at 24 members
A room of investors who buy at auction for a living, and a place you can bring any lot to, twice a week, before you bid on it.
The members, in their own words
You'll get a better sense of this from the people in the room than from anything we write.
Tuesday and Thursday, 8:45am
Ten to fifteen lots a call. Two calls a week. Every week. Not a webinar and not a lecture. A room of active buyers going through real properties that real people are about to bid on.
You bring a lot
We tell you straight
Then you listen to us do the same for everyone else's. Fourteen more properties you would never have looked at, priced and pulled apart in front of you, by people with capital in the market this month.
A buyer working alone properly assesses maybe five to ten lots a year. A member sits through a thousand, and when one of them buys, they come back and tell the room what actually happened.
You're not here to learn how auctions work. You're here to borrow other people's experience at a rate that isn't available on your own.
The reason an experienced trader spots the unmortgageable flat, the short lease or the £40,000 of works in ninety seconds isn't that they're cleverer than you. It's that they've seen it go wrong before.
We give you the reps without the losses.
What the room actually does
The one that didn't happen
[What the lot was. What looked fine. What the room spotted: the lease, the title defect, the structural issue, the planning problem. What they did instead.]
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[Where they started: experience, portfolio, confidence. What they bought and when. What it made or what it now yields.]
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[Same structure. Ideally someone who joined with no auction experience at all, since that's the story most prospects need to see.]
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The room
Members come from banking, medicine, professional sport, the trades and full-time property. Some have been buying at auction for twenty years. Some bought their first lot after joining.
What they have in common is that they are all actually transacting. Nobody is watching from the sidelines, nobody is here to sell you anything, and nobody guards their deals. Members openly discuss properties they're interested in, because the room is worth more to them than any single lot.
Trust is the currency here. It only works because we're careful about who comes in, and because the moment the room gets bigger than twenty-four, your lot stops getting looked at properly. That is the entire product, so the cap doesn't move.
Membership
Tuesday and Thursday, 8:45am. Bring your lots, get a straight answer, hear everyone else's.
Over 1,000 lots a yearThe full members' WhatsApp group, plus a private group with just the two of us for anything you'd rather not put in the room.
Deals · numbers · second thoughtsA full day in person in Central London with invited guests. Troubleshooting, industry insight, and the conversations that don't happen on Zoom.
£100 + VAT supplement per meeting, at costAvailable to club members only, subject to underwriting. Plus a broker who buys and sells at auction himself.
Exclusive to ABCOn-demand recording of our two-day auction workshop, maximum bid calculator, stamp duty formula, and the rest of what we use ourselves.
Plus 25% longer EIG subscriptionSolicitors, architects, planning consultants, surveyors, accountants. People we use, not a directory we compiled.
Plus member rates on live events and the annual retreatWho it's for
£100,000+ liquid
Cash available for your own deals, or an unencumbered or low-geared portfolio. Not because we're precious, but because the learning only lands when you can act on it. Watching teaches you nothing.
Ready to transact
Now. Not next year, and not once you've read a bit more.
Willing to do the work
Go through the catalogues before the call. Turn up for the calls in your auction cycle. Research your own lots. We'll give you an honest read on any property. We won't do your homework.
Willing to share
Everyone in the room is getting the benefit of other people's experience. You're expected to put yours in.
If that isn't you yet, apply anyway and say so. We'll tell you honestly and point you at what to do first. Timing matters more than ambition in this game, and there's no shame in being early.
The process
Ten minutes. Tells us who you are, what you're buying, and where you're up to.
Twenty to thirty minutes, and it goes both ways. We're working out whether the club is right for you, and you're doing exactly the same. We'll talk you through the membership fee here, once you know what you'd be getting for it.
Six-month minimum, billed six-monthly in advance, one month's notice on renewals.
Added to the WhatsApp group the same day. First call the following Tuesday or Thursday. Bring a lot.
[X] places currently open
Membership is capped at twenty-four and every application goes through an interview. If it isn't right for you, we'll say so.
We don't publish the fee.
Not to be coy, but because a number on its own tells you nothing about whether this is worth it. We'd rather show you what happens in the room first, then talk about money on the call.