This year’s SESCA annual insolvency conference is taking place at the University of Sussex, Brighton 29-30 June 2017 and as usual Marriott & Co. will be attending and sponsoring the event. We are looking forward to meeting with our fellow attendees, and discussing the latest topical insolvency issues with faces old and new. As in previous years Marriott & Co. will be hosting the pre-dinner drinks on the Thursday evening. […]

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The SESCA annual residential insolvency conference is just around the corner, on Thursday 30 June and Friday 1 July at the Surrey University, Guildford, have you booked your place? There are a range of speakers throughout the seminar covering topical subjects.  Marriott & Co. will be attending and also hosting pre-dinner drinks in the bar on Thursday 30 June. We hope you will be joining the event, further details can be […]

A busy start to the year for the Marriott & Co. disposal team with various online asset sales completed. The assets sold included Sheet Metal Machine Tools, Woodworking Equipment, Motor Vehicles, Audio Visual Stage Equipment, Motorbikes and Scooters, stock of Formal Menswear, a vast Model Train Collection together with a sale of a Residential House in the Dordogne. Ongoing negotiations for the sale of a solvent Property Maintenance Company continue. […]

In 2013 our Director of Valuations, Tom Allman, completed his BSc degree in Estate Management achieving First Class Honours. His final year dissertation was a project entitled: “a researched refinement of the Depreciated Replacement Cost (DRC) method as a guide to market values (MV) for Machinery & Business Assets valuers.” Depreciated Replacement Cost (DRC) is a valuation method that can be used by machinery valuers as a tool for estimating […]

I thought I would post this essay as a ‘refresher’ for busy professionals who sometimes need reminding of the basic principles underlying the established legal system we all abide by. There are two main legal sources that court judgments are based on. These two sources are legislation, formed under the authority of Parliament, and case law, known as judicial precedent. Judges have to take account of both of these sources […]

This company was an insolvency which we dealt with a few years ago and it had many different aspects to it. The case involved us attending a printing shop and carrying out a survey of all the chattel assets on site (which included printing machinery and equipment as well as office furniture /equipment) then producing a market valuation report and categorising the assets as either unencumbered, financed or third party owned. […]

By Thomas Allman MRICS Back in the day (or so I’m told!) insurance valuations were ‘all the rage’. 40 years ago or so, insurance valuations made up a large proportion of an asset valuer’s work load. One reason for this could be the high inflation back in the 1970s meaning that under insurance was an even greater risk than it is today. Most insurance policies offer a ‘new for old’ […]

Client’s disposal requirement Client must remove and dispose of a huge quantity of unique components from a logistics facility in London within a specified timeframe, transport them to a storage facility under our control, sort and lot the components, offer them for sale by online tender, present the best offers to our client, complete the sales and transfer the proceeds to our client within ten weeks following instruction Marriott & […]

Problem We recently dealt with the sale of assets at an Italian restaurant in an expensive area of London and were faced with two potential in-situ purchasers for the contents, one of which offered significantly more than the other, but unfortunately they were not the landlord’s preferred tenant. Solution We skilfully negotiated a significantly increased offer from the under bidder, and advised our client that we must ensure the assets […]