Van’s Auctioneers will host a number of auctions during next week and before the June school holidays. Buyers should be on the lookout for these quality assets that will come under the hammer!

On Tuesday, 11 June at 11h00 a property that is used as the well-known Alpha Hardware Centre in Fochville will be offered. All the stock, hardware, paint, and goodwill will be offered as one lot as Lot 1, and after that the immovable property will be presented as Lot 2. This property measures just below 1000m² and the improvements are about 650m². It is zoned for Business purposes and features three shop areas, entrances, bathrooms and so forth. These first two lots will then be offered together, and lastly another property which is used as a sand yard will come under the hammer.

Farmers, especially in the Free State, should pay careful attention to the Bainsvlei farms (near Bloemfontein) which will be auctioned off on Wednesday, 12 June at 11h00.  The farms Donkerhoek and Harrowgate will be offered as a unit together, and jointly measure just below 1100 hectares. The farms provide about 570 hectares of grazing lands and about 250 hectares dry lands. A further 240 hectares of irrigable lands have eight circles with four pivots on them. The farms also have 17 boreholes, coupled with irrigation and reservoirs and storage dams. There is Water Use Certificates available, and the farms also have storage facilities, a house and worker’s houses.

On Thursday, 13 June, a variety of properties in Modimolle will be available on auction. At 11h00 four industrial properties in Nywerheid Street will be sold. The first two properties have improvements such as offices, boardrooms, stores, storage facilities, garages, yard areas and so on. Both are ideal for usage by the transport industry, and provide opportunity for further development.  The other two properties are unimproved stands.

At 12h00 on the same day a two bedroom house, situated at 2 Huilboom Street in Modimolle, will be knocked down.  The house also has a bathroom, open plan lounge and dining room, kitchen, double garage and an established garden.

Two upmarket houses in the well-known Koro Creek Bushveld Golf Estate will be offered at 13h00. This auction will be held at 105 Buzzart Drive in Koro Creek. A five bedroom mansion which is partially completed will be offered first. When completed, this house on the 12th tee will surely be one of the best properties in Koro Creek! It has five en-suite bedrooms, a kitchen, scullery, walk-in-fridge, reading room, a gym, a walk-in- vault, a cellar, cinema room and much more.  This is truly an amazing house and something to be seen!

The other house in Koro Creek, also to be auctioned at 105 Buzzart Drive, is a very neat three bedroom family home. It has two bathrooms, an open plan kitchen, lounge and dining room area, a swimming pool and braai area. This house is currently rented out for R9750 per month and is a good investment or house to live in.

A variety of mine equipment will lastly be offered on an auction near Carletonville on Thursday, 13 June at 11h00. The items include an Hitachi 400LCH2 Excavator, Symons cone crusher, a Nissan 20 ton mobile crane, as well as generators, tractors, containers, a diesel tank and many more.