Cockney comedian Micky Flanagan does a famous skit on whether you’re going ‘out’ of an evening, or whether you’re going ‘out-out’ – the former being a semi-genteel evening partaking in…

As some readers may know, the past month has been an interesting one for us at The Market. That’s because the ladies and gentlemen at renowned auction house Bonhams (founded…

Spring has sprung and you can’t buy a classic car for love nor money. At least not in the traditional manner, for a cursory glance at the private classified ads…

It’s always difficult to admit weakness from a position within an industry, but I’m sure it would be no great revelation if I state that classic car auctions as a…

Competition cars are a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Why? Because they’re so difficult to value. The market for each car is not wide, and there’s a…

In the eye of the storm it’s difficult to focus on anything other than the surrounding chaos and yet, as a certain Mr Dury (aided by The Blockheads) once sang,…

Well, what a year. We’ve all finished 2020 in a rather different world to the one we started with – and we’re perhaps never going back to the old ways.…

One of the important parts of our job is to advise and guide our clients – and sometimes one of the hardest things is helping them come to terms with…

Our last article, in which I talked about the purity of the no-reserve auction (and the fact that you might be better off not having one), a few of you…

Michael Lewis’ 1989 book Liar’s Poker introduced the concept of the ‘Big Swinging Dick’, a term used to refer to the alpha-male behaviour in Wall Street. We have little opportunity…

After an unexpectedly buoyant few months through the early summer, it’s becoming obvious that the market is steadying itself. This is, we think, partly due to the pent-up post-lockdown demand…

I left you last month with a promise to give you my predictions for the classic and collectable market. Clearly a fool’s errand, few are better suited to the task…