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Auction Technology Group - Widening ‘take rate’

August 2026

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In the old days before the internet, if you wanted to buy a George II dining table or a second-hand combine harvester at auction, you had to physically travel to an auction house or a drafty corrugated-iron barn to try and guess what on earth a man waving a small wooden gavel was shouting. It was localised and structurally ancient. And if you were new to auctions, you might be surprised to get your invoice and see a buyer’s premium. And then you had to find someone to lug whatever you had bought back home. Auction Technology Group looked at this prehistoric setup and set about modernising it. It could see that whilst those in the ultra-high-end art market, dominated by the “Big Four” of Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonhams and Phillips, ...

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