FREEHOLD VEHICLE BREAKDOWN RECOVERY & MOT CENTRE IN EAST ANGLIA

Outstanding opportunity to acquire long established nationwide 24-hour recovery/breakdown assistance & MOT specialist with impressive reputation & private/trade client base offering excellent range of professional services from spacious & extremely well fitted freehold industrial workshop & office premises with large forecourt on main road into town centre. Comes with extensive inventory of quality equipment & fleet of vehicles included & lots of further potential in outstanding location. Sensibly priced for genuine sale after many successful years trading in same hands with with lease option available if required & viewing highly recommended REF MOB1279

The subject property occupies an outstanding and highly visible trading position set back from the B1067 on the densely populated outskirts of the vibrant and historic riverside market town of Ipswich, which lies with excellent access to major road links (A12 and A14) in Suffolk.

We are delighted to present this fantastic opportunity to acquire the valuable freehold, or leasehold rights to a commercial proposition of uncommon quality and real further potential, which we are confident you will agree represents genuine value.

This very well established and highly regarded automotive solutions provider currently conducts an extremely useful and highly efficient, fast response 24-hour nationwide vehicle breakdown recovery and roadside assistance operation and enjoys valuable relationships with such “blue chip” organisations as the AA, RAC and Britannia Rescue.

The business is also equipped to high industry specifications to undertake Class IV MOT work, together with an excellent range of associated general auto-mechanical repairs, maintenance, diagnostic, tyre, clutch, brake and exhaust services for most petrol and diesel, private and light commercial marques.

The business provides its services for a long-standing and still-expanding repeat and referral client base, ranging from private vehicle owners and small fleet operators to major insurance companies, with a considerable volume of year-round ‘drive in’ trade generated by its prime suburban main road position, and operates from premises of a size which would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard to possible investment in additional qualified staff in order to exploit the full potential capacity of its facilities.

The business would also benefit by adopting a more vigorous marketing policy of its excellent existing services, both through its own informative dedicated website and to further development of its social media presence, in order to improve upon the already impressive levels of turnover it has achieved since being established in its present form some thirty-seven highly successful years ago by the current proprietor, with the aid of a small, experienced and motivated team of five full-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would strongly urge any genuine interested parties to pursue the earliest possible enquiries.

Affording easy vehicle access by means of large, full-height steel industrial roller shutter doors, these substantial and extremely well fitted freehold (or leasehold) commercial premises provide outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation to the GROUND FLOOR, which briefly comprises the main, bright and spacious, open-plan garage workshop with concrete flooring, high ceiling, diffused fluorescent lighting, tool storage racking, workbench area and inspection pit.

The workshop is equipped to high industry specifications with a full complement of well maintained, industry standard plant including 4 x vehicle ramps, tyre fitting and wheel alignment systems, welding kit and compressor ETC., together with a dedicated Class IV MOT bay with MOT ramp and full complement of computerised diagnostic and testing equipment, all of which we understand is to be included in the sale price, along with a fleet of well maintained and fully signwritten recovery and roadside assistance vehicles, and further details of which will be made available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

Further ancillary accommodation to the workshop premises consists of all the usual washroom/WC facilities.

Accessed directly from the workshop area, or by means of its own separate public/personnel entrance, the premises also incorporate a bright, welcoming, fully furnished and computerised client reception and general administration office with seating for waiting customers, MOT viewing area and access to further ancillary accommodation consisting of additional washroom/WC facilities and a fully-racked general/parts store.

The ground-floor premises also afford staircase access to a large MEZZANINE LEVEL providing further ancillary accommodation consisting of an additional large storage area, together with a suite of 2 x fully furnished and computerised private and general administration office areas with full complement of telephone lines, internet links and industry-specific business management systems.

The property also enjoys the benefit of double glazing and full mains gas and electricity power supplies, in addition to the added security benefit of a full alarm system.

Externally:

Occupying an outstanding and highly visible trading position on a busy main road into Ipswich town centre, to the exterior the premises are well signed and presented and incorporate a substantial and well maintained forecourt area providing private unrestricted off-road parking facilities for in excess of twenty vehicles.

*Though offered primarily on a freehold basis, we are further informed that the property itself would alternatively be available with the benefit of a secure new 10-year lease, subject to an ingoing premium for the business goodwill, fixtures and fittings of £900,000 and a commencing rental of £24,000 per annum.

The business is well fitted throughout and a valuable inventory of equipment is to be included in the sale price