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Wales' largest property auction house is expanding into England for the first time.

Paul Fosh Auctions, based in Newport, has sold £23.7m worth of properties last year alone.

And now it will be holding regular auctions in Bristol, as well as in north Wales.

Paul Fosh, who lives in Monmouth, said: “We are opening auction sales in north Wales and also in Bristol as a direct response to overwhelming demand from customers and also from agents in these two areas.

"There have for some time been calls from agents in north Wales for us to expand our very successful operation north. There have been similar requests for us to do likewise in Bristol."

Mr Fosh, who already stages eight auction sales a year in Llanedyrn, Cardiff, now plans to stage a similar amount each year in north Wales and in Bristol.

He is finalising details for the new locations but says Bangor is likely to one and close to the motorway in Bristol the other.

The first Bristol auction is due to be held on September 12, while the north Wales sale is due to be in mid October.

Mr Fosh said: “We’re all very excited and slightly nervous at the expansion but confident that the tried and tested Paul Fosh Auctions model will do well in the two new areas.

"It’s a good feeling to be expanding into England with a Wales-based business rather than the other way around which is more normal.”