Praetor

Distressed commercial property · UK and Spain

Reach the person who decides the sale, before it goes public.

Praetor reads court, insolvency, company and land records every day. It finds commercial property whose owner is in trouble, tells you who can now agree a sale, and gives you every published way to reach them, with a first letter ready to send.

137,181UK commercial titles watched
2,463UK titles where an administrator, liquidator or receiver controls the sale
2,474UK titles whose owner was dissolved
4,721Spanish companies in insolvency followed

Today’s totals from the records Praetor reads.

From a signal to a conversation

By the time a distressed property reaches a public auction, every buyer has seen it. The better deal is struck earlier, with the person who controls the sale. Praetor gets you there in three steps.

1

Find

Commercial titles across England and Wales held by companies, each matched to its owner’s state:

  • administration, liquidation and receivership
  • dissolved owners whose property passed to the Crown
  • overdue accounts, winding-up petitions and other strain
  • in Spain, companies in insolvency and the court auctions of their property
2

Understand

Who decides a sale at each stage: the administrators, the receiver and the lender behind them, the Crown, or the directors. Key facts, rateable value, floor area, charges and prices paid nearby, each with its source, in a deal pack to print or share.

3

Approach

Every published route to the decision maker, best first, and a first letter to edit, email or have posted for you. Log each approach and its follow-up. Reserve an owner for 30 days so no other Praetor client approaches it through Praetor meanwhile.

Built to be relied on

Every fact has a source

Each figure links to the public record it came from: HM Land Registry, Companies House, the Gazette, the Valuation Office Agency, the Boletín Oficial del Estado.

Nothing is guessed

Where a record is silent, Praetor says so. It never estimates a value or makes up a contact to fill a gap.

Reviewed by people

Analysts review what clients see, and the data is checked after every daily run.

Fair to every client

A reservation keeps other Praetor clients from approaching the same owner through Praetor for 30 days, so you are not one of ten buyers calling the same administrator.

Plans

One payment buys a month or a year: nothing renews by itself. Deal packs, reservations and letters by post are included each month, and more can be bought when you need them.

Praetor is run by Preale Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 13594079.