Selling at auction can seem every bit as daunting as buying, especially if you don’t know the item’s history or what it might be worth.
Finding out the value of your item
Visit an auction house to get your item valued. Find out if you need to register and make an appointment with a valuer in advance [...]

Irish investors have been buying into grand designs at English football shrines. They have shelled out more than €100million for residential properties in developments at Highbury and Wembley in North London.
Property investors from Ireland are reported to have paid out more than £40million for a stake in the planned transformation of Highbury where the current [...]

UK Auction Info
Only months after shutting down five European auction sites, Yahoo said it will develop co-branded auction sites in Scandinavia with QXL Ricardo.
The deal with QXL Ricardo to establish the sites in Norway, Sweden and Denmark follows Yahoo’s decision in May shut down its auction sites in the UK and Ireland, Germany, France, Spain [...]

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eBay and Yahoo! have announced they are forming a partnership centred on advertising, ecommerce and search.
As the internet search and commerce markets grow even more competitive, the two companies on Thursday said they have decided to help each other out.
As part of the deal, Yahoo! will become the exclusive third-party provider of all graphical [...]

Francis Bacon’s studies for a self- portrait, hidden in a private collection for more than two decades, will go on sale for as much as 5.5 million pounds ($10.3 million) in London on June 22.
Christie’s International is betting that the 1980 triptych painting, “Three Studies for a Self-Portrait,” will set a record for Dublin-born Bacon, [...]