The Irish Auctioneers & Valuers Institute represents over 1,550 real estate agents and auctioneers in Ireland. Over 85% of property transactions in Ireland are conducted by an IAVI member.
This portal contains Ireland’s only comprehensive aggregated listing of property and real estate that is restricted to qualified Members of IAVI. The public, in using the site, [...]

Less than a third of properties offered for auction sell under the hammer, according to new research by estate agents Douglas Newman Good (DNG).
In the last four weeks, 256 properties were auctioned in the Dublin area. However, just 83 of these – 32 per cent – were sold at auction.
The figures compare with the 41 [...]

UK Auction Info
Just days ahead of the 2006 Open Golf Championship, to be held at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake next month, 40 out of 500 lots in Bonhams’ next Golfing Memorabilia Sale will relate to the Club and its famous players. The auction will be held on 17 July 2006 at Bonhams’ [...]

UK Auction Info
Blue Peter will introduce ID cards for badge-winners to stop the pins being traded on eBay.
The BBC children’s show wants to stop people ‘defrauding the system’ of badges, which grants free admission to 200 British attractions.
Bosses found parents wanting to save money on family outings were snapping up second-hand pins and they suspended [...]

Irish Independent
ONLINE shopping is proving to be a headache for Irish consumers with a majority of complaints to the European Consumer Centre in Dublin last year to do with web traders.
A new report from the ECC office shows that there was a four-fold rise in the number of complaints from online shoppers.
Most of the complaints [...]