UK Auction Info
There has been a 60% increase in the number of properties being bought and sold at auction since 1998, according to a leading provider of auction information.
The Essential Information (E.I.) Group currently has information on over 300,000 past properties and details on over 35,000 future lots that are offered each year, worth in [...]

Two West Midlands dairy units sold for well over their guide prices at auction last month, with Irish interest helping to drive up values.
Both farms were sold by Wright Manley and the firm’s John Lewis said demand in the area was still exceptionally strong despite falling milk prices.
“The logic doesn’t stack up, but then it [...]

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A group of major TV advertisers teamed up with eBay on Friday with plans for an online auction marketplace where they can bid on commercial air time to gain leverage against TV channels that charge exorbitant prices to run their ads.
The site, which will be called e-Media Exchange, will begin selling air time in January [...]

Irish gig-goers are hoping that the government will follow the example set in Britain last week and introduce new legislation that imposes greater penalties on ticket touts.
Auctioning tickets over the internet has become so commonplace in Britain that, last week, the British culture secretary Tessa Jowell held a summit on ticket touts attended by ticket [...]

A ramshackle public toilet could fetch 300,000 euros (£205,000 pounds) — the price of a new house — if politicians in western Ireland get their way.
The town of Lahinch reckons property-hungry buyers will snap up the dilapidated, out-of-order loo because of its great location — a surfing beach on Ireland’s rugged Atlantic coast.
“You could leave [...]