AUCTIONEERS have welcomed the Government’s decision to abolish all stamp duty for first-time buyers of new or secondhand houses from 31 March last.
The chief executive of the Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers (IPAV), Fintan McNamara, said the move was long overdue and would be of major benefit to many first-time buyers, particularly those who [...]

The European Union’s highest court ruled Tuesday that some of the world’s leading mobile phone operators have no right to recover value-added taxes from the auction of third-generation licenses in Britain and Austria.
The Luxembourg-based court said such licensing did not constitute an economic activity and, hence, did not fall within the scope of VAT regulations.
In [...]

Utilities Iberdrola and Endesa have held Spain’s first power auction, awarding a total volume of 1.45 terawatt hours (TWh). This auction represents the fruits of efforts by the two Spanish utilities to develop a competitive Spanish power market and promote the use of forward contracts.
A total of 15 participants, 11 of them foreign, took part [...]

A Dublin auctioneer selling a typewriter used by Irish author Christy Brown has withdrawn it from sale.
It followed Brown’s sister questioning claims that the Olympia Splendid 99 typewriter was used by the author to write his autobiography, My Left Foot.
His family said he wrote his story in 1954 holding a pencil in his foot and [...]

The typewriter used by disabled Irish author Christy Brown to write his autobiography My Left Foot is to be auctioned in Dublin.
The cerebral palsy victim used his foot to tap out his inspiring life story in 1954 before it came to world attention in an Oscar-winning movie.
Now the Olympia Splendid 99 typewriter used by the [...]

eBay, the online auctioneer has returned to Google for advertisements almost a week after it pulled out.
eBay pulled ads from the world’s most popular search engine on June 11 in what the auction company billed as an experiment to determine the most effective means of getting customers to visit the shopping site.
The actual reason for [...]

Twenty eight art works by the painter, who died last year, will be auctioned in Bath with some of the larger work expected to reach up to £50,000.
Auctioneers said it was a rare chance “to see something of the man behind the canvas”.
Jeff Muse, of auctioneers Bonhams said their had been exceptionally strong interest in [...]

Bonhams’inaugural Garden Sale, will take place at 101 New Bond Street, London, on 16 July.
The auction will include works of art and artefacts of horticultural interest from a cross-section of disciplines, including pictures, prints, ceramics, glass, books, furniture, garden statuary, silver, objet d’art and antique tools.
Highlights already consigned to the sale include:
Octave Guillonet, ‘The artist’s [...]

A stunning Louis XV commode thought to be made by Pierre II Migeon (1701 – 1758), who supplied furniture to Madame de Pompadour, has been shipped from Sydney, Australia, to be sold at Bonhams’ sale of Fine Continental Furniture and Works of Art at 101 New Bond Street, London, on 10 July. Having travelled roughly [...]

The custom-made limousine was the first car of its kind to be produced and will be up for auction on July 14.
It was built in 1969 by legendary Californian custom car maker Jay Ohberg and it is thought it could fetch up to £80,000 pounds.
Auctioneer Chris Routledge said: We’re expecting the car to fetch somewhere [...]