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Online purchasing of art and antiques on the rise
The live online bidding site The-saleroom.com has recorded a 120 per cent year-on-year increase in bidder numbers in 2009, revealing growing buyer confidence in purchasing art and antiques online. In a year when recession and credit issues dominated the headlines, the-saleroom.com bucked the trend with revenues generated by the site increasing by 55 per cent year-on-year. The value of lots sold on the site has also grown by 87 per cent with t... [more]
Arts and antiques have remained pretty resilient throughout the recession
According to the latest survey from RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), prices in the arts and antiques market continue to rise with silver and jewellery leading the way, whilst contemporary art came back into favour following a year of price falls. The all lot price balance continued to edge up in the final quarter of 2009, with 17 percent more surveyors reporting rising rather than falling prices, up from 14 percent in the previ... [more]
Insider guide to the antiques trade
How To Deal in Antiques, by TV and radio antiques expert Fiona Shoop, is now in its fourth edition. In this simple, step-by-step guide, Fiona explains how to save money when buying antiques and how to make a profit when you sell. She introduces different types of dealing, from fairs to the Internet. If you love antiques and enjoy buying and selling them as a profitable career or hobby, you’ll need to know exactly what you’re doing to maximise ... [more]
48 Hours In: Dublin (Independent)
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March 13-20, 2010 (Inside Bay Area)
SATURDAY, March 13Midnight(DIY) Yard Crashers — Turning a small and odd-shaped yard into a griller's paradise with a barbecue island complete with built-in seating.
Gone antiquing (The Aledo Community News)
Aledoan takes on country’s oldest antique show Special to The Community News Jan Orr-Harter of Aledo has taken on a new venture with the Dolly Johnson Antique and Art Show. The show opens at Will Rogers Memorial Center today for its 47th year, but Orr-Harter has promised some changes from years past. For the first time ever, the Dolly Johnson Show will feature exhibitors of Mid-Century Modern ...
Lee County men ace same hole on same day (The News-Press)
Where: San Carlos Golf Club, No. 17
Hit & Run: Whitehall – by bus (Independent)
First Tory MP Sir Nicholas Winterton railed against the prospect of second-class train travel, almost gagging on his own foot as he suggested passengers with regular tickets were "a totally different type of people".
Market Defies Fear of Real Estate Bubble in China (New York Times)
China’s spectacular real estate boom may be a bubble that threatens the global economy.
Market Defies Fear of Real Estate Bubble in China (The Gainesville Sun)
The New York Times China is in the middle of a spectacular real estate boom. But the question is whether it is in the middle of a bubble — one that might threaten the global economy.
Housing boom in China may foretell bubble (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
Everyone agrees China is in the middle of a spectacular real estate boom. The question is whether it is in the middle of a rapidly growing real estate bubble.
Market Defies Fear of Real Estate Bubble in China (The Tuscaloosa News)
DAVID BARBOZA China is in the middle of a spectacular real estate boom. But the question is whether it is in the middle of a bubble - one that might threaten the global economy.
Where will the BBC's spare £600m go? (Guardian Unlimited)
The BBC is distinctly vague on plans for its vast additional programme budget. And that may help the Tories take it away Central to the announcements by the BBC's Mark Thompson and Sir Michael Lyons is that £600m a year, a fifth of the total licence fee budget, is going to be shifted into a range of BBC programming by 2013. The bulk of this money is available because after 2012 the BBC's ...
