IRS Auction of Seized Art Features Eccentric Bidding, Dark Rooms, No Glitz
The venue was a dimly lit warehouse in a gritty New York neighborhood; the auctioneer Bob DiGregorio sported a brown suit and a thick Brooklyn accent.
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Keeping it in the family Drayton Saunders spent his post-college years running a successful bagel business in Santiago, Chile.via
Record rise in mortgage lending Underlying net mortgage lending rose by a record amount in August, British Bankers' Association data showed on Wednesday, in another sign the Bank of England's surprise rate hike last month
Calif. Should Sidestep Recession A long-anticipated decline in the housing market should arrive next year but it won't be as severe in Southern California as elsewhere in the nation, nor should it trigger a
Mazuz nixes apartment deal for Gaza Strip evacuees Two weeks after approving one of the more controversial deals regarding disengagement, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has now decided to halt a plan to acquire a 60-unit apartment tower in
Bank opens unit for housing loans A NEW BEGINNING: The Corporation Commissioner, D.J. Dinakkaren, who inaugurated a `Housing Finance Central Processing Unit' of Canara Bank in the city on Tuesday.read more...
Report: Subprime mortgage woes to drag housing market in '07 (Asheville Citizen-Times) LOS ANGELES -- The subprime mortgage implosion will take even more steam out of the already slowing real estate market this year and beyond, according to a new economic report.read