Monthly Archives: March 2008

International auction house Bonhams continues its rapid global expansion through its Australian business, Bonhams & Goodman with the announcement of its inaugural Classic Car Auction in New Zealand and the appointment of a Head of Collectors’ Motor Cars for New Zealand. Backed by the Bonhams International Motoring Department which is the world’s [Read More]

OAK BROOK, Ill – Inland Real Estate Auctions, Inc. announced today that it will be auctioning a 118,000-square-foot industrial facility in Phenix City, Ala., that has previously housed a carpet manufacturing company and a candle and bath lotion manufacturer. Originally priced at $2.8 million, it will be sold to the highest bidder [Read More]

Bonhams is to sell the earliest surviving English spinet in its Fine Musical Instruments sale on 10 March 2008, New Bond Street, London. The magnificent instrument, which dates from 1668, corresponds exactly to a spinet which Pepys describes having bought in his renowned diary. Made by Charles Haward, a well-known harpsichord maker, [Read More]

Jewelry from the estate of a Florida collector to highlight March 10, 2008 sale Bonhams & Butterfields, international fine arts auctioneers, bring contemporary and period jewelry to auction on March 10, 2008. Simulcast between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the firm’s Spring offering features more than 400-lots of diamond, platinum, famous-maker and [Read More]

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif – The St. Joe Company has selected Internet real estate auction marketing firm, the LFC Group of Companies, to auction more than 3,000 acres of its prime land in the Florida Panhandle. What makes this opportunity so rare is that The St. Joe Company, one of Florida’s largest landowners [Read More]

Picking up right where we left off in 2007, Fortna Auctioneers hits a grand slam at the 2008 Pennsylvania Auctioneers Association Convention. This year Fortna Auctioneers came out on top with a total of 6 awards for our advertising excellence. These categories included: Residential Real Estate, Commercial and Industrial Real Estate, and [Read More]

www.FRE.com – With over thirty years of real estate auction experience, the LFC Group of Companies is strongly positioned to lead the way in the home auction industry. “By the end of 2007, many builders, developers and land owners finally realized that the current housing slump is not just a hiccup but [Read More]

Sky High Auctions has been in development for over a year and a half now. Its imminent release is an extremely exciting prospect for those wanting to make a living with their own eBay business. Over 800,000 people currently make a living from selling on eBay. Jimmy Huber, eBay Powerseller explains the [Read More]

Sheldon Good & Company Auctions LLC is offering for sale at auction ownership and rights associated with two of the largest undeveloped land assemblages in Lake County, Ill., announced Steven L. Good, Chairman & CEO of the Chicago-based real estate services firm. The underlying property consists of 600 acres in the aggregate [Read More]

Event date: 23 March – 2 April 2008 If you are a fiction fan who has dreamt of appearing as a character in a best-selling novel…your chance has finally come! For from 23 March, literary lovers around the world have the opportunity of a lifetime – to have their favourite author name [Read More]

London – Christie’s announced that they will offer the private collection of the Hon. Simon Sainsbury on 18 June 2008 in London. One of Britain’s most generous philanthropists and discerning collectors, the late Simon Sainsbury assembled throughout his lifetime one of the finest private British collections of the 20th century which will [Read More]

A hall table, dating to the early part of the 18th century, sold for a massive £29,000 at the Charterhouse auction in Sherborne on 15th February. “The table had been in a well known Dorset country house for many decades and it is a property which I must have driven past thousands [Read More]

Bonhams & Butterfields, international fine arts auctioneers, is honored to present the March 16, 2008 SoMa Estate Auction, featuring the personal effects and belongings of Phyllis Butterfield — of the family which founded the firm Butterfield & Butterfield in San Francisco in the 1860s. More than 200 lots from the beloved woman’s [Read More]

More than 1000 books on education systems around the world, dating from the 1400s through to the mid 19th century, will be sold by Bonhams in London on 1 and 2 April 2008. Expected to fetch in excess of £250,000, the books are from the private library of John and Monica Lawson. [Read More]

NEW BERN, N.C – Imagine for a moment you are standing at the river’s edge in the Carolina Sun. From the shore, all you see are miles and miles of sparkling blue water dotted with crisp white sails. The cooling breeze off the water stirs the lush canopy of ancient pines that [Read More]

SAN FRANCISCO – The upcoming season finale of the Emmy-nominated hit Project Runway is just around the corner (Wednesday, March 5 on Bravo, 10PM EST/PST) and show fans are flocking to ProjectRunway.com. The site gives fans access to exclusive auctions of the actual designs created by the contestants on the show. Auctions [Read More]

Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Auctions has officially announced it is changing its auction format to an ALL RESERVE sale. By employing this type of change it will enable Russo and Steele to best serve and maintain the high level of service and integrity that enthusiasts have come to expect from the [Read More]

Norfork, AR – A mountaintop triangle home previously featured on HGTV will sell by internet only auction, according to Jim Owen, broker and auctioneer, with Higgenbotham Auctioneers International. “This is a truly unique home,” said Owen. “It’s constructed out of steel and glass in the shape of an equilateral triangle, and situated [Read More]