| In Florida, New Condos On the Block Once viewed primarily as a means to sell foreclosed properties, auctions are increasingly being used to jump-start sales in new developments. nytimes.com |
Saint Laurent Art Sale Brings In $264 Million The first round of auctions of items from Yves Saint Laurent’s art collection brought record prices for works by several artists, including Henri Matisse. nytimes.com |
Shrinking the Art of Selling Fine Art When times were good, Sotheby’s and Christie’s auction catalogs grew into behemoths, running to hundreds of pages and stuffed with foldout images and scholarly essays. nytimes.com |
Ericsson Bid Wins Nortel Wireless Unit A bid of $1.1 billion knocks out an earlier offer from Nokia Siemens for the most valuable unit of Nortel, which is in bankruptcy. nytimes.com |
For Madoff Auction, Even Jewels Lack Luster Clothes with price tags still attached, monogrammed golf clubs, jewelry galore: these were a few of the Madoffs’ favorite things, now up for auction. nytimes.com |