Iconic 'Gherkin' sold for Â£600m
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Insurance giant Swiss Re sells off 'the Gherkin' its landmark building in the heart of the UK financial district for Â£600m.
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Makeup magnate and fine art enthusiast Ronald Lauder has paid 135 million dollars, the highest known price ever paid for a painting, for a 1907 Gustav Klimt portrait.
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The price of a licence to operate a New York taxi cab hit a record $600,000 (303,000 pounds) in May, according to a lending company which financed the purchase.
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A guitar played by George Harrison and John Lennon is expected to fetch up to Â£270,000 at auction.
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A cloak worn by Sir Alec Guinness in Star Wars sells for Â£54,000 at an auction of TV and film costumes in London.
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A painting attributed to cult graffiti  artist Banksy fetched more than 200,000 pounds ($391,000) in an  online auction on Monday. Now the lucky owner will just have to  work out how to get it home.
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The number of luxury homes sold in Britain has risen by more than 60%, with some areas recording their first Â£1m sale.
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THE clan Macdonald are in line for a Â£150m windfall following the sale of the world-renowned Scotch whisky maker to Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy.
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JOHANNESBURG - Mark Thatcher&#39;s mansion in the leafy Cape Town suburb of Constantia is going up for sale today for R24 million, according to a newspaper report.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Russian billionaire pays over Â£25m for treasures Â· Usmanov coup follows major Arsenal investment
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The ship Calypso, from which Captain Cousteau conducted expeditions made famous in cinema and television documentaries, got a new owner and new lease of life when Loel Guinness sold it for a symbolic one euro.
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The rights to TV programme Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? have been sold as part of a Â£106m deal.
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A rare watercolour painting by sculpture Modigliani sells for Â£423,000 at an auction in London.
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An 800-year-old copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, is sold for a world record price of Â£1,140,500 at a London auction.
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A collection of artworks, thought to be worth up to Â£100m, is donated to the Tate and the National Gallery.
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Brueghel's bawdy masterpiece The Kermesse of St George is sold for Â£3.7 million at an auction in London.
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The price of this painting at auction was Â£205,000 - but its real market value is likely to be Â£5m.