Parking Goes to Highest Bidder
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See that spot that just opened up? Forget about it. Some yuppie won it in an auction two hours ago, so you're out of luck. Commentary by Tony Long.
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Plans to triple London's congestion charge for the most polluting vehicles are expected to be announced.
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Art collectors have consigned artworks valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars for the November sales at New York's auction houses. Christie's and Sotheby's, the city's two most popular houses, say estimates for sales totals are the highest in almost 15 years.
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MOT, tax, afterburner, one careful owner Those of you with a need for speed may be interested in this eBay auction which is offering "for the price of a sports motorcycle" a jet-powered go-kart guaranteed to attract all the right kind of attention:â¦
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Terry Bowden joked this past week that his loyalty in Bowden Bowl VI would go to the highest bidder. If that were the case, the winning bid must have gone to one Ann Bowden.
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By J.B. Smith, Waco Tribune-Herald, Texas  Dec. 19--The Waco City Council is poised today to offer an estimated $2  million in prime downtown land and $1.5 million in garage parking for a  project to replace the asphalt void around City Hall with housing, offices,  restaurants and shops.
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A successful bidder for Manchester United could have to pay more than 300p a share, City sources suggested yesterday. The stock rose 13.
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Finding the gently used car of your dreams.
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Starrett City, the largest federally funded rental complex in the country, is on the auction block, the owners said today.
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The meter has expired on cut-rate parking at Colorado State University. A glitch caused some campus parking meters to confuse older pennies for a quarter and dole out 30 minutes for just one cent.  The manufacturer, POM Inc.
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers conducted its largest sale to date in company history last week in Moerdijk, (Rotterdam), the Netherlands, earning over $68 million in gross auction sales.
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By Mark Jewell  BOSTON - Finding a parking spot often requires drivers to summon their inner caveman: Scan the horizon for the target, then bag it before someone else does.
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An undisclosed bidder yesterday met the government's minimum asking price at an auction for one of technology's most coveted assets: airwaves that will be used to build a new wireless network.
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With just 78 cents in his savings account and &#36;44,000 owed to creditors, parking attendant Juan Rodriguez plunked down &#36;1 on a lottery ticket. Good thing he wasn't pinching pennies: He won a &#36;149 million lottery jackpot.
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By Steve Reilly, The Sun, Port Charlotte, Fla.  Feb. 6--PUNTA GORDA -- With the city's goal of encouraging more retail  and other commercial growth downtown, the Community Redevelopment Agency board  will decide Wednesday whether the city's "in-lieu-of-parking" fee is too high.
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A 1946 painting by LS Lowry is sold for the highest price paid for the artist at an auction.
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Barry Bonds&#39;s 700th home run ball brought a top bid of $804,129 yesterday after a 10-day online auction. The ball had received 240 offers by the time Overstock.