After 17 months but the stately Willyama mansion has officially sold for $6.4 million – making it the dearest SA residential property on record.
The record sale price for an Adelaide residential property previously stood at $5.3 million – which bought the former Springwood Park home of bankrupt winemaker Andrew Garrett.
Willyama’s new owner told the Sunday [...]

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New Zealand’s largest seller of used cars is offering Kiwis free access to its comprehensive database so they can check if they are paying too much for a car.
Turners Auctions launched the True Market Challenge this week giving potential car buyers or anyone curious about the value of their car, unrivalled market information into [...]

DESPERATE house hunters are prepared to enter bidding wars to get into southeast Queensland’s fiercely competitive rental market.
It is now commonplace for would-be renters across the region to offer more than the asking price for a property.
Housing advocacy group National Shelter said some rental applicants in Queensland were now being gazumped – a disturbing trend [...]

A shareholder in Coles Myer Ltd says an auction of the retailer may be possible, but the board must be more transparent in the information it provides to the market.
452 Capital co-founder and investment director Peter Morgan has told ABC TV transparency will be essential.
“We’re in the situation now where an auction is possible, but [...]

The first significant auction of residential land in Collie for 12 months resulted in average sale prices of more than $100,000 per lot.
The developer of the 41-lot Collie Drive-In Estate, Southern Districts Estate Agency, of Collie, sold all 17 residential properties on offer at auction on Saturday.
Principal Neil Martin said four were passed in, but [...]

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Australia’s second largest online auction site (http://www.oztion.com.au), has today announced that they are offering registered Australian charities the ability to setup and maintain a fully featured online shop for zero cost.
Fund raising is a constant struggle for dollars. We are always looking for new low cost ways to raise awareness and bring in [...]

The first painting by one of Australia’s best-known Aboriginal artists, Albert Namatjira, is going under the hammer for the first time.
Namatjira painted Hermannsburg Mission with Mt Hermannsburg in Background in about 1936.
The watercolour work on paper, one of eight of Namatjira’s set for auction in Melbourne on October 31, is expected to surpass the record [...]