When one’s commission was ten or twenty percent of a sale that might gross ten or fifteen thousand dollars, the notion of budgeting fifty or one hundred thousand dollars for the marketing of such an event would have been absurd. Larger auction houses, on the other hand, had both the ...
OLDER builds are no longer suited to the needs of many house-hunters in the mid-bracket of the market, those attending an open day on Saturday said. ByAlex Warlow PublishedApr 16, 2018 Esther Jones, senior property consultant at Martel Maides, at the Brooklands open day. (Picture by Ben ...
At the beginning of the 18th century a new way of lighting houses and streets was found: by coal gas. One of the by-products of burning coal for gas wasnaphtha, and a Scotsman called Charles Macintosh discovered in 1819 that naphtha was an excellent solvent for rubber. He painted the res...