Platinum Luxury Auctions is a nationally prominent auction firm headquartered in Miami and specializing in the sale of unique and distinguished properties. The firm's members have closed more than $315 million in luxury real estate auction sales, and …

The record-setting stock market pumped some new energy into the upper end of Charlotte's real estate market last year. As the Dow soared, said Valerie Mitchener of HM Properties, wealthy buyers became more comfortable buying big, expensive houses.

A real estate sign is seen in front of a Montreal home January 17, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson. TORONTO – House prices in Canada rose in the last quarter of 2013, according to the latest survey by Royal LePage, which found that the …

These have emerged in a context of the ever increasing rate of extraction of natural resources in order to produce the goods and services demanded by an increasingly affluent population. To their credit, many companies have … Over centuries, industry …

Ireland is highly competitive (second best in EMU after Finland on the World Bank gauge). It has an open economy with a trade gearing of 108pc of GDP, giving it three or four times more export … They have survived this mistreatment. To cite it as a …

The broader problem is the risk of competitive measures—devaluation and capital controls—from other countries. So far, capital controls has been the dog that has not barked. But with central bank policies increasingly desynchronized, that could …

Thus, devaluation and revaluation are typically one-time events – although a series of such changes can occasionally occur – that are usually mandated by the government or central bank of a nation. In contrast, changes in the levels of currencies that …

When a mortgage is prime financial responsibility, bills need to be paid routinely and a certain lifestyle needs to be maintained, the mere thought of leaving becomes a paralysing paradox. It's difficult to walk away when this is all you've known for …

The mass affluent population is an entirely separate group of customers who are demographically and economically different from HNWIs and the mass market. Their lifestyle, spending behavior and attitudes are unlike those of the rest of the population.