Real estate agent Lauren Pillsbury of TTR Sotheby's managed to snag one of the best deals in December for herself when she bid against a developer to purchase a six bedroom house at 4403 W St. in Northwest Washington's Berkley neighborhood.

Hedge funds got less bullish on gold for the seventh time in eight weeks as signs of accelerating U.S. economic and tame inflation growth drive prices to the worst annual drop in more than three decades. The net-long position in gold fell 12 percent to …

"Our luxury resorts have increased rates by 8-10 % over last year and city hotels by 3-5%, thereby bucking the industry trend," said the group president Kapil Chopra. Le Meridien's vice-president operations Meena Bhatia said the chain had desisted from …

For services to radiology. Julia Frances Wasteneys Carrick. Global ambassador of Walpole. For services to the British luxury goods industry. Martin Peter Knops. Formerly counsellor at Oxfam. For services to Oxfam. Ceridwen Mary Roberts. Senior research …

The award of an OBE to the Financial Times's Julia Carrick is in recognition of services to British luxury, writes Scheherazade Daneshkhu. Through her work for Walpole, the not-for-profit trade body, Ms Carrick has played a critical role in giving …

… for surge-pricing model during peak travel days and nights. The company rolled out UberX this year as a cheaper option, which offers rides in hybrid or compact cars, but Uber's brand is, in the mind of many consumers, still synonymous with a luxury …

Media rooms and five-car garages used to be the kind of amenities that would set a luxury home apart (cue the MTV "Cribs" reruns), but these days, it takes a little more imagination — and a lot more money — to reach the upper echelon of home ownership.

It will be two or three weeks before the data is compiled for all of 2013, but some luxury home sales statistics for November were crunched by Amy and Johnny Mills of Realty Austin and provided to the Austin Business Journal. In kind of a good news …

The Manhattan luxury market had its biggest year since 2007, with 1,372 contracts signed at $4 million or above, totaling nearly $10.9 billion in sales, according to an end-of-year report from Olshan Realty. The number of contracts signed jumped 70 …