Racing pigeon sells for world record £1.4 million to mystery Chinese buyer at auction in Belgium

A racing pigeon has sold at auction for more than £1.4 million to a mystery Chinese buyer. The three-year-old hen called New Kim was sold by Belgian auctioneers Pigeon Paradise (PIPA) in an online auction for 1.6 million euros on Sunday. The sale beat the 1.25 million euros paid last year for male pigeon Armando, dubbed … Read more

Audioboom owner Nick Candy abandons attempts to find a buyer

Audioboom owner Nick Candy abandons attempts to find a buyer for the podcast firm By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:54 BST, 14 October 2020 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 14 October 2020 Audiogloom: Nick Candy pictured with wife Holly Valance A podcasting group backed by property tycoon Nick Candy has abandoned attempts to … Read more

TikTok will be sold in a $20-30billion deal ‘in the coming days and Oracle is favored buyer’

TikTok will be sold in ’48 hours’ and Trump-backed Oracle is the ‘favored buyer with a $20billion cash and stock deal’ – as Microsoft and Walmart team up for their bid TikTok’s US arm will be sold in the next 48 hours to either Oracle – owned by Trump donor Larry Ellison – or Microsoft … Read more

Major drop in house prices ‘unlikely’ as buyer demand jumps

A major decline in house prices is ‘unlikely’ despite the recession, new findings claim as the country’s post-lockdown recovery shifts up a gear. Property prices look set to hold firm for the rest of the year and are still up 2.5 per cent on a year ago, with the market showing ‘little sign of slowing’. … Read more

Niall Horan is in a relationship with designer shoe buyer Amelia Woolley after dating for two months

EXCLUSIVE ‘Lockdown has intensified his feelings’: One Direction star Niall Horan is in a secret relationship with designer shoe buyer Amelia Woolley after dating for two months By Sarah Packer For Mailonline Published: 17:30 BST, 8 July 2020 | Updated: 17:30 BST, 8 July 2020 Niall Horan is in a new relationship with designer shoe … Read more

Jennifer Hawkins sells her $20million Sydney mansion after struggling to find a buyer for six months

Jennifer Hawkins has finally sold her stunning mansion in Newport, Sydney, six months after listing it on the market.  According to Domain, the Australian supermodel, 36, and her property developer husband Jake Wall, 37, managed to find a buyer willing to meet their $20million asking price.  The waterfront home was sold by listing agent Ken Jacobs, who … Read more

Plucky buyer who wrote to owners of a house she liked reveals how she got it

A social worker with a flair for interior design has revealed how she managed to bag a property she fell in love with – simply by sending the owners a hand-written letter expressing her interest.  Sally Deakin, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, who lived in a new-build before she spotted the traditional mid-terrace on Lawn Avenue, … Read more

Reports of a buyer for Neil Woodford’s biotech holdings emerge

Fresh hope for Woodford investors? US firm reportedly closing in on a deal to snap-up his stricken fund’s biotech holdings as one-year anniversary of its closure passes US-based Acacia Research Corporation is reportedly close to snapping up Neil Woodford’s biotech portfolio for just over $300m, according to Sky News Today marks one year since the … Read more

First time buyer reveals how she’s transformed a drab 1960s home into an ultra-modern pad 

A couple who snapped up a 1960s home ‘in a whirlwind’ have revealed how they’ve dramatically transformed the erstwhile property into an ultra-stylish abode, spending £50,000 on a full renovation.   Recruitment consultant Rosie Potter, 27, and partner Jacob Flurry, 29, who owns a vaping business, say they weren’t seriously looking to get on the property ladder … Read more

Richard Branson ‘in race to find buyer’ for Virgin Atlantic

Richard Branson ‘in race to find buyer’ for Virgin Atlantic after offering his £80m private paradise Necker Island as collateral in plea for £500m government bailout Richard Branson wants to sell Virgin Atlantic before June, according to reports  It is said that the tycoon has failed in his bid to secure a government bailout  Around … Read more