Posts with tag auction

New 'Real Housewives' Cast Member Facing Foreclosure

First Lynne Curtain gets evicted at the end of the last season, and now this. As fans of the Real Housewives of Orange County get to know the newest member of the franchise's original show, Peggy Tanous, pictured left, she might be more preoccupied with the fight to keep her Irvine home than her newly-found time in the... Continue Reading »

Times Square Bomber's Home Auction Fizzles

Confessed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad may be infamous for an attempt to detonate a car bomb in Manhattan's busiest plaza, but the foreclosure sale of his former Connecticut home ended like most auctions these days -- back in the hands of the bank. At this past weekend's foreclosure auction, no one countered the... Continue Reading »

Conseco King's Sprawling Indiana Mansion Up for Auction

A 55,000-square-foot mansion set for auction next month would easily fetch the $9.9 million previous asking price if it were in Carmel, Calif., instead of Carmel, Ind. But there it sits in Indiana, a 36-room home called Le Chateau Renaissance, built by Conseco insurance company founder Stephen Hilbert and his wife,... Continue Reading »

Baltimore Home Auctions Make Luxury Living Affordable

Baltimore seems like a cool place, the gritty bits from "The Wire" and John Waters movies notwithstanding. And now you can live there in the lap of luxury for a pittance, compared to some high-priced real estate markets like New York and San Francisco. Because Baltimore's luxury market took a dive in the recession, 11... Continue Reading »

Eames Auction Called Off

The bidding is off for Lot 733, a private collection of Ray and Charles Eames photographs, clippings, negatives and other material collected for more than three decades by their official archivists, John and Marilyn Neuhart. The archives of the late iconic furniture designers, estimated to be worth $200,000, was to be part... Continue Reading »

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