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NAVA vote on joining estate agents’ ruling body

18 July 2006

MEMBERS of the National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers (NAVA) are currently voting on whether to merge with the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA).

CINOA focus on attracting new young dealers

10 July 2006

CINOA, the international confederation of art and antiques dealers, have put bringing on the next generation of the trade at the top of their agenda.

Martin Luther King archive goes to his alma mater

10 July 2006

IN what must be one of the least surprising private treaty sales negotiated, The Martin Luther King Jr Collection will go to Morehouse College, Dr King's alma mater in his home city of Atlanta.

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Last chance to keep the pomp of Pomfret in the UK

10 July 2006

Culture Minister David Lammy has placed a temporary export ban on a highly important George II Gothick japanned cabinet from Easton Neston.

2006 RICS CONFERENCE

10 July 2006

THIS year's RICS conference will be in Cambridge from Friday to Sunday, September 15-17. More details to follow, but block out the dates in your diaries now.

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Napoleon wins a late victory at £60,000

10 July 2006

An early 19th century boxwood and bone Napoleonic prisoner-of-war model of the Third Rate 74-gun HMS Mars fired a shot across the bows at Hampton & Littlewood's (15% buyer's premium) Maritime Sale in Exeter on June 21 when it set a new house record of £60,000.