According to a recent survey a large proportion of the nation could be sitting on a goldmine. For example nearly one fifth of Britons own a painting worth over £500 or that 15 percent of households have antique furniture worth over £500.

You can sell your auction buys easily, profitably and quickly – just advertise them for sale in the classified ads’ section of newspapers and magazines!

Braving architectural salvage yards requires strength, but they rarely fail to unearth surprises.

How to make money with your camera

Some debt collection agencies will threaten to send somebody to your home unless you pay. These are not bailiffs and they have no legal power so you can ignore them. If they threaten you call the police.

With the sheer amount of CDs for sale on eBay there are always bound to be a fair few which are not what the inexperienced buyer is expecting.

The Treasury swallows £10bn every year from unclaimed estates and some of it could be yours. We investigate how teams of heir hunters track down the owners of this money…

When Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made his first budget speech back in 1997 he announced that as part of the New Labour government’s strategy for increasing revenue without increasing tax a vast array of redundant government-owned assets would be sold.

These terms are used in in various auction houses. Be sure to get familier with them to avoid costly mistakes

It is crucial that your documents are in order when you are exporting goods to a buyer or importing goods from a seller.

There are various choices and it depends a great deal on what’s in your collection and how much effort you can put in.