This teddy bear doesn’t have diamond eyes and a gold nose like the one offered by Selfridges last year, but still, it asks for a whopping half a million pounds.
But the buyer of the cuddly toy will also get the bear’s home - a beamed cottage in Lavenham, England – one of the country’s most picturesque medieval villages.
Mr McKinlay, 73, a retired butcher and farmer, said: “It is time for me to move on so I decided that Teddy might help me sell the house.
The three-foot bear belongs to homeowner Walt McKinlay’s daughter and is now sitting on a chair next to the window of the property with a “Buy Me” sign.
Alexander Amosu – luxury designer to the rich and famous – is to launch a luxury bespoke suit collection featuring suits made with gold & platinum threads, rare cloths and precious stones.
The suit featured above is a one-off creation made from the finest fabrics in the world.
Valued at a whopping £70,000 ($103,000) this suit has taken more than 80 hours and 5,000 individual stitches to make it.
Mervis Diamond Importers claim to be the first to create a diamond cupcake.
The cupcake is festooned with eight ideal cut round brilliant diamonds around its circumference and a two carat Asscher cut diamond in the center for a total value of $30,000.
Mr. Mervis hopes the dazzling dessert will be listed as the world’s first diamond cupcake in the Guinness Book of Records.
Despite the global economic collapse, a luxury terrace house in Belgravia has gone on sale for a record £100 million ($150 million).
The six-story property in Belgravia, central London, has 20-foot ceilings, luxurious fixtures and more than 21,000 square feet of living space.
Along with Candy Spelling’s mansion, this white-stucco-fronted house at No. 10 Belgrave Square, owned by Lebanese developer Musa Salem, is now the most expensive home on the market in the world.
Department store Selfridges is encouraging shoppers to buy their extremely expensive £1,000 ($1,500) Easter eggs in the hope they will gain value.
How? Because each of these exorbitantly priced eggs will contain a gold coin which the store considers to be of good investment value.
A Selfridges spokesman said: “According to the financial institution Swiss bank UBS, demand for gold will double this year compared to 2007”
To protest the hyperinflation that has rendered the Zimbabwe currency worthless and to raise awareness of the dire economic situation there, the Zimbabwean Newspaper created an ad campaign featuring huge posters, wall murals, flyers, and even billboards all made out of trillions of Zimbabwean dollars.
