Last month a team including Morgan Stanley and Salomon Brothers won the contract to arrange the sale of Telebras, Brazil's telecoms firm, by charging a mere 0.07% of the sale price (compared with fees of up to 1.5% on some past privatisation contracts).
The challenges in the sale of the business involve setting and agreeing to the price and terms of the sale, and of course selecting and agreeing on a buyer.
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The Oklahoma City Orchestra League's contract with homeowners provides that it gets 0.5% of the net sale price if the house is sold within 16 months of when the League takes possession for the makeover.
The company retains 70% of the sale price, with the rest going to the user.
Already, increased competition among mortgage providers has seen a fall in the average deposit demanded by lenders from 35% of the sale price to 10-13%.
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Now the sale price of houses is falling in many parts of the country.
Retailers will be able to display one price list at the point of sale and an illustrated price list will also be available to customers on request.
It was the highest sale price on the California side of the lake in 2012, according to Bill Dietz of Tahoe Luxury Properties, who represented the buyer.
Wine buyers, who pay the same percentage of the hammer price whatever the value of the sale, will see their commission go up to 22% in New York and Hong Kong and to 17% in London, Paris and Geneva.
Since uranium is 20 times cheaper to find than oil, (in terms of finding cost's share of sale price), the current price run-up has already spawned hundreds of exploration companies, where there were only a handful a decade ago.
In some homes, the furnishings are for sale and a portion of the sales price is donated to the charity.
The consortium hasn't set a deadline for the sale of shares but is selling when the price rises above a minimum it has fixed, Mr. Acharya said without disclosing that level.
On Feb. 18, a communication line malfunction disrupted the dissemination of last sale price data on Nasdaq for two hours.
But the Westminster coalition, which sets policy for England, prefers a ban on the sale of alcohol below cost price.
Sellers pay 20 cents to list an item for four months, and Etsy gets 3.5% of the sale price when it sells.
And when it comes time to sell, commissions can take a real chunk out of your returns -- normally about 6% of the sale price.
Less than a year ago, in their coalition agreement, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats had pledged to ban the sale of alcohol below cost price.
Assuming that Amazon charges a fixed percentage of the sale price as its fee for every transaction, the service has the potential to generate millions, perhaps billions, in sales.
The books finally became available in digital form in 2012 via the online store Pottermore, with Rowling, who shrewdly held onto e-book rights rather than sign them over to her publishers, pocketing much of the sale price.
The short sale process is time-consuming and complicated: For the sale to go through, the mortgage lender must agree to accept a sale price lower than the outstanding value of the mortgage.
Shares of Staples are selling at a fire-sale price in the aftermath of an earnings disappointment in its latest quarter.
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Among the mooted alternatives: a new shareholder, a merger in which MBf retains control -- or the outright sale of the finance company at the most advantageous price to the Loy family.
Morgan Stanley and Facebook have weathered some criticism for pricing the company's shares at the top end of a raised price range and increasing the number of shares for sale just before the deal.
That is, a written clause in the bond indenture that says, if a control change occurs (i.e. merger, acquisition or LBO) then bondholders have the right to put their bonds back to the company at a predetermined price when a sale of substantially all the assets occurs.
Etsy makes money by charging sellers a listing fee of 20 cents for each item and receiving a 3.5% commission on the price of each sale.
Considering the sale price, Bank of America gained 56% on its investment.
Monday's announcement by the board of Alitalia that it was accepting a bid by Air France-KLM provoked howls of outrage from politicians and union leaders over the fire sale price being offered, as well as the impact the sale would have on the economy of Milan, the Italian capital of business.
The initial iPad gave way to the iPad 2, which will remain on sale at a lower price following the arrival of the new model.
Is it a coincidence that the average number of items sold and the average selling price both increased after implementing mobile point-of-sale devices?
There is no official note of when it will be available for sale in Europe at this stage or the price of the device.
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