The former policyholder will have no control over what happens to the policy after it's sold, and it could be resold repeatedly, with buyers checking up from time to time on how the former owner of the policy is doing.
At an April open house in a model apartment at North8, a Toll Brothers building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, buyers checked out the spacious rear garden, they admired the white-oak floors, and they fiddled with the built-in iPod dock installed in a living room wall.
The arrival of the Sunday edition of the Sun at a heavily-reduced 50p prompted a tabloid price war, but did not stop rival redtops published by Trinity Mirror and Northern & Shell losing between 15% and 30% of sales week-on-week as buyers checked out the new title.
Congress even refused to expand the number of gun-buyers checked for histories of crime or severe mental illness though 90% of Americans support such checks.
It was a modest bill that would have expanded the number of gun-buyers checked for histories of crime or severe mental illness, crafted to win bipartisan support after it became clear that bolder plans backed by President Barack Obama were doomed.
It had been held for 30 years by a Chicago family before a prospective European buyer checked out its provenance with the Register and found it had been swiped from the Paris apartment of dealer Justin Thannhauser during World War II.
