Padua Stables – Ocala Florida from Carol Clark on Vimeo. This world famous training and breeding stable offered by Carol Clark is 763 acres of functionlity and gracious living. Padua Stables is everything the serious horse breeder could ask for. … Continue reading
Get out the skis and send out invitations to friends and family! A prime piece of luxury real estate is waiting for winter sports enthusiasts in magnificent Deer Valley, Utah, one of the nation’s most exclusive alpine ski resorts. … Continue reading
For those in search of downtown luxury real estate in beautiful Seattle, Washington, look no further than Four Seasons Private Residences in the heart of the Pacific Northwest’s premier metropolitan hub. A Featured Listing in the duPont Registry of … Continue reading
The ultimate in luxury real estate listings can be found in the gracefully affluent community of Saddle River, New Jersey. Presented by Kevo Development and Featured Property on theduPont Registry of Fine Homes, this incomparable country estate is a … Continue reading
Experience the intimate serenity of the premier property in the most distinguished island community in Miami: 3 Indian Creek Island Drive. With only 32 waterfront properties on this 300 acre island, this 30,000 square foot Resort Home Oasis has plenty … Continue reading
THEduPONTRegistry of Fine Homes is featuring the perfect luxury real estate property for those looking to own a beautiful retreat in charming Chatham-Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a mere 90 minute drive from Boston. This historic area has long been a respite … Continue reading
Here’s yet another fine featured listing from the duPont Registry of Luxury Real Estate. Take in this gorgeous, one-of-a-kind contemporary estate set in the hills above the prestigious community of Los Gatos, California, on secluded Aztec Ridge Road. Situated on … Continue reading
Asheville, North Carolina is a top city for its varied amenities, including business and family friendly areas that make it favorite place for second home buyers and retirees. With a love of the arts and fine dining with a localvore … Continue reading
Blogging as an advertising medium? It’s obvious that the internet and the marketing of real estate (including luxury real estate) have merged. You might be slightly out of touch to believe otherwise. It’s also okay if you do. If what … Continue reading
Social Media… really? Do you think so? The facebook memo? *Inspiration comes from an agent who actually sent me this—this morning. Clearly she didn’t get the facebook memo. Really? You want me to upload photos so I can “share” with … Continue reading
If the point of social media is to completely blur the previous solid wall between our corporate presence and our personal selves, then it is not the immediacy of sales that is involved. The long tail approach is exactly that: … Continue reading
the artificial line that used to divide our personal from our corporate lives is gone. It’s a holistic model of business/life, now. “All” of us is required to be at the table. With both time and geography having been erased by the Internet, we are now communicating in real time with people from all over. Continue reading
With all the tools we have at our disposal now there is a temptation to throw in everything. With digital cameras, single property websites and desktop publishing applications it is easy to go overboard and provide the potential client everything they need to make a decision. But you don’t want them to make a decision at this point; you want them curious. Continue reading
If you read anything on the internet, there’s high probability that the information appeared because someone ‘shared‘ it with someone. By ‘share,’ I don’t mean hitting a button that says ‘share,’ and I don’t mean illegal transferring files (though it … Continue reading
Staging a luxury home is imperative. The luxury home buyer is looking for a home where everyday living and the luxury lifestyle are inseparable. By properly staging a luxury home, you can combine these two elements. Continue reading
How do you attract people to your luxury site? Do you pay someone with extraordinary design skills or do you make sure that there is content there? Do you think that the design of the site is important? Do you … Continue reading
Times have changed in the world of publishing, marketing and luxury advertising. It’s safe to say that we are all aware of the way marketing and advertising seems to work or ‘not work.’ This being said, there is still a … Continue reading
Nobody said innovation was easy, but someone did say that necessity was its mother. Seth calls the people who spread the idea ‘sneezers.’ We need more of both in luxury real estate. We also need more quality. There are still … Continue reading
Hint: Chasing waterfalls is not the answer I‘m not trying to sell you an iPad. Steve Jobs nailed that in his keynote. I am trying to convey, (and have been for the past 4 months) that it is frightening to … Continue reading
The speed of change is very demanding. We now live in the world first described by Lewis Carroll, in Alice Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to his Alice in Wonderland. In that world, Alice must run very fast, just to … Continue reading
If you want games, they will be in Vancouver and Whistler for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games is on February 12th. Vancouver, which has been noted as one of the top cities in … Continue reading
Any event or issue in the 21st Century becomes a polarizing moment. Welcome to the connection pipeline. Those for and those against materialize, opinion flys, there is a debate on merits of whatever it is. There it is again, the great … Continue reading
Ad copy could be the tipping point in your luxury real estate market Here’s a little experiment you can try that may change the way you write copy for your listings. Go to Realtor.com and do a search in your … Continue reading
This is the 100th post on the Luxury Real Estate Blog. I don’t know if this is an accomplishment, but the internet is a proving ground and largely unexplored so it is not certain as to what this benchmark means. … Continue reading
We are the inhabitants of a brave new world. It’s borderless, in a profound way, if one is in real estate today. In North America, we’ve been used to being a “forward area,” and the rest of the world appeared, for … Continue reading
This really is probably out of place here, and I’m sure that all of the people that ‘poke fun’ at this luxury blog will feel vindicated for this. This also likely belongs in the About Me section, but well… that’s … Continue reading
The changes that have occurred in the past three years, in all business models, have delivered us all to a level platform. This includes the marketing of luxury opportunities but it will not last much longer. The speed of this change, … Continue reading
Luxury—it has a resonance to it, this word. I imagine melting honey, or cashmere next to the skin—something delectable, in some way. Something “apart” from the humdrum of the expected. As with most words, no two people hold the same image as … Continue reading
Studies indicate that affluent consumers are using trusted peer groups to help them make luxury purchase decisions. The Web of Trust According to the Luxury Institute’s latest wealth survey: 7 out of 10 wealthy consumers are now members of social … Continue reading
There are no boundaries in the mind of the luxury homebuyer. If walls are in their way, they simply pay someone to move them. Our very wealthy client, we will call him Larry, bought one of our premier listings for … Continue reading