Luxury Real Estate

By Lois Lane

Hi Brian,

Our firm, Lane & Smythe Real Estate Brokers specializes in historic property in downtown Charleston.  I have served on the board of The Preservation Society for the past four years and have recently been named President.  The Society is the first group formed for the purpose of saving "dwellings" in the United States.  If you are interested in this you can visit the website, www.preservationsociety.org.

By Brian Langhorst

LuxuryRealEstate.com is a wonderful resource of the best agents, best developments, and the best brands of residential real estate. Many of you are very active in local or national organizations, philanthropic groups and more. I would like to hear from you on what you are doing in your community. We have a lot of assets available to you to publicize all that you do.

By Robert Lockard

Every year, Ultimate Homes magazine lists the top 1,000 most-expensive homes in the United States, and in the recent issue the competition between the different luxury-broker networks isn’t even close. LuxuryRealEstate.com has more than twice the number of luxury properties on the list as the closest network. Check it out:

By Janice Ridge

We at LuxuryRealEstate.com have been hearing lately that some of our members are focusing more on Web marketing these days, and have reduced their budget for print. Well, let me ask you to rethink this trend. Here’s a story that just may change your mind.

LuxuryRealEstate.com member Prominent Properties - Sotheby’s International Realty, in Tenafly, N.J., recently reported that a front-cover ad of the August/September 2007 issue of Unique Homes magazine not only brought their agent, Jennifer Patterson, the buyer, but she sold the listing at the full sale price of $11.8 million in cash! That equaled 28 times the initial investment made on the ad! Incredibly, the same all-cash buyer also purchased an estate in Greenwich, Conn. for $22 million!

By Jennifer Schuyler

March wind is a jolly fellow;
He likes to joke and play.
He turns umbrellas inside out
And blows men’s hats away.

He calls the pussy willows
And whispers in each ear,
”Wake up you lazy little seeds;
Don’t you know that spring is here?”

-Poet Unknown

By Kimberly Fulwyler

In San Diego on Tuesday, March 18, 2008, the forecast was sunny with a high of 67 degrees. San Diego is the rare city that is almost always perfectly warm. 

By Tim Derham

I am thrilled to be given the opportunity to write for LuxuryRealEstate.com regarding the advantages of investing in luxury property in Australia. As I write this I can already hear my international peers ho-humming about the 25-hour flight it would take from New York to Melbourne or the 22-hour flight from London to Melbourne… yes that’s true, and I have no intention of trying to counteract that particular argument… However, once you finally disembark the plane, you will quickly appreciate the landscape and lifestyle opportunities awaiting you.

By Staci Colville

I am piggybacking on the fabulous blog by Meghan. I am an Account Manager here and some of my very favorite members are from Texas! I am a native Texan, born and raised in Houston, where my sole sibling (my brother) is a very successful swimming-pool builder. My folks are alive and kickin’ in Dallas (the Big D). Although I live in Seattle now, Texas will always hold a special place in my heart… our family car has our favorite bump sticker on the back: “If God weren’t a longhorn, then why is the sunset Burnt Orange?”

By Robert Lockard

I was looking through Google News a few days ago, and a Reuters story caught my eye. The story is entitled “Mortgage broker, lender plan too little too late.” It’s a somewhat dreary article, describing the hopelessness of our situation and the inability of the current plan devised by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to save the U.S. economy and homeowners from our current troubles.

By Meghan Barry

This week our CEO John Brian Losh (Brian) traveled to Texas to visit several Who’s Who Luxury Real Estate members - John Daugherty, Realtors, Bradfield Properties, Turnquist Partners Realtors, Inc. and Briggs-Freeman Real Estate.