Luxury Real Estate

By Brian Langhorst

The Swanepoel Trends Report for 2008 recently named Real Living, Inc. “The Most Promising New National Brand.”

We are very excited to work closely with Kaira Sturdivant Rouda and the entire Real Living brand. Kaira’s friendly yet hard-working attitude continues to drive this dynamic brand. Real Living is our Board of Regents member for the entire state of Ohio. Congratulations to Real Living on yet another notable accomplishment.
 

Editor’s Note:
Brian Langhorst is LuxuryRealEstate.com’s Membership Manager. He meets members’ unique needs through the dynamic services LuxuryRealEstate.com provides. Real Living certainly deserves all of the praise heaped upon it.

By Brian Langhorst

Kaira Sturdivant Rouda, the Chief Operating Officer of Real Living Inc. in Columbus, Ohio and our select Board of Regents member for the entire state of Ohio, has been very busy lately. Several months ago Kaira wrote and published a great book, “Real You Incorporated.” This empowering book for women and all businesspeople recently broke into the top 25 books corporate America is reading!

Congratulations, Kaira!


Editor’s Note:
Brian Langhorst is LuxuryRealEstate.com’s Membership Manager. He meets members’ unique needs through the dynamic services LuxuryRealEstate.com provides. In addition to being an accomplished business leader and author, Kaira Rouda is also a great public speaker, which she showed at the 6th Annual Luxury Real Estate Spring Retreat in San Diego last month. Her presentation was entitled “Real Marketing for Today’s Consumer.”

By Brian Langhorst

Referrals can create more consistency in your business, even in a down market. Businesses are always on the move and so are their employees. There are boundless opportunities to create a vast, dynamic referral network for yourself. I would start by attending our conferences – any and all of them (the Spring Retreat in San Diego is rapidly approaching, April 15-18, 2008).

The Luxury Real Estate membership is the best of the best of REALTORS® and real-estate professionals. By operating and referring business with the best, you capture the best opportunities, as well.

There are other great opportunities locally. If you have the infrastructure to support it, you can gain the referral business of local sports teams and businesses. For example, Real Living (our Regent member in Ohio) is the exclusive referral provider for the Cleveland Cavaliers (NBA Team).

I would love to hear other success stories. Please share them with us.

Hope to see you in San Diego and discuss more referral opportunities and ideas!


Editor’s Note:
Brian Langhorst is an Account Manager with LuxuryRealEstate.com. He meets members’ unique needs through the dynamic services LuxuryRealEstate.com provides. Indeed, when times are tough, it’s very wise to focus on the aspects of your business that you can directly control. You can’t control the market, but you can control your relationships and connections with other firms that can drive referrals to you. And what better place to network with the world’s finest brokers than at Luxury Real Estate conferences?

By Jennifer Schuyler

I cannot tell you how excited I am about the upcoming Spring Retreat at The Grand Del Mar in San Diego, California!

Over the last five years working within our industry, I have not experienced or met such a high-caliber group of people representing Luxury Real Estate. Our conferences are amazing opportunities to network, increase referral business and allow new and senior members to establish personal and professional relationships.

Please join us and hear Ben Stein speak on the “Psychology of Buying Luxury Property.” Famous for his wisdom and sense of humor, Ben will bestow his brilliant foresight and knowledge of the economy, as well as a wealth of information on the future of our particular industry, on you.

If you have not registered for the conference yet, you may do so at: www.luxuryrealestate.com/conference.

I look forward to meeting our first-time attendees, our newest members and our returning friends in San Diego!


Editor’s Note:
Jennifer Schuyler is the Senior Membership Manager with LuxuryRealEstate.com. She has a remarkable history of meeting and exceeding luxury brokers’ marketing needs. The Spring Retreat will most certainly be a wonderful event for you to attend for a variety of reasons, as Jennifer mentioned. In addition to Ben Stein, other speakers will include Kaira Sturdivant Rouda, President of Real Living, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio and other distinguished Luxury Real Estate members.