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Category: luxury
New San Francisco showroom offers private islands and yachts
Demand for some of the most exclusive luxuries remains, even as the city of San Francisco itself grapples with plunging home prices and an all-time high in office vacancies.
Riley Warwick on Aspen’s ultra-hot market and that $108M sale
Warwick recently double-ended Colorado’s first-ever six-figure sale in the representation of an off-market property on Aspen’s picturesque Willoughby Way. He shared with Inman what makes the market so hot.
Luxury home prices have reached new heights: Redfin
With a recent boost to inventory and steady demand for high-end properties, luxury homeowners are ready to cash out on existing homes and use their cash power to buy a new home, fueling price growth.
Forget the NAR settlement. New development transactions still pay
As brokerages pivot to specialized training meant to empower buyer agents, new-home sales still provide plenty of opportunities for intrepid Realtors, development specialist Hana Cha writes.
$188M Palm Beach estate — the city’s priciest — goes into contract
The estate sits alone on its own 2.3-acre man-made island, and went into contract on Monday. The negotiated price and the buyer’s identity are still unknown.
Pacaso is now offering shares in homes for as little as $130K
The new price point marks a strategy shift for the company, which buys homes in vacation markets, converts them into LLCs and sells shares to up to eight buyers.
A man is the face of SERHANT., but the firm is powered by women
You probably know Ryan Serhant and Josh Team pretty well, but how about the firm’s female leaders who are helping to drive it to success?
Bess Freedman says Trump is too late to sell Mar-a-Lago for bond
Mar-a-Lago may be worth hundreds of millions, the Brown Harris Stevens CEO said, but there’s certainly not “enough time” to offload it by Monday when Trump’s $454 million bond is due.
Location, location, location? Price eclipses previous buyer priority
Fifty-six percent of consumers surveyed by Coldwell Banker said that price is the most important factor for them when choosing a home, compared to 50 percent who said location was most important, casting doubt on the seasoned advice that location is everything in homebuying.