Spring LRE Magazine Now Available!

Mar 27, 2012

Spring has sprung and so has the Spring issue of the LuxuryRealEstate.com Magazine. To view the digital version, click here. Bonus: click here to see our pristine 2 page spread in the Unique Homes Magazine.

First day of spring

Mar 23, 2012 — Dennis Hanlon, Summit Sotheby's International Realty

Gotta love springtime in the Rockies! One day short-sleeve shirts are the appropriate attire and the next day you bring out your powder skis. This is certainly the roller coaster we were on last week. Lat week through Friday we saw temperatures in the 50's approaching 60 degrees. Saturday it started snowing, and by Monday we had over 2 feet of new snow. Which, as you can imagine, made for an incredible ski day. And yes, I called my boss yesterday morning (me) and told him I wasn’t coming into work. Fortunately he understood and I went skiing. This was quite possibly the best day of the year. We had about 2 feet of new snow and the best part is that it was a right-side up snowstorm. What I mean by this is that the snow started heavy and wet and then the storm got progressively colder, which meant the final foot was the perfect fluffy light dry Utah powder that we’ve become famous for. The early storm's wet snow bonded very well with the subsurface creating a very soft bottom which also filled in with wind and then the late storm snow was just perfect. All over the mountain yesterday people had big smiles and all throughout the trees you heard lots of whooping and hollering with delight.

Newport Beach, California and Orange County Real Estate 'On Fire' in Q1 2012

Mar 22, 2012 — Susan Sinclair, MBA, MA, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties

Incredible activity in Newport Beach and Orange County luxury real estate market so far in 2012!  Multiple offer situations, near list price offers, and low inventory. Amazing situation right now!

Calendar says Spring...Pacific Northwest Coast still waiting!

Mar 22, 2012 — Liane ("Li") Read, Sea to Sky Real Estate

Spring! The calendar says so. This La Nina weather pattern has delivered most unusual weather events, globally. Our west coast region has been experiencing perpetual late Fall, it seems...rain, windstorms, unseasonably cool. Daylight Time is with us, it's now officially Spring, the light-filled evenings are a gift...gardens flowering, blossom trees shimmering, ocean smoothing from grey to blue...one of these days the sun will strengthen & dream us into summer....ahh...the ease of a season shifting gears. It's Spring. Enjoy!

Fly Fishing, Lifestyle & Real Estate in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Mar 22, 2012

Courtesy of Jon Wade, with The Steamboat Group of Colorado Group Realty The Steamboat Group has just released another video, http://vimeo.com/38182525 showcasing the lifestyle opportunities available in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. This video focuses on the fantastic fly fishing in Steamboat, but also describes Steamboat as a town where skiing, mountain biking, hiking & more make it a place your whole family wants to be.

The Appeal of The Bear's Club, Jupiter, Florida

Mar 22, 2012

Courtesy of Leibowitz Realty Group Why has the exclusive Bear’s Club community in Jupiter, FL become such a hot address for golfers—particularly pro-golfers? It used to be that Orlando was where the pro golfers flocked to, but now our own Jupiter, FL area is quickly gaining ground. According to Brian Wacker at PGATOUR.COM, "…Woods, Keegan Bradley, Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson, Camilo Villegas and Steve Marino [are] among the dozens of current PGA TOUR players now calling the area home (not to mention several more part-time residents such as Luke Donald or those from the Nationwide and Champions Tours and LPGA)."

Portland Metro Real Estate Update

Mar 22, 2012

Courtesy of Realty Trust Group Portland’s Real Estate Market has been slowly showing improvement in the housing market. Now is the time to buy in one of the most beautiful cities in the country. Rated in the top five by Moody’s Economy.com and MNSBC.com for being one of the first major metropolitan cities to see recovery.*

Calling 911 just in time to save the basement

Mar 21, 2012 — Len Miliaris, Forest Hill Real Estate Inc. Brokerage

2nd Annual Bainbridge Island Luxury Home Tour

Mar 21, 2012

Courtesy of Buckley & Buckley Real Estate, Coldwell Banker McKenzie Associates, and Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty Some of the most sought after residences for sale on Bainbridge Island will be open for viewing this Sunday, March 25th. The second annual Bainbridge Island Luxury Home Tour includes over a dozen listings for sale from Luxury Real Estate members Buckley & Buckley Real Estate, Coldwell Banker McKenzie Associates, and Realogics Sotheby’s International Realty, as well as with Windermere Real Estate, and John L Scott.

Opportunity in change....

Mar 20, 2012 — Liane ("Li") Read, Sea to Sky Real Estate

Such an interesting world time that we all inhabit right now. Characterized by shift/change, where what used to work no longer fits, and it's not clear which path we should be on, no wonder there is fear out there. The potential for economic collapse threatens to unhinge a lifestyle we thought was permanent. I've often called this period a Charles Dickens moment. He wrote novels portraying the collapse of the centuries old agrarian social structure and the emergence of the Industrial Revolution & the new cityscape. The Industrial Revolution continued the evolution of the consumer as the engine of real growth. Throughout the ensuing 20th Century, inventions and wars leveled the playing field between peoples, countries, cultures. If on the agrarian side of that 19th Century divide, the lifestyle erased. On the Industrial Age side? Opportunity & growth. A message for our post-Internet time? The huge societal shifts now created by the Internet are still unfolding, and the further evolution of the consumer's role continues. New always replaces old. Technology is speedily making sure that we are matching its immediacy, its pervasiveness, its inclusiveness. One can friend someone never met, can tweet a message that can start a revolution, can link with someone across the world for a business enterprise, can inhabit with equal ease the real & the virtual universes. An exciting time! Time, too, to park our fears & to say "yes" to the time we live in...a time of innovation, creative response, invention, & the power of the "now". It's a bottom up & consumer driven methodology, which means we can all be the path-maker! Wow...that is opportunity! Every individual voice counts. Means, too, that we all need to be listening....
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