LuxuryRealEstate.com Selects First Annual Holiday Card Contest Winner

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1288981869SEATTLE – (November 4, 2010) – For the 2010 Holiday Season, LuxuryRealEstate.com conducted a photography contest to select an image for the cover of its annual holiday card. The card is sent to the entire Who's Who in Luxury Real Estate network, media contacts, partners and other key real estate industry leaders.

This year’s winner, a photograph provided by Bill Redeker** of Jess Reid Real Estate of Park City, UT, is of a stunning mountain-side retreat under a blanket of snow.

1288981409 The runner up was a photograph provided by Barry DeNicola of Barry DeNicola Realty in Naples, FL, showcasing an oceanfront property with a playfully lit palm tree.

1288981540The card will also feature a poem penned by LuxuryRealEstate.com Financial Controller James Hughes.

Participating Companies Included:

Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby's International Realty, Annapolis Realty, Inc., East West Resorts, Diane Dopson Properties, Michael Saunders & Company, Wailea Realty Corp., Long and Foster, Town & Country Real Estate, Del Realty, Weidel Realtors, Sakamoto Properties, Slifer Smith & Frampton Real Estate, Real Estate of Distinction, HDR Homes, Buckley & Buckley Real Estate, Bella Palazzo, Inc., Handsome Properties, Inc., Willis Allen Real Estate, Tradewinds Realty Inc., Plantation Services, Beacham & Company, REALTORS, Premier Properties of Door County

 

**Bill Redeker Bio

Bill Redeker is a 6-time Emmy award winning TV journalist who covered news around the world for ABC News and CBS News before becoming a Realtor and developer in Park City, Utah—his favorite dateline.

Bill reported for ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, Nightline, 20/20 and Closeup, the ABC News documentary unit. For much of his career, he was posted overseas as a foreign correspondent in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. At the same time, he became fascinated with architecture, design, buildingand marketing residential real estate. He developed and marketed homes in Bel Air and Santa Monica, California, McLean, Virginia, Denver, New York City, Honolulu, London and Park City.

He is passionate about the mountain life style and recently completed his fourth ski-in/ski-out residence in upper Deer Valley. It was the first home to be built in the exclusive mountain top community of Red Cloud.

Bill has built his success on knowledge of the market, understanding his clients, ethics and a news reporter’s allegiance to communication, deadlines and plain hard work. He is proud to be associated with Jess Reid Real Estate, a boutique luxury real estate brokerage in Park City and Deer Valley.

About LuxuryRealEstate.com

LuxuryRealEstate.com, a 2009 Webby Award Honoree, has been voted ‘Best of the Web’ by Forbes magazine multiple times, praised by the International Herald Tribune, Town & Country, and the Wall Street Journal and has been ranked ‘Best Website’ by consumers according to surveys by the Luxury Institute. Since its debut in 1995, LuxuryRealEstate.com has remained the #1 portal for luxury properties on the internet, consistently driving more traffic to member websites and generating more qualified inquiries than any other website. LuxuryRealEstate.com has several times more $1,000,000+ content of any near-peer.

Also known in the industry as the Who’s Who in Luxury Real Estate network, a global collection of the finest luxury real estate brokers in the world, this group of more than 1000 brokerage firms and 95,000 professionals in more than 65 countries collectively sells in excess of $190 billion of real estate annually, with an average sale price of $2,450,000. Members sell homes for record prices and handle transactions of incredible complexity and magnitude with complete discretion. Every member is carefully selected by CEO/Publisher John Brian Losh, one of REALTOR Magazine’s 25 Most Influential People in Real Estate and broker of fine properties and estates through his Seattle-based brokerage firm, Ewing & Clark, Inc.