Luxury Condo Auction in Pasadena

More and more luxury condo developers are turning to auctions in an effort to move inventory, and this latest press release suggests they might finally be being realistic with prices. (…)

Sotheby’s International Moves to St Peters in Rome

Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC today announced the signing of an exclusive 25-year master franchise agreement covering Lazio, Rome, with St. Peter - Real Estate s.r.l. (…)

Selling Luxury Real Estate in a Down Market

Price cuts seem to be the order of the day in the luxury real estate markets. (…)

Luxury Real Estate News Roundup 07/24

China’s luxury real estate market is “sizzling” again; Mickey Rourke picks up a rental “bargain” in Manhattan; The Hamptons Luxury market stalls as inventory piles up; and a Philadelphia investor pays $39 million for a luxury apartment complex. (…)

Cabin Fever

Every August a certain fever arrives. It beckons cabin owners to travel and hide away during the hottest month of the year. Miller Young Design clients are definitely doing this in style. We have a vast array of “Clientele in the Cabin”. One favorite is The Log Style. Homes built from logs can be found all over the Northern Hemisphere, typically in areas where trees are in abundance. Whether traditional hand crafted log or a new application of the milled log, contemporary and ranch built cabins are quite stylish. For many, the log cabin has become an idyllic form of architecture. These serene es … Continued
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Moffitt Mansion: Historic Home Relocated Across San Francisco Bay

Nearly six decades after it was built in 1904 in the Pacific Heights district of San Francisco, Moffitt Mansion was physically relocated across the bay to its current position in Belvedere, California. In 1962 architect Norman Gilroy purchased the ho…

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Are online auctions the way to sell Luxury Real Estate?

Online Luxury Real Estate Auction
A recent trend in the luxury real estate market is online auctions, although, much like the bricks-and-mortar auctions recently, the goal seems to be generating interest rather than actually holding an auction. (…)

San Fransisco Luxury Real Estate Agents Consolidate

One of the San Fransisco Bay area’s major luxury real estate brokerages has been sold to a smaller rival for an undisclosed sum, although we suspect the sum was rather less than might have been expected a few years ago. (…)

Should You Haggle?

Almost always, according to a nationally representative survey conducted by Consumer Reports. When shopping or paying for goods and services in the previous six months, 66 percent of consumers tried to negotiate for a better deal at least once, and 88 percent of those negotiators scored a better deal at least once. Click Here to read the entire article

Do you haggle? Tell us about your most recent success.

Rent Your Own Home?

Millions of families face the loss of their homes over the next few years. While there is a long list of complicated and sometimes convoluted proposals to address the country’s foreclosure crisis, there is a simple solution: Congress and the Obama Administration can give families facing foreclosure the right to rent their homes at the market rate for a substantial period of time. Click Here to read the rest of the article by Dean Baker for Center for Economic and Policy Research

This idea has sparked fierce debate on the Internet. What do YOU think of it?

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