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Luxury Home Digest Makes “Top 100 Real Estate Blogs”
It came as a total surprise when I received an email from International Listings that Luxury Home Digest had been tapped as one of the top 8 Home Buying blogs in the country.
WOW!
I join the other winners in this category in thanking the judges at International Listings for this special real estate honor:
Barbara Corcoran Ink: Barbara Corcoran, real estate entrepreneur, addresses real estate interests, concerns and questions. Her advice is mainly focused on home buyers and home owners.
For Sale By Locals (A New Real Estate Approach): A blog that is an offshoot of the œFor Sale by Locals Web site. Entries include business information, tips, and advice on how to work with online real estate services.
Home Buying and Selling Blog: About.coms Elizabeth Weintraub brings her home selling (and buying) experience to her blog. Wientraub is a real estate agent, but shes also lived all over the country from Maine to California and once even built a home in Mexico. She operates on the principle that œevery American deserves to own a home.
Hotpads: If youre in transition between homes, check out this site for information about available apartments, rental houses, sublets, and roommate opportunities. If youve got a place, theres someone out there who wants to rent it. This blog provides news, guides, tools, and promos for the site.
Luxury Home Digest: Roberta Murphy, editor for The Luxury Home Digest, is a real estate broker in the coastal San Diego market. However, her blog covers a wide range of topics related to fine living and real estate, including trends, markets, furnishings, tastes (including fine wines) and relevant gossip.
Real Estate Journal: This Wall Street Journal guide to real estate helps homebuyers arm themselves with the information they need to get the most for their money. Readers can browse entries on everything from mortgage rates and residential market trends to relocation and economic issues, home improvement ideas and advice on buying, selling and enjoying a home.
Trulia Blog: A Trulia employee blog where company happenings, real estate industry news, and other items are posted. The truly useful part in this site is the Trulia residential real estate search engine that helps consumers search for homes for sale, trends, neighborhood insights and other real estate information directly from hundreds of thousands of real estate broker Web sites.
Zillow Blog: Zillow helps consumers make smarter real estate decisions by providing them with access to the same information and tools agents use to value homes. Additionally, homeowners can take advantage of the Zestimate„¢ home valuation as a starting point for anyone to see - for free - for most homes in the U.S., discussions, and post homes for sale for free.
Most of all, though, I thank our readers and clients for all we learn from them!
read comments (9)Richistan Home Prices Continue to Soar
$50 million is the new $30 million, says Glenn Roberts over at the Inman News Blog–especially when it comes to high end luxury homes.
Citing a 2007 Mid-Year Luxury Report by Stribling Private Brokerage, Roberts explains how just a few years ago, even a rumor of a $30 million real estate sale in Manhattan would create big buzz. But since the sale of a $53 million property there in late 2006, prices have leapfrogged into the $50 millions.
This enormous inflation at the top tier of the real estate market is occurring across the country–from San Francisco’s $55 million fixer, to Donald Trump’s $125 million estate in Florida to Tim Blixseth’s $155 million estate offering for his 53,000 square-foot estate in Bozeman, Montana.
I couldn’t resist responding to Glenn’s article:
We are seeing a similar phenomenon in the San Diego’s luxury end of the real estate market. Late last spring, a Del Mar oceanfront estate was sold at $48.15 million–setting a California record.
Now, just listed, is another 5.5-acre Del Mar oceanfront estate with a price tag of $76 million.
Inflation in Richistan continues to amaze!
Other articles of interest:
Breaking All Barriers: Luxury Homes Reach Nine Figures
New Luxury Real Estate Show
I just heard from Eric Carlsen that he and Online WalkThru were going to be hosting the new Vox One weekly video webcast. This program will center on the luxury home market, luxury mortgages and lending, new
home and real estate technologies, top luxury real estate agents and changes taking place in the luxury home market.
I have always been a fan of their luxury home video presentations, their luxury home blog, and so wish Eric and Lathe offered their luxury video tours in the San Diego market.
Vox One will debut Thursday, June 27 and will offer first hand looks at what top producers in the luxury home market are doing to market and promote their luxury listings. The program will be the centerpiece of their luxury home blog VoxuryPopuli.
Luxe Rocks for Luxury Homes
Leave it to Italian designers to create the ultimate in luxury rocks for exterior lightscaping.
These remarkable lighted rocks by Oluce look as if they might have been swiped from the lawn of a distant planet. In reality, though, they were created by Italian designers Marta Laudani and Marco Romanelli with Massimo Noceto. Made from weather-tested polyethelene, these lighted Oluce stones glow with the aid of a screw-in fluorescent bulb.
Dont expect to find these luxe rocks in your local hardware or lighting store though. They are available by special order and then only in œlarge quantities whatever that means. The good news? The price has just been reduced from $513.50 to just $316.00 each. Such a deal!
I hope to seem some of these luminous beauties in San Diego’s luxury homes before too long.
For additional information, you may call ylighting at 866.428.9289 (This is an unpaid, unexpected and unsolicited commercial
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I wonder if these lighted rocks would attract bugs???
Other fun and imaginative luxuries for the luxury home:
D. Porthault Sheets and Linens
As well as other recent luxury reads:
The Snoring Room
The Self Service Spa (Do it at home?)
Long-Lasting Roses
Induction-Cooktop for the Luxury Kitchen
Ultimate Phone for the Luxury Bath
How to Hide the Bedroom TV
Switchable Mirror Glass Windows
SONOS: The Ultimate Sound System
Haute Refrigerators for Cool Kitchens?
The Overflowing Infinity Tub
Wine Storage for Oenophiles
The Illuminated Bathtub
World’s Most Expensive Mansion
This may arguably be the most expensive and tallest private residence ever built.
Indias wealthiest man, Mukesh Ambani, 50, is slated to begin construction of a billion dollar glass and steel skyscraper home in Mumbai City, the financial capital of India. The 27 story building will be designed to house his family of six and staff of 600, with six floors dedicated to the storage and parking of Ambanis 168 automobiles. The top four floors will be set aside for family living.
Ambani is estimated to have a personal wealth hovering at $21 billion, making him the 14th richest man in the world, and the most visible man of wealth in India.
That wealth will also provide Ambani and his family with a full-service spa, fully-equipped gym, multiple floors set aside for visiting guiests and a home theater that can only be imagined.
Completion is estimated to take place in the Fall, 2008.
A tip of the top hat to The Guardian.
Read also:
Luxury Home Management: Ask for the Butler
Variable Range Pricing for Homes
Easy Feng Shui Tips for the Luxury Home
D.Porthault Sheets for Luxury Dreams
