Luxury Real Estate

Marketing Luxury Real Estate for the Young & Affluents in a Digital World: Time, Telephones & Travel

By Candy Evans / April 29, 2015 /

 “The 1% own 4 homes on average.” I love me some Paul Boomsma. The Chicagoan is the president of Luxury Portfolio of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World. He is NOT an real estate agent, but an expert in marketing luxury real estate and really, all things luxury. When it comes to knowing how…

Winter Wonderland: What Do Your Listings Look Like All White and Snowy?

By Candy Evans / February 27, 2015 /

You recall this home, I’m sure — the $4 million wonder in Farmer’s Branch we told you about a few weeks ago with Bush, Helen Keller and even Foster Grant ties. The spread includes a zen garden with babbling brooks feeding into the Farmers Branch Creek, seen here, which is dammed up to create a lake-like…

Top DFW Builder Confident in Luxury Market, Building Two Multimillion Spec Houses

By Leah Shafer / January 19, 2015 /

Spec homes are a sign of strong builder and bank confidence in a market, as they are created without any specific buyer in mind, just the belief that one will be interested once it is completed. The higher the price tag, the higher the stakes. In our inventory-parched market, homebuilder Les Owens, President of LRO Residential…

Luxury Sales Skyrocketed in 2014 Says Texas Association of Realtors

By Joanna England / January 5, 2015 /

Luxury home sales with prices of $1 million and up posted huge growth in 2014 according to the latest Texas Luxury Home Sales Report from the Texas Association of Realtors. In Dallas-Fort Worth, the sales volume of luxury homes was second highest in the state and grew 15 percent year-over-year. Dallas was a runner up…

All I Want For Christmas is This Hill Country Contemporary

By Joanna England / December 25, 2014 /

Let’s dream a little dream this Christmas. What Dallas home would you buy if you had your druthers? Would you snap up the huge mega-estate on Manson Court? Would you sign on the dotted line for a penthouse in Museum Tower? Me? I’d buy this Hill Country Contemporary at 9226 Hathaway. I have been in…