luxury real estate: Farewell... and thanks for your good words - 10/15/08 04:38 PM
This is my last blog entry in this luxury real estate blog. After more than a year of blogging on my ActiveRain blog, I'm afraid my time has come to an end. I'm about to move on to something new and scary, but I suppose change always involves some degree of fear … (11 comments)

luxury real estate: New Cuba Gooding Jr. movie films at Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan estate - 10/09/08 05:00 PM
I have some very fun news to share. A new TNT movie starring Oscar® winner Cuba Gooding Jr. is currently filming in the Detroit area, and part of the filming is being done at a waterfront luxury home on Windmill Point Drive in Grosse Pointe Park. This property is being represented … (4 comments)

luxury real estate: Credit lenders suffering from withdrawal - 09/25/08 11:17 AM
I am sorry to keep talking about sad things in my luxury real estate blog entries, but I just read an article in CNN entitled "Ex-bankers on pushing customers to rack up debt" and it once again brought up many familiar concerns to my mind on the topic of consumer debt. … (0 comments)

luxury real estate: Fear of falling - 09/18/08 11:35 AM
As promised in my last luxury real estate blog entry, here is my discussion of some meaty topics I've wanted to talk about for a little while. The past few weeks have been pretty thrilling, wouldn't you say? Wall Street dropped an incredible 504 points on Monday and 449 points on … (2 comments)

luxury real estate: Luxury Real Estate Networking Trip offers exclusive tour of Plaza Hotel - 09/16/08 12:48 PM
This is a plug for the the upcoming 13th Annual Luxury Real Estate Fall Conference. I thought I'd just say that at the start. I hope to talk about some more meaty things soon, since there is so much trouble going on because of foolish greed, but today I'll focus on … (2 comments)

luxury real estate: Luxury vacations are a steal right now - 09/11/08 05:37 PM
I don't have a whole lot of time today, but I just wanted to share an interesting CNN article entitled "The staycation effect: 5 reasons to travel now." Because people have been very wise with their money this summer and have not gone on as many vacations, right now is a … (1 comments)

luxury real estate: Manmade global warming a costly deception - 09/05/08 12:19 PM
I recently finished writing an interesting article for the winter 2009 issue of LuxuryRealEstate.com Magazine. The article is on "green" homes, and it was a challenge to write, mainly because I have a number of concerns about the current global-warming scare. I was able to find a lot of good in … (2 comments)

luxury real estate: Higher education is becoming worthless - 08/22/08 12:26 PM
A while ago I stepped back from writing about luxury real estate to discuss a terribly destructive force that threatens to destroy families and make people miserable: debt. I would like to discuss something that I find to be just as dangerous as addiction to debt - the illogically high cost … (8 comments)

luxury real estate: Ed McMahon and Donald Trump: Is this justice? - 08/19/08 04:15 PM
Nick Antonicello, Director of Sales for Unique Homes, pointed out an interesting story to me last week in the Los Angeles Times Blog. You might have already heard about it, but I just want to put in my two cents about the whole affair.Peter Viles, Senior Producer for Real Estate at … (6 comments)

luxury real estate: Live like the king: Elvis Presley estate now for sale - 08/13/08 04:34 PM
There are so many fun one-liners I could use to sum up this story, it's hard to pick just one. I'll go ahead and try this one: Elvis has left the building, and now that building can be yours! Yeah, that'll work.
Elvis Presley's "Graceland West" estate in Palm Springs, Calif. is … (0 comments)

luxury real estate: Bloggers love helping other bloggers succeed - 08/08/08 11:26 AM
Jim Walberg, the co-Owner/Broker of The Bay Area Team in San Francisco, told me something really cool a few days ago. He said, "Bloggers are the most open and sharing community I have found on the Internet. They want every blogger to win!" I have definitely found that to be true.As … (5 comments)

luxury real estate: Ilya’s Photography captures stunning images of Seafair 2008 - 08/05/08 10:49 AM
"Photography is not about cameras, gadgets and gismos. Photography is about photographers. A camera didn't make a great picture any more than a typewriter wrote a great novel."So says Ilya Moshenskiy, the Principal Photographer of Ilya's Photography in Washington state. I love that quote because, as a writer, I can definitely … (0 comments)

luxury real estate: Luxury Real Estate Blog on the rise on Google - 07/31/08 12:23 PM
Thanks in large part to all of the wonderful contributors within the global Who's Who in Luxury Real Estate network, the Luxury Real Estate Blog is making a tremendous ascent in its ranking on major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.www.LuxuryRealEstate.com is the most-viewed luxury real estate Web site in … (8 comments)

luxury real estate: Malta attracts top designers at international fashion show - 07/28/08 01:20 PM
I have a fun bit of news I'd like to share today.Malta, a lovely island just south of Italy in the Mediterranean, was the site of the Malta International Fashion Show on July 5, 2008. This impressive show attracted top Italian designers who submitted their work for display by top models. … (2 comments)

luxury real estate: Turning an average news release into a great one - 07/23/08 12:13 PM
I hope this doesn't sound too prideful, but I really like what I write. And I do a lot of writing as the Public Relations & Media Specialist for LuxuryRealEstate.com.While my blogs on ActiveRain and the LuxuryRealEstate.com Blog are sometimes quickly written and they don't have the benefit of as much … (5 comments)

luxury real estate: Expert Blogger Jim Walberg lifts Luxury Real Estate Blog - 07/21/08 03:18 PM
For the past several months I've had the pleasure of posting content to the LuxuryRealEstate.com Blog from Jim Walberg, an experienced blogger and the co-Broker/Owner of The Bay Area Team, the most-successful team at Keller Williams Realty-Danville, Calif. Jim's Caribbean Islands Realty Blog is very well-established and fun to read so … (0 comments)

luxury real estate: Cora Bett Thomas Realty’s own “Forrest Gump” swims incredible distance - 07/09/08 11:37 AM
I recently read a wonderful story I would like to share. It's about a 70-year-old Cora Bett Thomas Realty sales associate named Nash McIntosh, who swam for five hours from Tybee Island, Ga. to Hilton Head Island, S.C. I'm about one-third of his age and I can't imagine swimming that kind … (0 comments)

luxury real estate: Bloggers beware! Copyright battle might be coming - 07/02/08 01:58 AM
Here's a helpful warning to bloggers: "Be prepared." It's the Boy Scout motto and it's also good advice for people in all walks of life. It appears that many bloggers, myself included, are a little unprepared for the possibility of close scrutiny of blogging. What if we were told that we had … (49 comments)

luxury real estate: New LuxuryRealEstate.com member listed among top RE/MAX brokers - 06/27/08 04:45 PM
I have some good news and some even better news. The good news is that RE/MAX Cayman Islands just joined LuxuryRealEstate.com, expanding our global network even further into the Caribbean. The even better news is that Kass Canada Coleman, the Broker/Owner of Beachcastles and an agent with RE/MAX Cayman Islands is … (1 comments)

luxury real estate: John Brian Losh interview on Lakefront Radio a big success - 06/25/08 04:03 PM
As a follow-up to my last blog entry, I'd like to report on the interview LuxuryRealEstate.com Publisher/CEO John Brian Losh enjoyed on Lakefront Radio on Friday, June 20, 2008. It went very well, and I have to give a lot of credit to hosts Mary Thompson, Chuck Thompson and Lee Kantor … (1 comments)

 
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