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Updates from June, 2012
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Michael Saunders & Company International Brochure
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Leading Real Estate Sales Volume
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As an affiliate of the prestigious Leading Real Estate Companies of the World network, we are proud that our organization produced more homes sales volume in 2011 than any national real estate network.
Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® also leads in the number of sales, with about 20% more transactions sides than the closests competitor.
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Leading Real Estate Top 500
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Through our connection to Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, we are connected to a premier network of powerful real estate resources.
Around the world, the finest real estate firms are united under the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® banner, forming a global network that more people rely upon to buy and sell homes than any other real estate organization.
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Leading RE - Still The Leader
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As an affiliate of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, we benefit from the worldwide reach of a powerful real estate network. Share the latest home sale information with your clients.
Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® continues to outpace the competition, even during a difficult market. Our outstanding firms are taking a larger slice of the shrinking pie. - Leading Real Estate Companies Of The World
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How to be Top
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As we enter a New Year Nick Churton of Mayfair international Realty takes a look at what may lie ahead for the real estate market. Although mature real estate brokers and agents are apt to say that they have seen it all before, this time it is different. No one has seen this market under this set of national and international financial conditions before. But what is rather refreshing is that the uncertainty now cuts down the speculation aspect of a home purchase and strips the requirement to buy down to the real and age-old essentials. This makes for easier choices.
Le Corbusier, the pioneering architect, stated that, “The requirements for a house should be to provide a shelter against heat, cold, rain, thieves and the inquisitive”. He didn’t add that a home should also provide its owner with an investment return of seven per cent year-on-year.
For the first time since, perhaps, the 1960s property investment can take more of a back seat in the home buying mindset and, instead, fundamental life requirements can come back to the fore. Of course with other financial instruments providing so little in the way of return, real estate is a natural arena in which to invest. But with little or no indication about if or when the market will return in any zest we are left with simpler decisions and choices – does a home suit our requirements in size, location, style and price?
It is although our needs have been simplified in the way they may have been fifty years ago. With less frenzy and greater choice, for a while at least, this may be a very good time to choose a primary or secondary home for all the very best lifestyle reasons.
We quickly learn to expect that there is an investment opportunity to be gained from property purchase in a rising market. But we are rather slow to appreciate the reverse is likely in a poor market and/or in particularly adverse economic circumstances as we have now.
2011 was a hard year in property and this year may not be much better. We may have new US, Russian and French presidents, more ructions in Europe and the Middle East, and greater privations at home before we see greater improvement. But still there is a reassuring level of market activity that has more to do with need than discretion. This is the market we have and this is the market we have to deal with – and deal with it we will.
But real estate buyers and sellers should not be deterred. Indeed they should be encouraged as the more life there is in the real estate market the more life there is in the economy. But those still insisting on the sort of financial profit they may have achieved several years ago should perhaps think again and get real. It will be the enlightened that get to the top of the property class in 2012, not those in denial.
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Christie's News Alert - Day Two: The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor
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THE BURTON WEDDING BANDS FETCH US$1 MILLION AFTER A 15-MINUTE BIDDING BATTLE
THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR TRUST TO DONATE IRENE SHARAFF SUNFLOWER YELLOW WEDDING DRESS TO A MAJOR AMERICAN MUSEUMUPDATED COMBINED TOTAL TO DATE: $139,836,325 (€107,673,971)
A Christian Dior evening gown of silver encrusted brocade with matching evening bagEstimate: US$4,000 – 6,000
Price Realized: US$362,500New York - Day two of The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor saw The Icon & Her Haute Couture Evening Sale realize $2,600,750 (£1,690,488/ €2,002,578). A fitting celebration of Hollywood’s most glamorous star and her fearless sense of style, Miss Taylor’s megawatt ensembles by Chanel, Christian Dior, Gianfranco Ferré, Givenchy, Halston, Tiziani, Valentino, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent and others were 100% sold by lot and by value.
This black-tie auction comprised 67 of Miss Taylor’s most iconic looks – featuring fashion and accessories collected over five decades with scores of museum-quality treasures. The sale opened with an announcement that the Elizabeth Taylor Trust will donate Miss Taylor’s sunflower yellow dress from her first marriage to Richard Burton to a major American museum. Further details will be announced by the Trust in the coming days.Earlier in the day, the sales of the jewelry portion of the Collection concluded with a record-setting total of US$137,235,675 (£87,830,832/ €105,671,470) – making it not only the most valuable private collection of jewelry ever offered at auction, but also the most valuable sale of jewelry in auction history. The final lot of the two-day jewelry sale was the Burton Wedding Bands, which became the subject of a spirited bidding battle between a bidder on the phone and in the room, realizing US$1,022,500. Read more>For more news, visit the News Center at http://www.christiesrealestate.com
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Mayfair International Realty Winter 2011 Newsletter
Beth Ward
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Michael Saunders & Company Exponentially Website Information
Beth Ward
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Christie's International Real Estate State of the Market
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Top of the Class
Beth Ward
By Nick Churton, Mayfair International RealtyAugust 22, 2011
Everyone knows that selling real estate is like shelling peas. Right? Brokers and agents have it easy. They just put on the internet – and the property is as good as gone at its ambitious asking price. Right?
Wrong!
What about selling real estate at a time when not so many are interested in buying? When buyers are strapped for cash; when the banks aren’t lending so much or so easily; when the country is facing a harsh austerity period and at a time of tenacious financial uncertainty. What about selling real estate when a seller may be demanding more than the market will stand? What about selling real estate when people have more pressing things to think about? And how about selling real estate for someone whose personal circumstances – joyous, sad or desperate – crucially depend on an agent’s efforts, despite all the above negative market conditions. Then selling real estate is not quite so easy as many might suggest.
But, cometh the moment cometh the agent. Of course when the market is in overdrive it is easier to sell homes. But now, in many areas, matters are more serious. Selling property in this market needs an agent with experience, with heart and foresight and skill and purpose. One with a steady hand who understands that moving home is often played out over two legs. There’s the home leg, selling, and the away leg, buying. This is a time to play the long game and to see and understand the bigger picture – and to be able to communicate this to anxious clients. There comes a time when selling property has to be put into the hands of someone who is seriously good at what they do. This is the time for hiring the top of the class.
If you want the agent who – even against your own optimistic judgement – has priced your home way higher than every one else, do go ahead if that makes you feel good. But what will really make you feel good is selling your home and moving on to another. And for that, right now, you need a professional.
Red Adair, the famous oil well fire fighter said it perfectly, “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur!”
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