Selling a luxury home requires more than a listing—it takes strategy, precision, and elevated presentation. Use this expert-backed checklist to maximize your sale.
Using Data to Drive Luxury Real Estate Decisions in 2025
Stay ahead of the luxury real estate curve in 2025. Discover how data mastery helps agents guide clients with confidence and uncover hidden opportunities.
Small Touches to Enhance Your Professional Image
Explore how small, thoughtful gestures enhance client relationships, build trust, and drive referrals. By prioritizing a seamless and memorable experience, agents can distinguish themselves in a competitive market and position themselves as trusted advisors to affluent buyers and sellers.
The Art of Storytelling in Real Estate Marketing
In luxury real estate, storytelling highlights the lifestyle a property offers, captivating affluent buyers. By showcasing experiences like urban living, waterfront retreats, or seasonal charm, agents create emotional connections that leave an impact.
Strategic Marketing for Real Estate Professionals
Discover essential marketing strategies tailored for real estate professionals. Explore SMART goal setting, balancing business needs with marketing tactics, and leveraging digital and print media for brand building. Learn how to effectively target your audience, optimize digital presence, and integrate innovative tools like QR codes for maximum engagement and lead generation.
Promoting Luxury Properties Beyond your Local Market
Promoting luxury properties beyond your local market is essential for increasing visibility and maximizing value. Targeting a global niche helps attract high-net-worth buyers, mitigate local economic downturns, and enhance your reputation as a luxury agent. See our preferred methods help reach affluent buyers and boost the success of luxury listings.
Luxury Trends for the Summer of 2024
As we move into the summer of 2024, the luxury market shows remarkable resilience despite economic challenges like inflation and rising living costs. Sales of luxury properties have increased significantly, Read More
Unlocking the Power of Imagery in Luxury Real Estate
Luxury real estate thrives on perception. Captivating imagery, from aerial views to interior shots, sets the stage for an exclusive experience. In this competitive market, high-quality visuals define professionalism and attract affluent buyers.
HOW TO LEVERAGE A BALANCED MARKET
Inventory levels are climbing in most luxury markets as we move firmly into the spring season. Statistically, this has resulted in a shift towards a balanced market. Traditionally, spring has Read More
Managing Buyers in a Seller’s Market or High Demand Price Band
In a competitive seller’s market or high-demand price band, guiding buyers effectively is paramount. Understanding market conditions, providing insightful analysis, and explaining potential challenges are crucial steps.
Strategies for Marketing a Challenging Property in a Seller’s Market
One of the most important factors to remember is that there is a buyer for every home but, although price does play an important role, reducing it might not be the only way to achieve a sale.
The Reality of a Seller’s Market
Knowing and understanding the implications of this non-traditional seller’s market is likely to make a critical difference in how to work more effectively with your affluent customers.
How to Leverage a Hard-to-Sell Property
Leveraging a hard-to-sell property can help you to increase your business but it does involve thinking outside the box and seeking out opportunities.
THE FEBRUARY 2024 LUXURY MARKET REPORT
February’s report reviews the current statistics for the luxury market in North America month over month, as well as the 13-month trend.
Luxury Staging Trends and Tips for 2024
To help guide your sellers, we have identified a short list of luxury home staging trends and tips that will be important this year. Working with an experienced stager can help you maximize your impact as a well-informed and highly insightful luxury real estate professional in your market.
Important Design Trends for 2024
The current buyer philosophy is that a home needs to be more than just beautiful and functional design. The affluent are searching, and prepared to wait, to find a home that matches their lifestyle expectations, is move-in-ready, and provides “an experience.”
Selling Lifestyle
Lifestyle is an emotional choice and it’s no longer acceptable to simply state the facts of a property. If you are looking to sell a luxury property, make it stand out from the competition
Property Not Selling? Price Matters But It’s Not the Only Consideration
Even in a market that seems to be stagnant, it’s still possible to change the outcome and speed up the sale without dropping the price, especially if you feel that its priced appropriately
Change Your Mindset, Change Your Success – Part Two
Whether you’re a brand new luxury real estate professional or you’re a seasoned pro, there are important perspectives to consider (or reconsider) before the start of the new year. To conclude our two-part blog series, we finish our deep dive into re-setting your mindset.
Change Your Mindset, Change Your Success – Part One
As we prepare for 2024 after what has been a largely unpredictable year, one thing is certain: success happens when we focus on things we can control. And what is the one thing all of us have control over? Our mindset..
Make an Impact This Holiday Season
Holiday events are the perfect time to connect with clients and your personal sphere of influence to show your appreciation for their support of your business. Here are some tips on how to make an impact.
Communication is Key to Success
By keeping a “givers gain” mindset and being open and honest in your connections, other people will want to help you, in return for helping them. Many interactions may feel small or insignificant, but over time, they become important moments that ultimately solidify your client’s trust.
Connecting the Dots Between Buyers and Sellers
Here are four methods to help to connect the dots between buyers and sellers during a luxury real estate transaction.
The Focus of The Luxury Consumer in Today’s Market
Your key role as a luxury real estate agent is to paint the best, most relatable picture possible. How do you do this? By finding ways to relate to existing consumer experiences.
Breaking Into Luxury: 5 Tips and Strategies for New & Established Agents
If you’re currently representing clients in the conventional real estate market but wish to break into the luxury market, you might be wondering how to make the leap with grace. Read More
The Celebrity Factor: How A-Listers Influence the Luxury Real Estate Market
While most luxury home buyers aren’t world-famous celebrities, the reality is that A-listers do make up a portion of the luxury real estate market. As a luxury real estate professional, Read More
Millennial Trends in Luxury Real Estate: What the New Generation Seeks
According to the latest research by Engel & Völkers, most of North America’s luxury home buyers are now Millennials. In fact, this generation now makes up 59% of peak luxury Read More
Timeless Charm: 8 Tips for Buying and Selling Historic Luxury Homes
There’s a growing demand—especially among the affluent—for historic properties. Not only do these properties tend to retain their value well, but they also offer a unique opportunity to own a Read More
The Importance of A High-End Luxury Outdoor Space
If there is, indeed, a bright side to the world’s recent experience of a global pandemic, it may just be the increased importance of home and family, and the renewed Read More
Luxury Real Estate as an Investment Opportunity
Luxury real estate falls into a unique category of upscale investment, much like fine art, classic automobiles or vintage wines. It is certainly not for everyone. Investment in any of Read More
Trend Alert: Elevators in Luxury Homes
Although luxury home trends are sometimes difficult to predict, and some notable housing trends have faded as quickly as they appeared, many have their roots in lifestyle ease and lasting Read More
5 Must-Have Wellness Amenities in Luxury Homes
An emphasis on health and wellness is not exactly a new trend, but today’s luxury homes include a variety of unique amenities that allow residents to pamper themselves as if Read More
Pricing A Luxury Property: More Art Than Science
In the “traditional” real estate market, pricing a home is pretty straight-forward. You run some comps on the neighborhood, determine a “dollar per square foot,” amount, and calculate the ideal Read More
Location, Location, Location in Luxury Real Estate
In the luxury real estate market, there are very few things more important than a home’s location. Even the most stunning of luxury homes may have a hard time selling Read More
7 Tips For Creating Privacy and Security in Luxury Homes
Across the United States, break-ins and burglaries are on the rise. In New York alone, for example, state-wide burglaries increased a whopping 36.5% between April and May of 2021 alone. Read More
7 Content Marketing Ideas for Real Estate Agents
One of the best ways to build a successful career as a luxury real estate professional is to dedicate as much time and attention to marketing yourself and your abilities Read More
6 Ways to Get Started in Luxury Real Estate
If you’re looking for your big opportunity to break into the exciting luxury real estate market, you’re not alone. For real estate professionals, this is an extremely competitive market due Read More
5 Tips for A Single Property Website for a Luxury Real Estate Listing
If you’re looking for a unique way to show off a new luxury real estate listing, creating a single property website is a great option. Specifically, a single property website Read More
The 3-Step Framework for Effectively Marketing Luxury Listings
Properly marketing luxury listings may not sound like a difficult task, but to do so effectively takes a well-thought-out approach. As you likely already know, preparation is the key to Read More
4 Luxury Home Staging Trends for 2023
Anyone associated with the real estate market knows well that trends ebb and flow based on a variety of outside factors, from the seasons to the state of the economy. Read More
How to Successfully Nail the Real Estate Listing Appointment
Curiosity can be a luxury real estate professional’s best tool, according to Michael Morrison, owner broker of the highly successful Morrison House Sotheby’s International Realty firm in Seattle, WA. He Read More
Luxury Property Pre-Listing Tips for Real Estate Professionals
According to Michael Morrison, a leader in the field of luxury home marketing, “Be Prepared” is not just a motto for Boy Scouts, but a mantra that should be adopted Read More
3 Real Estate Negotiation Tips for Luxury Professionals
Negotiation is a hot topic for all luxury real estate professionals. Not only does real estate negotiation involve people’s valuable time, but a little bit of ego inevitably tends to Read More
3 Ways to Leverage Real Estate Videos to Win Luxury Listings
In today’s market, there’s no denying the power of real estate videos. In fact, studies have found that video listings receive more than 400% more inquiries than listings without video Read More
The 2022 October Luxury Market Report
The Institute’s Luxury Market Report is your guide to an analysis on the trends and comparative data on the top-residential markets throughout Canada and the United States. October’s report reviews the current Read More
The 2022 September Luxury Market Report
The Institute’s Luxury Market Report is your guide to an analysis on the trends and comparative data on the top-residential markets throughout Canada and the United States. September’s report reviews the current Read More
Three Tips to Differentiate Yourself in Luxury Real Estate
Throughout 2022, the luxury real estate market has grown substantially. In fact, as of August 2022, luxury home sales have grown by about 35% each quarter. These trends are only Read More
Elevate Your Luxury Real Estate Career with Market Reports
If you’re looking to advance your luxury real estate career, the luxury market report provides a monthly overview of the data and trends in luxury real estate markets throughout North Read More
The Institute Network: Benefits of Being an Insider
Are you a new real estate professional looking to break into the luxury markets? Or do you want to explore a new niche market to increase your earning potential? Regardless Read More
The 2022 August Luxury Market Report
The Institute’s Luxury Market Report is your guide to analyzing the trends and comparative data on the top-residential markets throughout Canada and the United States. August’s report reviews the current Read More