Explore the latest in luxury smart home technology—from automated lighting and climate control to advanced security and personalized wellness—designed to elevate comfort, convenience, and elegance in every room.
Elevate Your Space: Fall 2024’s Top Color Trends
Discover Fall 2024’s top interior color trends, replacing the cooler grays of the recent past. We explore the new wave of warm earthy tones, as well as bold hues like dramatic blues and captivating reds.
Shifting Outdoor Spaces to Year-Round Use
Explore the trends transform outdoor spaces into year-round havens that enhance your lifestyle, health, and property value. Learn how to maximize functionality with design elements like heating solutions, weather-resistant materials, and outdoor kitchens, creating a space that’s perfect for relaxation, entertainment, and wellness in any season.
Top Trends for Spring 2024
As we enter the spring months, and for many markets, what is traditionally the busiest period of home sales and purchases, we review some of the top trends, both indoors and outdoors.
Experienced-Based Homes
As buyers become more focused on finding their perfect experience-based home, familiarize yourself with the newest trends in living space.
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
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
12 Types of Luxury Home Inspections You Need to Consider
Luxury homes often require thorough and specialized inspections to ensure that their unique features, high-end amenities, and premium construction are in top condition. If you’re a luxury real estate professional Read More
7 Tips for Creating Referral-Worthy Experiences in Luxury Real Estate
If you’re new to the game of luxury real estate, one thing you’ll quickly realize is that referrals from your clients are truly the best reward for a job well 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
“HENRYs”: Why Do They Matter to Luxury Real Estate?
The luxury real estate market is ever-changing—and the most successful real estate professionals are the ones who can stay one step ahead of new developments. If you’re looking to grow 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
Urban Luxury Outdoor Spaces: Finding Nature and Privacy in the City
Within the last few years, the demand for outdoor living space has skyrocketed. In fact, according to one 2022 study, 56% of homeowners reported that creating indoor spaces outdoors is 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
13 Essential Features of a Luxury Home
While architectural and design trends may fluctuate, we firmly support the concept of healthy homes and neighborhoods. We also believe that luxury is not only a housing trend but also Read More
What is Biophilic Design in Luxury Homes
If you were to ask 10 people about their thoughts on “Biophilic Design,” it is possible that eight of them would respond with a blank stare. Although the term may Read More
Understanding Luxury Buyer Behavior in Real Estate
Whether you’re trying to break into the luxury real estate market or have been working with luxury clients for a few years, one fact remains. In order to maximize your Read More
Investment Opportunities in Luxury Real Estate
It’s no secret that the luxury real estate market is a dynamic one—and the most successful real estate professionals are the ones who are prepared to adapt to changes as 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
Must-Have Smart Home Features for Luxury Homes
According to Statista, the smart home market is projected to reach a whopping $35 billion in 2023, with more homeowners adopting smart home technology than ever before. This is especially Read More
5 Ways To Increase Your Sphere of Influence as a Luxury Real Estate Professional
As a luxury real estate professional, establishing and growing your sphere of influence should always be at the top of your priority list. Specifically, your sphere of influence refers to Read More
How to Get Into International Luxury Real Estate
While the COVID-19 pandemic and global travel restrictions certainly put a damper on international real estate, the good news is that the market is back on the upswing. In fact, Read More
4 Learning Resources For Luxury Real Estate Professionals
After a sharp decline in luxury home sales during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic, the luxury real estate market is back in full swing. In fact, compared to 2021, luxury Read More
How Much Can Luxury Real Estate Professionals Earn?
Whether you’re already working as a licensed real estate professional or are considering this as a career path, one specific option to consider is that of selling luxury real estate. Read More
Luxury Property Market Trends: Smaller, International Properties
Are we seeing an evolution in the luxury property market, or an interesting rebellion on the part of well-heeled investors against continual conspicuous consumption and “supersizing?” A current trend toward Read More
Why Adopting a Luxury Mindset Is Imperative
If you have dreams of selling high-end homes, then adopting a luxury mindset should be the very first thing you start to do. But what, exactly, does that mean? In Read More
The Double Platinum Rule for Luxury Real Estate Clients
Offering a high level of service is the key to dealing with affluent clients. If your niche is the luxury home market, you likely already understand the importance of going Read More
Work-Life Balance in Luxury Real Estate: Tips for Success
When you work as a luxury real estate professional, you don’t have a “typical” 9–5 job by any stretch of the imagination. Whether it’s taking a client out to dinner, Read More
Is “Walkability” the New and Trendy Luxury Real Estate Amenity for Home Buyers?
Whether you believe it’s a resurgence of health-consciousness among homebuyers of all income levels, a return to a more “continental lifestyle” that values sidewalk cafes and leisurely strolls along grande Read More
The Luxury Millennial Mindset Explained
In a recent episode of our “Estate of Mind” podcast, we were fortunate enough to sit down with Andrew Hong, co-founder and CEO of digital marketing firm Tobe Agency. In Read More
Why Secondary Homes Are Becoming More Popular with the Affluent
According to an AP News article, luxury second home transactions increased 25% during the second quarter of 2022 alone. And perhaps even more impressively, luxury second home sales have increased Read More
The 2022 February Luxury Market Report
The Institute’s Luxury Market Report is your guide to an analysis of the trends and comparative data on the top-residential markets throughout Canada and the United States. February’s report reviews the current Read More
Could the Luxury Condo Craze Return? Here’s What’s Happening In Urban Markets
While many affluent clients were busy trading in their luxury condos for more space, privacy, and nature over the last eighteen months to escape the confines of a job they Read More
The September Luxury Market Report
Future Trends Homeowners and Investors should Consider Over the last few months, the luxury real estate market has experienced the return of a more normal pace of doing business for Read More
The August 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. August’s report reviews the current Read More
The July 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. July’s report reviews the current Read More
3 Reasons to Have a CPA In Your Luxury Real Estate Network
Did you know CPAs are often rated the most trusted advisers in successful circles? Still, most folks associate CPAs with “tax season” and tend to forget about them the rest Read More
The June 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. June’s report reviews Read More
The May 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. May’s report reviews the current Read More
The April 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. April’s report reviews the current Read More
The March 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. March’s report reviews the current Read More
The February 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. February’s report reviews the current Read More
The January 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. January’s report reviews the current Read More
December Luxury Market Report Summary: Recapping the Luxury Real Estate Boom of 2020 (Plus 3 Emerging Trends)
While nearly everyone has grown tired of the term “unprecedented” this year, there’s certainly no other way to describe the 2020 luxury housing market and the resulting real estate boom. As Read More
The December 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. December’s report reviews the current Read More