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.”
October Luxury Market Report – A Static Market leads to Focus on Future Trends
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. This month’s reports looks Read More
September Luxury Market Report – The Changing Face of Luxury
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. This month’s reports looks Read More
Member Spotlight – Elizabeth McQueen
This month our Member Spotlight series introduces Elizabeth McQueen of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Following up on Elizabeth’s success as the winner of The Institute’s award for the Best Marketing Strategy in Read More
Buying a home is an Escalator to Wealth
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. This month’s reports looks Read More
Expired Listings…A Great Way to Break into The High-End Market As we see the market shifting across the nation, high-end homes are starting to sit on the market longer. Inventory Read More
Outdoor Living Trends for Luxury Properties
In many markets, the outdoor spaces of a home are as important as the indoor spaces. Indeed, in some areas, outdoor spaces function as additional rooms of the home. They Read More
To Stage or Not to Stage your Luxury Listing
We’ve all had some listings that were overcrowded, outdated, and otherwise unattractive. For a small starter home or condo in that condition, you might choose to neutralize the interior by Read More
7 Trendy Kitchen Updates to Make This Year
Whether you’re looking to enrich your daily experience or update your home for resale, kitchens are an ideal place to start. Luckily 2019 brings plenty of new ways to update Read More
Wallpaper is Back: Top 6 Wallpaper Trends Right Now
Whether you love it or hate it, wallpaper is having a moment in the spotlight. This eye-catching trend can be seen everywhere from bathrooms to boardrooms, kitchens to lobbies, coffee Read More
Iconic Lighting That’s Trending in 2019
As is the case in good lighting design, products are often duplicated – but nothing is as good as the real thing. There is a reason original designs are copied. The original producers take time to work out the design details and proportions and Read More
3 Ways to Become a Dominant Force in This Transitioning Market
Many experts this year are talking about a changing market with both positive and negative outlooks. Let’s be very clear: being successful in any profession requires a mixture of knowledge, Read More
Understanding the International Luxury Home Buyer
Although diplomacy is important when representing any luxury consumer in the luxury home market, it is especially important when understanding the international luxury home buyer because of the many variables at Read More
What are Luxury Consumers Talking About?
In the luxury consumer market, including the luxury real estate market, conversations now more than ever focus on experiences instead of consumables. What do we mean by this? Things, or Read More