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In the news…
Luxury London homes best bargain for Chinese buyers
Reuters
Chinese luxury home buyers are leading a legion of cash-rich non-UK investors in search of upmarket London homes, with demand driven by currency exchange rates that produce discounts of up to a quarter on purchase…
Source: The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing
www.LuxuryInsights.com
Despite the European economic crisis, sales are up on luxury homes across Europe, and buyer confidence is high as evidenced in the The Guardian UK story in Sunday’s paper: Luxury housing market unscathed while all around it suffers.
Highlights from the story:
Sales of £1m-plus homes in London hit their highest level since the 2007 housing peak…
Sales of prestige property in France and Monaco leapt 38% in the third quarter of this year, compared with the previous quarter.
Prices on luxury homes in the French Riviere up 3.5% YOY.
They sum it up this way: “When the economic going gets tough, the rich get going in increasingly big houses.”
Let’s hope our global economic conditions improve. In the meantime, this is more good news for luxury professionals.
Source: The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing
www.LuxuryInsights.com
We received the following letter from a client this week. We always love to hear from happy clients.
Dear Marilyn and Ian,
We would like to express our gratitude for guiding us through the various phases of purchasing our home. We could not have done it without your professional expertise. The process was stressful for both of us but we always felt the relaxing calm after talking and meeting you. Your advice greatly helped us make a very good decision.
We will always be proud to say that we were very fortunate to work with the Marilyn & Ian team.
Marilyn and Ian, we appreciate your hard work. Thank you very much again.
Sincerely,
M & S
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