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Luxury Home DigestLuxury Home DigestBlogging buzz, gossip and news about luxury real estate and homes with occasional off-the-menu commentary. Articles
San Diego Fires: Coming Home to Ashes
2007-10-26 00:49:00 by Roberta Murphy The displaced people of San Diego County are beginning to return home. Most return to standing homes; 1600 or so others are greeted by their nightmares. We are just beginning to hear and see stories of people returning to the burned heaps of rubble that were once their homes. They sift through some ... More About: Rants , Home , Ashes , Fires
The Witch Creek Fire
2007-10-24 17:31:00 by Roberta Murphy I awoke at 4:30 a.m. yesterday morning with a sense of dread, quickly remembering that there is a demon called the Witch Cree k Fire raging in the communities around our home in La Costa. It is just one of several mega firestorms raging in San Diego County–but is the one we fear(ed) the ... More About: Creek
The Luxurious Closet
2007-10-18 17:44:00 by Roberta Murphy In our coastal San Diego luxury real estate market, buyers are almost manic about their closets–and especially the ones in the master suite. Luxury home buyers are most pleased when there are separate closets for each–or if single, closets for the seasons. The compleat closet in the luxury home will be spacious, well lighted ... More About: Closet , Luxurious
Lenders: Pre-Negotiate Your Short Sales
2007-10-17 00:25:00 by Roberta Murphy We are trained and skilled negotiators. Give us a chance, and we could probably get hostages released from terrorists, convince a teenager to leave his tongue unpierced (perhaps)–or successfully negotiate a sale leaseback of the Brooklyn Bridge. As competent Realtors, it’s what we enjoy doing, and we are passionate about negotiating on behalf of ... More About: Sales , Short , Lenders , Enders
Sotheby?s Realty Debuts in San Diego
2007-10-03 17:48:00 Owners of luxury real estate in San Diego should be celebrating because of the long-awaited arrival of Sotheby ’s International Realty . It’s been a long time coming, but luxury listings in San Diego County will now reach the plasma displays at Sotheby’s Auctions throughout the world. Passing by the Sotheby’s real estate desk, an ...
An Appeal for Credit Amnesty
2007-09-28 07:35:00 by Roberta Murphy There is a tsunami of wrecked credit that has only begun to hit the credit reporting bureaus. Many of the victims are those whose FICO and credit scores have been demolished by short sales and foreclosures. With the short sales, or short pays as they are sometimes called, the mortgage ... More About: Credit , Amnesty , Appeal
What Do Luxury Home Buyers Expect from their Agents?
2007-09-26 16:30:00 by Roberta Murphy This is Part One of an ongoing series about Luxury Home Buyers , their expectations, origins and trends. This first article in the series will look at these buyers and what they expect from their luxury real estate agents. For some reason, I thought market knowledge and keen negotiating skills would head the list ... More About: Agents , Expect
A Second Plea?for a Young Widow
2007-09-25 06:57:00 Just yesterday afternoon Real Estate Rainmaker Lani Anglin wrote on this blog, and spoke of her grandmother who had sold her home and earthly possessions so she could go help the less fortunate in an African orphanage. This was in response to our underwear plea for children in a Kenya orphanage. Not long after that blog ... More About: Quality of Life , Young
A Plea for Underwear
2007-09-24 00:33:00 by Roberta Murphy I took a break from San Diego real estate this weekend and went shopping for underwear instead. I bought 30 pairs, and fear it won’t be nearly enough. You see, a very cool lady named Rocky wrote a very compelling blog, that inspired me to not only go shopping, but to start blogging for underwear–and ... More About: Underwear
Stop Identity Theft: Freeze Your Credit
2007-09-19 21:08:00 by Roberta Murphy Become a victim of identity theft, and you could be in for the nightmare of a lifetime. We have known several identity theft victims. One family lost its home because of it?and another even fears for his safety. It is a vicious crime that can take years to to resolve and the damages can last far ... More About: Rants , Credit , Identity Theft , Quality of Life , Stop
Database Consolidation: Nightmares Undressed
2007-09-14 23:17:00 by Roberta Murphy Want to know what keeps me terrorized at night? Database management. I am in an urgent race against time–and my nightmare is one that haunts major corporations throughout the world– from retailers to brokerage firms to telecoms to the U.S. Government itself. In our San Diego real estate practice, I have until December 30 to ... More About: Quality of Life , Nightmares , Base , Dati
Luxury Home Digest Makes ?Top 100 Real Estate Blogs?
2007-09-11 08:12:00 by Roberta Murphy It came as a total surprise when I received an email from International Listings that Luxury Home Digest had been tapped as one of the top 8 Home Buying blogs in the country. WOW! I join the other winners in this category in thanking the judges at International Listings for this special real estate honor: Barbara ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Blogs
Google to Gobble GoDaddy?
2007-09-05 16:14:00 by Roberta Murphy Rumors and gossip are are swirling around a possible Googl e and GoDaddy marriage. It seems about two years ago, Google became accredited as a domain name registrar. Meanwhile, GoDaddy, the world?s largest domain registrar, has been busy filing patent applications for search, VOIP and other technologies that would make it an attractive buy to acquisition-hungry Google. A ...
New Real Estate Danger: Cancellation Fees
2007-09-04 00:28:00 by Roberta Murphy I believe we have a new issue to negotiate on behalf of our clients: CANCELLATION FEES A couple of weeks ago we had a buyer cancel a transaction within the timeframes agreed upon by the buyer and seller. Notice of cancellation was sent out shortly after the physical inspection on the $400,000 downtown San ... More About: Rants , Estate , Real Estate , Fees , Danger
50 Simple Feng Shui Tips
2007-08-31 16:33:00 by Roberta Murphy I was asked to share some simple Feng Shui tips for home offices, written by Laura Milligan over at the Bootstrapper Blog. She lists 50 great ones, but I’ll tease you with a few she has listed in her article. In spite of a personal bookshelf full of Feng Shui education, I found these ... More About: Tips , Simple
Richistan Home Prices Continue to Soar
2007-08-21 15:58:00 by Roberta Murphy $50 million is the new $30 million, says Glenn Roberts over at the Inman News Blog–especially when it comes to high end luxury homes. Citing a 2007 Mid-Year Luxury Report by Stribling Private Brokerage, Roberts explains how just a few years ago, even a rumor of a $30 million real estate sale in ... More About: Home , Soar , Conti , Prices
Mortgage Crisis and the Blame Game
2007-08-20 17:16:00 by Roberta Murphy Brad Inman this morning wrote an excellent article about the mortgage and real estate crisis that has gripped so many markets in the United States–and elsewhere. In The Housing Market Blame Game , Inman reports that even formerly raging real estate markets that were once seen as unshakable, such as Manhattan, are now beginning ... More About: Rants , Mortgage , Crisis , Blame Game
Del Mar Estate Most Expensive Home in San Diego
2007-08-19 18:39:00 by Eric Murphy We follow luxury listings throughout the world, and when a home listed above $50 million hits the market, it’s NEWS by any stretch of the imagination. And San Diego is just the latest to break that barrier. Priced at $76 Million, this circa 1937 oceanfront Del Mar trophy estate sits on nearly 5.5 singular ... More About: Estate , Home , Most Expensive
Mortgage Fraud Rocks Beverly Hills
2007-08-14 16:06:00 by Roberta Murphy Luxury real estate circles are abuzz with the latest report that two top producing Beverly Hills agents have been indicted for their alleged participation in a mortgage fraud scheme. The LA Daily News reports that Joseph Babajian and Kyle Grasso have been suspended by Prudential California Realty, and are under orders not to ... More About: Fraud , Mortgage Fraud , Mortgage
6 Luxury Gadgets and iPhone Envy
2007-08-12 19:39:00 by Roberta Murphy I am developing a severe case of phone envy as I watch friends caress and tickle their iphone screens. Their voicemail is visual and at a glance, they can see who has left messages and can prioritize the return of those calls. Their web surfing is real, and reading glasses aren’t required because ... More About: Gadgets , Luxury , Iphone , Envy
100 Hot Tech Blogs (with Few Related to Luxury Lifestyles)
2007-08-08 06:40:00 by Roberta Murphy Whenever I go to shop for technology of any sort, I head over to CNet to check out editorial and user reviews. Whether I am shopping digital cameras, tablet pc’s or cell phones, I know I can trust what they have to say. It came as a recent wonderful surprise that they have also ... More About: Rants , Luxury , Tech , Blogs , Lifestyles
Busy San Diego Realtor Seeks Committed Mortgage Professional
2007-08-05 18:08:00 by Roberta Murphy I must be crazed to write a title like that because we are courted almost daily by San Diego mortgage lenders and brokers who want our real estate business. We deal with a number of home buyers and feel an enormous responsibility to recommend the best mortgage professionals in the business. I am ... More About: Mortgage , Realtor , Professional
The Ziploc Omelet: Amaze Your Guests
2007-07-30 21:15:00 by Roberta Murphy Unless an omelet chef is employed for the next luxury brunch gathering, one might go ditzy trying to create custom omelets for each guest. This also makes it impossible for all to sit down in front of a hot plate at the same time. I love American ingenuity. This clever trick was forwarded to ... More About: Quality of Life , Guests , Mele
LOVE: La Costa and Acura
2007-07-27 20:43:00 by Roberta Murphy The Acura Tennis Classic is returning to La Costa Resort and Spa July 28 ? August 5?-and glorious Carlsbad, CA weather should greet 56 of the top women tennis players in the world during this weeklong match. These tennis stars will be arriving from all corners of the globe, and include such luminaries as ... More About: Love
Show Me the Money: San Diego
2007-07-22 19:49:00 by Roberta Murphy It?s always interesting to know how metropolitan communities stack up when it comes to median household income, and San Diego is no exception. There were a few surprises. I had no idea Carlsbad would outrank Encinitas, or that Poway would beat out Coronado. When to comes to compiling such reports (and a host of others), there ... More About: Money , Show , Quality of Life
Smart Investor Secret: Luxury Vacation Rentals
2007-07-11 17:25:00 by Roberta Murphy Investment in high end real estate markets can be a challenge for most buyers. If the price of the real estate does not intimidate, then the low cap rate, or return on investment, will. In fact, carrying costs v income on luxury real estate investments are often negative for many years, or until the ... More About: Luxury , Vacation , Smart , Investor , Secret
Smart Investor Secret: Luxury Vacation Rentals
2007-07-11 17:25:00 by Roberta Murphy Investment in high end real estate markets can be a challenge for most buyers. If the price of the real estate does not intimidate, then the low cap rate, or return on investment, will. In fact, carrying costs v income on luxury real estate investments are often negative for many years, or until the property is ... More About: Luxury , Vacation , Smart , Investor , Secret
Interactive Luxury Home Surfaces?
2007-07-04 17:35:00 by Roberta Murphy Much has been written and said about Microsoft’s new surface computing technology. It is the WOW technology of the year. Sooner than many of us thought possible, this technology will first become a defining feature in luxury homes, and as adoption increases and prices drop, it will likely appear as a builder option ... More About: Luxury , Home , Interactive , Quality of Life , Active
The Widget Closet
2007-07-03 16:26:00 A confession by: Roberta Murphy I could write a catchy piece about the cluttered look of most collector?s homes, but the first finger I would have to point would be at myself. My confession? I have inadvertently become a collector of widgets, especially those clickable social ones. Some go straight to social bookmarking sites, others go to friends, ... More About: Widget , Closet
Off-the-Grid and Low Impact Homes
More articles from this author:2007-06-24 22:20:00 by Roberta Murphy Several months ago, in an interesting discussion with Marc LaChance, I was introduced to off-the-grid homebuilding. Marc has a plan and the means to build homes where electrical, telephone, gas, water and sewer lines do not run. I saw some early plans for his homes, and was highly impressed with their beauty, functionality and earth-friendliness. It seems when one door opens ... More About: Grid , Homes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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