The return of the high-end real estate market has been a popular topic lately. And while I enjoy analyzing the raw sales numbers and dissecting the data projections, this article will cover the lighter side of who these buyers are and what is currently trending in luxury home sales. 
 
Though most certainly the attributes of the high dollar buyers vary; in a nutshell, they are richer, global, younger, faster, and more demanding. As for richer, there are the new self-made multi-millionaires, many of who are shareholders in this tech race for digital and social dominance. The second group is the next generation of a homebuyer who is poised to inherit great sums of money from a boomer parent.  Both sets love real estate. They will be looking to invest much of…

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Broker/Owner Robyn Erlenbush and Broker Ray Atteberry of ERA Landmark Real Estate recently attended the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Annual Convention held in New Orleans, November 7-10. 

Erlenbush attended the conference as a speaker and instructed a class titled “The New Wave of Luxury and Resort Buyers.” She also spoke to the Women’s Council and attended meetings for the NAR Risk Management as a National committee member.

Atteberry attended the conference on behalf of the Gallatin Association of Realtors as the Multiple Listing Service committee chair. He attended the MLS Forum for boards with less than 1,500 members as well as a session on emerging technologies, economic trends, and the top 10 issues affecting real estate.

The…

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Denise Andres, Sales Associate at ERA Landmark, and Katie Haley Grimm, Broker at ERA Landmark Big Sky, recently attended The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing’s annual Leaders in Luxury (LIL) conference in Denver. Over 120 real estate professionals working in the upper-tier home market across the U.S. and Canada gathered for the invitation-only educational and networking event.

"Leaders in Luxury attendance is limited to proven professionals in the luxury home niche," said Laurie Moore-Moore, Founder of The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing. "This gives LIL attendees the opportunity to build an exclusive network of contacts focused on the upscale residential industry while sharing ideas with the best in the business. LIL is designed to provide…

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