For luxury real estate marketing professionals, the easiest way to become the market leader is to select a niche within your marketplace and become the expert in that niche. A niche is a category or a sub-category in which you can specialize.

Richard Lehman, noted investment advisor, puts it this way: "Think about it, what better way to bail out debtors and clear out an excess housing inventory than through inflating the value of hard assets and at the same time diminishing the value of debt claims?" And all the government entitlement programs are keyed to the rate of inflation, so the politicians look like heroes.



Interview several agents. Ask to see what properties they have closed the deals on in the last twelve months. Look online at their website. If you are a seller ask how they will market and promote your home. If you are a buyer then ask how they plan to find you the right home. Just using the MLS listings is not enough. Make sure they have the basics; their license, up to date training and work at real estate in Marbella. estate full time. Also ask if they are a broker or an agent. A broker generally has more experience and training.

What are we going to do with the Russians my dear friends? As this country becomes more stable and as oil prices move upwards so the middle/upper middle income Russian real estate development. people will become more and more financially able and to turn their attention to the holiday home destinations. The average sale prices per sq.mt. for this type of property that the Europeans usually buy is in the region of CP1.500 - CP2.500 [max.] per sq.mts., the Russian market with a particular interest for Limassol, has even shown prices of CP4.000 - CP6.000/sq.mt. for beach units.

Only in the last couple of years has the government started to collect property taxes. Basicly it depends upon the value of the property you purchase. If you purchase a residential property and it is worth RD$5 Million Pesos or less (about US$150,000) then you pay 0 (zero) annual property taxes. If the home is worth more than that amount, you pay 1% of the value over and above RD$5 Million Pesos (or US$150,000). If you purchase raw land or undeveloped land, then in that case there is an annual property tax calculation regardless of the value. In our real estate listings you will find a large number of middle class home or luxury apartment for less than 5 Million Pesos, so you will not have any annual tax payments on your Dominican real estate company or service. Estate.

I would leave those renovations to the expert investors or the true contractor investors. Also, you usually only find investors doing these type renovations in the higher end homes and neighborhoods. This is because adding larger room additions and changing the original layout of the house can be recouped with the higher selling prices. And even at that, you will usually only find these being done in pricier neighborhoods.

What may be most surprising to some is perception vs. reality in several price categories for luxury homes. From $500,000 to $600,000 there are less than 5 months of inventory and between $800,000 and $900,000, there is 4.7 months of inventory. While the news makes many feel that sellers of luxury homes will have to wait eons to sell their real estate, the numbers in these price points suggest otherwise.

If you want your luxury real estate personal or company brand to stand for something, make sure it is something that your palacetes de banus competition cannot also stand for or own. Then, get your messaging on target. Otherwise, you will defeat the entire purpose of branding: "Top of Mind" in a specific category or niche.