Luxury Home Council

Today's Date: October 11th, 2008
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Welcome to the Luxury Home Council web site. Our membership of over 1500 real estate professionals is dedicated to helping luxury home buyers and sellers fulfill their real estate dreams. To enhance their skills, members can earn the prestigious Accredited Luxury Home Specialist (ALHS) Designation. This intensive, two day course, explores national luxury housing trends, specialized luxury buyer and seller needs, development and delivery of unique high level services, representation issues, liability and risk management, builder services, personal marketing, and much more. To learn more about the luxury home market, please take the time to explore our website.

Considering taking the ALHS Course? Have you recently completed the ALHS course? Please visit our Frequently Asked Questions.

The ALHS Designation

Inclusion into the Luxury Home Council requires all members to meet or exceed minimum standards of achievement demonstrating their expertise in the Luxury Home segment of the real estate industry.

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To display the ALHS designation each member must:

Complete the Accredited Luxury Home Specialist Course.
Represent a buyer or seller, in at least two transactions, where the purchase price is at least two times the average sales price in the market. The transactions must take place within 24 months of taking the course or anytime prior to taking the course.
Be in good standing with the National Association of REALTORS® and the Luxury Home Council.

Would you like to join the most elite agents in the country who are now specializing in the luxury home market? Why not increase your knowledge, and hone your skills when working with upper-tier buyers and sellers by attending this fast paced, exciting class?

Click here to find a course in your area!

Testimonials

"I worked onsite selling over 200 custom homes the last 20+ years. This class provides a good characterization of what a luxury home buyer is about."
- Mick Kelly, Mick Kelly and Associates

"In our expanding resort market, the Baby Boomers and X Generation Buyers are flocking to resort and second home markets in record numbers. Most are used to dealing with a luxury lifestyle and are looking for REALTORS that can provide services they have come to expect in the luxury market."
- Denise O'Connell, Coldwell Banker Mountain Properties

"Very Informative - I am leaving with a plan and specific steps to implement and market myself as a Luxury Home Specialist."
- Sonja Wood, Space Realty - Sonja Wood

Real Estate News courtesy of WSJ.com

October 9th, 2008 06:26 AM

General Growth's Free Fall

A credit-rating downgrade slammed General Growth Properties stock again, stoking takeover rumors.
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October 9th, 2008 06:15 AM

Slowdown Is Reaching Even 'Saskaboom'

There are signs that the braking global financial system is damping real-estate demand even in one of the few healthy markets in North America.
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October 7th, 2008 03:42 PM

Citi Scales Back Mortgage Business

Citigroup is largely exiting the wholesale mortgage business, a step that many rival banks took last year.
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October 7th, 2008 08:33 PM

Hotel REITs Seek to Conserve Capital

Hotel companies are now facing a new challenge: how to conserve capital.
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October 7th, 2008 06:32 PM

Hypo Borrowers Exhale

Among those breathing a hearty sigh of relief this week after the German government bailed out lender Hypo were developers Related and Metropole.
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Education and Training

The ALHS course is available through the RealtyU Network of Real Estate Schools & Realtor Associations across the country.

To search for school locations - click here.
To take the course online - click here.