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Got Your Own Idea of A Luxury Home?

July 4, 2009
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Sometimes you can’t have your dream by buying somebody else’s. If your dream is a small estate for your family and a few chosen horses here is a chance to build it yourself. This site of 10.76 acres is located at 10040 South Lowell Road in Northern Durham. Long time Durhamites know that there is [...]

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The Triangle Top Ten

June 29, 2009
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Just for fun, I decided to look at the top ten most expensive listings in the Triangle Multiple Listing Service at the end of June.. Here are some observations from the exercise: The top ten range from $11,900,000 to $3,850,000. Only the top two are over $5 M. It still amazes me that many homes [...]

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Followers and Sources

June 18, 2009

If you have followed DurhamLuxRE for the last several months you may have wondered about the growing list of followers are of the DurhamLuxRe Twitter Account. As I write this there are 455 followers but there is a good chance that when this gets read there will be more. There are three basic groups of [...]

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Anniversary Coming

April 4, 2009

Next Tuesday will mark the anniversary of the first post published on this blog. It was entitled “The Fox”  and was meant to set the stage for future discussions about how far Durham has come since I saw a fox running down Chapel Hill Street near the post office in Downtown Durham in 1985. To [...]

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Let’s Twitter Around Durham Luxury Real Estate

February 18, 2009

I’ve resisted the idea that old dogs can’t learn new tricks but recently getting my arms around the usefulness of the so-called “social media” like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter has been difficult. But I’m finally getting it, I think, maybe. It turns out that they can be useful and a lot of fun. In the [...]

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Changing the Present

December 23, 2008

I had intended on finishing the five part series on marketing luxury homes in the current environment before I left for a few days for Christmas and I may still, but I ran across this video that might interest any luxury blog followers that are still trying to think of meaningful gifts to give.  This [...]

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Style in a Down Market

December 1, 2008

A brief article in the business section of the New York Times this morning chronicled the impact the economic downturn is having on publications geared to the upscale market including the quarterly from Time magazine called Time Style and Design and the NYT’s occasional New York Times Style Magazine. These publications, of course, are meant [...]

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Inman Post

November 25, 2008

Inman news is a real estate industry site “Where Real Estate and Technology Connect.” There are usually blog-like discussions going on about various topics in the real estate industry. This morning’s lead article was nominally about how real estate offices must shrink (to reduce costs) but was really more handwringing about where the industry is [...]

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The Least of Us

October 26, 2008

A time for cheerleaders Bob Ashley’s column in the Herald-Sun this morning is a wrap-up of the year’s designations for Durham from a variety of sources. We’re among the best places to retire, ride out a recession, get a great meal, start a business and on and on.  The one thing Bob recounted that struck [...]

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Paralysis

October 25, 2008

The decline of an icon The spectacle of a New York bank, Citicorp, and a San Francisco bank, Wells Fargo, picking over the bones of Wachovia is enough to make you sick. In the late seventies I spent two years working for Wachovia in Winston-Salem as the product manager for retail deposit services. When I [...]

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It’s Time for Football!

October 1, 2008

My first visit to Durham was almost 45 years ago when I was a high school senior and was being courted as a football recruit by all the Triangle ACC schools and a number of others as well. The planes were propeller driven and they rolled steps out to the runway apron to deplane passengers [...]

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Festival Weekend in Durham

September 16, 2008

There is so much that has happened in the last few years that is driving the revival of Durham’s image that it is sometimes easy to forget that there are some things that have been around for a good while that have kept the momentum going even when things slowed down. Two of these annual [...]

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Ella Fountain Pratt

August 5, 2008

Ella Fountain Pratt died last week at age 94. The Herald-Sun front page story on July 30th chronicled her long and enduring impact on the arts in Durham. When I came to Durham in 1984 to be marketing director of Central Carolina Bank, the bank was small by regional or national standards but still one [...]

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Another Durham Treasure

July 29, 2008

For over 20 years Reyn Bowman has been the leader of the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau and nobody has spent more energy urging the citizens of Durham to shed our sheepishness and confront those from neighboring communities who badmouth living in Durham. Lots of stuff is coming on line to brag about but some [...]

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Keeping up!

July 29, 2008

I feel a little guilty here. It’s been two weeks since I’ve posted anything even though there are plenty of great things happening in Durham that enhance our ability to market luxury homes . Being on vacation would be a decent excuse but the truth is I’ve been working harder then ever mostly on a [...]

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