Durham Is…

July 30, 2009
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As the chair of the PR committee for the Downtown Durham Rotary Club I often end up writing the report on the program for the weekly bulletin. Last Monday, Tom Bonfield, Durham’s new city manager and a member of the club presented the program. I’m re-publishing my write-up here because Mr. Bonfield made such a [...]

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More on School Performance

July 27, 2009
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The link below is to a story in the Baltimore Sun about the importance of schools in home buyers assessment of a community. Even folks without school age children often consider the schools as an indicator of the overall livability of a community. This also supports the larger point that many listing agents and sellers [...]

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More Good News for Durham Real Estate

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There are two things I’m very proud of in terms of my involvement in the community over the years. The first was the small role I played in the late 80′s in downtown revitalization getting Downtown Durham, Inc. off the ground with a coherent marketing theme. During that same timeframe as the Marketing Director of [...]

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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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Second Quarter Luxury Home Report

June 30, 2009

More of the Same Pulling together these statistics on the Durham luxury home market is getting a little boring I’m afraid. Unlike our neighboring counties of Wake, Orange and Chatham, through the economic downturn Durham has not gotten worse…or better. You might see a glimmer of hope in the fact that for the last two [...]

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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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The Tobacco Legacy

June 18, 2009
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It may be ironic that sweeping legislation to put tobacco regulation under the control of the FDA has been done during the administration of a president who himself is struggling with a tobacco addiction.  But as Terry Mancour of the London Guardian points out in the article here such regulation was inevitable. I’m no fan [...]

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Living in Durham

June 15, 2009

US News and World Report is big on “Best of” lists to generate some readership and sometimes even some controversy. A story published earlier this month listed their Ten Best Places to Live for 2009. Number 7 on the list is…ta da…Durham. The story is available on the USNWR website at this link along with [...]

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Economic Indicators

June 7, 2009

Economy Up, Service Down I have long believed that the health of the economy is inversely proportional to the quality of service in fast food restaurants. When the economy is good, service truly sucks because they are forced to hire  the dregs of the labor pool.  When the economy is bad they can be more [...]

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Copywriting for Luxury Homes

May 25, 2009

Whatever else you think of the New York Times, the writing is great and the coverage topical. None more topical than a story in Sunday’s Times about a woman in New York who makes her living writing copy for real estate companies. Topical for me because I’m in the process of launching a new website [...]

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Durham on NYT OpEd Page

May 16, 2009

Bob Herbert is a columnist who is regularly seen on the opinion pages of the New York Times.  In today’s edition of the paper Mr. Herbert comments on an event that happened in Durham in 1944.  Strict racial segregation was the norm at the time, of course, but a white basketball team from the Duke [...]

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1st Qtr. Report on Durham Luxury Homes 2009

April 19, 2009

Increased Share for Durham in Luxury Market For the second quarter in a row we observe the odd phenomena of Durham increasing it’s market share of luxury homes sold in the four county area of the Triangle area that I look at that includes Durham, Wake, Orange and Chatham counties. This happened without a significant [...]

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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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More from Reyn

March 26, 2009

In the pantheon of Durham bloggers, Reyn Bowman of the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau is beginning to take his rightful place, primarily using this new media to extend the role of the DCVB as Durham’s marketing agency. But as his profile points out, this is his personal blog  so it also has posts about [...]

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