Got Your Own Idea of A Luxury Home?

July 4, 2009

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

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

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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Durham Video

February 24, 2009

Holy cow! How did I miss this.  If you like Durham you’ll love this.  If you thought you didn’t like Durham, this might make you reconsider. If you just overpaid for a home in Chapel Hill this might be depressing.

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Durham Image Watch

February 24, 2009

A recurring theme here at DurhamLuxRe.com is the importance of bringing Durham’s image in line with reality.  For years Durham had a reputation for chaotic government, poor schools, high crime rates and a crumbling downtown.  Some of the reputation might have been deserved but much has changed and the Durham that is emerging not only [...]

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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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