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Special homes get noticed

What makes a home get noticed by the media?

  • the wow factor
  • design
  • provenance-a noted architect or celebrity
  • an attribute that other homes don’t have and can’t copy
  • desirable location (on the water, views)
  • featured in TV or film
  • privacy

1260 La Loma has all of these and the media has noticed.

My favorite Thanksgiving Quotes -Nancy Valentine-

My favorite Thanksgiving Quotes -Nancy Valentine-

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
John F. Kennedy

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
Thomas Aquinas

“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”
C.S. Lewis

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell

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What is a luxury home in today’s market?

The term luxury in real estate has undergone a dramatic shift. Once synonymous with a million-dollar home, today’s luxury threshold starts much higher, influenced by soaring prices, inflation, changing buyer expectations and regional disparities. All these factors have redrawn the map of high-end living.

The luxury tier used to begin at just over $1 million — a figure that in most areas today will just buy a “normal” home. In most areas, luxury begins nearly three times above the median home range. The high-end segment is about at least a million over that median price number and the ultra-luxury properties, those in the top 1 percent, can start at 5 to 10 times over that. It’s a rarefied space, yet there are a substantial number of buyers…..

The disaster that almost happened

The buyers really loved the house but as always, I recommended a whole slew of inspections. The listing agent said that the plumbing lines had been redone but I insisted on a sewer line inspection for my buyers.  After all the driveway was 450 feet long and so was the sewer line! We only saw two cleanouts but with a line that long, there needed to be 5 cleanouts.
So the plumber came with his camera and tried to do the inspection to find that the line was clogged. Watch the video here:

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