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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.

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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 an approved 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


September 1st, 2010 11:19 AM
Capital Freeze Thaws for Real-Estate Funds
Real-estate funds saddled with boom-time properties are getting relief from Wall Street firms and other investors hoping to capitalize on their need for cash.
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September 1st, 2010 11:22 AM
New Resorts Owners Roll Dice
Morris Bailey and Dennis Gomes are paying $35 million for Resorts Atlantic City, at a time when gambling revenue is declining and customers are being siphoned off to Pennsylvania venues.
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September 2nd, 2010 07:48 PM
Citigroup Gets Burned in the Caribbean
The bank is selling its mortgage on the Viceroy Anguilla to Starwood Capital Group at a hefty discount, the latest example of capitulation by a bank that has nursed a troubled real-estate project for years.
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September 1st, 2010 02:47 AM
Corio's Turkish Strategy Stumbles
The Dutch company's expansion has yielded disappointing results due to the weak economy, competition and the difficulties of exporting Western shopping concepts to a country steeped in different traditions.
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August 31st, 2010 02:57 PM
Help for Hyatt Isn't Enough
A Jacksonville hotel missed paying its mortgage despite $5 million in help from the Hyatt chain.
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Generational Housing Specialist™ Designation
The GHS™ course is available through self-paced home study.

Learn how different generations affect housing choices, financing products, investment planning and much more.

Order today for $50 discount.

 


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