Luxury homes on display on high-end tour – San Francisco Chronicle

Luxury homes on display on high-end tour – San Francisco Chronicle


Luxury homes on display on high-end tour - San Francisco Chronicle

Luxury homes on display on high-end tour
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 20 hours ago
In all segments of the real estate market, overseas money is pouring into the United States seeking bargains. The National Association of Realtors released.
One Marin County Realtor is hoping to kick-start the mansion market, going after international buyers whose euros carry extra oomph here in the land of the weak dollar.

Luxury-home Realtor (and owner) Olivia Hsu Decker is running a swank six-day event in September for “ultra-high-net-worth individuals,” mostly from overseas, to view 30 palatial estates in the Bay Area listed by her Decker Bullock Sotheby International Realty.

This black-tie affair is a parallel-universe version of the foreclosure bus tour, in which bargain hunters see discounted bank repos – but it’s born of the same market downturn, as these times require a little extra vigor to sell real estate even to the ultra-rich.

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Carlos Sagastume
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