Luxury Market Blog

Luxury Ambassador - Napa and St. Helena, California

Over the last twenty years, Carolyn Roberts has been successful at representing Buyers and Sellers in the Napa Valley. She is extremely knowledgeable in all areas of real estate. Her expertise is Country and Estate Properties. With a strong commitment to excellence, superior market knowledge, hard work and integrity, Carolyn has gained the respect of her clients and colleagues. She has won many awards for her performance and has consistently been a multi-million dollar producer.

Luxury Ambassador - Scottsdale and Paradise Valley, AZ

A member of the real estate industry for the past twenty-six years, Sandra Wilken has inspired her "Team of Experts" with her vision of an "all-service company." It's a concept based on her extensive background in architecture, design, marketing and sales. Sandra's reputation for attention to detail has led her to develop a company that offers its clients a full range of services that go far beyond the closing. Sandra Wilken Luxury Properties often assists with everything from moving, furnishing, maintenance and a myriad of other needs. Her "Custom Homes without the Customary Hassles" program has proved a success with numerous clients as well. Several articles have been published about this program in Valley publications.

Sandra joined forces with Markland Properties to market and sell Gainey Ranch from the development inception. Sandra sold the majority of all custom homes and lots in this prestigious 560-acre master-planned community

Luxury Ambassador - Paradise Valley and Scottsdale, AZ

Since Sandra Baldwin began her stellar career in luxury home sales in 1982, she has recorded over a billion dollars in sales. She has been ranked as high as 7th internationally out of tens of thousands of real estate agents. Sandra has also been recognized by both the Phoenix and Scottsdale Board of Realtors for lifetime achievement. For over two decades, Sandra Baldwin has been arguably Arizona's most highly decorated and successful real estate professional. Her commitment to her clients has been evidenced by the many accolades presented to her by the real estate community and the overwhelming number of repeat clients and client referrals. Year in and year out, no matter what the market conditions, the Baldwin Team has been unmatched in hard work. This basic tenet of giving a full team effort every day is what has led to this success.

Luxury Ambassador - Vail and Beaver Creek, CO

Bart Peaslee is the principal in the The Bartlett Group and his history in Real Estate started in Darien, Ct. where his parents made a second career remodeling homes. In 1977 he first became a realtor in Hawaii. He moved to the California Bay Area in 1986, where he was a mortgage banker and did remodeling. In 1990 he came to Colorado were he became a realtor, developer and re-modeler. He is on the advisory board for Keller Williams Luxury Homes Division and teaches Real Estate classes.

To Exceed Expectations with Expertise and have you define working with us as the best experience you have ever had in Real Estate is our goal. The Vail Valley has many different communities; once we understand your parameters we use our knowledge of the Valley to present you neighborhoods and homes that will blend it all together for you. When we work with you in Selling your home the first thing is listening. Understanding why you bought your home, what makes it so special is important in determining where to market it and how best to present it so that Buyers will appreciate what you have to offer. Listening to your needs coupled with the current market data allows us to work with you in pricing the property to create the maximum price and to ensure that it sells in a timely manner.

Unique Global Estates Luxury Ambassadors

Luxury real estate agents are unique.  These are realtors® at the pinnacle of the real estate industry.  They are schooled in the best practices of the real estate industry and skilled at providing the highest level of service to the wealthy -- entrepreneurs, celebrities, professional athletes and business executives.

Luxury realtors® and the estates, mansions, golf and gated communities they represent have interesting stories. 

At The Luxury Conclave in Scottsdale, Arizona last week, we met many of these agents.  The ones we are going to tell you about are the Luxury Ambassadors of Unique Global Estates.  These luxury realtors bring to their clients a wealth of local market knowledge, years of experience handling discreet high-priced real estate transactions and fascinating personal experiences.

In this blog, we will introduce them and will in the days ahead profile them and their communities.

Luxury Ambassador - Vancouver BC - Salt Spring Island and Gulf Island

Liane ‘Li’ Read, managing broker of RE/MAX Salt Spring in Vancouver, British Columbia, has earned the 2007 RE/MAX Chairman's Award, RE/MAX Lifetime Achievement Award and 2006 MLS Gold Award.  Having lived on Salt Spring Island, since 1987, she knows and loves the Islands she serves; by Li’s estimation Salt Spring Island, Galiano Island, Pender Island, Mayne Island are Saturna Island and small surround islands are some of the best places in the world to live.

Li has helped many international buyers, both from the United States and from around the world purchase Salt Spring Island real estate, and Gulf Islands real estate. She maintains an extensive list of professional contacts and experts on: immigration to Canada, tax issues, legal, financing, & insurance.

Among Li’s numerous accolades and designations comes these words of honor from RE/MAX in 2003, "Your outstanding achievement of the RE/MAX Chairman's Award places you in the top echelon of Sales Professionals and is the pinnacle of single-year commission honors that RE/MAX bestows."

Luxury Ambassador - Lake Tahoe - Tahoe City and Meeks Bay

In Katrine ‘Trinkie’ Watson's opinion, "there is no place in the world with greater beauty or better year-round social and sporting pleasures than Lake Tahoe and the Sierra.  Real estate opportunity here is more varied and exciting than ever before."  In fact, as President of the Lake Tahoe Music Festival and a Board member of the Truckee Tahoe Community Foundation, Trinkie exemplifies the true insider’s perspective on living in the Lake Tahoe Basin.

As Owner/Broker of Chase International’s Tahoe City and Truckee offices and seasoned Realtor® for 33 years in both California and Nevada, she is a resource for fine residential properties in and around the Lake Tahoe Basin.  And, she has possesses an impressive list of professional accolades and designations including the 1995 President of the Incline Village Board of Realtors®.   In 1996, she was selected Realtor® of the Year in Incline Village, and she was 1997 President of the Tahoe Sierra Multiple Listing Service.

Luxury Ambassador - Vail and Beaver Creek Colorado

Dave Cole, Prudential Colorado Properties, has been a Vail/Beaver Creek Realtor® since 1972. He founded the Vail Board of Realtors and has been its past "Realtor of the Year". He is a Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist (CLHMS) as well as a nationally Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR). He also has national Credentials in Residential Sales (CRS) and commercial real estate (CCIM). As a Harvard MBA Dave is skilled at financial analysis and identifying the best quality, location and values. Serving as a director of the Eagle Valley Land Trust, he has comprehensive local market knowledge of Vail and Beaver Creak. An avid outdoorsman, befitting his mountain locale, Dave is an active skier, biker and hiker.

Luxury Ambassador - Atlanta and Beverly Hills

DeShawn Snow, luxury real estate expert, has created “Six Star Lifestyle Services” to address the unique needs of many of her high-profile clients.  As the wife of Cleveland Cavaliers star, Eric Snow, DeShawn has been the go-to agent for many professional athletes and celebrities in Atlanta and Beverly Hills.

Aside from her roles as President and CEO of EDJ Realty, Vice President of EDJ Properties (an investment real estate company), DeShawn is also an active philanthropist, living out her values of helping the young and underprivileged by bringing her leadership talents to the assistance of numerous organizations. DeShawn is the member of Behind the Bench, an association of basketball players' wives that have currently raised over $1 million in efforts to empower youth in vulnerable circumstances. She also serves on the board for Literacy Action, a non profit that help build better futures by teaching undereducated adults literacy, life and work skills.

Welcome to the Luxury Market Blog

The Luxury Market Blog will provide local market knowledge by the leading luxury real estate brokers and agents.  We will be delivering an insider perspective on the well-known enclaves of wealth and previewing discretely marketed highly-sought after properties only the insiders know about.  We will introduce you to interesting locales around the world, where wealth and celebrity slip away to their private domains.

We encourage you to visit often and share with others your own personal insights.