luxuryrealestate.com to Launch New Site

US based luxury real estate portal luxuryrealestate.com, is set to launch a new site that will be a “Luxury Communities Portal” early in the new year.

A report on The Society of Leisure Enthusiasts blog says that the new site will offer the most comprehensive collection of world-class developments using state-of-the-art search functions in order to help developers drive traffic to their websites and inquiries to their sales teams. The blog quotes CEO/Publisher, John Brian Losh, as saying:

“The new Luxury Communities Portal is poised to be the single most comprehensive source for consumers using the web seeking detailed, customized searches of the top new developments in the most desirable locations around the globe.”

Buyers will be able to research every aspect of a community and initiate direct contact with the development team, while developers will be able to showcase each aspect of their project with video, mapping, blogs, an image gallery, inventory of all current listings complete with photos and direct links to representatives from each property.

luxuryrealestate.com was established in 1995, is a 2009 Webby Award Honoree and has been voted “Best of the Web” by Forbes magazine multiple times.

The website features a global collection of the finest luxury real estate brokers in the world, comprising of more than 1500 brokerage firms and 100,000 professionals in more than 65 countries. Each member is carefully selected by John Brian Losh who is not only an entrepreneur but also a broker of fine properties and estates through his Seattle-based brokerage firm, Ewing & Clark, Inc. and listed as one of Realtor Magazine’s 25 Most Influential People in Real Estate.

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