Featured image credit: Hollywood Unwrapped You don’t have to be a Hollywood insider to recognize the name Tony Duquette. Throughout the 1940s and ‘50s, he elevated set decoration to an art form with his “more is more” approach. It earned him a great deal of admirers, some well-positioned friends, and, it would seem, a small […]
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Blending a Real Estate Agent and Loan Officer, the AMLO℠ is the Future of Real Estate
If you missed JohnHart’s {RE}VOLUTION event yesterday, you’ll likely be hearing some of our plans trickling out to the public over the weeks. One of the most hotly discussed topics after the presentation was the introduction of JohnHart’s and Golden Coast Finance’s AMLO℠: a plan that would see qualifying agents potentially multiply their commissions while […]
The Top 25 Agents of Q4 2023
It seems like yesterday that we announced the Top 25 Agents of Q3, and yet here we are again. The final quarter of 2023 closed and the professionals who battled through arguably the toughest quarter to claim their rightful spot in JohnHart’s own hall of fame now stand before us. You’d think Q4 seemed like […]
VOTE for JohnHart’s 2023 Person of the Year
It’s that time of year again at JohnHart; a time when one real estate agent is elevated by their peers to heights we’ve already known they’ve attained, but were just too humble to admit it. We won’t say it’s a time when transactions don’t matter, but maybe a time when they’re not all that matter. […]
Absorption Rate Analysis: December 2023 – Secretly Good News for Buyers?
As our absorption rate analysis blogs have likely emphasized by now, statistics are often at the whim of interpretation. These numbers are concrete: they tell us something that actually happened. A certain number of homes were sold in a given area. A certain number of homes were on the market in that same area. Anything […]
Unique Celebrity Homes: Naomi Campbell’s Horus Eye Haven
When it comes to unique celebrity homes, Naomi Campbell’s vacation house is unlike any other. Spanish Architect, Luis de Garrido, built this getaway home on the island of Adasi Sedir in Turkey’s Gulf of Gökov, also known as Cleopatra’s Island. It was a monumental gift from Naomi’s Russian billionaire ex partner, Vladislav Doronin. Luis de […]
Absorption Rate Analysis – November 2023: Significant Jumps and Drops Bring an Unusual End to Autumn
Last month, we talked about the calm before the storm. Well, we wouldn’t ring the alarms just yet, but November gave us a bit more drama than October with some decent rises and falls across the Greater Los Angeles area. It’s a surprising amount of absorption rate activity for a time when the market is […]
Las Vegas Home Spotlight: The Late Hartland Mansion
Featured Image Credit: LV Wedding Connection Up until now, our Home Spotlight blog series has covered properties that still exist. Unfortunately, we can’t say the same for the subject of this Home Spotlight… the granddaddy of all Las Vegas mansions: Hartland Mansion. Up until 2022, it was a looming piece of vibrant Las Vegas history. […]
The Housing Market is NOT Going to Crash – Here Are 9 Reasons Why
Have you seen the news? Wall-to-wall headlines about the big housing market crash headed your way. You’d think it was a confirmed fact! As the CEO and founder of my own real estate brokerage, and an expert who’s been successfully working in the real estate industry for decades, I have news for you. There will […]
Absorption Rate Analysis – October 2023: The Calm Before the Storm?
While the real estate industry is still reeling from a federal jury’s decision to rule against the National Association of Realtors, October’s absorption rates may be feeling like the calm before the storm. There may be candy wrappers blowing gently off the streets on November 1. But October brought no tricks or treats to the […]