Intero Prestigio - Latest Issue

Here's the latest issue of Intero Prestigio, our magazine of luxury properties for sale. Please take a look at these beautiful properties, and contact us if you would like to take the first step to make one yours.

Happy Valentine's Day

Intero Insider: Falling In Love with a House

By Gino Blefari, CEO, Intero Real Estate Services

Obviously, realtor.com put together this survey to have a little fun before Valentine’s Day. But do these emotional connections hurt or help buyers and sellers in the long run?

Real estate is highly emotional. We all knew this. But now we have statistics to show just how much this is the case for typical home buyers.

Monday Morning Mojo: Ride or Get Run Over!

By Tom Tognoli, COO & Founder
, Intero Real Estate Services, Inc.

When you woke up this morning, were you fired up and excited to improve…find a way to do it different…do it better…be innovative…change? So many people fight it…trying to stay the same and play it safe because things are okay and it’s working…they don’t want to rock the boat, take risks, and ruin a good thing.  Unfortunately, if you don’t look for a better way…trying to improve everyday, you will wake up one day and everything around you will have changed and it will be too late…it will seem like it happened overnight without warning and what caused your success in the past, both personally and professionally, will be the cause of your demise.

Change is an exciting thing.

When you just let go and don’t fight it the opportunities are endless and everything will just flow…if you resist and fight, you are in for a battle filled with disappointments and hard work that don’t produce much of anything.  It is like standing on a railroad track trying to stop a train going 100 mph…you just can’t do it…its not possible.  So, you can jump on the train and enjoy the ride, or get run over…it’s your choice.

Luxury Insider: The Year of the Condo

By Alain Pinel, General Manager of Intero Prestigio international, Intero Real Estate Services, Inc.

In the real estate residential arena, as everybody knows, the dynamic duo is made of Single Family Homes and Condos. In some towns, SFH represent 100% of the housing stock. In some districts of large cities, condos (together with co-ops) represent 100% of the stock. For the most part, they cohabit in harmony, as they serve different needs for different people.

Since towns, at this point and going forward, are far more likely to grow vertically than stretching horizontally due to the lack of buildable space where people want/need to live and work, condos keep on mushrooming very quickly on the land.

A Tale of Two Markets

By Gino Blefari, President & CEO, Intero Real Estate Services, Inc.

Two sets of data about California real estate released this past week reveal a housing market that’s healthy, yet complicated and moving in a few different directions.

What we’re seeing is a market that’s improving overall, but that continues to struggle with supply – especially in certain pockets like the San Francisco Bay Area.

2013 brought about vast improvements in the state’s luxury markets, with sales of homes costing $1 million or more soaring 45% to their highest level in six years, according to La Jolla-based housing data company DataQuick.

Life is like a roll of toilet paper

By Tom Tognoli, COO & Founder, Intero Real Estate Services, Inc

Where does the time go?

This past Friday I turned 50. I feel great and don’t feel 50…however that is supposed to feel, but it is still hard for me to wrap my head around. I feel like I am maybe in my mid 30’s, but 50…no way. Where does the time go? I am sure most of you reading this can relate.

Now…don’t get me wrong…it’s all good and I am good with it. I am blessed with so many amazing things…a great family, I live in the most amazing place in the world, I am healthy, my family is healthy, I am happily married and I have two great kids, I live in a beautiful home, have great friends, and have helped build a great company, but how in the world did this happen? How did I get to be 50? How did it become 32 years since I graduated high school? How have I been married for 22 years? How has it been over 12 years since we started Intero? And how in the world did my boys get to be 16 and 14? All of you with kids totally get this.

Happy Groundhog Day

One Cool Thing

Can you find where you live? Where you want to live?

Intero Insider: Move-up Buyers Hungry for Bigger, More Expensive Homes

By Gino Blefari, President & CEO, Intero Real Estate Services, Inc.

Here’s a term we haven’t heard much of in the last few years: move-up buyer. But many markets are now seeing many more of these folks. Some are even showing signs of strength in luxury or the high-end of the market thanks to this type of buyer.

After the recession started to take hold in 2008, the market for large and expensive homes fell as more buyers looked for more affordable places to live that weren’t as much of a drain to heat, cool and keep lit up.