Luxury Home Marketing in Scottsdale
A marketing plan built to get your home noticed, syndication that reaches buyers worldwide, and weekly reporting so you always know what is working.
A luxury listing is not a normal listing with a bigger number
The instinct is to treat an expensive house like any other house and simply expect more at the end. That is how expensive houses sit.
Three things genuinely change at the top of the market, and they compound.
Far fewer people are shopping, and you know more about who they are. That is not a problem so much as a different task. Reaching most of the people who might buy an ordinary home is a numbers exercise; reaching the particular people who would buy yours is a matter of knowing where they already are.
A large share of them are not in Arizona. They are looking from somewhere colder, often in the months when they are thinking about being somewhere warmer, and they will see your home on a screen long before they see it in person. The marketing has to travel, and the presentation has to survive a large monitor.
They are experienced. They have bought and sold before, frequently more than once, and they are not learning as they go. Presentation that would impress a first-time buyer reads as amateur to them, and so does a price that has clearly been set hopefully rather than carefully.
I work at this end of the market regularly rather than occasionally. My own average sale price across the last year sits a little over a million dollars, and I list through eXp Realty Luxury, which exists specifically for this part of the market and carries the syndication that goes with it.
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Where a luxury listing actually gets seen
Everything my standard listings get, and then a syndication network built for this part of the market.
Financial and business press. The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and MarketWatch. That combination is deliberate rather than decorative: it puts the house in front of people while they are reading about their money, which is a different frame of mind from browsing property.
Luxury property titles. Mansion Global, Robb Report, Unique Homes, JamesEdition, HAVEN and UPMKT. Between them these reach an audience that is specifically shopping for homes like yours, internationally as well as here.
International portals. The listing is translated and distributed across more than ninety overseas property sites, with advertising running in seventy-plus markets including China, Canada, Germany, Brazil, France, Singapore and the UAE.
The eXp network itself, which is more than 90,000 agents across two dozen countries. A good share of these buyers never search a portal. They tell an agent what they want and wait, so reaching those agents matters as much as reaching the public.
All of that exists for one reason. The person who buys a Scottsdale luxury home frequently lives somewhere colder and is not browsing the Phoenix MLS on a Tuesday night. They encounter the house somewhere else entirely, and then start looking properly.
One caveat: distribution is not a sale. Reach puts your house in front of the right people, and the house, the price and the presentation still have to do the work. Any agent who presents a magazine placement as the thing that sells your home is overselling it.
Underneath all of that, the basics are done to the standard the price deserves: professional photography, a 3D walkthrough so an out-of-state buyer can move through the house before booking a flight, drone work showing the lot and the setting, and a website built for the house alone. Paid and retargeted campaigns keep it in front of people who have already looked once.
How the sale runs
Pricing gets the same three options as any listing I take: test the ceiling, match the market, or price below the comparables to create competition. Up here the first one is riskier than it sounds, because so few people are looking that a home which sits gets noticed by all of them.
Every showing runs through a synced lockbox that logs who came and collects the agent's feedback automatically. When only a handful of people are looking, knowing exactly who walked through and what they said is worth considerably more than it is in a busy starter market.
You get a report every Friday with real numbers in it, and when offers arrive we go through the terms together rather than only the price. At this level the financing, the timeline and the contingencies frequently matter more than the top-line figure.
If this is a home you raised a family in rather than an investment, that is a different conversation again. The Legacy Method covers it.
Where I list luxury homes
DC Ranch, Grayhawk, McDowell Mountain Ranch, McCormick Ranch and across Scottsdale, Fountain Hills and North Phoenix.
Buyers here often want a second home rather than a primary residence, which changes what they are looking for and what they ask about. I hold the Resort and Second-Home Property Specialist designation for exactly that, and it is covered here.
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes marketing a luxury home different?
Far fewer people are shopping, and a good share of them are not in Arizona, so the marketing has to travel further to reach fewer people. That is why luxury listings run through eXp Luxury, the Wall Street Journal and Robb Report rather than relying on the MLS to do the work.
Do you actually sell in this price range?
Yes, regularly rather than occasionally. My average sale price over the last year sits a little over a million dollars and I list through eXp Realty Luxury. One client I first worked with on a $150,000 starter home later bought a home just under $1.9 million with me, which is the part of this job I like most.
How do out-of-state buyers see the house?
Through a 3D walkthrough they can move through properly before booking a flight, drone work showing the lot and setting, a website built for the house alone, and placement in publications they already read. Most will look closely online before they ever travel.
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