Providing Buyers and Sellers of Fine Property a World of Advantages

Sotheby’s International Realty was founded in 1976 as a real estate service for the clients of Sotheby’s auction house, which was founded more than a century before. Since that time, the company has developed into the world’s leading luxury residential brokerage firm, meeting the needs of today’s marketplace while remaining true to the principles of quality and service that Sotheby’s was founded on.

We are known for selling some of the world’s most extraordinary estates, and our comprehensive approach to selling property has proven effective for quality listings in a range of areas and prices. While we consistently maintain an average sales price of approximately $1.4 million, more than 50% of our annual sales are for properties priced under $1 million.

Sotheby’s offers many unique advantages to those wishing to sell distinctive properties:

If you are interested in purchasing a home please feel free to browse through a list of properties that Louis Silcox is currently representing.

A Network Offering Global Breadth and Local Depth

In an increasingly global marketplace, where will the buyer for your home be found? While real estate by nature is local, the market for your home is actually national or even global. This is where Sotheby’s International Realty offers tremendous advantages. We operate the world’s only truly global network, covering 40 U.S. states and 18 countries through 23 company-owned offices and over 175 affiliated firms. In providing maximum exposure for each of its listings, Sotheby’s International Realty is positioned to reach the right buyers, regardless of where they are based, and achieve the right price.

Maximizing Visibility to Appropriate Buyers

Sotheby’s International Realty offers clients a variety of targeted, proprietary publications to promote your property. Preview Magazine, an exiting fine art and real estate publication, offers a selection of current listings as well as high-quality editorial content on special properties and important collections. Our exceptional brochures, presenting descriptive information and color photographs of our properties, are distributed to all of our brokerage, regional and affiliate offices worldwide for display and presentation to appropriate clients. Furthermore, targeted catalogs featuring properties for sale in a particular area are published regularly by our regional and brokerage offices.

In addition, Sotheby’s places distinctive advertisements in a variety of key national publications, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, which get the attention of qualified purchasers in all markets. The combination of a recognized brand and attractive, eye-catching format guarantees that your property will be noticed by the right clients.

Home to the World’s Finest Real Estate

Sothebysrealty.com is the most comprehensive Web site for buyers and sellers of the world’s finest properties.

The site is uniquely positioned to receive qualified traffic through proprietary channels including prominent links from Sothebys.com, the world’s premier authenticated auction site. Supplementing this are over 500 top ten rankings on search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN and relationships with the top U.S. and European property sites, such as Realtor.com and HomeAdvisor.

Sothebysrealty.com offers buyers not only access to a selection of quality properties that no other site can offer, but useful features such as:

This combination of features, coupled with the power of an internationally recognized off-line brand, enables Sothebysrealty.com to effectively target and attract a broad, qualified and motivated audience.

Key Connections to Qualified Purchasers

Sotheby’s International Realty’s strategic connections with appropriate luxury brands provide a means of establishing and maintaining relationships with powerful clients groups that traditional advertising cannot reach.

Cross marketing opportunities with Sotheby’s auction house include advertising and editorial support in Sotheby’s publications and on their auction Web site, property brochure and Web kiosk displays in key auction locations, special events, and joint direct marketing campaigns.

Long-term relationships with the clients of Sotheby’s Lehman Mortgage Services also provide great benefit. A joint venture with the Lehman Brothers Bank, Sotheby’s Lehman Mortgage Services provides a range of competitive priced mortgage products and services specially designed for the high-net-worth clients of both organizations. Catering to all purchasers, the firm has closed loans ranging in value from $100,000 to $4 million and has maintained an average loan size of over $1 million since it was founded.

Sotheby’s auction house is a company with a centuries-old tradition of bringing together buyers and sellers of fine property. This important connection combined with strategic partnerships like Sotheby’s Lehman Mortgage Services ensures that our listing will get the attention of the most qualified and interested purchasers in the marketplace.