The Ultimate Trends in the Uber-Luxury World
One of the benefits of the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury program’s partnership with Unique Homes, is that the editors at Unique Homes make it their business to track the luxury real estate market. Once a year, they compile Ultimate Homes, a comprehensive list of each home for sale in the United States for $25 million or more. The latest data illustrates intriguing trends in the uber-luxury world. The Boom in Ultimate Homes Unique Homes started consistently tracking “Ultimate Homes” in 2004. At that time, there were 137 properties for sale at $19 million or more (roughly the equivalent to $25 million today). Today that number is 406, three times the number of properties for sale at this level as there were 13 years ago.
21: That’s the number of states where you can find properties of $25 million or more. Ultimate Homes can be found in the likes of Idaho, Indiana, Montana and South Carolina, where the historic Buckfield plantation was listed for more than $50 million.Prefer the mountains? When it comes to Ultimate Homes, Aspen, Colorado is the most represented city that is not on the East or West Coast. It boasts 19 properties listed from $25 million to $80 million, totaling more than $670 million —a sharp increase from the nine listings in that range the previous year. The Big Three New York, California and Florida have held the lion’s share of the ultra-luxury properties in the U.S. since we started keeping track. In fact, there is very little change year-to-year in that dynamic: In 2017, out of the 406 properties listed at $25 million or more:
- 149 were in New York State (37%)
- 108 were in California (27%)
- 59 were in Florida (15%)
- 78% of the list consisted of properties in those three states.
- 25% of the list consisted of properties in New York City (101 of them)
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