Sunday, February 13, 2011

$232,000 per bottle

Three 1869 bottles of Château Lafite Rothschild, which sold for $232,000 per bottle at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on October 30, setting a new worldwide auction record for wine

买酒的也都是Asian, 买房的也是。 乱观感。

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Testimonial: Portilla

Connie is very knowledge about the market. She's especially familiar with the Carmel Valley and 4S Ranch markets. Although she was taking an oversea vacation at the beginning of our house hunting process, she made sure that we were taken cared of by another Realtor. What's amazing is that she is so familiar with the houses in the market, that whichever house we had questions, she could tell her her impression from memory via email. She has many clients, that is why she is familiar with the market. She is always responsive whenever e ask her questions. We selected Connie also because she was never hesitate in offering her candidate opinion of the houses that she showed, which provides us a helpful neutral perspective in the selection process. She was also very resourceful and provided good referrals for mortgage brokers, carpet cleaning, etc. She also helped us negotiated $4000 with the bank for the short-sale house we bought, which was not easy, and we appreciate her tenacity in helping us get each dollar back. The other thing that was really great about Connie is that she helped us rent out our other house without charging us anything. That house was rented out around Christmas time, which was a slow month for house renting. We love Connie and will not hesitate in recommending her to others.