The Sotheby’s Realty Youtube channel is a distinctive environment that showcases all that the Sotheby’s International Realty brand has to offer, providing limitless exposure for the properties and lifestyles that our brand represents in video format.

Property videos are not unique in the real estate industry… but what is unique is how they are delivered to the consumer. Our goal in creating the Sotheby’s Internatinonal Realty youtube channel is about offering the consumer something different that would transcend the clutter and guide them in their search for the extraordinary. our youtube channel houses what we like to think of as the new standard in property video. What you will find here are journeys into the exceptional…opening doors to the most magnificent homes available anywhere and at any price.

The Sotheby’s International Realty youtube brand channel employs a distribution engagement channel, called thismoment, designed to provide “engagement to everyone, everywhere, easily” and helps create massive viral appeal and exposure. Eessentially thismoment enables powerful, real-time engagement experiences by combining both content and conversation and automatically distributes them to many sites and devices such Facebook and youtube as well as brand sites, rich media ads, mobile devices and more. It also provides a robust reporting management tool that allows us to properly analyze and detail viewership statistics pertaining to the included videos on this channel.

Paul Benson, Mary Ciminelli, Lindsay Clark, Trish Clark , Corey Crawford, Marcie Davis, Tisha Digman, Ruth Drapkin, Sharon Eastman, Robyn Farrant, Karin Gage, Shane Herbert, Heidi Ingham, Brad Jensen, David Johnson, Paul Kaufmann,
Karen Keating, Court Klekas, Scott Maizlish, Maggie Matthes, Whitney Olch, Leanne Parry, John Patton, Whitney Pearson, Susan Poulin, Chris Reynolds, Maire Rosol, Cam Schiedel, Kent  and Marny Schlopy, Debbie Sexton, Bruce Shannon, Carrie Shoaf, Patti Wells, Linda Wolcott, Thomas Wright – Principal Broker, Joe Averett – Marketing Director

1049 Park Ave.                       Mike Durr                $549,000

3815 N. Two Creeks Ln.       Patti Wells                $895,000

11 Ruby Hollow Dr.               Patti Wells               $5,200,000

10445 E. Lake Pines Dr.       Patti Wells               $19,000

2672 Gallivan Loop #51       Patti Wells                $590,000

2775 Estates Dr. #23-A        Patti Wells                $825,000

2273 Samuel Colt Court       Patti Wells                $549,500

1445 Lowell Ave. #209         Patti Wells                $299,900

8200 Royal St #23                Patti Wells                $3,195,000

4742 N. 400 W.                      Patti Wells               $699,000

4415 Sawmill Road                Schiedel/Digman   $629,000

5471 N. Bobsled Blvd.           Nancy Tallman        $485,000

5820 N. Kingsford Ave.        Nancy Tallman        $549,000

1445 Lowell Ave. #4409       Nancy Tallman        $369,999

2960 Pioche Court                 Jamison Frost          $1,295,000

The CEO Keller Williams Park City has left to join Summit Sotheby’s International Realty.

David Johnson, who was a highly respected real-estate attorney before becoming a broker in 2005, will become managing broker at the Park City branch of Summit Sotheby’s.

Thomas Wright will continue as president and principal broker, but Johnson will manage day-to-day affairs, including the training of agents.

“He will do what David Johnson has become so respected for: helping agents and working with clients,” Wright said.

Johnson is well respected for his customer-service skills, Wright said.

“He’s the best problem solver agents have ever worked with. He wants a transaction to work and will make it work for everyone,” he added.

According to his biographical information on the Keller Williams website, Johnson gave legal counsel to the Utah Association of Realtors, the Park City Board of Realtors, and even led the Utah Division of Real Estate prior to becoming a broker. Many of the forms Realtors use today were written by Johnson.

Wright said his company recruited Johnson and believes many of their peers will recognize it was a good move for him.

“He has friends in all the brokerage firms, and they’ll respect his decision because they respect him so much. You want your friends to make the best decision for them,” he said.

Johnson was on vacation when reached Thursday, but gave this comment: “The Sotheby’s brand is associated with quality. Their offices in

Park City and Salt Lake have an outstanding group of experienced agents, and I am particularly impressed with their leadership and energy. I look forward to assisting Sotheby’s in their commitment to providing the highest level of real estate brokerage services available.”

See the full article at the Park Records website – www.parkrecord.com

LuxuryRealEstate.com, a Webby Award Honoree, has been voted ‘Best of the Web’ by Forbes magazine multiple times, praised by the International Herald Tribune, Town & Country, the Wall Street Journal and has been ranked ‘Best Website’ by consumers according to surveys by the Luxury Institute. Since its debut in 1995,LuxuryRealEstate.com has remained the #1 portal for luxury properties on the internet, consistently driving more traffic to member websites and generating more qualified inquiries than any other website.LuxuryRealEstate.com has several times more $1,000,000+ content of any near-peer.

Honors & Awards

• Best of the Web and ‘Forbes Favorite’ by Forbes magazine for eight consecutive years
• Ranked #1 luxury real estate website by consumers and the Luxury Institute LLC
• Ranked #1 in searches for “luxury real estate” (as well as other similar terms) on popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and MSN
• Webby Award Honoree

Who’s Who in Luxury Real Estate

Known in the industry for the last quarter-century as the Who’s Who in Luxury Real Estate network, a global collection of the finest luxury real estate brokers in the world, this group of more than 70,000 professionals in more than 85 countries collectively sells in excess of $190 billion of real estate annually, with an average sale price of $2,450,000. Members sell homes for record prices and handle transactions of incredible complexity and magnitude with complete discretion. Every member is carefully selected by CEO/Publisher John Brian Losh, one of REALTOR Magazine’s 25 Most Influential People in Real Estate and broker of fine properties and estates through his Seattle-based brokerage firm, Ewing & Clark, Inc.

Summit Sotheby’s felt it was important to partner with LuxuryRealEstate.com and showcase our premier listings on the world’s leading luxury real estate portal.

1.) Update your old garage door(s). Garage doors seem like a non-issue, but many times they make up a significant percentage of the front of a home. Because of this, they are one of the first things that buyers notice when they pull in the drive way. Replacing, or even just painting, these central fixtures will do wonders when it comes to instantly impressing perspective buyers and standing apart from your competition. The market has changed drastically since many of us purchased our homes here in town. I frequently hear buyers say that they have taken a house off their list because of the lack of curb appeal. This issue is especially important to people on busier streets, corner lots, or near a neighborhood eyesore.

2.) Replace old windows. Outdated windows age a home significantly, and you can often upgrade standard windows to vinyl for a reasonable $300 per window. The average home has 8 windows, so this upgrade doesn’t cost nearly as much as you might think and it will make a huge difference to the value perceived by prospective buyers. Key point to remember is that when buyers view a home they love, if they see it has older windows, they consider it a time consuming and costly headache. First time buyers have never replaced windows and often dramatically overestimate the cost to cure this issue. By replacing pre-listing you an actually save money. A well priced, move-in condition home will sell for far more than one with windows in need of repair.

3.) Assess your floors . If you have hardwood flooring, it’s worth the investment to have them refinished considering buyers put an extremely high value on them; you’ll get the most bang for your buck if they are refurbished. Carpets should be shampooed and replaced if they are stained or look worn. You don’t need to spend large amounts of money on the highest grade or most modern name but something inexpensive and neutral will certainly bring you a return on the investment. Even the smell of new carpet will make buyers set your home apart from the comparables.

4.) Paint the trim. If you can’t afford the daunting task of painting your entire house, painting just the trim will still make a big difference when it comes to curb appeal. Painting the whole house can be expensive, time consuming, and delayed by weather conditions; painting just the trim will give your home a fresher look. Interior trim is equally as important.

5.) Update fixtures. Keep an eye out for sales at home improvement stores and replace outdated lighting, plumbing and hardware fixtures. Simple replacing lighting fixtures and knobs in the bathroom or kitchen can update the entire look of the room. You can find many modern brand name fixtures online on contractor supply websites by just searching for terms like sale faucets, sale plumbing fixtures etc.

The other news over the weekend is that La Nina has returned! For skiers this is generally good news as a La Nina weather pattern typically means that the Pacific northwest through northern California and the northern and central Rockies tend to be wetter and colder than normal. Bad news is that the southwest (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas) tends to be warmer and drier than normal. The same pattern that we saw last winter that brought record snows to Utah and record drought to Texas.

In real estate news real estate continues to be quite active. In looking at our MLS sales, as of today, 9/12, there are 20 homes within the Park City limits with contracts pending on them waiting to close. Of these homes, the least expensive home under contract has a list price of $638,000 and the most expensive is a ski-in/ski-out in the Bald Eagle community of Deer Valley with a list price of $7,250,000. Of the 20 homes with contracts pending, 6 have a list price over $2,000,000.

As of today and inside the city limits there are 44 condos with contracts pending on them with the low price of $125,000 up to the high of $6,250,000. Included in this are about 10 condos in the St. Regis hotel in Deer Valley that have been under contract for quite some time and are still waiting to close. What this does show is that there is a lot of activity going on right now and it covers the full range of prices. When I talk to most buyers and sellers, I am always asked what is selling. And when I show them statistics such as these they are usually quite surprised as their guess would have been only the lower price range would be selling. Another thing that I take from these statistics is that the buyers are out there and are looking in all price ranges and are ready to purchase if the property is right for their needs and they feel it is properly priced for today’s market.

Hopefully we will have our traditional Indian summer here but I am seeing signs of the aspens starting to turn. I would expect by early October we should be pretty close to peak colors. With all the rain that we’ve had, I believe that the colors will be particularly vibrant this year, so if you’ve never seen fall in the mountains, this may be a great year to do it. And be sure to stop in and say hello if you are in town, particularly to see which restaurants are open and what events are going on.

Courtesy of Dennis Hanlon – Summit Sotheby’s International Realty

The firm joined other members of the Sotheby’s International Realty® affiliate network on the list, considered the most highly regarded real estate ranking in the country. Overall, 38 agents and 9 sales teams recognized for transaction volume were from the Sotheby’s International Realty network. View more info here.