Sloann – Luxury Living

Luxury Homes

What defines Luxury?

Luxury is an All-encompassing Lifestyle

A luxury residential property is more than just location i.e. prominent street addresses and exclusive postcodes. Convenience is a key feature of city centre luxury living with mini parks and open spaces encompassing amenities, proximity to high-end restaurants, bars and boutique shopping and lifestyle. Many of these features can also be found in emerging luxury areas.

Residential

Luxury is Exclusivity & Experiential

People who buy homes in luxury residential projects, especially the millennials, want to feel they have an asset that few others do. They also want to feel that they live in a sought-after area. Baby boomers in particular are now “less materialistic and more experiential,” noted Cognizent in a luxury retail trend study.

Luxury is defined by the uniqueness of each home design and its architecture and kerb appeal. Luxury homeowners expect privacy as part of their lifestyle. Increasingly, the ability to walk from  your luxury home in a luxury residential district to high end restaurants, bars and nightclubs for evenings out are becoming a defining demand of luxury urban living.

Luxury is Quality of building materials

Luxury residential homes are defined by top quality building and construction materials inside and out. This includes refined luxury finishes and fittings inside the house. Homeowners also want peace of mind knowing that their houses are resistant to external forces, such as the weather and nature.

At the other end of the spectrum, some enthusiastic buyers are pushing the desire for newness to new heights. Impeded by lack of quality inventory, more and more ultra-affluent buyers wish to build their own designer trophy ‘one and only’ homes.

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Luxury is Technology & Security

Luxury homes can also be defined by the latest technology, designer space optimisation and maximize the use of natural light and ambience lighting enhanced by sophisticated heating and cooling systems and other energy-efficient features. Kitchens are defined by designer designs boasting the latest appliances and cabinets that effectively utilize the room’s space. Bathrooms feature double his and her designer sinks, rolled-top baths, extra-large showers and saunas. Hot tub, swimming pool, and landscaped gardens also add to the feeling of luxury.

Private security, centrally-monitored surveillance cameras, highly trained security guards, vetting processes for any visitors and home alarm systems that link to the security office for emergencies define integrated safe and secure luxury living.

Core Plus – This strategy uses the same properties as the core strategy, but with increased opportunities for improvements through renovations and expanding the number of tenants for example. It is a moderate-risk strategy.

Luxury is Eco and Conscious Living

An increasing number of affluent owners are seeking to define their lives and lifestyle by embracing a more eco-centres lifestyle. They seek to own an elegant home without being brazen, blends into the community and one that can even bring positive meaning. For them its not about display of grandeur but blending into the neighbourhood and making a deliberate and conscious choice and a healthy and sustainable way of living. The newly affluence place greater emphasis on knowing where and how products are manufactured, fuelling a trend toward conscious living.

Luxury is Move-in Ready and Convenient

Many buyers are willing to pay a premium for move-in-ready designer properties that has been elegantly appointed with all the high-spec, high-tech modern conveniences connected to their smartphones that define luxury living. Wealthy buyers are willing to pay a premium for the one-and-only, right location, right home which also has security, concierge, property management, landscaping and other luxury amenities.

The resurgence of urban down town cores in many major cities and changing age dynamics are having a significant impact on the home-buying preferences of the world’s most affluent. Luxury residential districts in the heart of the large metropolises which has its own green spaces, boutique shops, high-end restaurants, designer cafes and cobbled street mews is hugely attractive for the ease of living, urban amenities and convenience it offers in the lung of huge cities.

Core Plus – This strategy uses the same properties as the core strategy, but with increased opportunities for improvements through renovations and expanding the number of tenants for example. It is a moderate-risk strategy.

Luxury is Collectible

A report by Barclays’ Wealth Insights noted that  “For today’s wealthy investor, acquiring and holding collectibles is akin to building a store of treasure,”. Designer, prized real estate is the ultimate collectible treasure and much valued discerning investors – who get to enjoy the high-living in offers and yet make a handsome gain when they eventual decide to dispose the prized homes. It ignited the passion of those who appreciate and pursue such one-off trophy homes.

Luxury is increasingly Elegant and Understated

Luxury is not about  brash displays of wealth or bold colours and golden taps. It is subtle, scaled-back and yet tasteful and elegant. Quality-over-quantity luxury will remain the key feature of many prestige property acquisitions. any luxury living.

Elegant grandeur interiors are designed to create a sense of exclusivity, with many techniques utilized to make rooms seem larger than they appear, such as mirrors and high ceilings – particular for older city-centre high-class and exclusive homes. Some luxury residences offer magnificent views of dramatic landscapes as part of their ambiance.

Sloann seeks to advise and assist the affluent, discerning buyer and investor towards owning your own unique, luxury home in one of the world’s glamourous cities and within its most opulent, sought-after regal residential districts of Mayfair, Knightsbridge and Mayfair

Core Plus – This strategy uses the same properties as the core strategy, but with increased opportunities for improvements through renovations and expanding the number of tenants for example. It is a moderate-risk strategy.

Luxury Living Around Mayfair, Knightsbridge & Belgravia