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5 Tips To Help Sell Your Luxury Home More Quickly

Check out these five great tips to help you sell your luxury home more quickly and for the most money:

1. Make the Right First Impression

We cannot understate how important that first impression is, especially if you're trying to sell your luxury or waterfront home. Whether you enhance the curb appeal with newer landscaping or get a new front door or get the home professionally staged, buyers will be influenced by that all-important first impression.

2. Market Your Home Through Many Avenues

Just like advertising for your business, you need to advertise your luxury home to help get it sold. That means exposing it to as many potential buyers around your Bay Head area as possible through the internet, social media, newspaper ads, video and…

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A Classic Bay Header For Sale on Exclusive East Avenue

Classic 1910 Bay Header, with a great personality & much charm! Therapeutic Ocean views from almost every level, the beach right across the street.  Our town of Bay Head is a favorite vacation place for those who enjoy a certain kind of quiet, a relaxing yet friendly way of life, and a safe haven in which to pursue both land and Bay Head Coast Beaches. 

This Classic home is perfect summer retreat for your family. The minute you walk in this house, you'll appreciate its past and start thinking about your families future. All the details are here that we are asked for time and time again, great oceanfront location, good size rooms, big updated kitchen, private back yard, just beautiful details throughout!  

The Bay Head home is location 440 East…

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Prominent Bay Head Resident Speaks Out Against Christie Plan

Suffice it to say Bay Head residents still want no part of Gov. Chris Christie's plan to make beaches wider while building protective sand dunes along New Jersey's entire coastline of 127 miles.

To that end, residents of the Jersey Shores borough have raised $5 million from their own pockets to construct a rock wall to protect beaches and homes along the oceanfront. And Bay Head residents want to be exempt from Christie's coastline widening plan. In the Bellingham Herald, prominent Bay Head homeowner and major Republican Party fund raiser Lawrence Bathgate called the Governor's plan "stupid and wasteful". He told the paper "The science and economics don't support what they are doing. This sand will wash away in short order."

Christie's plan is…

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Clayton & Clayton Realtors, Inc. Feature New Jersey Waterfront Real Estate

 Bay Head, NJ Clayton & Clayton Realtors, Inc. has just announced that the firm is featuring New Jersey waterfront real estate. Many of these properties are ideal for a summer home or a vacation, and will not be available to purchase or rent for long.                                                               

One property that has been generating a lot of interest is the exquisite home at Curtis Point Drive. This luxury waterfront residence is a 6,000 square foot custom home that has been designed with details and the finest quality. The house combines old-world charm and modern-day conveniences, from the massive 10' ceilings and expansive windows to the finely-crafted woodwork and built-ins. The elegance is apparent in all rooms including a first…

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Happy Thanksgiving From Clayton & Clayton Realtors

As we approach the holidays and these festive times, Thanksgiving gives us the opportunity to appreciate and express gratitude to those we have worked with and shared experiences with -- both personally and professionally -- throughout this year.

Some of the things I am thankful for ...                                                                           


My health, My beautiful wife Amy, my two daughters Madison & Lexie, my friends. 

Each lesson in life that teaches me about all the opportunities I've been given.

My home and living in the most beautiful place in the world - At the Jersey Shore.
 

What are you thankful for this holiday season?

I encourage you to take a few moments to reflect, perhaps create a short list of how your…

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Jersey Shore Christmas Activities

Santa will be here before you know it and with that in mind, here is a breakdown of some of the Jersey Shore Christmas activities in places like Bay Head, Point Pleasant Beach and others!

Point Pleasant Beach Christmas Tree Lighting

The Point Pleasant Beach Chamber of Commerce has moved its Christmas tree lighting celebration back to the downtown area, and the big celebration will take place on Friday, Nov. 28 at 5:30 p.m. The amazing tree will be in front of Point Beach Interiors. The celebration is scheduled to include attractions such as stiltwalkers and pony rides. In addition, the chamber also will be offering free horse-drawn carriage rides to the public every Sunday between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The carriage rides will be available…

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Best Places To Eat In & Around Point Pleasant Beach, NJ

There's great news in the neighborhood, especially for diner foodies. The Ocean Bay Diner is finally back on its feet after an 1989 fire destroyed the long-standing landmark eatery. With new owners, the Antonatos family, who took their own children to the OB back in its glory days, the diner is back in action and vying for top spot as one of the best places to eat in the area.

The diner, in Point Pleasant, boasts easy access to the crystal clear ocean waters and expansive sands of Point Pleasant Beach. But it's not the only eatery with prime location to the mile-long boardwalk, fun in the sun, and antique shopping delights available in these Ocean County boroughs. If you're looking for other great diner-style experiences or casual eating spots in…

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Most Expensive Homes For Sale In Mantoloking, NJ

With oceanview homes for sale that will take your breath away, it's no wonder that real estate in Mantoloking, NJ is considered one of America's "most expensive zip codes," according to Forbes. While the meaning behind its unique Native American name remains obscure, the benefits of real estate here are anything but vague.

Sparkling Atlantic vistas provide vibrant sunrises and sunsets as backdrops to these spectacular estates nestled in the dunes of the Barnegat Peninsula. Get ready to live resort-style every day of the year with superb home features and access to a premier community that includes sandy shorelines, crashing surf and an Olympic-champion producing yacht club.

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Clayton & Clayton Realtors Join Leverage Global Partners

NETWORK OF INDEPENDENT LUXURY REAL ESTATE BROKERAGES IN THE WORLD

Clayton & Clayton Realtors Inc. Becomes Exclusive Leverage Global Partner for Bay Head, NJ.

F. Ron Smith, President of Leverage Global Partners, recently welcomed Clayton & Clayton Realtors Inc. as the Network’s exclusive member in Bay Head, NJ. A unique alignment of the most prestigious independent real estate brokerage firms around the world, Leverage Global Partners offers its members the opportunity to better serve their clients’ relocation and real estate portfolio needs by establishing each member firm as key players in the international real estate arena.

We personally vet each real estate brokerage before offering them membership, so we are certain that Clayton &…

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Luxury Real Estate Conference A Big Success

It was another successful Luxury Real Estate Fall Conference in Boston, earlier this month at the uber plush Fairmont Hotel  in Copley Plaza.

Some of the biggest brokers in luxury real estate made it to Boston for the 3-day event including Shawn Clayton from Bay Head, NJ., Christopher and Shae Invidiata of Oakville, Ont., Tim Savage from Naples, FL. and Sheri Norris from Tampa, FL., among others.

Topics of discussion varied over the three days and included one-on-one coaching from Carol Vickers and Saba Arjomand from Empower Consulting. The agenda also included:

• Using technology to win and market a listing.
• The changing homebuyer and the changing face of home design.
• Leveraging your network to grow your business.
• How to grow your…

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