Chinese buyers represent a tremendous new market opportunity for property sellers in Orange County. We sent The Casey O'Connor Group to The Luxury Property Showcase (LPS) in Shanghai last December, but to capture these buyers attention and connect with them we had to speak their language. Arbor agent, Elis Chong helped translate our listings to Chinese and talked to the attendees in our booth and during learning sessions like this one.
Arbor is meeting the challenge of reaching, communicating and engaging with this new market in real ways like what we did in Shanghai. We are continuing to cultivate the relationships we made in China with investors, wealth managers, translators and business people in ways that will benefit our clients for years to come.

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Arbor Real Estate's Casey O'Connor Group attended The Luxury Property Showcase (LPS) held in Shanghai, China in December. LPS is an invitation-only event that exclusively welcomes elite agencies from around the world. This year it hosted more than 12,000 prequalified Chinese buyers and investors. 

Casey and her team represented Arbor and highlighted our listings in our Arbor-branded, high-end booth. Casey O'Connor, Elis Chong, and Andrey Potapkin distributed marketing materials and met on-the-spot with attendees. 

Our China initiative is just one example of how we do things differently at Arbor Real Estate. We believe that by reaching outside of the traditional avenues of marketing homes, we add value to our brokerage, agents and our clients.

Arbor Real Estate was founded on the principles of community, teamwork, and inclusiveness. In keeping with those ideals, for the third year, Arbor distributed profit-sharing checks to our agents for the year of 2018. "When I started the firm I always wanted it to be an agent-first type of company," says Chris Brigandi, founder of Arbor Real Estate. "We are honored to be able to hand out more than $100,000 to our agents in the form of profit sharing."  Most real estate agencies have an "every man for themselves" attitude when it comes to their relationship with their agents. At Arbor, we believe that we are better when we work together and that sharing the proceeds of our agency should be part of the deal.  "It's definitely one of the many perks…

We celebrated at The Elk's Lodge and had an amazing time. It's always fun to spend time together as a family.

 

Our Christmas office decorating contest was a great success (and super fun)! The winner — Mesha and her surfing Santa & Rudolph! 

Arbor Real Estate's Casey O'Connor Group will be attending from The Luxury Property Showcase (LPS) December 7th-9th. The LPS is held at the Shanghai Exhibition Center which is in the heart of downtown Shanghai. It is an invitation-only event with more than12,000 prequalified buyers. It's the leading property showcase in the world because of its central high-end location and the participation of world-famous luxury brands which creates a unique and captivating atmosphere, the perfect environment to stage international luxury properties.
While there, Casey and her team will be highlighting some of Arbor's listings and representing our brokerage to Chinese investors and buyers. This effort is just one example of how we do things differently at Arbor Real

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For the sixth year, Arbor is sponsoring the "Stoke a Student" campaign in partnership with Surfside Sports in Costa Mesa. We are mixing it up this year and instead of giving away a surfboard we are giving away a snowboard to a B-average elementary, junior high school, or high school student in the Newport-Mesa area.

"We are committed to doing things for our community that will have a positive impact," says Arbor Real Estate's Founder, Chris Brigandi. "I'm proud that 'Stoke a Student' has become so successful. We've given out seven boards to local kids so far, and we are looking forward to having that number grow."

Students -- or their parents -- can enter by filling out an entry form available at Surfside Sports. (No purchase necessary.) The

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At Arbor giving back to our community is an essential part of our culture. Last Saturday we hosted a beach clean-up in Newport Beach. With the help of Arbor agent Adam Tomalas we were able to gather 50 locals together and spent the morning cleaning the beach we love. After the clean-up, we celebrated with a party at the Arbor offices. 
Thank you to everyone who came out to help!

Arguably one of the finest homes within the prestigious gates of Big Canyon, this masterfully built Hamptons style estate was designed by renown architect Brion Jeanette and meticulously constructed by Neil Longman. The price has been reduced for this estate to $7,298,000.

The residence is comprised of 6,648 SF, including a guest house, and showcases the finest craftsmanship, trends & taste of an Eastern Seaboard estate. The main residence features four bedrooms, each with an en-suite bath, walk-in closet, and private balcony overlooking the many backyard amenities. An ultimate chef's kitchen includes an expansive center island prep area, top-of-the-line appliances, and extensive walk-in butler's pantry. Other features in the home include

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Typically most people think summer is a slow time for the real estate market but actually, it’s a very good time to list your home.  Here are five reasons why:

1. Demand Is Strong

The latest Buyer Traffic Report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows that buyer demand remains very strong throughout the vast majority of the country. These buyers are ready, willing and able to purchase…and are in the market right now! More often than not, multiple buyers are competing with each other to buy the same home.

Take advantage of the buyer activity currently in the market.

2. There Is Less Competition Now

Housing inventory has declined year-over-year for the last 35 months and is still under the 6-month supply needed for a normal

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