Luxury Buyer Strategy

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The New Guard: How Tech-Native Buyers Are Reshaping the Luxury Real Estate Market

A new buyer profile is reshaping the top of the luxury real estate market. According to The Agency’s 2026 Red Paper Mid-Year Report, the tech-native millennial buyer — with values, priorities, and expectations that differ meaningfully from previous generations — is now a defining force in high-end real estate. Understanding this buyer is increasingly relevant for everyone in the market.

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Before the Search Begins: How Serious Buyers Approach the Beverly Hills Market

In the Beverly Hills luxury market, the quality of an acquisition is largely determined before a single property is viewed. Jean Baptiste Rugiero outlines the preparation phase that distinguishes deliberate buyers from those who approach the market reactively — and why the work done before the search shapes everything that follows.

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How Los Angeles Luxury Real Estate Holds Its Position Through Global Uncertainty

Global uncertainty has become a near-permanent feature of the economic landscape. Trade tensions, currency volatility, and geopolitical instability are no longer temporary disruptions — they are the backdrop against which all investment decisions are being made. In this context, how Los Angeles luxury real estate performs — and why — is a question worth examining carefully.

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Dubai and Beverly Hills: How Global Investors Think About Both Markets

When a high-net-worth buyer considers adding real estate to their portfolio, the question is rarely limited to a single city. The most thoughtful buyers I work with are evaluating Beverly Hills alongside Dubai, comparing markets across continents, and asking which combination of assets gives them the most coherent global position. Understanding how sophisticated buyers think about multiple markets simultaneously is one of the most useful perspectives an advisor can offer.

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Beverly Hills luxury real estate market — buyer and seller perspective from advisor Jean Baptiste JB Rugiero

What Beverly Hills Buyer Behavior Reveals About the 2026 Luxury Market

Something is shifting in Beverly Hills. Not dramatically — the kind of shift that does not make headlines, but that becomes apparent when you are embedded in the market, watching how buyers move, what they pass on, and what they secure with conviction. Buyer behavior in 2026 is sending clear signals, and for anyone considering a position in Beverly Hills luxury real estate, those signals are worth understanding.

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Beyond Borders: Why Sophisticated Investors Are Looking at Bali as a Lifestyle Real Estate Destination

Some of the most interesting real estate conversations I have are not about Beverly Hills. They are about what happens when a globally mobile, lifestyle-conscious buyer begins to think beyond their primary market — about where in the world a second or third property might enrich their life in a way that a traditional investment asset cannot.

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