Kahala Associates’ success lies in our ability to operate as a boutique company navigating the sensitivities of the local community while providing the global connection to buyers and sellers through the Luxury Portfolio Fine Properties Collection®.
Luxury Portfolio® is the luxury face of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®, the largest global network of premier locally branded companies dominated by many of the world's most powerful independent luxury brokerages. The award-winning website,
www.LuxuryPortfolio.com was launched in 2005 and in our very first year featured more $1 million-plus properties than other luxury real estate organizations and has grown to over 12,000 of the worlds most remarkable properties. We've raised the bar as the only luxury site to consistently display every home with a multi-photo slide show presentation and complete property details.
In addition, Luxury Portfolio is unmatched in the global arena, with properties in 15 countries, website visitors from over 100 countries, site translation in nine languages, and conversion of 22 currencies. With over 43 states and 15 countries represented, our total inventory of properties exceeds $20 billion.
In addition to the website, we are the only luxury network to showcase our listings to high-net-worth clientele through our unprecedented exposure both nationally and internationally in prominent advertisements in publications such as Departures, ForbesLife, Town & Country, Veranda, Villae International, Robb Report and more. At the same time, Luxury Portfolio is successful at attracting luxury consumers through striking advertisements in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Unique Homes Magazine, and duPont Registry of Fine Homes. In fact we are the largest real estate advertiser in the Wall Street Journal.
The 2006 Ultimate Homes Edition published by Unique Homes Magazine, ranked Luxury Portfolio members as having 25% of the top 1,000 most expensive homes in the United States - more than any other real estate organization. Later in their state-by-state edition the list was reorganized: rather than ranking the top 1,000 properties as a whole, Ultimate Homes lists the top 20 properties by state. Luxury Portfolio once again topped the list with more top properties than any other real estate organization.
Our 200 Luxury Portfolio affiliates include the most respected experts in real estate for the affluent. They represent the luxury component of LeadingRE, which encompasses 700 companies, 5,000 offices and 145,000 associates producing over $400 billion in annual home sales in 35 countries with representation in London, Luxury Portfolio's talented leadership represents decades of experience in the high-end market. By presenting a gallery of the finest luxury properties and brokerages, they are ensuring that the Luxury Portfolio brand is being recognized throughout the world as the luxury standard of excellence.Luxury Portfolio is comprised of the best real estate companies and agents in the country. In fact, our network has the most top-producing sales professionals of any luxury network, as noted on “The Real Estate Top 200,” a recent ranking of real estate professionals by The Wall Street Journal and REAL Trends.