Your prop­erty views on The Wall Street Jour­nal site jumped expo­nen­tially com­pared to a year ago, as the chart illus­trates. The growth is attrib­uted to an expand­ing num­ber to affil­i­ates using the Data Feed Ser­vice to adver­tise their list­ings and a suc­cess­ful cor­po­rate online ban­ner cam­paign. (See item below.) This addi­tional global expo­sure, pro­vided at no extra cost, is avail­able only to prop­er­ties enrolled in the Data Feed Ser­vice. Your incom­ing data feeds to Christie’s Great Estates are also redi­rected to the sites of Coun­try Life and Robb Report Excep­tional Prop­er­ties and the highly respected Asian pub­lish­ing fran­chise Lux­ury Prop­er­ties. More than one-third of the affil­i­ates are now tak­ing advan­tage of the con­sid­er­able sav­ings offered through the Data Feed Ser­vice. For details—including the pric­ing plans and the Data Feed Guide—go to “Use the Web” on www.christiesgreatestates.net.

How can you ben­e­fit from the network’s grow­ing inter­na­tional PR ini­tia­tive, which resulted in an esti­mated US$3,622,932 of press hits dur­ing March? Remem­ber to specif­i­cally request that jour­nal­ists iden­tify your com­pany as an affil­i­ate of Christie’s Great Estates. If you don’t make the request, jour­nal­ists won’t make the con­nec­tion, and you will have missed your oppor­tu­nity to be asso­ci­ated with our highly regarded net­work. You may also pro­mote your PR suc­cesses to your peers in the net­work by send­ing hits to Monique Sofo, msofo@christiesge.com, for inclu­sion in the Weekly Media Highlights.

Intro­duce your clients to the lat­est news from Christie’s, as well as high-end home trends, notable estates, and mar­ket insights with the “Art of Liv­ing.” The new micro-site con­tains expanded con­tent from the lat­est edi­tion of the Client Newsletter—which is avail­able for down­load from the Extranet. Both have been updated with the results of the record-breaking Picasso sale on May 4. Visit www.christiesgreatestates.net for details about how to dis­trib­ute the site via e-mail with a spe­cially coded image. For more infor­ma­tion con­tact Monique Sofo, msofo@christiesge.com.

Now deliv­er­ing over 900,000 monthly impres­sions world­wide, the “Art of Liv­ing”
cor­po­rate ban­ner ad is cur­rently dis­played on seven inter­na­tion­ally respected Web sites. This includes triple the pre­vi­ous expo­sure on The Wall Street Journal’s dig­i­tal net­work with the ad now appear­ing on the site’s Global Front Page, Global Real Estate, Global Lifestyle, and Global Per­sonal Finance sec­tions. It is also promi­nently fea­tured on the home pages of Robb Report Excep­tional Prop­er­ties, Coun­try Life, Lux­ury Prop­er­ties, and their highly regarded Chi­nese prop­erty sites propgoluxury.com and lp.propgoluxury.com. In The New York Times, the ad appears on the front page of the real estate sec­tion and the Great Homes search results page of the Inter­na­tional Her­ald Tri­bune.

An e-mail announce­ment about the sale was dis­trib­uted to the net­work on May 5th, and many affil­i­ates took this oppor­tu­nity to demon­strate their asso­ci­a­tion with Christie’s to their clients and local com­mu­ni­ties. Some of these inno­v­a­tive e-marketing ini­tia­tives included:

Jack­son Hole Real Estate Associates—E-mail blast to clients

Clients of Jack­son Hole Real Estate Asso­ciates received the orig­i­nal e-mail sent to the net­work, along with a reminder that the Wyoming-based firm can help facil­i­tate fine art sales through their exclu­sive affil­i­a­tion with Christie’s Great Estates.

Michael Saun­ders & Company—Blog Post

A blog post enti­tled “It’s Awfully Nice to be Known by the Com­pany We Keep“ clev­erly draws a strong con­nec­tion between the Picasso sale and the South­west Florida company’s net­work affil­i­a­tion. The post links directly to the Christie’s press release at News Cen­ter.

IRG Inter­na­tional Realty Group—Facebook Announcement

The Por­tuguese firm posted two Face­book updates about the record-breaking sale, the first link­ing to a detailed story on their com­pany blog, and the sec­ond to a New York Times story about the painting.

If you have mar­ket­ing ideas you would like to share, con­tact Monique Sofo at
msofo@christiesge.com or visit the Christie’s Great Estates Mar­ket­ing Group on LinkedIn.

Known as the ‘Venice of the North,’ Sweden’s cap­i­tal city Stock­holm is home to
Res­i­dence Fastighetsmäk­leri, the newest affil­i­ate to join the Christie’s Great Estates net­work. Founded in 2002, Res­i­dence Fastighetsmäk­leri is one of Sweden’s lead­ing lux­ury real estate firms and will be rep­re­sent­ing the Christie’s brand through­out the entire coun­try. The com­pany already has a record of suc­cess with Christie’s Great Estates, hav­ing been involved in the record-setting sale of renown film direc­tor Ing­mar Bergman’s Fårö estate last year.

More than 200 clients attended a grand cock­tail recep­tion gala in Fortaleza’s Lô Restau­rant last month to cel­e­brate the firm’s recent affil­i­a­tion with Christie’s Great Estates. For­t­aleza is one of the fastest-growing des­ti­na­tions in north­east­ern Brazil, attract­ing Euro­peans and North and South Amer­i­cans. The lovely urban beaches, the busy nightlife, the deli­cious cui­sine, and the rich cul­ture are all pow­er­ful draws.

The World, a lux­ury ocean liner and the only res­i­den­tial com­mu­nity at sea, is offer­ing the ulti­mate “open house,“ an excep­tional oppor­tu­nity for your clients to visit The World and pre­view avail­able units offered for sale. This invitation-only oppor­tu­nity is offered at the fol­low­ing ports of call:

• Venice – 26 to 28 May
• Rome – 10 and 11 June
• Nice – 14 to 17 June
• Barcelona – 23 to 24 June
• Mar­bella (Puerto Banus) – 30 June to 2 July
• Lis­bon – 7 to 9 July
• Bor­deaux – 13 to 15 July
• St. Peter Port, Guernsey – 24 and 25 July
• Dublin – 4 to 8 August
• Glas­gow – 20 to 23 August

To reserve an appoint­ment for you and your client, and to learn about the board­ing require­ments, please con­tact Danielle Alexan­der, dalexander@christiesge.com.

An excep­tion­ally impor­tant and highly cel­e­brated mas­ter­piece by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) will be offered by Christie’s in the evening auc­tion of Impres­sion­ist and Mod­ern Art in Lon­don on June 23. Painted by the most influ­en­tial artist of the 20th Cen­tury, Por­trait of Angel Fer­nan­dez de Soto, 1903, comes from the Picasso’s cel­e­brated Blue Period, arguably the great­est period in the artist’s career. The paint­ing will be priced at £30,000,000 to £40,000,000 and all the pro­ceeds will ben­e­fit The Andrew Lloyd Web­ber Foun­da­tion, a char­ity founded by the cel­e­brated com­poser in 1992. Work­ing for the pub­lic ben­e­fit, the foun­da­tion focuses on the pro­mo­tion of arts, cul­ture, and her­itage in Britain. Visit www.christies.com for more details.

A unique Patek Philippe chrono­graph wrist­watch (pic­tured right) fetched US$5,708,833 (€4,393,192) on May 10 to set a new record price for any yel­low gold watch ever sold at auc­tion. With nearly 370 watches offered, Christie’s “marathon auc­tion” in Geneva achieved an out­stand­ing total of US$21,099,940 (€16,237,307), with a record atten­dance of 831 bid­ders from five con­ti­nents. To link to the news item about this sale, visit the News Cen­ter on www.christiesgreatestates.com.

Lila Del­man Real Estate, New­port, Rhode Island. List Price: US$7,900,000

Har­vey Kalles Real Estate, Ltd., Toronto, Canada. List Price: C$6,500,000

Graal Make­laardij, Ams­ter­dam, Nether­lands. List Price: €$3,850,000

IRG Inter­na­tional Realty Group, Algarve, Por­tu­gal. List Price: €$3,700,000

IRG Inter­na­tional Realty Group, Algarve, Por­tu­gal. List Price: €$3,690,000

Lila Del­man Real Estate, New­port, Rhode Island. List Price: US$5,900,000

Res­i­denSea, The World. List Price: US$5,000,000

Res­i­denSea, The World. List Price: US$5,000,000

Har­vey Kalles Real Estate, Ltd., Toronto, Canada. List Price: C$4,680,000

N.T. Call­away Real Estate, Sole­bury Town­ship, Penn­syl­va­nia. List Price: US$3,750,000

Har­vey Kalles Real Estate, Ltd., Toronto, Canada. List Price: C$3,795,000

Sher­ry­Fitzger­ald, Dalkey, Co Dublin, Ire­land. List Price: €2,750,000

HÔM Real Estate Group, New­port Coast, Cal­i­for­nia. List Price: US$3,695,000

Pip­ing Rock Asso­ciates, Upper Brookville, New York. List Price: US$3,400,000

Lila Del­man Real Estate, Bris­tol, Rhode Island. List Price: US$2,950,000

Ter­ra­mar Ser­vi­cios, Punta del Este, Uruguay. List Price: US$3,000,000

Ploumis Sotiropolous, Vonitsa, Greece. List Price: €1,500,000

Judice & Araujo Imóveis Ltda, Buzios, Brazil. List Price: US$1,065,000

Report all recent sales to your Client Ser­vices Rep­re­sen­ta­tive. Sales from the net­work are reg­u­larly updated for the pub­lic at www.christiesgreatestates.com.