Carmel Valley is an unincorporated area east of Carmel with Carmel Valley Village about twelve miles east of Highway One. Drive east from the coast and you immediately sense the rural fla-vor of the area as you pass ranches with grazing horses and cattle and view the beautiful vistas of the Santa Lucia Mountains. Recently built gated luxury developments have changed the casual environment some, but residents still enjoy the laid back country lifestyle of the Valley and enjoy hiking, horseback riding, golf, tennis and other outdoor pursuits. Wine tasting in the Village has become very popular with many tasting rooms offering samples from the numerous wineries and vineyards east of the village.
Listed by Alain Pinel Realtors~ offered at $23.000,000
Alain Pinel Realtors is privileged to be a member of Luxury Portfolio, 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 properties featured in this article are featured on Luxury Portfolio and are represented by Alain Pinel Realtors –Carmel in California. They are located in Carmel, Pebble Beach, and Carmel Valley. Call Susan 831-320-6801 for information on individual properties.
Listed by Alain Pinel Realtors ~ offered at $12,500,000
Alain Pinel Realtors luxury sales agents are invited every year to the Luxury Portfolio SUMMIT held at a luxury resort. This year it was held at the historic Fountainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. I attended this fabulous event in a previous year when it was held at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas.
Luxury Portfolio Conference 2016 in Miami Beach
The Luxury Portfolio SUMMIT is serious business and everyone is there to learn as much as they can about the ever-changing luxury market and how to represent our client’s luxury homes in the best way possible using the many tools that Luxury Portfolio provides.
Listed by Alain Pinel Realtors~Offered at $4,800.000
Attendees gather in both large general sessions and smaller group workshops on various topics. These sessions feature panel discussions and informational presentations from experts in the luxury field. Most valuable perhaps is the networking we do with our other member luxury agents who come from all over the country and all over the world.
Listed by Alain Pinel Realtors offered at $4,995,000
All work and no play is never the case, however. Opulent luncheons, dinners and shows keep the attendees feeling pampered and living in the lap of luxury – for a couple of days anyway.
Listed by Alain PInel Realtors~offered at $9,995,000
Luxury Portfolio demands the highest standards in Luxury Home Sales before it invites a company to be a part of its network. Alain Pinel previously won the prestigious Luxury Portfolio Top Luxury Brokerage award honoring the company that best exemplifies the overall luxury market presence, high price point expertise, and outstanding marketing strategy in the discriminating market of affluent buyers and sellers.
Listed by Alain Pinel Realtors~offered at $5,790,000
At this years conference, “Alain Pinel Realtors was awarded the prestigious Luxury Portfolio International® Spirit Award, as the company that has most enthusiastically embraced Luxury Portfolio’s new programs and features, most effectively trained on-site staff, demonstrated a deep understanding of the program, and actively recommended new tools to clients and associates.”
Listed by Alain Pinel Realtors~offered at $11,800,000
“In addition to receiving the award, APR’s own Tom Flanagan, Vice President of Technology, and Michi Olson, SGMS, Vice President of Global Business Development & Relocation, both served as speakers at the conference. Covering topics from mobile and wearable technology to privacy issues and networking, Tom and Michi shared their industry expertise and insight with the thousands of real estate industry professionals who were in attendance from around the globe.”
Listed by Alain Pinel Realtors~offered at $4,450,000
Alain Pinel Realtors is the largest privately owned and independent real estate company in California and the 2nd largest privately-owned and independent residential real estate firm in the nation. Alain Pinel Realtors with its 32+ offices spread across the Bay Area continues to be an industry leader in luxury home real estate sales.
Listed by Alain Pinel Realtors~offered at $3,995,000
For more information about Luxury Portfolio and luxury properties available for sale in the Carmel area, contact Susan Clark, Alain Pinel Realtors ~ 831-320-6801.
As the hardy ones who sat out on the patio with cool temperatures and cloudy skies we buttoned our down vests and waited for the next golfers to appear at this year’s AT&T Pro Am Golf Tournament. First, a golf ball landed in the sand trap in front of us and then a marshal made his way through the rough and placed an orange flag by the ball in the trap. Uh, oh . . .someone’s in trouble. Then, making his way towards the trap to check out the location of the ball was Ray Romano. Ray is slight of build and not nearly as tall as he appears on his TV show. As he looked at the golf ball he saw it was wedged close to a rock. I can imagine what he was saying to himself since there was no way he could hit that ball where it was located. Getting the nod that it was OK to move the rock, he tried, but the stubborn rock would not budge. He looked around and a fellow hurried over and helped him move the rock.
Ray walking around the sand trap to his ballRay getting some help moving the rock
He took his shot. Ohhhh . . . into the sand again. As he diagnosed the situation he realized he needed to walk all around the sand trap in order to enter leaving the least amount of tracks for his caddy to rake over. As he walked right past us he glanced our way and I gave a silent wave. He said, “I’ll get out of here eventually.” Little did he know at the time how challenging it would be.
He wasn’t about to land in the sand again so this next time he swung with determination . . . this time his ball sailed over the green, hit a tree high and his ball fell into a heavy rough. Sometimes you just have a bad hole! Luckily Eric Compton, his pro partner, had a better score on the hole. No need for Ray to go on suffering. The marshal picked up his ball from the very deep grass and handed it to Ray. As the group left the hole, we waved to Ray and hoped his next hole would be so much better in the 2013 AT&T Pro Am Golf Tournament.
