With the official start of the Chinese New Year just a few days behind us, it seems that luxury brands have already committed themselves to ushering in the Year of the Snake. From Bvlgari to Bentley, many of the top names in luxury have launched limited-edition items using snake-themed designs and patterns to commemorate the … Read more

The Chinese housing market looks to be on the mend with the average price of a home rising in December, bringing to an end eight straight months of year-on-year declines. According to The Wall Street Journal, the average home price in 100 Chinese cities rose by a slight .03% in December from the previous year. The increase, … Read more

CBS Evening News reported last night on the significant impact Chinese buyers are having on the U.S. housing market, especially right here in California where they accounted for 1 out of 10 homes sold in the past year. One such Chinese homeowner is Di Meng, a 23-year old USC student from Beijing who lives in The Ritz-Carlton … Read more

If you’ve been following Mauricio Umansky‘s travels over the past year, you are well aware that he has been spending some time in China, and there is a good reason why. As Lauren Schuker of The Wall Street Journal reports in her article “Courting the Chinese Buyer,” a new wave of buyers from China is … Read more

The Agency’s Mauricio Umansky has been saying that “global is the new local” in luxury real estate, and he certainly practices what he preaches as he travels around the world on business like most of us do around our hometowns. Just this April, Mauricio flew to China to further The Agency’s relationships there, spending time … Read more

The below is an article written by Mauricio Umansky that appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Beverly Hills Magazine.  Over the past few years, I visited multiple countries overseas but I had not yet visited China. Due to the overwhelming increase in Los Angeles real estate sales to foreign buyers, I decided that it … Read more

Speaking on the luxury real estate market this past Thursday at Real Estate Connect New York, The Agency’s Mauricio Umansky stressed to the audience that “global is the new local. “I have a lot of different global … relationships,” Umansky said, as recapped by Inman News. “I’m finding global to be extremely important.” Those global relationships … Read more