Patrick William Kirby

If you own a luxury home in River Oaks, Houston, Memorial Villages, Galleria, The Woodlands, Bellaire or any other area of Houston that is currently for sale at a price of $2 million or more, consider selling it through the auction services of Grand Estates Auction Company.

Grand Estates Auction Company® specializes in the marketing and sale by auction of luxury real estate throughout North America and the Caribbean. Our company stands out in this highly specialized industry due to our proven success coupled with our state of the art and proprietary methods of obtaining a closed sale, which is why we are considered the leading authority in luxury real estate.

Our focus is to serve our clients one auction at a time, which is why we are highly selective about the properties we choose to represent. By offering only the finest luxury properties at auction we can create a more concentrated marketing effort to maximize interest and expedite the selling cycle, allowing for both buyers and sellers to take part in a swift and seamless real estate auction transaction.

• Brokers representing Buyers: Licensed real estate brokers may earn up to 3% of the selling price if their properly registered client purchases property from Grand Estates Auction Company.

• Brokers Representing Sellers: Licensed real estate brokers may earn a percentage of the selling price for offering their clients the opportunity to auction through Grand Estates Auction Company and participation in the selling of their property through the auction process.

Contact pat@grandestatesauction.com for more information.

We are working on the next issue of Great Properties Magazine--Houston edition. Featuring the finest luxury homes for sale in Houston, our proven direct-mail program delivers information about your listings to 30,000 of the top households in River Oaks, Memorial, Galleria, Bellaire and other top neighborhoods in the Houston area.

The deadline is January 15th for our February magazine. All ads need to be submitted and approved so that we can be ready for final deadline and printing on January 30th.

Full pages cost $995 (feature one, two, three or four homes on each page). Pages can be split among agents from the same company if you want to share a page.

Email or call me to reserve your ad space.

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If you are tired of paying your Broker a huge share of your commissions for little or no support, paying monthly desk and transactions fees for an office that you don't want or need, or paying to advertise your broker's name rather than your own, then you need to speak with Don!

For a FLAT fee of $195 a month (plus TREC and state filing fees and costs), he will form and sponsor qualified Agents in their own TREC Licensed Brokerage. He doesn't charge splits, desk fees, transaction fees or any other fees. All your hard-earned commissions are yours to keep.

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The deadline for our next issue of Great Properties Magazine will be January 30th. If you have luxury real estate listings that you would like to showcase in front of Houston's most affluent residents, please give me a call at 214-649-7346. With our direct-mail program to the top 30,000 households in the Houston area (based on tax roll information from Harris County Appraisal District), you can be assured that your clients' homes will be seen by an audience that can afford to purchase luxury real estate.

The price to advertise in our publication is $995 per full page. With room for as many as four of your listings on each page, that's less than $250 per home---a great bargain for reaching 30,000 homes!

Our Fall 2009 issue of Great Properties Magazine is now arriving into the mailboxes of Houston's most affluent households. 30,000 homes in River Oaks, Memorial, Galleria Area, The Woodlands, Royal Oaks/West Houston, West University, and Bellaire are served. Mailed to homes on the Harris County Appraisal District tax roles that are valued over $600,000 we ensure that our publication is received by homeowners that can be categorized as living in luxury homes.

The current issue features property from some of the Houston area's luxury real estate experts...Melinda Noel, Linda Walsh Johnson, Tim Surratt, Bridget Lauer Martin, Molly Ann Kaplan, Lin Eckert Neese, Kathy Wetmore, Marc Ziegler, Larry Williams, Mariana Saldana, Judy & Chris Berno, Jeanette Dickson, Sharon Seline Wright and Andrew Whitacre. Companies represented include Greenwood King, John Daugherty, Carlton Woods, GMAC Houston Home Sales, Keller Williams, Prudential Gary Greene, Royal Oaks Fine Properties, Uptown Real Estate, and Raymond James & Associates.

There are also "second homes" featured for sale in this issue....Harborwalk in Hitchcock, Texas, Texas Hill Country properties listed by Turnquist Partners and Mickey Ferrell Realtors, Colorado ranches featured by Prudential Steamboat Realty and Broken Arrow Ranch & Land, exquisite properties in Montana offered by Prudential Montana Real Estate's Nancy Oakes, tropical real estate in sunny Costa Rica by REMAX Bay Islands and last, but not least, the crown jewel of the Texas Hill Country!....an 11,116 sq. ft. mansion, high on a hill overlooking The Dominion, offered for sale by Jean Gross of Realty Executives in San Antonio.