That 2nd photo is certainly amazing. I hear ya on the first and third, though. We're supporters of Creative Commons (stock photos make me shudder), so finding killer images can take a surprising amount of time... and sometimes you miss the mark a bit in the end.
Uncertainty about what Demeure is selling: definitely something to fix. We own only a small fraction of the villas on our site, but we describe them all as "our villas" because we've done the legwork to select them -- and importantly, you transact directly with us as a traveller.
The term "villa" is pretty much interchangeable with "home". It's the most common term in some of our hottest regions, so we decided to test out using it as the primary keyword. Your comments are great, though, as that's the sort of concern we're keeping our eyes peeled for.
If you click on a property name, it actually gives a pretty decent explanation. I agree a link to additional overall context could be useful, but I think you're overstating the gap.
Thanks for sharing, I always wanted to see what was inside these beautiful properties! (If you go to the lettings section you can actually see individual properties and their HEFTY price)
Neat, but feels like it was trained or prompted for luxury homes. I clicked threw a couple dozen images but everything had that style of multi-million dollar mansion/condo with a pool and only glass for walls. Nothing even remotely suburban or rural. Curious if this is due to the prompts (assuming this is SD sourced) or due to the training of the AI model.
Nice little collection. I will definitely through it!
Regarding a16z, that’s rich they want to help renters but at the same time, the founder is privately NYMBYing in their neighborhood because it might hurt their property value.
1. When the grandparent post said "corporations", they probably mean something like the Blackstones & Blackstones of the world, who are not small and both mentioned in this article about their residential housing activity: https://slate.com/business/2021/06/blackrock-invitation-hous...
2. Having lived near Ashville, NC for two years, it's a particularly beautiful region and attractive vacation spot, so I especially believe it would attract corporate buyers looking to build an Airbnb vacation portfolio. Also not far from Atlanta, where Invitation Homes (a corporate buyer of residential housing) is active.
I’ve been househunting on and off for the last year or so. It was a bit wild to see one house that was in my price range¹ has a Wikipedia article.
?
1. The big issue was that the house was going to need a lot of work to be made livable. Add in that it was historically significant (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) and it wasn’t going to be a simple matter to rehab it, especially on a recently divorced dad budget.
When I was buying my last house (in boring suburbia), for fun, my wife and I looked around the U.S. at what our money would buy in other places.
In L.A. it bought an empty lot with a rusting fence around it, perhaps 10m x 20m in size.
In NYC, a similar story, but the lot was smaller and had lots of rubbish you had to remove.
and so on...
So for fun we looked "out in the country". One listing has stuck in both our minds, it was an aerial photograph of a some dense forest and a few houses on it. We didn't get it, which house was this for? We reread the listing several times to eventually parse the description and realized that it was for all of it. 140acres (56.6hectares) with 4 homes and 2 other structures.
The only way the listing agent could get a picture of the property was to get in an aircraft and take it from above.
We almost toyed with the idea of moving there, but an extreme lack of jobs in our field (and low pay) kept us away. But it's tucked in our hats as a retirement option down the road.
I like the terriblerealestateagentphotos.com post from earlier, but this feels like a parody of that. So far all of these places i'd be besides myself to be living in.
Correct! We think people would be surprised at how big some of these private communities are, and how many places look like them other than retirement communities.
Thanks for the vocabulary. I've been thinking about this option myself, combined with an edge-of-town main residence, with the full home office + gym + etc.
The convenience of being able to just go to a population center and have all of your creature comforts handled is the big draw for me.
Article starts off talking about homelessness. Those houses are for well off remote workers seeking a mix of nature and work space + instagram worthy shots.
That 2nd photo is certainly amazing. I hear ya on the first and third, though. We're supporters of Creative Commons (stock photos make me shudder), so finding killer images can take a surprising amount of time... and sometimes you miss the mark a bit in the end.
Uncertainty about what Demeure is selling: definitely something to fix. We own only a small fraction of the villas on our site, but we describe them all as "our villas" because we've done the legwork to select them -- and importantly, you transact directly with us as a traveller.
The term "villa" is pretty much interchangeable with "home". It's the most common term in some of our hottest regions, so we decided to test out using it as the primary keyword. Your comments are great, though, as that's the sort of concern we're keeping our eyes peeled for.
reply