{"id":2370,"date":"2009-02-09T13:20:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T18:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:30:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:30:59","slug":"luxury-home-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/02\/09\/luxury-home-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur finds success in luxury home market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/picture-8.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"353\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/picture-8.png\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"picture-8\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris Lynch &#8217;84, CEO of Legacy Properties Sotheby\u2019s International Realty, founded his luxury real estate brokerage in Portland, Maine, in October 2005, now considered the best of times for the real estate market. Yet according to <em>Mainebiz<\/em> magazine, Lynch partially credits the slumping real estate market for his success:a 38-percent increase in gross revenues in 2008 and, in a three-year period, capturing a quarter of the luxury-home market \u2014 generally defined as homes worth over $1 million \u2014 between York and Waldo counties. &#8220;There are tremendous opportunities to grow in a down market,\u201d Lynch says. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainebiz.biz\/news44103.html\">[More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Lynch &#8217;84, CEO of Legacy Properties Sotheby\u2019s International Realty, founded his luxury real estate brokerage in Portland, Maine, in October 2005, now considered the best of times for the real estate market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11009],"tags":[11051,11302,7080],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-business-and-law","tag-portland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89040,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/89040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}