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LuxuryRealEstate.com Acquires TheSociety.com

June 1, 2010 | Author: Michael McFadden

Online Real Estate Website Expands Business to Include the Finest Vacation Rentals and Villas

SEATTLE, June 1, 2010 – LuxuryRealEstate.com, the most viewed luxury real estate website in the world, announced today it has acquired The Society of Leisure Enthusiasts (“The Society”), an online marketing solutions company focused in the luxury vacation rental industry. The Society brings a selection of over 3,000 of the most luxurious vacation rentals in the world as well as an advertising distribution platform to LuxuryRealEstate.com. The Society was privately held and is based in Colorado. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The Society client base includes vacation home owners, property managers and resorts. They market the homes to affluent travelers through their own website, TheSociety.com as well as through an advertising platform called The Global Bundle. The Global Bundle technology distributes property listings to the finest luxury websites, the leading vacation rental websites and to several social media outlets. Distribution outlets have included DuPontRegistry.com, LuxuryTravelMagazine.com, RobbReportCollection.com, WSJ.com, LuxuryRealEstate.com, Paradizo.com, Affluence.org, HomeAway.com, VRBO.com, and more.

“We are thrilled to join forces with LuxuryRealEstate.com,” said Michael McFadden, CEO of The Society. “They are the leaders in luxury real estate and together we will bring the finest vacation rentals to affluent travelers around the world.”

“Vacation rentals, especially high-end properties, have become an essential force in the luxury real estate ecosystem. The Society has carved out a great niche in the marketplace. This acquisition will allow us to provide our clients with the best marketing solutions for their luxury properties,” explained John Brian Losh, CEO and Publisher of LuxuryRealEstate.com.

The newly created Vacation Rental division will to be managed by the former CEO of The Society, Michael McFadden.

About LuxuryRealEstate.com

LuxuryRealEstate.com, a 2009 Webby Award Honoree, has been voted ‘Best of the Web’ by Forbes magazine multiple times, praised by the International Herald Tribune, Town & Country, the Wall Street Journal and has been ranked ‘Best Website’ by consumers according to surveys by the Luxury Institute. Since its debut in 1995, LuxuryRealEstate.com has remained the #1 portal for luxury properties on the internet, consistently driving more traffic to member websites and generating more qualified inquiries than any other website. LuxuryRealEstate.com has several times more $1,000,000+ content of any near-peer.

Also known in the industry as the Who’s Who in Luxury Real Estate network, a global collection of the finest luxury real estate brokers in the world, this group of more than 1000 brokerage firms and 95,000 professionals in more than 65 countries collectively sells in excess of $190 billion of real estate annually, with an average sale price of $2,450,000. Members sell homes for record prices and handle transactions of incredible complexity and magnitude with complete discretion. Every member is carefully selected by CEO/Publisher John Brian Losh, one of REALTOR Magazine’s 25 Most Influential People in Real Estate and broker of fine properties and estates through his Seattle-based brokerage firm, Ewing & Clark, Inc.

About The Society of Leisure Enthusiasts

The Society of Leisure Enthusiasts provides vacation home owners, estate managers and vacation rental firms the most complete one-stop-shop marketing solution called the Global Bundle (www.TheGlobalBundle.com). This premier offering ensures marketing exposure for all luxury vacation rental listings on the finest luxury websites, the most dominant vacation rental marketplaces, and the most viral social media outlets. The Society of Leisure Enthusiasts also owns and operates an online luxury vacation rental marketplace www.TheSociety.com.

Campbell’s first Duffy Roll

May 30, 2010 | Author: Michael McFadden

Yum

Some have asked for pics…

May 2, 2010 | Author: Kelly

Here are a few recent pics of the kiddos…

Piper at 9 months

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DSC 1050 Piper and mom

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Campbell blowing out the candles on Drew’s cake…

Campbell on the Merry-Go-Round

Things they are up to: Campbell just took a week of swim lessons and loved it. Definitely need to find a colorado swim group for the little guy. He likes to blow bubbles and kick, kick, kick. He also loves to kick balls, play golf (he has quite a swing), declare everything he sees and knows the word to, and play with his friends. He is really turning into a little boy. And Piper, well she has finally realized she can use her voice as she likes. She is crawling all over the place and thinks her brother is the funniest thing in the world. She is a sweetheart. We feel blessed to be the parents of the two of them.

With My Own Two Hands …

April 19, 2010 | Author: Michael McFadden

Great song from Ben Harper … probably should be the theme song for Vacation Homes For Charity.

I can change the world
With my own two hands
Make a better place
With my own two hands
Make a kinder place
With my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands
I can make peace on earth
With my own two hands
I can clean up the earth
With my own two hands
I can reach out to you
With my own two hands
With my own
With my own two hands

I’m gonna make it a brighter place
I’m gonna make it a safer place
I’m gonna help the human race
With my own
With my own two hands

Let’s go out and make a difference.

Testing android AP with orange chuck taylors

April 19, 2010 | Author: Michael McFadden

What better way to test the ap. …

Why the radio silence?

April 18, 2010 | Author: Michael McFadden

It’s been a while since we’ve updated McFaddenPlace. There is a combination of factors:

1. Androids hit the McFadden’s. Not real Androids but the phones. Why would that change anything? Because all our updates go directly to Facebook or Twitter. You can check out Mike’s Twitter feed @McFads or search for us on Facebook.

2. Blogs take time … I am working on a few things as it relates to my experience starting a company. It’s turning out to be quite a task to distill my learnings over the past 3.5 years. I’m also hoping to write some reviews on a few books I’ve finished including Linchpin, ReWork, and Prayer (Foster).

3. 2 kids … everyone can agree 2 is more than 1 but did you know 2 is more than double 1? It is with kids. Less down time …. but that’s no real excuse. We’ll get better.

Stay tuned.

-Mike

6 Month Comparison

January 11, 2010 | Author: Kelly

Same place. Same Strawberry. Same Age. Different Kid.

Piper 6 Months IMG 2360b

Off to The President’s Putter

January 4, 2010 | Author: Michael McFadden

I’m off to The President’s Putter. A 4 day golf event … in Janurary … in England. Does it get any better? Check out the forecast and you decide:

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It is serious fun! And it appears Golf Digest thinks so too. This year they published an article on the event. More to come. In the meantime you can check out some pictures from previous years: http://mcfaddenplace.com/category/golf/the-putter/.