Golf, Cocktails, Private Clubs When Lila Delman Entertains

Robin Nicholson, Geer Messinger, and Catherine Gazder (seated) with Jose Ribas, Melanie Delman and Fritz Schnorf

Guests of Lila Delman Real Estate were treated to a fabulous weekend in Newport recently, as firm members Melanie Delman, Catherine Gazder, Robin Nicholson, and Geer Messinger hosted three foreign luxury property luminaries in Newport after the recent Christie’s Great Estates Global Annual conference in Boston, shortly after hosting a brokers' event at the Newport mansion.

Kim Soo Seawell, Laurine Boyle, and Cathy Andreozzi at a Brokers Event at Oakwood

Lila Delman has been in the vanguard of luxury marketing for years, utilizing a live web “beachcam”, online magazines, presentations on YouTube, blogging, and social networking on Facebook. Enterprising individual realtors even list on Craigslist.

Europeans Philip Sherry, Fritz Ulrich Schnorf & Jose Ribes Bas at Oakwood

But not the mansions like Oakwood and Gray Craig, Nicolas Cage's

mansion in Middletown, or Hopedene. Those doors open only to the favored few, the upper tier buyer, and the connoisseur of fine art and architecture.

Phillip Sherry, Catherine Gazder and Fritz

Ulrich Schnorf admiring American antiques

“The luxury real estate market is now global,” says Melanie Delman, President of Lila Delman Real Estate. “Our clients shop internationally for properties. That’s why we create personal networks of brokers from all around the world.” Lila Delman is the exclusive Christie’s Great Estates affiliate for Rhode Island.

Guests at a private Brokers event at Oakwood

At the close of the conference, three brokers from abroad traveled to Newport as guests of Lila Delman, to overnight and golf at the Carnegie Abbey Club, tour The Tower residences, relax at Oakwood, a luxury estate off Bellevue Avenue, and dine at the New York Yacht Club. Philip Sherry, Executive Chairman of Ireland’s Sherry Fitzgerald Countrywide, Fritz Ulrich Schnorf of Wetag Consulting Immobiliare sagl, Locarno Switzerland, and Jose Ribes Bas, Rimontgo, Valencia, Spain were delighted with the properties and facilities, and will carry news of Newport home to their respective countries and clients.