About the Index
A quarterly read on the luxury market, from the agents inside it.
Methodology
Each quarter, a panel of 60 luxury agents — five in each of 12 markets — answers seven trend questions on a 5-point scale, plus four context questions. It takes about five minutes. Rob Ramsdell Team assigns each agent to one market.
Markets: Boston, New York City, Washington DC, Miami, Chicago, Dallas/Houston, Seattle, Bay Area, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Coastal Resorts and Mountain Resorts.
Scoring
Answers are weighted 100 / 75 / 50 / 25 / 0 from "much higher" to "much lower". Days on market, the list-to-sale gap and cost pressure are reverse-coded so the right side of every scale means a stronger market.
Five sub-indexes — Demand, Liquidity, Capital, Migration and Cost pressure — each run 0–100, where 50 means no change. The composite is their average. Only national scores are calculated, with each market's panel weighted equally.
Confidentiality
Your individual responses are confidential. Regional data is shown only as anonymous dots — one per response — with no names, brokerages or markets attached. Quotes are attributed only with your permission.
Why it matters to wealth managers
Each quarter, wealth managers receive a one-page brief: the composite and sub-index scores, a bar for each question showing how agents answered (with anonymous market-level dots online), cash buyer share, top origin and destination markets, reasons for moving, and selected agent quotes. It presents data and agent-reported facts only — no recommendations or predictions.