@ashevilleluxurybrokers: A Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist (CLHMS) is a real estate agent who has completed specialized luxury market training and documented closed transactions in the top tier of their local market. Unlike general real estate designations that require only coursework, the CLHMS is earned through proven production. Cricket Benfer of Asheville Luxury Brokers holds the CLHMS designation and Guild Elite recognition from the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing, placing her among the most credentialed luxury real estate professionals in Western North Carolina. Most buyers and sellers in the luxury real estate market never ask their agent about credentials. They ask how long the agent has been in the business. They ask how many homes they have sold. They ask if they know the neighborhood. Those are reasonable questions, and they are worth asking. But there is a credential that answers all of those questions at once, and most buyers and sellers in the Asheville luxury market have never heard of it. It is called the CLHMS designation. And Cricket Benfer has it, along with the Guild Elite recognition that sits above it.
