Luxe Client Group

Call Directions Website

Luxe Client Group A luxury real estate team where both lead partners hold active Arizona real estate licenses and NCIDQ certification. "This market rewards honesty," Susan says.

Design judgment and market strategy, working together on every listing. Serving Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Central Phoenix, and the East Luxe Client Group is a luxury residential real estate team operating under Compass in Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Central Phoenix, and the East Valley. Co-founded by Susan Solliday and Jennifer Vatistas, both licensed Arizona REALTORS and NCIDQ-certified interior designers, the team has advised over $128 million in combined residential sales. The team also includes licensed agent Brooke Hoelzen, bringing more than 45 years of Valley market knowledge and a specialty in historic, Mid-Century Modern, and architecturally significant homes. Susan Solliday has a way of entering a room that makes you feel she has already considered every corner of it. That instinct did not come from real estate. It came from years of working in interior design, producing designer showhouses, and directing gala events for nonprofits across the Phoenix area, from standing in half-finished rooms, making decisions about light, proportion, and what a space should feel like before anyone lived in it. Her background spans law firm and escrow practice, raw land assemblage, and new construction across more than three decades in the Valley. Real estate, when it finally claimed her, was less a career change than a natural migration. Her partner, Jennifer Vatistas, brought the same foundation from a different angle. Also trained in interior design, Jennifer built her career around renovation and transformation across New York, the Hamptons, London, and Cairo. She has an eye for sequence: what needs to resolve structurally before anything cosmetic is considered, how finishes speak to each other across a room, where staging should amplify what is already there rather than mask what is not. The two knew they had something special when Jennifer's room at one of Susan's showhouses stopped visitors in the doorway. Together, they lead the only luxury real estate team in their primary markets, with both principals holding active Arizona real estate licenses and NCIDQ certification. That credential combination is not incidental. It is the foundation of how Luxe Client Group prepares listings, evaluates properties for buyers, and advises on the design decisions that drive outcomes. Luxe Client Group operates under Compass, chosen deliberately for its data infrastructure, private network capabilities, and national reach. The team is also a founding-year member of the Metier Maison luxury real estate network, invited personally by the network's founder, Khaki, in its inaugural year. Metier Maison was built to fill a gap the luxury real estate industry had long ignored: connecting qualified clients across global markets through relationships rather than algorithms. That invitation places Luxe Client Group at the center of exactly that network. "The difference between broadcasting a property and placing it is significant," Susan says. "For a home at this level, the right ten buyers are worth more than a thousand casual impressions." When Luxe Client Group takes on a listing, the process begins well before the photographer arrives. Jennifer walks the property first with a renovation lens, identifying what has been done, what remains, and what the market will reward if addressed. Susan then layers the marketing strategy on top of that foundation, connecting the property's physical story to the buyer most likely to understand its value. "Our job is to help people understand what they are actually looking at. Not to sell them something. To give them the information they need to make the right decision." Serving Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Central Phoenix, and the East Valley.

10/12/2026

Métier Maison Featured Listing of the Week | Highland Park, Texas
4 Beds | 6 Baths | 6,049 Sq. Ft. | Offered at $8,750,000
3610 Lindenwood Avenue

Few homes in Highland Park can treat Lockhart Park as an extension of their own grounds. This one faces it directly. Architect James Langford designed the residence in 2016, then returned with contractor Susan Newell to lead a full renovation from 2023 to 2025. Built on a steel frame with post-tensioned concrete, it is a modern home made to commercial standards and composed around light and texture.

The great room rises twenty-two feet to a band of clerestory windows, anchored by a single plane of cold-rolled steel that holds the fireplace, television, and sound. The Bulthaup kitchen centers on two islands, one clad in four bookmatched, illuminated onyx slabs. Beyond it, a lounge with a full bar opens to a covered porch with an outdoor kitchen and motorized screens.

Outside, a waterfall joins the new spa and pool among fire and water features, lawn, privacy walls, and magnolias. The entire top floor belongs to a 1,400 square foot primary suite with elevator access, his and hers baths, a coffee bar, and a screened porch opening to a private terrace above the park.

The setting carries its own lineage. Highland Park was laid out by planner Wilbur David Cook around the greenways of Turtle Creek, and daily life here still moves at a walking pace: two blocks to the Katy Trail and Knox Street, and a short walk to Highland Park Village, the 1931 Spanish Colonial center recognized as the nation’s first self-contained shopping center. Mornings in the park, evenings in the Village, and a home built to support an ideal home and lifestyle in between.

For more on this rare Highland Park offering, I’m happy to make the introduction. Reach out anytime, and I’ll connect you directly with our colleagues at and the listing agent.

Not every seller begins with a decision to sell.The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing recently published a thoughtful ...
10/10/2026

Not every seller begins with a decision to sell.

The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing recently published a thoughtful piece on inherited homes. Its central point applies directly to Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, and Central Phoenix: families who inherit a significant property inherit a decision first, and a sale second, if at all.

Here is how we would apply it to our market.

Start with the documents. In Arizona, a home held in a trust or transferred through a recorded beneficiary deed can often pass without probate. Without either, a personal representative may need to be formally appointed before a sale can move forward. The timeline is set by paperwork, not by the market.

Expect heirs to be elsewhere. Many homes here were second residences or long-held family estates, and the next generation often lives out of state. Decisions get made by phone, across time zones, about a house no one has walked recently. Someone needs to be the family’s eyes on the property.

Read the house through a desert lens. Decades of Arizona sun take a toll on roof underlayment, HVAC systems, pool equipment, and irrigation. A home with exceptional land or architecture may also have systems that date it. Separating what gives the home its value from what can be left to the next owner is the most useful assessment a family can have.

Give every heir the same picture. Keep, renovate, rent, buy out a sibling, or sell. Each can be reasonable. If the plan involves exchanging the property into other investment real estate, a Qualified Intermediary needs to be in place before the sale closes. Consult with your QI early. Don’t have a QI? Give us a call for an introduction.

An inherited home is a financial, family, and legacy decision all at once. It deserves patience before it deserves a listing date.

Luxe Client Group
Real estate through the eye of architecture, design and art.
Scottsdale · Paradise Valley · Phoenix

The Valley's busiest buying season starts in January. For sellers, the most useful weeks are the ones right now.Winter b...
10/08/2026

The Valley's busiest buying season starts in January. For sellers, the most useful weeks are the ones right now.

Winter buyers arrive between January and April, and many tour a short list over a single visit. The homes ready on the first weekends of that window are seen first, and every home after is compared against them.

Getting ready takes longer than most owners expect. Landscapes need weeks to recover from summer heat before they photograph well. Painters, stone fabricators and landscapers book up as the season approaches. And deciding what to change, and what to leave alone, deserves time rather than a rush in December.

October and November are when that work fits comfortably. A January launch begins now.

Our Pre-Listing Checklist walks through the full sequence.

https://luxeclientgroup.com/blog/the-pre-listing-checklist-what-to-do-before-a-fall-listing-in-scottsdale-or-paradise-valley-1

Luxe Client Group
Real estate through the eye of architecture, design and art.
Scottsdale · Paradise Valley · Phoenix

A deep overhang does its most visible work in July and its most generous work in January.In Phoenix, the noon sun sits a...
10/07/2026

A deep overhang does its most visible work in July and its most generous work in January.

In Phoenix, the noon sun sits about 80 degrees above the horizon in late June and about 33 in late December. Across these images: south glass set beneath deep roof edges, west walls shaded by fins and mature mesquite, and terraces turned away from the afternoon sun.

Each one meets the sun from the right direction. The overhang handles the high summer sun and lets winter light reach across the floor. West light arrives nearly level, so it has to be met from the side. When shade is part of the architecture, the glass can stay generous and the shades can stay open all year.

Touring homes here this winter? The low sun flatters every west-facing room. Look above and beside the glass, and the house will tell you how it lives in July.

Luxe Client Group
Real estate through the eye of architecture, design and art.
Scottsdale · Paradise Valley · Phoenix

10/05/2026

Métier Maison Featured Listing of The Week | Charleston, SC
7 BEDS | 8 1/2 BATHS | 8,524 SQ. FT | Asking $12,500,000

69 Church Street is a rare pre-Revolutionary estate in Charleston’s historic district. Built circa 1745 on a private .29-acre lot, this Category 1 Georgian double house is among the city’s largest and most significant surviving residences of its era.

A four-story central stair hall, ceilings exceeding 11 feet across three floors, and grand windows define its exceptional scale. Georgian and Federal details include 15 fireplaces, King of Prussia marble surrounds, Delft tiles, original shutters, and exquisite woodwork. Highlights include a second-floor ballroom, drawing room, cypress library, and primary suite spanning the east side of the third floor.

Every bedroom offers an en suite bath. Connected by a hyphen and butler’s pantry, the original kitchen house includes a period-style kitchen, garden-facing den, and two additional bedrooms with full baths.

Behind high brick walls, five landscaped garden rooms feature mature heirloom plantings, fruit trees, a secret garden, and a large oval pool with historic brickwork and a covered dining trellis. Rear access to Ford’s Court provides additional off-street parking.

Its history includes colonial leaders Jacob Motte and James Parsons, meetings of the Commons House of Assembly, and celebrated Charleston Renaissance artist Alice Ravenel Huger Smith. Restored by Eliza Middleton Huger Smith after the Civil War, the estate has undergone extensive, preservation-minded renovations under its current owners since 1998.

Set on one of the old walled city’s highest elevations, 69 Church Street offers an extraordinary combination of architectural significance, privacy, gardens, and modern livability.

Contact me to learn more about this property.

The best seat at the table is the one you’re still in an hour after dinner.Comfortable chairs help. So does lighting tha...
10/04/2026

The best seat at the table is the one you’re still in an hour after dinner.

Comfortable chairs help. So does lighting that softens the room, a place to set down a serving dish, and enough space for someone to pass behind you without everyone rearranging themselves.

A dining room can look beautiful in a photograph. Imagining an evening there asks a little more of it.

Where would you serve? What would you see from your seat? Does the room invite you to linger?

When we walk through a home, we think about those things, too.

Architecture · Design · Art · Real Estate

A place to put your coffee. Light over your shoulder. A chair you actually want to sit in.A small corner can tell you a ...
10/03/2026

A place to put your coffee. Light over your shoulder. A chair you actually want to sit in.

A small corner can tell you a great deal about how a home lives.

Is there somewhere to read without turning on every light? A surface within reach? Enough room to settle in without being in the path of everyone passing through?

These are modest details, but they deserve attention when you’re walking through a house.

Think about where you would spend twenty quiet minutes. It might be the most useful way to begin imagining yourself at home.

Architecture · Design · Art · Real Estate

A beautiful room doesn’t have to be perfect.  In fact, the most memorable ones rarely are.They have something to say. A ...
10/01/2026

A beautiful room doesn’t have to be perfect.

In fact, the most memorable ones rarely are.

They have something to say. A piece of art that commands attention. A chair that feels slightly unexpected. Materials that become more interesting with age. Architecture that was allowed to remain architecture rather than being decorated away.

The best homes feel collected over time, even when they weren’t.

That distinction matters in real estate, too. Buyers may not be able to name every reason a room stays with them. They simply remember how it made them feel.

Architecture · Design · Art · Real Estate

Before selling a luxury home, the most valuable decision is often not what to renovate. It is what to leave alone.A $100...
09/30/2026

Before selling a luxury home, the most valuable decision is often not what to renovate. It is what to leave alone.

A $100,000 improvement rarely adds $100,000 in value. The return tends to show up elsewhere: fewer buyer objections, stronger photography, a shorter path to an acceptable offer.

Three recent sales show how different the right answer can be.

In North Central Phoenix, the architecture was the asset. We staged with the owners' own furniture, edited and rearranged to reveal detail and simplify the flow. The home sold in its first week with multiple offers.

In South Scottsdale, competing listings offered stronger floor plans. A layout renovation was justified, and the home sold $200,000 over asking.

In a 55+ condominium community, restraint was the strategy. Every dollar spent has to be recovered in the price.

The spending ranged from almost nothing to a full renovation. The reasoning never changed: understand the market first, then decide what the property needs.

Some things are worth keeping even when they are out of fashion. Natural stone. Custom millwork. Hand-finished plaster. Beamed ceilings. Original brick. Mature desert landscaping. The better question is not whether something is dated, but whether it is well executed and whether replacing it would change how buyers see the home.

One more principle sellers often miss: buyers discount unfinished work by more than it costs to complete. That is why preparation and pricing should be decided together, before any money is spent.

The full framework, including how to sort each decision into preserve, refresh, or renovate, is in The Curated Journal. Link in bio.

Thinking about selling next spring?September may feel early. In many cases, it’s exactly when the conversation should be...
09/30/2026

Thinking about selling next spring?

September may feel early. In many cases, it’s exactly when the conversation should begin.

Time gives homeowners choices. It allows us to look carefully at condition, decide which improvements are worthwhile, understand what should remain untouched, and sequence the work without creating an unnecessary rush.

It also gives us time to watch the properties that will become your competition.

Some homes need meaningful preparation. Others need surprisingly little. Knowing the difference is where the conversation begins.

Luxe Client Group
Architecture · Design · Art · Real Estate

Address

4222 N Marshall Way, Suite A
Scottsdale, AZ
85251

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Luxe Client Group posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Share

Category