Luxury Real-Estate Flippers

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There is a new breed of quick-change artist on the real-estate front: luxury flippers who focus on high-end properties.

Popular before the housing bust, house flipping—where a property is bought, renovated and sold quickly to make a profit—is seeing a comeback nationwide. Rising prices and tight inventory are driving more investors to the upper end of the market. Flips of homes priced at $1 million or more shot up 35% in 2012 compared with 2011, according to market researcher RealtyTrac.

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