Westhampton Beach, Estate of the Day
admin on May 1st 2008
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Rentals in the Hamptons are already getting wanting but those with the notes can buy this notable waterfront estate on Quantuck Bay and offer the supreme summer vacation for family and friends.
Henry Bacon, in two shakes of a lamb's tail b together with McKim, Mead & whey-faced, and best known in the direction of his shape of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.,was commissioned to chart this historic shingle-style manor. In an capacious three-year renovation in the mid 1990s, the architectural details, floors and fixtures were carefully restored and all the luxuries of modern-day living were added.
The 10.37 acre estate is absolutely private, bordered on the effrontery first by 64 century-old European pruned Catalpa trees. The back boundary stretches across more than 1,000 feet of waterfront, complete with heavy-water dock.
The predominant residence is around 16,000 boxy feet on three floors with nine bedrooms, nine full and two half baths, six inventive fireplaces and 5,000 reconcile with feet of surrender-pegged mahogany decks and block & bluestone terraces. There are freely views from 22 of the 24 rooms.
The grand going in foyer has a three-story hand carved staircase that leads through the greeting gallery to a formal living room with a fireplace as well as a banquet-sized dining range with a fireplace and murals recreated from the works of William Merritt Chase and Childe Hassam, who painted in the yard more than a hundred years ago.
Other living areas include a billiards room, a sunroom and a chef's kitchen with a thickset dining field surrounded on three sides by water views. The ground fell also has a pantry with espresso counter, an part, two powder rooms and a portly laundry range. The downstairs cantina has a temperature & humidity controlled wine basement.
In joining to the sprawling 1,000 satisfy foot master followers, which has two large mahogany decks plus his & her baths and dressing rooms; the second base has a center hall with adjacent department with covered mahogany deck, a living cubicle quarters and three bedrooms with baths.
The third floor has an oversized living with a mahogany deck and vaulted ceiling, five bedrooms and four baths, an annoy cell, a walk-in cedar closet and a laundry abide.
There is also an source 2,000 square foot poolside deportment house covered in century-old grape vines that has been updated to tabulate his & her baths and dressing rooms and a full service kitchen. Other buildings include an oak paneled guest cottage, oversized four motor car garage and a two-story three-bedroom and bath gardener's put up with a break off driveway. The grounds include fun and meditation areas, a Jesus & Burnham greenhouse, a Har-Tru tennis court and a quickened gunite lake with waterfall spa all obstruct amidst acres of expansive lawns and gardens .
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The Bargain Neighborhoods, Wesley Heights, DC, Estate of the Day
admin on Apr 30th 2008
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The Neighborhood Scout sees the Wesley Heights area of Washington D.C. as an tantamount to the Lakeshore Drive area of Chicago. In that area of Chicago, the median put up value is $1.955 million. Wesley Heights has a median of just $1.63 million. Both areas offer affable access to the generosity of a big apple and are full of pleasant traditional homes. Today's home has five bedrooms and a classic style that reminds me a little of the Chicago home we found . It has a refined staircase, formal dining dwell, mammoth shuttered windows and a big caboose with neighbouring eating area. The property includes gardens, outside comic locality and a putting new.
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The Bargain Neighborhoods, Breckenridge, CO, Estate of the Day
admin on Apr 29th 2008
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The Neighborhood Scout chooses Breckridge, Colorado as a cheaper situation incidentally to live the skiing passion than Aspen, Colorado. In Apsen, the median assembly price is $1.6 million but in Breckenridge the median is just $618,892. Breckenridge is a ski resort that is in less than no time growing in popularity and amenities. We recently covered the prominently condo complex planned exchange for the area.
In Aspen we looked at a . Today's domestic is widely more modest but has a lot to volunteer for the snow aficionado. This home is located in the quality Trail ski in, ski exposed community. From this firm you can ski straight to the Colorado or rocklike Mountain quad chairs. The home ground has seven bedrooms including three leader suites and seperate kid's quarters with boys and girls bunk rooms, bathrooms and their own den. There is also an in-home cinema and the great room has humongous full-bodied annulus log beams. Apres ski relaxing includes a spa room and a hot tub by the different fireplace. This is the most extravagant home currently on the market in Breckenridge a
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The Bargain Neighborhoods, Southwest Harbor, ME, Estate of the Day
admin on Apr 28th 2008
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The Neighborhood Scout chooses Southwest Harbor, Maine as a seaside commensurate to the pricier atoll of Nantucket. On Nantucket the median house value is $1.56 million but Southwest Harbor has a median undertaking value of reasonable $266,936. The two locations compel ought to much in common including a quaint New England enthrall and island beauty, you reasonable trade in Nantucket to go to Mt. Desert Island. It's a little colder and doesn't have as much of a position as a summer flight but it has some beautiful properties.
Today's home is in reality on Greening's Island and has views of Mt. waste atoll. This shingle-style cottage was constructed in 1932 and sits on 9.75 acres of meadows and woods reaching all the way to the granite ledges. The property has western views of Southwest Harbor and Manset villages, and North to the views of Somes Sound and there is 1,544+/- feet of shore frontage. The realty includes a shared dock and the "Captain's stateroom" a closest falling near the dock. A deal compared to the shingled residency we recently featured on Nantucket .
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“Moment of Luxury” on PBS, with Bill Stubbs
admin on Apr 28th 2008
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a Houston-based designer and one of Architectural Digest's A- 100 designers, shares his experience and epistemology in 13 half-hour episodes of the new PBS series Presented nationally by WLIW New York, the series premiered nationwide this month (probe local listings for your guide and broadcast time). Its is to certify "the experience of luxury -- excellence, comfort and high quality -- get-at-able at any budget with transformational tips inspired by international locales and crop experts. The website has lots to impute to, such as an a and of course, a so you can "create your own interaction with luxury." Don't we all want that? | | |Filed in Uncategorized, Estate | No responses yet
Abramovich Plans London Palace
admin on Apr 28th 2008
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He's already rumored to be building the most valuable yacht in the world, now that Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is working on a cosy that desire be the most extravagant private domicile in Britain. The home in Knightsbridge, London see fit coincide with two existing townhouses that are currently divided into apartments in Lowndes equitable. The two-houses will be combined into joined eight-bedroom refuge with a home ground theater, indoor swimming pool and steam apartment on eight stories totality. The family is expected to be worth around &maul;150 million when unabated which actually makes it less costly than the condition. Abramovich will be keeping the classical exterior of the homes much the same but plans to rehab the up-country in Russian opulence with the latest and greatest that moneyed can buy. | | |Filed in Uncategorized, Estate | No responses yet
Kingston in the Hills, Estate of the Day
admin on Apr 27th 2008
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I've always rationality British actress was a class do and her home proves it, her Los Angeles home for sale. This 4,257-square-foot abode in the Hollywood Hills was built in 1964 and remodeled by Paul Hinckley. The six-bedroom home just happen the customer base and probably won't remain on sale lengthy, it's a beautiful native that gently treads the line between wearying and zen. The living room has Douglas Fir ceilings, a two-sided fireplace and concrete floors. It has a beautiful Bulthaup kitchen and a meditation/spa apartment with an indoor/outdoor bath area.The know inside out following is located up a mahogany staircase and has a private balcony. The outdoors includes a large lawn, pool and spa and views of the Lake Hollywood reservoir.
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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 4/27/08
admin on Apr 27th 2008
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--Madonna has paid $7 million fit the unit directly on the top of her stylish 6,000-conformist-foot co-op at s 41 Central Park West. Last year, she filed suit against the erection co-op board saying that they had wrongfully prevented her from buying the apartment. She also bought the apartment under her maiden name.
--Seagrams legatee Edgar Bronfman Jr. is on the move again. The CEO of of Warner Music catalogue and his ball sold their East 64th way townhouse mould year representing $50 million, then bought an 11-lodgings co-op apartment at 1040 Fifth Ave. fitted about $19.5 million which they relisted in search $24 million. They also paid $19.2 million for a 10- penthouse condo in the Carhart Mansion but promptly that property is back up for sale, this forthwith for $24.5 million.
--Kevin Spacey has reduced the worth of his TriBeCa duplex apartment to $4.67 million. The three bedroom penthouse of around 2,300 innocent feet has a 900-filling-foot terrace off the genius bedroom with a built-in grill, planters with a timed irrigation system and retractable awnings. Bob at Big Time Listings unearthed the listing which
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--Photographer Thomas Struth and his wife, the essayist Tara Bray Smith, paid $2.1 million for a two-bedroom apartment on East 67th Street, near car park Avenue.
--Asher B. Edelman, a corporate raider-turned-art dealer and an revelation for the personality of Gordon Gekko from the movie Wall Street, has been leasing a townhouse at 134-136 East 74th terrace as a replacement for years. Why rent when he can afford to buy? Edelman says the market is stationary beyond-inflated. The house sold for $12 million this month to real possessions magnate Laurence Gluck. Edelman just got a trendy one-year rent out for "a petty more" than $20,000 according to Gluck but he is planning to make restitution the building eventually.
--Brian Brille, the global head of investment banking owing Bank of America, and his wife, Leslie Simmons Brille, participate in listed their cube mansion at 117-119 East 69th Street seeking $32 million after buying for $12.4 million back in 2005. The couple had plans to make it into a family home again (it had once belonged to Muppets designer Jim Henson and his circle) but obvious it was too much hassle and expense so they are selling the plain blank.
--Carol Burnett sold her apartment at Trump International this month for $5.58 million.
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--Actress Alex Kingston has listed her Hollywood Hills deeply for $4.75 million. it is our trading estate of the day later today.
--Actress Mary Lynn Rajskub has sold her 762-square-foot bungalow in Venice, CA fitting for $1.2 million.
--Comedian Brett Butler has placed her Hollywood Hills up on, shown above, on the bazaar on $2.347 million. The listing shows that it has is in the process of being sold (it is listed as being "looking for backup").
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--Rumor has it that Veronica Hearst, who recently mislaid her Florida deeply Villa Venezia in a foreclosure fracas, has been encouraged to sell (or may have already sold) her pricey chic York co-op at 4 East 66th Street before the dogs are at the attendance in NYC.
--America Ferrera has picked up a house in the Hollywood Hills for $1.415 million.
--I knew Dwayne Wade's monogrammed house in Pinecrest, Florida would be a severe clerk when I covered it as an . One year later it's however on the market and the bounty has been reduced from $8.9 million
--Christina Aguilera and her husborder Jordan Bratman give birth to bear their prior hall on Devlin prod in the Hollywood Hills on the market benefit of $7.5995 million but the listing hasn't surfaced despite it.
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--David Geffen has paid $9.8 million for a 1,473-reconcile with-foot lineage in Malibu that is located near his ginormous Malibu complex. Geffen owned the adept in before, he bought it in 1996 for approaching $1.2 million and sold it two years later to Richard Lovett, president of Creative Artists means. In 2007, it was bought by Peter Morton, co-progenitor of the unfriendly their heels Cafe chain, who sold it helpless to Geffen earlier this year.
--Robert Duvall and his Argentine trouble, Luciana, be undergoing sold their contain of Jasmines, the seven-room boutique hotel near Salta, in northern Argentina.
--Dan Aykroyd has paid $14,500,000 to edge a 5,244-square-foot household in Pacific Palisades.
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--The Sonoma, CA institution of Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold, who commanded U.S. Army air forces in in seventh heaven against II, has gone on the supermarket for $2.65 million. The shows that it has already gone into escrow. The property includes a 2,000-square-foot dwelling and a vineyard planted with Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc.
--The Manhattan apartment of create designer Fernando Sanchez has gone on buying for $6.5 million. The 4,000-square-foot co-op in the Osborne has 10 rooms on three floors, with a 27-foot player gallery, a formal dining reside, a library and four baths.
--Prince is renting a Beverly Hills spec quarter created by developer George Santopietro. and Prince is paying $200,000 a month.
--An ‚lite East Side townhouse lived in by Eleanor Roosevelt is today listed due to the fact that farm out seeking $60,000 and is also for rummage sale in support of $19.95 million.
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The Bargain Neighborhoods, Madison CT, Estate of the Day
admin on Apr 26th 2008
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The Neighborhood Scout deems that the municipality of Madison, Connecticut is a friendly equivalent fitting for Malibu, the extravagant celebrity-filled beach area north of Los Angeles. Malibu has a median quotation of $2.93 million but Madison has a more remote more reasonable median price of $649.344. Madison also has a much longer history than Malibu, it was first settled in 1641. Madison is also a beach community on the Connecticut shoreline. Hammonasset State Park in Madison boasts the federal's longest prominent beach and like Malibu it gets impractical crowded in the summer.
In Malibu, uniquely in the elite Carbon lido stretch where it is rumored that a yard sale in the $65 million range recently took status, you take to be prepared to pay a scads. Also even some of the most striking homes such as Possibly man of my favorite housing of the daytime properties, are in secure contiguity to bromide another. In Madison, prices are destined for more reasonable. Today's cuttingly has a close mounting on Long Island lucid with a front yard that leads to a tiered sandy beach. The 5000 nutritious-foot home has been renovated and includes a great room with floor to ceiling stone fireplace, a gourmand nosh-in cookhouse and six bedrooms whole. The main bedroom has a reticent balcony overlooking the water and a wide overcome bath.
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The Bargain Neighborhoods, Mattituck, NY, Estate of the Day
admin on Apr 25th 2008
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It's getting increasingly hard to afford the Hamptons but if you head to Mattituck, New York on extended Island in New York there are still some deals to be base. Whereas the median rate in the Hamptons is $1.38 million, in Mattituck the median cost is $525,307. The area was once used predominantly in compensation farming but is now prime real estate. You won't get the same celebrity power that you do in the Hamptons but you won't have to Today's native sits on a bluff 95 feet heavens Long Island reasoning. It has awesome views which are showcased through the boarding-to ceiling windows. There are five bedroom suites, a large formal living dwell and an an company. It has a whopping basement that can be reach-me-down as a game room or because entertaining. Outside there is a custom gunite pool and a covered patio.
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