Back in the year 2000, someone managed to snag a Rittenhouse townhome for less than a million, and now it’s back on the market for more than four million dollars. Hand carved staircases and mantles, a skylight of epic proportions, and inlaid ceilings do look, as broker babble would have it, painstakingly restored.

The quantity and quality of preserved original details is impressive: even the library built-ins are original. A house like this might languish on the market: buyers loo… (View original article)

House of the Week: $4.3 million for a modern mansion with a resort-like pool

Address:

102 Joicey Boulevard

Neighbourhood: Bedford Park

Agent:Â

Suzy Goldstein,

Sutton

Group – Admiral Realty Inc., Brokerage

Price:

$4,299,000

The Place: A modern, five-bedroom house nestled among the manicured lawns and regal homes of Bedford Park.

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Tamar Braxton

Sells L.A. Mansion For

$3.5 Million PROFIT!!!

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“Braxton Family Values” star Tamar Braxton is a mansion-flipping GODDESS … just two years after buying her massive L.A. home, she unloaded the palatial digs for a $3.5 MILLION PROFIT. Toni Braxton’s lil sis bought the 11,700-sqaure-foot crib in Hidden Hills, CA with her husband — bigwig record producer

VincentÂ

Herbert –… (View original article)

A mansion on George Washington’s former Mount Vernon estate, located on 16.5 acres along the Potomac River, is now for sale for $25 million. And they say there’s a mansion shortage. (TTR Sotheby’s International Realty)

Just when you thought the real estate market couldn’t get any weirder, CNBC reported last week that there is a “mansion shortage” in this country. The inventory of $1 million-plus homes is plummeting, Robert Frank wrote. But … (View original article)

Even though Avery Johnson has been out of coaching since he was fired by the Brooklyn Nets earlier this season, he looks like he’s doing just fine, judging by this home.

The former NBA point guard for most notably the San Antonio Spurs, though, has decided that it’s time to relocate, and he has put his mansion on the market, for a mere $8.9 million.

So what would one be buying for that kind of money? Well, Johnson’s 14,396 square-foot mans… (View original article)

PROPERTY developer Marcus Cooper has struck two new leasing deals with the Crown Estate on properties at Regent’s Park in a bid to create one of Britain’s most expensive homes.

The 47-year-old entrepreneur plans to combine a row of seven terraced properties at 6-10 Cambridge Terrace and 1-2 Chester Gate into “London’s first £200m property,” he said in a statement.

The property, which had previously been used as offices, will have around 5… (View original article)

Buy me if you can! Tom Hanks puts his Los Angeles marital mansion with Rita Wilson on the market for $5.25m

By
Mike Larkin

PUBLISHED:
19:43 EST, 16 June 2013
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UPDATED:
01:47 EST, 17 June 2013

It is a home he has owned for the entirety of his 25 year marriage.

But Tom Hanks has put his Los Angeles mansion on the market for an eye-watering $5.25m.

The 56-year-old Toy Story favourite and his second wife Rita Wilson have stay… (View original article)

Russian fertilizer mogul Dmitri Rybolovlev bought Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home for $95 million but now plans to destroy it.The Russian mogul bought the 33,000-square-foot mansion in 2008 but now, due to mold damage, plans to tear it down. The 7-bedroom mansion sits on a 6.26-acre property and includes a 475-foot-long beach.

Trump bought the home in 2004 for $41.4 million and spent two years renovating the mansion before enlisting Kendra Todd, seaso… (View original article)

Plan for £200m mega mansion at Regent’s Park

Properties at Cambridge Terrace will be combined (Tom MacLean/Image Works)

THE property developer Marcus Cooper plans to create one of Britain’s most expensive homes by combining seven terraced houses at Regent’s Park.

It is thought Cooper paid

the Crown Estate as much as £130m for the properties, 6-10 Cambridge Terrace and 1-2 Chester Gate. The Grade 1 listed houses… (View original article)

A $24.5million mansion built on soup: Luxury home of Campbell’s heir goes on the marketÂ

Former home of Campbell’s soup heir John Dorrance Jr is now on the market for $24.5million The 50-acre estate in Gladwyne near Philadelphia consists of several properties surrounding the main house Known as Jack the younger Dorrance ran the soup company after his father Chemist John Dorrance Sr invented condensed soup making it much easier to distribute the canned pro… (View original article)