One of Sacramento’s grand old residences is for sale for the third time in its 100-year history, but would-be buyers had better come with a lot of money and the right frame of mind.

The wealthy Merkley family, California settlers who made a fortune growing hops and fruit, built the 6,600-square-foot home on the corner of 22nd and V streets in midtown’s Poverty Ridge neighborhood in the early 1900s.

Its style has been described as Spanish mission meets Frank Lloyd Wright…. (View original article)

Uh oh, Biebsy! Looks like you’re officially yesterday’s news!

Selena Gomez has apparently been confirming her newly single status, and while she’s trying to focus on work, you can’t keep a girl from flirting when a cute guy comes into the picture!

And that’s just what’s happening with Selenita who apparently has a serious thing for teen dreamboats with hair just dying for someone to run their fingers through it.

Now that Justin Bieber is nothing but a far off thought… (View original article)

Talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, actress Portia de Rossi, have bought a 13-acre estate in Montecito that had been listed at $26.5 million. The purchase price has not yet appeared in the public record.

The restored Tuscan-style villa and gardens had undergone years and millions of dollars in reconstruction work under the care of an earlier owner, designer John Saladino.

The two-story villa was built in the late 1920s from locally quarried stone. The property, ent… (View original article)

Saturday, June 1, 2013, by jwilliams

Open House: Sunday, June 2nd, between 2 PM – 5 PM

1809 Virginia Road, Lafayette Square

Price: $1,695,000

Beds, Bath: 7, 5

Floor Area: 4,959 sq. ft.

Per the Listing: “One of the Grand Estates of historic, gated Lafayette Square. Large windows open onto a wide front porch that runs the length of the house, filling the house with light. A well designed floor … (View original article)

CHARLEVOIX, MI – John Winn jokingly tells people he and his wife are selling their lakefront home on Round Lake “because we need a bigger boathouse and a smaller house.”

The “bigger boathouse” part is hard to believe when you consider what the co-founder of the Four Winns boat manufacturing company is putting on the real estate market for $6.99 million.

The five-bedroom Nantucket-style house is built around a massive boathouse th… (View original article)

Looking for a new place to live, complete with a basketball court, wine cellar and waterfall that is also Justin Bieber adjacent? Lucky you, Mitch Richmond is selling his house!

Richmond’s mansion, nestled in suburban Los Angeles, is everything you would ever need in a $9.4 million piece of real estate surrounded by other famous folk.

Bieber, Tommy Lee, Ken Jeong, Rebecca Romijn and Brandy all live near the almost 13,000-square-foot home in a community called “Estate at th… (View original article)

Michigan Avenue, south of 26th Street, was once called “Millionaires’ Row.” That’s when a million dollars was hard to get.

Now any utility infielder or personal injury lawyer has that much cash in walking-around money.

At the turn of the last century, the avenue was thick with mansions.

Time passed, the neighborhood declined, the mansions were carved up into rooming houses.

Then came

the bulldozers, then came urban renewal.

G… (View original article)

navaly.livejournal.com

The mansion believed to be owned by Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin.

Bloggers have published pictures of

a luxury mansion, believed to

be owned by

Vladimir Yakunin, the

head of

Russian Railways and

powerful member of

President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.

The

three-story marble-clad mansion, occupying 70 hectares of

land near the

Mos… (View original article)

Daughter of Naoise O’Muiri claims she saw a ghost

The Lord Mayor of Dublin has claimed the Mansion House is haunted. Fine Gael Councillor Naoise O’Muiri has told the Irish Sun that his daughter was once spooked by a ghost in the iconic building which dates back to 1705.

He says the 4-year-old experienced the encounter as she walked from her room through the sitting room and into her parent’s room in the middle of the night.

She said she saw a girl with dark curl… (View original article)

It took 11 bidders, but New York-based Concierge Auctions says the luxury Plano mansion, known as Grand Gables at Kings Gate, says it received the highest recorded sales price Thursday for a Kings Gate property in the past four years.

The home was previously marketed for $6.5 million. Terms of the auction, such as the sales price and the buyer, were not immediately released. The closing is expected in mid-June.

Even though the sale price wasn’t available, it’s significa… (View original article)