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Evanston billionaire proposes turning landmark mansion into boutique hotel

Hillary Back/The Daily Northwestern

The future of the Harley Clarke Mansion has been discussed at great length this year. Evanston billionaire James Pritzker has expressed interest in buying the mansion and turning it into a boutique hotel.

Jia You, Cit… (View original article)

Inside the $27million Tudor mansion in Silicon Valley that has its own hidden secret room to hold Prohibition parties

By
Meghan Keneally

PUBLISHED:
10:15 EST, 30 May 2013
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UPDATED:
13:43 EST, 30 May 2013

A secret drinking den harkening back to the time Prohibition and the dark half-timbering that is a trademark of old English architecture shows the clash of cultures and eras in a California home that just went on the market.

A s… (View original article)

Actor Bruce Willis is asking $22 million for his Beverly Hills compound.
(Realtor.com)

By Lauren Beale

May 29, 2013, 4:04 p.m.

Actor Bruce Willis has listed his Beverly Hills mansion at $22 million.

The walled and gated estate includes a 1928 Spanish-style house and a tennis court on an acre of lan… (View original article)

*Martin Lawrence is selling his extravagant $26.5 million mansion a year after splitting with his wife.

The actor’s Beverly Hills mansion is immaculate and lush. Prior to listing it on the market, the star was renting the spot for $200,000 monthly.

It’s a seven bedroom, 10 bathroom property, amassed over 15,000 square feet.

The estate was also the site for his wedding with Shamicka Gibbs in 2010; they were a couple 15 years before their wedding.

… (View original article)

Olivia Newton-John

Buy My Stormproof Pad

$6.2 MILLION

Big “Grease” Fan? Scared of crazy hurricanes destroying your house? Super rich?

If you answered yes to all those questions then get happy … Olivia Newton-John’s storm-ready mansion is for $ale.Olivia listed the waterfront digs — located on Florida’s primo Jupiter Island — for $6.2 million. She bought the house back in 2009 for $4.1 million and… (View original article)

Enid Alvarez/New York Daily News

Richard Cohen, 55, has decided to sell his waterfront Oyster Bay mansion, which was inspired by Marie Antoinette’s Le Petit Trianon at Versailles.

If ever there was ever a willing seller, it’s porcelain collector Richard Baron Cohen.

The Long Islander just put his 6-acre waterfront house modeled after Marie Antoinette’s Versailles chateau Petit Trianon on the market for $15 million…. (View original article)

Irvine Azoff

You might not know his name, but if you’re a music fan, you’ve probably contributed to the $16 million

Holmby Hills

mansion that he just bought.

Irving Azoff

is one of the most influential people in the music business, with a

recent article in Billboard

naming him as THE #1 most powerful.

Azoff got his start managing musicians and his former clients list looks like a who’s who of the music… (View original article)

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Connecticut mansion lists at $190 million

An aerial view shows the relation of the mansion to the swimming pool and shoreline. (Realtor.com /May 20, 2013)

By Lauren Beale

May 21, 2013, 7:00 a.m.

The thing about “vanity pricin… (View original article)

Nathan Tinkler: his mansion is up for sale. Photo: Nick Moir

Embattled coal tycoon Nathan Tinkler has put his $5.2 million Queensland mansion up for sale.

The seven-bedroom, five-bathroom country estate, on four hectares on Brisbane’s outskirts, features a home cinema, a gym, a climate-controlled wine cellar that can house 3500 bottles and a nine-car garage.

The property, in Pullenvale, west of Brisbane, is listed online as being for sale for bet… (View original article)

SELLER: John Rudey

LOCATION: Greenwich, CT

PRICE: $190,000,000

SIZE: 13,519 square feet, 12 bedrooms, 7 full and 2 half bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Buckle your real estate safety belts, butter beans, because—in case any of y’all have managed to not already hear—timber tycoon John Rudey has heaved his epic Greenwich, CT estate on the open market with a equilibrium altering and publicity ensuring $190,000,000 price tag, a sky-high figu… (View original article)