“Haunted” East Hampton mansion sells for $9.25 million

September 16, 2011 12:30PM

A supposedly haunted mansion in East Hampton has been sold for $9.25
million, according to Newsday.

The rumored ghostly inhabitants of the property may have caused its
price to drop from $19.5 million, the paper suggests.

The house is the former home of late Hamptons antiques dealer Barton
Kaplan, who died in 2002. His friend, Sam Wagner, … (View original article)

The 20-room, 22,000-square-foot mansion was built 100 years ago for the politically and academically prominent Ames family. The Gilded Age home and its 1,700-acre estate were acquired by the state in 1969.

The 300-member Friends of Borderland have been preparing the centennial for a year, said committee cochairman Ken Wood, of Easton.

“All this is tying the families and the communities together,’’ Wood said. The committee’s 40 volunteers come from East… (View original article)

There’s no place like home, as the old saying goes, and that goes doubly for celebrities.

Sure, we might be proud of our white picket fence, two-car garage, mud room and central air, but does your house have it’s own 50-seat theater? How about a few holes of golf … in your backyard? Or jet runway in place of your driveway?

And who among us can boast about having a man-made lake stocked with rare fish just behind the house? Well, Oprah can. The 42 acres she calls home in Sa… (View original article)

New Jersey couple is at home in a Frank Lloyd Wright house

By CAROLYN DAVIS

The Philadelphia Inquirer

CAROLYN DAVIS The Philadelphia Inquirer

Updated: 2011-09-13T12:10:41Z

The uninvited visitors always seem to show up when Dan Nichols is mowing the lawn, looking like any other ordinary homeowner.

Except he’s not any ordinary owner and he certainly doesn’t have an ordinary home.

Nichols and his wif… (View original article)

Aerial photograph of Jennifer Hawkins and Jake Wall’s house under construction on the Curl Curl headland on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Picture: Tim Hunter
Source: The Sunday Telegraph

Aerial photograph of Jennifer Hawkins and Jake Wall’s house that is being constructed on the Curl Curl headland on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Picture: Tim Hunter
Source: The Sunday Telegraph

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No matter how much money you have, if you buy this home, your wallet is gonna take a beating.

That’s because a certain actor, who recently played a pugilist, is asking a whopping $13,995,000 for his palatial Beverly Hills pad.

Of course, it does have seven bedrooms and sits on nearly two acres of prime land, so there’s a bunch of space. (Or, should we say, a funky bunch of space?)

So who’s selling?

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COHASSET – Three waterfront homes in town are for sale for $7.7 million, $12.9 million, and – gasp – $23.9 million, amid signs, some realtors say, that the high-end housing market is recovering from the yearslong recessionary slump.

“It’s just crazy,’’ said Nancy Hamilton of Dean and Hamilton Realtors in Cohasset. “We’ve had a huge amount of activity. In this office, for the past six months we’ve been selling a house a week, and we [… (View original article)