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Haute Estates: Politicians and Their Mansions
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Alison Agudo on
September 7th, 2011
When you’re front and center in American politics, the public is always watching. Whether it’s slip-ups on the campaign trail, personal info leaking through the media or even lavish home purchases, politicians tend to live very public lives. Here is a look at some of their exclusive estates around the country.
Sarah Palin is no stranger t… (View original article)
7 September 2011
Last updated at 08:50 ET
Edinburgh Castle has recorded its highest ever monthly visitor figures after 205,000 people went through its doors in August.
The biggest influx came on 8 August, when 8,232 people visited the historic attraction.
The castle has also been shortlisted in the best UK heritage attraction category in the British Travel Awards.
Scotland’s culture secretary said the “global icon” continued to attract people … (View original article)
Offers of £5m invited for Thornbury Castle
9:30am Wednesday 7th September 2011
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ANYONE with £5 million to spare is being encouraged to make an offer for Thornbury Castle.
The luxurious hotel, and former holiday jaunt for Henry VIII, has been put on the market with the £5 million price tag.
Property Agents Christie and Co revealed this week… (View original article)
Osorio’s home on Star Island will be auctioned soon.
Star Island is an exclusive enclave off the MacArthur Causeway near the main Miami Beach island.
Bill Clinton stood on the balcony. Billionaire Philip Frost lives next door. And now the house at 15 Star Island Drive has become known as the home of embattled businessman Claudio Osorio.
But Osorio is being forced to sell the mansion in an attempt to maintain control ov… (View original article)
Don Wallace Sells Tampa Mansion for $6.75M
September 6, 2011 by RV Business
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Don Wallace mansion sells for $6.75 million.
LazyDays RV king Don Wallace has sold his South Tampa mansion for $6.75 million.
Wallace and his wife Erika transferred the 15,396-square-foot estate Thursday to Carmen and Harry Barkett, president of Amalie Oil Co., county property records show, The St. Petersburg Ti… (View original article)
BUYER: Sandra Bullock
Location: Beverly Hills, CA
Price tag: $ 22,950,000
SIZE: eight,110 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms
High-paid Oscar-winning girl-up coming-door actress Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side, Miss Congeniality, Speed et al) has bounced back smelling like a sweet rose from the stinky debacle of her marriage to and divorce from cheating chopper customizer Jesse James.
Miz Bullock, one particular of the highest… (View original article)
Happy Tuesday! Check out this superb residence on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California.
It was completed in 2010. Because it was built above the water on Encinal Bluffs, the house is close to the beautiful Malibu beaches and affords sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean. It has an oceanfront pool/spa, a rooftop deck of 2,500 square meters and four large en-suite bedrooms. It flaunts Italian architecture cues with a stone exterior and lovely outsi… (View original article)
Coolidge himself has a couple of awkward paintings and a quite affecting lilac-wood sculpture on permanent view at the mansion. He and his friends would have appreciated “Art Encounters Preservation,’’ a sprawling exhibit of site-specific installations inside and outside the house, on property that is now a state park. Curator Allison Newsome has brought together more than 30 artists to make work that responds to the history and environment of the place. This mansion is par… (View original article)
Two Gold Coast Mansion Sales
Posted Sep 6, 2011 at 10:25 AM
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $5.75 million
Sale Price: $5.78 million
List Price: $4.75 million
Sale Price: $4.154 million
The Properties: A 13-room mansion on an extra-large lot on North State Parkway sold August 23 for a little more than its asking price—and for nearly eight times what its sellers had paid for the place in 1994… (View original article)
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An uncertain future for a historic mansion
Sixteen years since closing, a historically rich mansion’s future remains unclear.
An old, off-white mansion sits at the corner of Broad and Jefferson streets in North Philadelphia, mysteriously gated off from the community and offering no connection to Temple other than a small cherry-red sign that … (View original article)