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Come inside La Villa Contenta, the home featured on HBO’s “True Blood” as Queen Sophie’s mansion. This stunning $75 million property has amazing ocean views and a Romanesque indoor pool pavilion that is decorated with nearly one million reclaimed sea shells, creating the ultimate underwater … (View original article)

After a year, Gramercy Park mansion returns to market with $2M price increase

July 07, 2011 07:00PM

By Adam Fusfeld

[Updated: July 8, 1:15 p.m.] A six-story story mansion overlooking Gramercy Park asking $23.9 million has returned to the market about a year after it was last listed, but not before the top three floors changed hands and the house saw a $1.9 million asking price increase. As The Real Deal previously reporte… (View original article)

A wealthy, fast-driving, jazz-loving British-born baroness from Weehawken was highlighted in The Wall Street Journal for her role and acceptance in the jazz community.

Pannonica de Koenigswarter, of the incredibly wealthy Rothschild family, was close with jazz greats like Theolonius Monk, WSJ reports.

“The baroness is generally referred to as a ‘patron of the arts,’ but that only begins to describe what she did. In an age when jazz was not yet recognized as a legitimate art… (View original article)

From the time it was donated in 1919 until it was sold off for the housing development that today includes the streets of Pine Grove Road, Kingsbury Drive, Bartlett Avenue, Arnold Drive and Laurel Drive, Medfield was home to a 50-acre Bird Reservation and branch of the Animal Rescue League.

In 1890, esteemed Boston physician and surgeon Henry Clay Angell purchased that property in Medfield from John Y. Thurston, bordering West Main Street, Spring Street and running back towar… (View original article)

SANDS POINT, N.Y. (CBS 2) — What qualifies as “Living Large” on Long Island?

How about a multi-million dollar home with 13 rooms plus an indoor putting green and its own private dock and beach.

CBS 2′s Emily Smith got an all-access tour of a 1930′s Sands Point Colonial mansion that hit the market at $12 million.

Breathtaking views of the water can be seen from every backyard angle. From the infinity edge pool, the water appears to flow… (View original article)

By Allison Lampert

MONTREAL — A retired businessman whose plans to travel the world with his wife were delayed because their $5.5-million mansion wouldn’t sell has decided to gamble on an absolute auction, where there are no minimum bids required.

Theoretically, it means that the five-acre estate once priced at $5.5-million in the Multiple Listing Service could be sold for less than $1-million.

“That’s a pretty scary thought,” said owner … (View original article)

Maria Shriver is buying a $10 million mansion in Los Angeles in the aftermath of her

break-up with former husband Arnold Schwarzenegger, the New York Post reports.

Shriver’s new home is located in the Brentwood neighborhood, not far from the home she

and Schwarzenegger shared during their 25-year marriage, sources told TMZ Thursday.

The deal is currently in escrow but could close sometime soon, according to the New

York Post.

Shriver… (View original article)

Looking for good news and workable solutions to Newark’s problems? I found both this week at what has been — for decades — a landmark to the city’s inability to get things done.

The Krueger-Scott Mansion on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard is a city-owned wreck, adorned with more than $6 million in custom-made brick and roof tiles on its exterior. Attempts to renovate the Victorian-era mansion and turn it into a cultural center have been stalled for years… (View original article)

Ron McCarty first came to Sarasota in the early 1970s to visit three favorite relatives who had winter homes at Point of Rocks on Siesta Key.

“My uncle was a jazz pianist and recorded with Billy Holiday, Bobby Hackett, Louis Armstrong, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon and many other orchestras,” he remembers. “And three aunts were vocalists who recorded with Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and Kate Smith, doing over 100 records. They even sang the “Casper the Friendly Ghost” theme s… (View original article)