Buy a Luxe Mansion and Get a Luxe Neighbor: Roman Abramovich

by Alexandra Jun 23rd 2011 02:24 AM

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Anastasia Pines is a luxury mansion in Aspen, Colorado, situated near one of Roman Abramovich’s properties. The owner of the property is not known, but since Anastasia is a very common name in Russia and Abramovich is a neighbor in the area, we d… (View original article)

Thursday, June 23, 2011, by Mark Boyer

Through the ’90s, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan was the unofficial ambassador for a generation of angsty teens. He’s all grown up now, but the housing market must have him feeling a bit angsty these days. The home-grown rocker has been trying, without luck, to sell his 3,700-square-foot unit in the old Patterson-McCormick Mansion for two and a half years, and this week he dropped the price again. According to t… (View original article)

An arrow on a sign at downtown Sacramento’s Leland Stanford Mansion says “You are here,” and points to a blank spot on the map. “This landmark home also upholds a tradition of service to the state,” the sign also reads.

If only the state had been so kind in return. Due to California’s budget shortfall, including $11 million in cuts to the state park system—with a possible permanent cut of $22 million next year—the Stanford Ma… (View original article)

I reported earlier today on the $1.45 million sale price of an auctioned home in Loudonville. So check out this humble house mansion chateau in Windham, Greene County (map), which is up for auction on Saturday.

The newly constructed house in the Copper Ridge subdivision, “an exclusive mountainside community” near the Windham ski resort, was originally on the market for $5.9 million, but there is no minimum bid. The property includes five acres, 11,000-square-feet of livin… (View original article)

Posted: Thursday, June 23, 2011 12:00 am

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SIOUX CITY – Curious about the renovations that have been
completed on the John Peirce Mansion after the Sioux City Public
Museum moved into its new downtown site?

An open house will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday showcasing
the efforts to turn the historic 2901 Jackson St. mansion into a
period home.

The Sioux City Museum & Historical Association’s Peirce
Mansion Committ… (View original article)

NEWPORT, R.I.—The group that runs The Breakers mansion in Newport is urging Rhode Islanders to vote online as the historic property competes for the $25,000 top prize in a national competition.

The Breakers is among 100 places across the country — and the only one in Rhode Island — selected for the “This Place Matters” event run by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. First place gets $25,000, second place $10,000 and third place $5,000.

The B… (View original article)

OCEAN CITY — A landmark mansion in Ocean City has been knocked down.

Its owner says he had to do it because taxes were so high and he could not find a buyer for the 1924 DuBois estate.

Donald DuBois told The Press of Atlantic City he tried to sell the mansion for the past three years but could not find a taker. DuBois also said he couldn’t go on paying nearly $16,000 a year in property taxes plus inheritance taxes.

He says the only option was to raze the home a… (View original article)

The few mansions left on Fifth Avenue rarely change hands. But this weekend a mansion on Fifth that was one of the last designed by the architect Stanford White is going on the market for $49 million.

The listing broker, Paula Del Nunzio of Brown Harris Stevens, said that in her 25-year career only two other mansions on Fifth Avenue, including the Duke Semans mansion, which sold for $44 million last year, had changed hands.

This one, with its grand Italian Renaissance Palazzo… (View original article)

Ukranian billionaire purchases Henry T. Sloane mansion for $40 million

June 23, 2011 09:00AM

The Henry T. Sloane mansion

at 18 East 68th Street, between Madison and Fifth avenues, sold at auction yesterday to its only bidder — Alexander Rovt, a Ukrainian-born billionaire fertilizer magnate — for $40 million, the amount in principal and interest owed to the first mortgage lender, Madison Realty Capital, the Wall Street Journal reported.

In f… (View original article)