Author Archives: Castles of the Realm

Back in the year 2000, someone managed to snag a Rittenhouse townhome for less than a million, and now it’s back on the market for more than four million dollars. Hand carved staircases and mantles, a skylight of epic proportions, and inlaid ceilings do look, as broker babble would have it, painstakingly restored. The quantity … Continue reading »

House of the Week: $4.3 million for a modern mansion with a resort-like pool Address: 102 Joicey Boulevard Neighbourhood: Bedford Park Agent:Â Suzy Goldstein, Sutton Group – Admiral Realty Inc., Brokerage Price: $4,299,000 The Place: A modern, five-bedroom house nestled among the manicured lawns and regal homes of Bedford Park. Bragging Rights:

Tamar Braxton Sells L.A. Mansion For $3.5 Million PROFIT!!! Exclusive “Braxton Family Values” star Tamar Braxton is a mansion-flipping GODDESS … just two years after buying her massive L.A. home, she unloaded the palatial digs for a $3.5 MILLION PROFIT. Toni Braxton’s lil sis bought the 11,700-sqaure-foot crib in Hidden Hills, CA with her husband … Continue reading »

A mansion on George Washington’s former Mount Vernon estate, located on 16.5 acres along the Potomac River, is now for sale for $25 million. And they say there’s a mansion shortage. (TTR Sotheby’s International Realty) Just when you thought the real estate market couldn’t get any weirder, CNBC reported last week that there is a … Continue reading »

Even though Avery Johnson has been out of coaching since he was fired by the Brooklyn Nets earlier this season, he looks like he’s doing just fine, judging by this home. The former NBA point guard for most notably the San Antonio Spurs, though, has decided that it’s time to relocate, and he has put … Continue reading »

PROPERTY developer Marcus Cooper has struck two new leasing deals with the Crown Estate on properties at Regent’s Park in a bid to create one of Britain’s most expensive homes. The 47-year-old entrepreneur plans to combine a row of seven terraced properties at 6-10 Cambridge Terrace and 1-2 Chester Gate into “London’s first £200m property,” … Continue reading »

Buy me if you can! Tom Hanks puts his Los Angeles marital mansion with Rita Wilson on the market for $5.25m By Mike Larkin PUBLISHED: 19:43 EST, 16 June 2013 | UPDATED: 01:47 EST, 17 June 2013 It is a home he has owned for the entirety of his 25 year marriage. But Tom Hanks … Continue reading »

Russian fertilizer mogul Dmitri Rybolovlev bought Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home for $95 million but now plans to destroy it.The Russian mogul bought the 33,000-square-foot mansion in 2008 but now, due to mold damage, plans to tear it down. The 7-bedroom mansion sits on a 6.26-acre property and includes a 475-foot-long beach. Trump bought the … Continue reading »

Plan for £200m mega mansion at Regent’s Park Properties at Cambridge Terrace will be combined (Tom MacLean/Image Works) THE property developer Marcus Cooper plans to create one of Britain’s most expensive homes by combining seven terraced houses at Regent’s Park. It is thought Cooper paid the Crown Estate as much as £130m for the properties, … Continue reading »

A $24.5million mansion built on soup: Luxury home of Campbell’s heir goes on the market Former home of Campbell’s soup heir John Dorrance Jr is now on the market for $24.5million The 50-acre estate in Gladwyne near Philadelphia consists of several properties surrounding the main house Known as Jack the younger Dorrance ran the soup … Continue reading »