These homeowners take their home security seriously. Why bother with a run-of-the-mill alarm system when you can post armored statues to guard the front door?
This 2-bedroom home, described as a “fabulous Cape Cod in Encino on quiet cul-de-sac,” is listed for $1.6 million. No word on whether these unfriendly fellas come with it. (Via CurbedLA.)
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According to the Daily Mail, Mel Gibson’s house in Greenwich, Connecticut, just won’t sell (oh, boy, do I really want to do another post about a Greenwich house after the last one caused so much trouble?). It’s been on the market since 2007, when the price was set at $39.5 million. Two years later, it [...]
The recent renovation of the 1874 Second Empire brick and brownstone Hewitt Mansion in Philadelphia was so thorough and impeccable that it’s practically a work of art. It’s now on the market for a little under $6 million. It had spent the past 40 years as a five-unit apartment building before Lily Properties “rescued” it [...]
Jon and Kate Gosselin have had their hands full lately–not just with those cute kids of theirs, but with their marital troubles (they just celebrated their 10-year anniversary, but not together), an investigation into whether TLC is violating child labor laws by filming at their house, and even some allegations of pet abuse. Then I [...]
Take a look at this historic, nearly 200-year old brick home located in the Washington Square neighborhood of Philadelphia. It’s on the market for $1.5 million and features 3 fireplaces, 4 bedrooms and 4.5 baths. Expecting the inside to match the out? Then you’re in for a surprise.
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This is one of the strangest remodels of [...]
Actor Nicolas Cage is known for his love of real estate. He always seems to be buying and selling something, somewhere. Take this Garden District mansion, for example, that he renovated and is now selling for $3.45 million in New Orleans. It’s huge–13,176 square feet–with 6 bedrooms and 5 baths.
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This Greenwich, Connecticut home, described as being “Georgian Colonial” in its real estate listing, is on the market for about $7.5 million. It has 6 bedrooms, 7 baths, and a homeowner that isn’t afraid of a little color and pattern (believe me).
You can see the interior photos on the MLS listing here. And you can [...]
Diane Keaton has put her Spanish Colonial Revival-style, Beverly Hills mansion on the market for about $11.9 million. It reminded me of the beautiful photos published in Architectural Digest of her home last year. It was built in 1927 by architect Ralph Flewelling and has 7 bedrooms and 9 baths. Keaton purchased it only 2 [...]
Candy Spelling has put her 57,000 sq ft mansion, known as “The Manor,” on the market for $150 million. She built the unimaginably big estate with her famous television-producer husband Aaron Spelling, who died in 2006. She’s “downsizing” to a 16,000 sq ft condo in a new building called “The Century.”
In this fascinating video tour [...]
I spend a lot of time searching the real estate listings and see an awful lot of boring houses, a lot of ugly houses, and more cookie-cutter McMansions than you can shake a stick at. So when I run across a truly unique and beautiful property like this, it’s like the heavens open up and [...]
