Saw three great items in last week’s Wall Street Journal column by Sara Lin. 1) More information on the Madoff sale in Montauk. Chairman of Vornado Realty Trust, Steven Roth, is the one who purchased Bernard Madoff’s beach house in Montauk, NY, for $9.41 million. On 1.2 acres, the 3,000-square-foot in Long Island was launched [...]
The highest priced villa of Peter Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands, has recently sold for a grand total of $8,495,000. After 45 days, the sale was official thanks to Peter Briggs, a listing broker and the owner of John Foster Real Estate. Briggs explains that the seller was West coast and the buyer was east coast, [...]
I encountered a wonderful little post on Malta today on the Language of Luxury site (click here). It’s interesting to note that while most of the world is caught up in a real estate downturn, some areas have that perfect amount of isolation to stay out of fray. Malta is one of them. In fact, [...]
Miami is polishing its image as a cultural center with a new arts district and an impressive array of new buildings, including the Cesar Pelli-designed Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, which recently won an award from the Urban Land Institute; Museum Park, home to a new art museum with 40 acres of gardens, [...]
Benefits of a luxury item include some of the following: sustainable, exotic, and in today’s market, should come with personalized service. Greg Furman, founder and chairman of the Luxury Marketing Council, has recently looked into luxury brands and where these companies are spending their dollars. He has found that companies are spending their dollars on [...]
A Cap d’Antibes chateau, eight apartments in London’s Lowndes Square, two multi-million-dollar homes in Colorado, a contemporary art collection valued at more than $100 million, England’s Chelsea Football Club, and a new, 540-plus-foot yacht poised to cost $300 million or more in building costs. What more could a billionaire want to add to his collection? [...]
The Lake Tahoe and Reno real estate markets signs of improvement. Although Chase International’s third quarter report shows that the average prices are still decreasing, ultimately, inventory is quickly depleting. Since last year, the number of units sold in the Reno area increased 35 percent and in the Sparks area 54 percent. As for the [...]
Four new REGREEN e-learning courses were recently introduced by The American Society of Interior Designers and the U.S. Green Building Council. Each of these courses is a duration of 2 hours and presents step-by-step instructions for anyone from an interior design professional to the average person, interested in remodeling or renovating a room in their [...]
At Unique Homes, we review dozens of high-end properties every day. Properties run the gamut from under construction to just finished, overgrown and unpolished to professionally landscaped, and gutted to turnkey. Unfortunately, we often see that property photos also are quite varied, from vibrant and crisp to grainy, blurry, and too dark to discern valuable [...]
The Fraggles lived in cartoon bliss through a hole in the wall of Doc’s house; Superman’s Fortress of Solitude is equipped with living quarters, a gymnasium, a laboratory and a zoo; and perhaps one of the most famous liars of all time is Bruce Wayne’s Batcave, which houses a technical workstation, vehicle parking, a gym [...]
