Miss Congeniality has a new reason to strut her stuff with the purchase of her new Beverly Hills mansion. Actress Sandra Bullock, who owns additional properties in New Orleans and her hometown Austin, Texas, recently purchased the two-story estate in Southern California for $22.95 miilion, as shown by the Multiple Listing Service. The 7-bedroom, 8-bath [...]
WASHINGTON (June 29, 2011) – Pending home sales rose strongly in May with all regions experiencing gains from a year ago, pointing to higher housing activity in the second half of the year, according to the National Association of Realtors. The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, rose 8.2 percent [...]
Inman News recently published an article revealing the top 10 metro areas across the United States that are expected to see the greatest increase in real estate between the years 2010 and 2020. The information was gathered from a study conducted by Proximity One, which used Census records to calculate demographic trends expected to take [...]
This week’s Top of the Tweets By Camilla McLaughlin Luxury buzz amped up last week with the release of the annual Merrill Lynch-Capgemini World Wealth Report. The big news — luxury is booming in Asia — shouldn’t surprise anyone who follows global real estate. For the first time, Asia had more millionaires than Europe. North [...]
Longtime celebrity Zsa Zsa Gabor—notable for her roles in “Moulin Rouge” (1952) and guest appearances on “The Hollywood Squares” in the 60s and 70s and “The New Hollywood Squares” in the 80s—recently listed her Bel Air estate at $15 million. Gabor’s husband, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, announced back in January that the couple had hoped [...]
Even amid these tough economic times, New York City never fails to keep its name in the top headlines of luxury real estate. According to a recent article in The New York Times, a Hudson Street penthouse that stole the spotlight back in 2009 for being the most expensive apartment ever sold south of Columbus [...]
Heirs of American entrepreneurial legend Levi Strauss recently listed their charming Silicon Valley estate for $59.5 million. The Pine Brook Estate sits on over 12 acres of historic beauty in the heart of Atherton, California, and was the family’s summer country retreat and farm for the last 70 years. The main house proudly boasts the [...]
Being home alone might not seem like the most entertaining thing unless you’re living in this house. The home from the 90s classic “Home Alone” is currently up for sale at $2.4 million, according to a recent article on Yahoo Real Estate. Approximately 20 miles north of downtown Chicago, the elegant and recognizable Georgian-style home [...]
In a market that once led the nation in growth and now leads in foreclosures, a few intrepid home builders including Pardee Homes of Nevada have joined forces and lowered their scale to create pet houses to benefit the city’s homeless families through HomeAid Southern Nevada. In a one-of-a-kind fundraiser, nine pet houses were on [...]
Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group, together with Accelerated Marketing Partners (AMP), announced that on July 10th, 18 oceanfront residences will be auctioned for The Grand at Diamond Beach, a luxurious 12-story, resort-style condominium property in Cape May County, New Jersey. This sale offers primary and secondary homebuyers a rare opportunity to purchase two- [...]
