December 4, 2009
Patricia Kluge, a well-known philanthropist and founder of the prestigious Virginia winery that bears her name, has offered her 300-acre estate in Charlottesville, Va., for $100 million, making it one of the most expensive listings in the country. Albemarle House, a 300-acre estate nestled next to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and James Monroe’s Ash-Lawn Highland, includes [...]
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July 10, 2009
When a couple’s marital assets are valued between $6 and $12 billion, one might assume that a mere $100 million estate would not become the subject of a major dispute. However, Elena Rybolovlev, who (with her husband and Russian billionaire fertilizer mogul Dmitri Rybolovlev) purchased Donald Trump’s Palm Beach oceanfront estate for $95 million in [...]
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August 11, 2008
In the 1960s, Norman Jewison directed a small gem of a movie, “The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming.” The plot centers on the reaction of the residents of an oceanfront New England village to the crew of a Russian sub that runs aground just off the coast. Given the Cold War hysteria at [...]
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May 30, 2008
Mukesh Ambani, the fifth richest man in the world, is building a 550-foot-tall, 27-story skyscraper with 400,000 square feet of interior space as his family’s private residence in Mumbai, India. Billed as the World’s Most Expensive Home, it is being designed while it is constructed! The project’s cost is estimated at nearly $2 billion. Forbes [...]
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May 28, 2008
In a report for The Wall Street Journal online, Stacey Delo, WSJ Digital Network reporter, focuses on San Francisco’s not-so-sluggish high-end market. Her story opens with a look at the top of our Ultimate Homes list of the most expensive listings in the U.S. You can view the video here.
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May 19, 2008
Another 2007 Unique Homes cover home is under contract. Donald Trump’s $100 million estate in Palm Beach, Fla., reportedly is slated to be sold for full asking price to an anonymous foreign buyer. Trump bought the estate at a bankruptcy auction in 2004 for $41.35 million and spent $25 million renovating it. The property’s biggest [...]
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April 22, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that Italian real estate tycoon Luigi Zunino has listed his apartment in the Plaza Hotel for $100 million.
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April 4, 2008
It’s true. In a Condé Nast Portfolio article published today, Phil Scott profiles The Maltese Falcon and takes a look at the market for megayachts.
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April 1, 2008
Montana newspapers report that Tim Blixseth, founder of the Yellowstone Club, recently sold the 160-acre parcel that was to be the site for The Pinnacle, a luxurious compound of four 4,000-square-foot guest houses and a 32,000-square-foot main house in a setting reminiscent of a European village. When plans for the property were unveiled in January [...]
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February 4, 2008
The 1918 10-bedroom manor house in Greenwich, Conn., that served as the center of Leona Helmsley’s 1989 federal tax-evasion trial reportedly will list for $125 million. The listing price would leave only two U.S. residential properties with higher price tags. The mansion, Dunnellen Hall, boasts 23,000 square feet on 40 acres. The Beverly House, the [...]
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