An elegant, traditional home, in the exclusive gated community of Snapper Creek Lakes, recently became the backdrop for a run-in with a crooked senator (played by Burt Reynolds), the Russian mob, and the covert operatives of the cast of the television drama Burn Notice. The home at 10950 Snapper Creek Road is currently for sale [...]
Award-winning singer and pop culture icon Cher is auctioning off her 6-bedroom, 6-bath and two-half-bath residence in the Hualalai Resort, a luxury community on the North Kona coast of Hawaii’s Big Island. The Balinese-style luxury residence, totaling 8,821 square feet, was completed in December 2009. Inside the gated courtyard reveals a main house with a [...]
Fashion icon Tommy Hilfiger sold his Greenwich, Conn. home, a 20,000-square-foot Georgian Mansion, for $20 million. Known as Stone Hill, it was first listed at $27.9 million about a year ago. Hilfiger cut the 4-acre estate’s offering price earlier this year to $21.9 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. The 58-year-old designer paid $18 [...]
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 [...]
Luxuryrealestate.com will award Shari Chase, CEO and president of Chase International, with its Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual spring retreat, which will be held from Sunday, April 26 to Wednesday, April 29. Being held in Las Vegas, Nev., the retreat will host Olympic gold medalist Mary Whipple as its keynote speaker. Winning an Olympic [...]
If you don’t mind your neighbors throwing loud, out-of-control parties, you can live next door to the Playboy mansion for only 28 million dollars. Hugh Hefner and his wife, Kimberley Conrad Hefner, who have lived in adjacent mansions since their 1999 separation, are listing Ms. Hefner’s Los Angeles home for $28 million. Standing next door [...]
Attention football fans—It’s first and goal for a chance to place a bid on the suburban Atlanta home of Atlanta Falcons quarterback, Michael Vick. The home is expected to hit the auction block on March 10th. Previously listed at $4.5 million, the residence will now start with opening bid of $3.2 million. The auction will be [...]
Depending on how you look at it, entrepreneurs are either hindered greatly by the current financial climate, or they are best positioned to weather these uncertain times. Either way, bold self-promotion these days can’t hurt, and real estate daredevil Frank McKinney continues his unique career with the February 13th co-unveiling of Acqua Liana, his [...]
President Bush leaves Washington, D.C. this month to begin his post-presidency life, reportedly in Preston Hollow, a high-end North Dallas suburb. If you’re hoping to run into Mr. Bush on an early evening stroll near his new abode, or to borrow a cup of sugar from the former First Lady, consider purchasing one of [...]
Savannah, Ga. – Don Zeman, known to millions of radio listeners and television viewers across the country as “America’s Home Improvement Expert,” died suddenly on December 31 while on vacation in Mississippi. He was 55 years old. Zeman was host of Homefront with Don Zeman, the nationally syndicated home improvement radio show heard each [...]
