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Our annual look at the prospects for U.S. luxury real estate in the coming year sees a fragmented recovery, with steady improvement at the high end. By Camilla McLaughlin In an increasingly uncertain world, real estate is emerging as one of the few sure things. We’ve seen a growing reversal of sentiment regarding real estate. [...]

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By Camilla McLaughlin No matter how you look at it, 40 years is a long time. When Unique Homes began, luxury was a very thin slice of real estate overall, not every city had a Multiple Listing Service and there were very few ways to publicize homes for sale. Changes brought by the fax, cell [...]

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Unique Homes celebrates 40 years of visionary “Homes of the Future.” By Camilla McLaughlin Instead of pods balanced above land or water, bubble houses, geodesic domes or any one of the dozen or more prototypes architects, futurists and just plain dreamers conjured up in the last 40 years, homes today appear very much like they [...]

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As much as things change they stay the same. By Camilla McLaughlin When Unique Homes was introduced 40 years ago, buying a house was straightforward. There were few, if any, disclosures and closing documents barely measured on a ruler. Getting a mortgage was as simple as going to your local bank, but getting an approval [...]

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The Most Expensive Homes You Can Buy If you’re looking for the most expensive real estate in the United States, you’ve come to right place. At Unique Homes, we’ve been covering the luxury real estate market for 40 years. And for seven years, we’ve been producing Ultimate Homes, which features a compilation of the most [...]

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In honor of our 40th anniversary, Unique Homes looks at  where the ‘jetsetters’ are going now. By Camilla McLaughlin When the first issues of Unique Homes arrived at newsstands 40 years ago, “jetsetter” was often used to describe a peripatetic group of ultra-wealthy individuals who supposedly circled the globe for the social event du jour. [...]

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When we realized Unique Homes would be turning 40 years old in 2011, we knew we had to do something special to commemorate the milestone (let’s face it, lasting 40 years in this industry is quite an accomplishment). Consequently, we have a great year of 40th anniversary content planned for our readers, including our list [...]

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By Mark Moffa The staff of Unique Homes took on a daunting task to kick off the celebration of our 40th year. We combed all six 2010 issues — a total of exactly 1,000 pages — to find our favorite homes. We figured it would be appropriate to select 40 of them; and we figured [...]

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Voting is over, and our readers overwhelmingly selected The Stevens Estate as having the Ultimate Theater/Indoor Entertainment Space. Listed at $16.75 million by Erica Levey of Weichert Capital Properties and Estates, it’s easy to visualize entertaining in the elegant home at 450 Mendham Road in Bernardsville, New Jersey. The entertainment level of this estate replicates [...]

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Grab Your Popcorn We continue our yearlong “Ultimate” series this issue with the Ultimate Entertainment Game Theater Room contest. Realtors were invited to submit luxury listings with amazing indoor entertainment spaces. We sorted through terrific entries from coast to coast, and we narrowed the field to about two-dozen finalists. Our editors were tasked with selecting [...]

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