By Kimberly Turner Hurwitz James sells Razor for $14 million You may recognize “The Razor” in La Jolla, Calif., from its star-studded appearances in the famous Black Card and Calvin Klein commercials, Architectural Digest and Unique Homes, among others. Now, this attention-getting home set the 2011 record for sales price in San Diego County, selling [...]
By Susmita Baral Buckhead Home Sells For $9 Million In one of Atlanta’s most sought-after ZIP codes, an architecturally distinctive estate at 981 Davis Drive recently sold for $9 million, making it the most expensive Atlanta home sale this year to date. The property listed for $10 million and earned the Schutze Award in 2008 [...]
By Jessica Decina La Belle Vie fetches $40 million Gracing the cover of our Winter 2011 issue, the elegant limestone façade of La Belle Vie is welcoming a new owner. The former home of philanthropist Iris Cantor sold in late June for $40 million, according to the Los Angeles Times. The mammoth property boasts nine [...]
Spelling’s $150 Million Manor Under Contract By Jessica Decina It seems like only yesterday that the Unique Homes staff was assembling its annual Ultimate Homes list, which placed The Manor, Aaron Spelling’s $150 million mansion in Holmby Hills, Calif., at the very top as the most expensive property for sale in the United States for [...]
The Ultimate Sales $100 million & $221 million sales set records By Publisher Rick Goodwin The spring selling got off to a rather high-profile start when a number of news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal and The Huffington Post, reported the sale of an 18-acre hilltop estate in Los Altos Hills, Calif., for the [...]
Frankie Boy’s Mansion Sells Quickly Sinatra’s LA estate was bought in less than one month. By Lauren Varga King No landmark listing with class and grace is going to sit on the market and become stale; it will simply see a few jaws drop and then welcome its next owner. Such is the case with [...]
Picking Up the Slack Foreign Interest Keeps NYC Market Moving By Lauren Varga King Red lights and yellow cabs may make for congested New York streets, but thanks to a push from foreign buyers, it’s green lights ahead for the Big Apple’s luxury real estate market. New York always has had the glitz and glamour. [...]
‘Unprecedented’ Since our last issue, real estate records were set, broken and set again in a matter of weeks. By Jessica Decina The news broke in August: a six-bedroom, two-floor penthouse at London’s One Hyde Park sold for a record-breaking £140 million—roughly $220 million. And just when the buzz was beginning to calm, the record [...]
One of the country’s premier listings, the Le Belvédère estate in Bel Air, Calif., sold in June for more than $50 million, making it the most expensive sale so far in 2010. The home was featured on our June/July 2009 cover; at that time it was listed for $85 million. The 48,000-square-foot manse was reduced [...]
By Ken Weingartner GOING ONCE… Auctions becoming increasingly popular at the high end As a work of art, it will not fit in your living room. But it comes with a living room. Tulip Hill, located in Maryland and considered one of the finest pre-Revolutionary War estates in the U.S., sold at auction in April [...]
