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Today’s estate takes us to back to South Carolina community of Spring Island, where life is a little bit slower. The community includes a golf course, fitness center, restaurants, equestrian programs and more. Today’s home is a 6.83 acre family compound with views of the marsh and the 16th and 17th holes of Old Tabby Links.

This home is designed around a live oak tree. The compound includes a two-bedroom, two-bath guest house and a five-car garage with a studio office, full bath and mini kitchen on the upper level. The main house’s master suite has three large cedar closets and an adjoining library/movie room. The lower level of the home also has an exercise room, workshop, 1,500-bottle wine cellar, and entertainment room with a pool table.

In the living room the vaulted ceilings are framed by 150 year old heart maple beams and the floor has floors from an old tobacco farm. The gourmet kitchen is next to a keeping room with a gas log fireplace and the nearby butler’s pantry serves as a second bar and wine storage area. The kitchen opens to a screened porch with a wood burning fireplace. The upper floor of the home has a 60 foot long art gallery and a guest suite with a walk out porch.

The grounds include a swimming pool, a fenced garden and potting shed, and a fishing camp on a small private pond. This home is listed at $4 million.

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It was only back in March that we questioned whether or not a luxury home in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina would sell for its record-setting price of $10 million. It sold, not for $10 million, but for a still record-setting $7.5 million. The previous record for the most expensive home sale on record in the area was in Old Village and went for $3.25 million in 2007.

This five-bedroom home was built in 2003 and sits at the mouth of Shem Creek, positioned for lovely tranquil views of Ravenel bridge, the Charleston skyline, Sullivan’s Island, and Fort Sumter. The saltwater pool shown above spans the length of the house and faces the water. The home sits on 1.32 acres and has a deep water-covered dock on Shem Creek. Luxury Real Estate reports that the home sold to a family in Michigan who intend to move there permanently.

The home has high ceilings and wide planked reclaimed antique heart of pine flooring on all three floors. On the first floor the foyer hall runs from the entrance to the rear double French doors leading out to the pool. The second floor has the master bedroom suite which has a private porch for enjoying the views. There are two other bedrooms and a home office on this floor. The third floor serves as a combination den, recreational room, built-in beds and full bath. An elevator connects all three stories.

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Lake Wildwood is a gated community of about 3,000 homes in the Sierra Nevada Foothills in northern California. . Our Estate Of The Day is a private residence at Lake Wildwood, It is in Penn Valley, near both Sacramento and the Lake Tahoe/Truckee areas. It is located in a wooded setting around a private lake. The lake provides residents with many water-related activities, including boating and fishing. Nearby there is an 18-hole golf course and restaurant. Lake Wildwood’s amenities include 24-hour security service, tennis courts, a pool, a Clubhouse, and several parks,for exclusive use of the residents and their guests.

Priced at $5.4 million, this Lake Wildwood waterfront estate has 225 feet of shoreline, its own boat dock, and a natural stone seawall with a walkway. The home itself has 8600 square feet of living space. Included are 6-7 bedrooms, 7.5 baths, eight fireplaces. There is a central music system for the living area and the master bedroom as well. Each floor of the residence is self-contained and has its own laundry and kitchen facilities. There is over 1000 square feet of decks that are all porcelain tile, with an outdoor kitchen.

The owners took three years to renovate this home. The renowned architects Tony Rosas & Mark Moran, the Grebmeier Group from San Francisco and Jan Wasson of Wasson II of Palo Alto, California also worked on the home interiors and lighting systems. Ironwood Design, Santa Barbara, constructed all the chandeliers and wall sconces.

The multiple amenities of this home includes: an outdoor heated spa with waterfall, a separate child friendly swimming area, an authentic cobblestone driveway and lakefront fire pit with built in seating, a William Oh designed kitchen with Miele, Theramador and Sub Zero products, with a laundry room with Miele appliances, and a separate drip drying/ dog-washing shower.

The entertainment area has a home theater, a professional pool table and ping pong table, the garage is a three bay design, with an extra large bay for a boat and a boat trailer. There is an upstairs guest apartment wing, and a two bedroom guest apartment suite on the lower level of the home also. The listing agent is Robert Floodman, Coldwell Banker.

This listing was generously provided to Luxist by Luxury Home Magazine.

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Today’s home is a brick Georgian style estate in Wilmington, Delaware. The five-bedroom home sits on almost seven acres and was originally built as a DuPont family home. The home has a front to back center entrance hall, wood-paneled library, office and formal living and dining rooms. The kitchen has been completely renovated with new countertops and cabinets (with a refrigerator to match). The master suite has a sitting room and his and hers baths. Other features include a media room, lovely tiled sunroom, exercise room, a playroom for the kids and a craft room. The grounds include a pool. This home is listed at $3.95 million.

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Could one of the country’s most extravagant and expensive homes finally be sold? The NY Post says that Dunnellen Hall in Greenwich, Connecticut is at the contract stage. Leona Helmsley’s former home first hit the market in 2008 for an astounding $125 million. Price cut after price cut followed until it hit $60 million. The NY Post’s source revealed that the home may sell to a mystery buyer for under $55 million. The listing still appears on the David Oglivy & Associates website.

The traditional brick mansion is approximately 23,0000 square feet with seven upstairs bedroom suites, a glass-walled music room, a wood- paneled library with a 15th century fireplace mantel, formal dining room, family room with a bar and much more. The back wing is home to the staff area which has six bedrooms. The indoor pool has four exposures and includes areas for sitting and changing. There is also a 75-foot outdoor pool with a terrace and a cabana with a kitchen. There are also brick cottages with an additional six bedrooms total. The Helmsleys bought Dunnellen Hall in 1983 for $9 million (paying an extra $2 million for the furniture) and later picked up another 14 acres bringing the total to 40 acres.

The sale will be a boon for the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, which supports health care and medical research. We’ve heard from those who have visited the home that it is in a state of disrepair and will cost millions to fix. The Post article echoes that saying that it has a leaky roof and other problems. It also has astounding property taxes, a total of $183,000 a year according to the Post. The MLS lists the most expensive piece of property on the market in Greenwich right now as a 27-acre piece of property that is “contiguous to and once part of the great estate, Dunnellen Hall” for $39 million.

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Move Trends recently unearthed an interesting story, Toni Braxton’s Nevada home appears to be listed as a foreclosure. Braxton has had financial troubles for years starting with a bankruptcy filing way back in 1998 and this isn’t the first time her name has popped up on our foreclosure radar. Last year TMZ reported that she was facing foreclosure on a Century City condo.

The six-time Grammy winner and her husband, Keirston”Keri” Lewis bought the home in Henderson, NV home in 2007 for $2.6 million. The couple separated late last year. The home is listed as a foreclosure on Realtor.com for $1.15 million. Listing pictures show that the home has been completely cleaned out. The home in the Seven Hills area of Henderson Nevada has four bedrooms, a pool, three-car garage and views of the surrounding desert.

Toni Braxton’s Foreclosed Nevada Home originally appeared on Luxist on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Today’s estate holds a huge 355 acres on top of Rice Mountain in Walpole, New Hampshire. The striking main residence is a unique blend of an antique cape, brick towers, and new post and beam construction. There are also two guest residences, a log house and a caretaker’s home. Other features that make this compound a special place to live include well-planted gardens, a grotto, a barn’s stone foundation, stonewalls, ponds and fields. The home’s mountain location gives it panoramic views of mountain ranges and ski resort into neighboring states and Canada. This home is listed at $5.3 million.

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This beautiful painted lady is in the heart of New Orleans’ Garden District. The Italianate Victorian home was built circa 1849 but has been given a colorful renovation. Details to love here include the eight fireplaces with marble mantles, the intricate ceiling medallions, a double parlor, pocket doors, moldings and tall windows. This five-bedroom home is listed at $2,997,500.

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From the LA Times Hot Property:
–David W. Higgins, the president of production at Sobini Films, has listed a midcentury home in Sherman Oaks at $949,000. The listing for the colorful home is here.
–Internet pioneer David Bohnett has sold his Holmby Hills compound to art dealer Larry Gagosian for $15.5 million.

From the NY Observer:
–Real estate mogul Aby Rosen’s townhouse at 22 East 71st Street may have finally sold or at least been pulled off the market. It was listed at $75 million in 2008 but later had a price cut to $59 million.

–Official records show that Damon Dash’s foreclosed Tribeca condo at 25 North Moore Street went to Platinum Capital for $5.6 million.
–Society staple Countess Sharon Sondes sold her Trump International Hotel & Tower pied-a-terre for $1.45 million.
–Allen Ginsberg’s apartment at 437 East 12th Street is now up for rent for $1,700 a month.
–Interior designer Jamie Drake purchased an apartment at 200 11th Avenue (the star-filled building where Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban recently bought) for $4.662 million and is already planning renovations.
–CB Richard Ellis vice chairman Darcy Stacom and her husband, Chris Kraus, a managing director at Jones Lang LaSalle bought a four-bedroom apartment at 447 East 57th Street for $4.775 million.
–Actor Liam Neeson recently sold his two-bedroom co-op at 91 Central Park West for $1.352 million. He and his late wife, actress Natasha Richardson, bought the apartment for $1.4 million in 1994.
–Ponzi schemer James Nicholson’s three-bedroom at the Time Warner Center has finally been sold by the U.S. Marshal’s office for $6.75 million. Nicholson bought the home for $8.5 million two years ago.
–New York Philharmonic flutist, composer and pianist Gary Schocker and Richard Norton purchased a brownstone at 215 West 137th Street in Central Harlem. They purchased the home from Vincent and Kim Van Doorn for the listing price of $2 million even.

From the Wall Street Journal’s Private Properties:
– Winecup-Gamble Ranch in Nevada, one of the largest in the West, with access to nearly one million acres of land has hit the market for $50 million. The ranch is owned by a corporation headed by Paul Fireman, the former chairman and chief executive of Reebok and the chairman of Fireman Capital Partners. The listing is here.
–A Beverly Hills home owned by Max Palevsky, the late philanthropist, art collector and a founder of Intel is listed for $9.5 million. The property website is here. His Malibu home remains listed at $55 million.
–Bert Saberhagen’s Calabasas, California home is back on the market. The former Major League Baseball pitcher listed his home for $3.25 million last year but it is now for sale for $2.699 million.

From the Real Estalker:
–Filmmaker Brett Morgen and actor/director/writer Debra Eisenstadt have listed their home in the Rockaways, Queens, New York for $4.495 million. The listing is here.
–Rumor has it that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are cozied up in a contemporary love nest in Bel Air.
–Courtney Love has leased actress/model Milla Jovovich’s West Village townhouse.

–Andrew Dice Clay has sold his Hollywood home for the asking price of $1.399 million.

From Housing Watch:
–Christina Aguilera has dropped the price again on her Hollywood Hills home. It is now listed at $5.995 million, a full $2 million off the original asking price when she put it on the market in 2008. She bought the home in 2003 for $5 million.

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Today’s home is as intriguing for its art as its architecture. The LA Times Hot Property Column reports that artist Chad Robertson and his wife Kathryn Bakken have listed their three-story home in Los Angeles’ Beachwood Canyon-area home. The 3,400-square-foot three-story home looks out onto the hillside with a two-story wall of windows. The home’s other charming features include two separate office spaces and a sleeping loft. The master bedroom suite includes a bathroom with a large soaking tub and curved steam shower. The lot includes terraces, a koi pond waterfalls and, as one listing pic shows, room enough for an urban chicken or two. The artist pair bought the home in 2004 for $1.179 million and is it listed at $1.297 million with Konstantine Valissarakos of Sotheby’s Homes.

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Although the President has been spending time on Martha’s Vineyard recently he prefers another island in the winter. While Barack Obama loves his Hawaiian vacations, he might need a new place to stay this winter. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports that the home on Kailua Beach where the Obama family stayed in December 2008 and 2009 has been sold. The home was bought by a Maryland company managed by a nephew of Hawaii real estate baron Harry Weinberg. The five-bedroom home was built in 2006 and was listed for $7.95 million. The listing agent Joel Cavasso, who is with Century 21 Kailua Beach Realty told the Star-Advertiser that the property sold for around $6.9 million. The buyers have never met the President and sales documents list the buyer as Paradise Point Estates LLC. Cassavo said that although the house has been sold the new owners are hoping that the President will still come visit.

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Sometimes it seems that celebrities don’t really want to buy a house in Los Angeles unless another celebrity has lived there first. Earlier this year “Grey’s Anatomy” producer Shonda Rhimes bought Beck’s old place in Hancock Park. We had watched that house, once listed as high as $9 million, received a host of price cuts. The Real Estalker reveals that that home sold for $5.7 million back in March leaving Rhimes with the task of selling her own home in the same area. The home that Rhimes is selling is a five-bedroom Mediterranean which was built in 1926. The Real Estalker reports that Rhimes bought the home in 2005 for $3.885 million.

It looks like Rhimes moved on a while ago. This home is styled within an inch of its life. But I suspect that the colorful paint jobs were done before Rhimes moved out. The home has great old bones with dark-stained hardwood floors, carved stone moldings on the entrance into the living room and beamed ceilings. Wide windows and French doors create a sun-filled open space. The second floor has four bedrooms including a master suite with two walk-in closets with dressing areas, a large master bath and a covered balcony. The backyard has a swimming pool, barbecue center and a very cute children’s playhouse that looks like a Victorian house. The two-car garage has been converted into a book-shelved office and changing room. This home is listed at $3.695 million.

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One of the most historic homes in Charleston, South Carolina is the Gaillard-Bennett House on 60 Montagu Street. It was built in 1800 by Theodore Gaillard, a successful trades person. It is in the heart of downtown Charleston’s historic district, and is the end product of a massive four year, multi-million dollar restoration. It is for sale for $13M, the second high estate real estate listing ever recorded for Charleston Peninsula.

It is a 10,000 square foot home, with five bedrooms, 5 baths and 2 half- baths. It also has a 3000 square foot kitchen house, a 2000 square foot carriage house, as well as a pool house, pool, tack house, and and multiple garages. Set on one and one quarter acres, surrounded by a stuccoed privacy wall, it is one of Charleston’s most elaborately embellished Federal mansions. The main house is a two and one half stories, with a front porch and two side decorative porches, each with a pagoda roof. The pool and gazebo overlook the home’s garden: one of the largest in the city. The main house has approximately 10,000 square feet. The Historic Charleston Foundation holds the Preservation Easement.

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George W. Bush’s little brother is moving on. The Washington Post reports that Marvin and Margaret Bush have listed their Alexandria, Virginia home. The Post reports that the pair are selling their four-bedroom Beaux-Arts Colonial near Belle Haven Country Club and downsizing into a condo as well as planning to spend more time at their Florida house.

The traditional home is on a 1.4 acre lot and has a guest house with a bedroom, media room and office. The main house was built in 1936 and has 10′ ceilings, exquisite moldings and architectural detail. The home includes a large master suite, family room and a garden room overlooking the brick patio. The entrance foyer features a mural that wraps around several walls. The home is listed for $2.9 million with Jeanne Warner, the wife of former Senator John Warner.

Marvin Bush Lists His Alexandria Home originally appeared on Luxist on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Didi Conn, the actress best known for playing Frenchy in “Grease” and for voiceover work showcasing her distinctive tones, is just one of the many celebrities to have a home in the Snedens Landing area of Palisades, New York. Some of the celebrities that have lived in the area include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Al Pacino, Lorraine Bracco and Bjork.

Conn and her husband, David Shire, a composer, bought the home from actor Bill Murray. Murray built the home in the 1980s. The guest quarters currently used as a music studio was built around the actual firepole used in the Ghostbusters movie. The home is on around two acres of land. The house itself is an eclectic charmer with an open floorplan that includes a beautiful sunlit great room. There are six bedrooms including two master suites. The colorful folk art in the home complements the classic American style. This home is listed at $2.9 million.

[via NY Times Big Deal]

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Washington D.C.-based interior designer Thomas Pheasant is a busy man. He is known for his classic yet modern designs and has his own contemporary furniture line. Pheasant’s current Georgetown home was featured in the September 2009 issue of Architectural Digest, but he seems to be having some trouble unloading his old home. The Wall Street Journal’s Private Properties reports that he has the price on his two-bedroom Washington, D.C. home.

The home in the is a 1922 Tuscan-style villa that is the former gatehouse for the Archbold estate. The WSJ reports that Pheasant bought the home in 1987. The relatively small (around 2,000 square feet) two-bedroom home has a galley style kitchen with a breakfast nook, a dining room with two sets of French doors opening to terraces and a white and bright living room with French doors to the rear terrace. The listing says that the home “could” be available partly furnished and it’s clearly staged for sale. It was once listed at $1.75 million but is now at $1.495 million with Washington Fine Properties.

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The LA Times Hot Property column brought my attention to this home, owned by guitarist Nicky Panicci. Panicci has a lovely renovated three-bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills. The home was built in 1962 and has large walls of glass that showcase the canyon and city views. The decks offer a great place to hang out. The home is fairly small (around 2,000 square feet) and on a small lot but it has a lot of charm. The three-story house includes a spiral staircase and the master bedroom suite has a separate entrance. The A-frame home has dark beams and a modernist feel. The upstairs has a view loft that also serves as a third bedroom. Take Sunset has pictures that show the flat grassy yard with circular stone patios, terraces and decks. This home is listed at $899,000.

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You may have gone to a yard sale over the weekend but it was likely nothing like this, Dean Gardens, the massive 32,000-square-foot estate in Johns Creek, Georgia had a huge sale. Software entrepreneur Larry Dean basically priced everything in the home that wasn’t nailed down. CNN reports that even parts of the home’s architecture, including the rotunda in the foyer inspired by the dome of the Brunelleschi Cathedral in Florence, Italy, were up for sale.

Why the fire sale? The new owner, said to be director Tyler Perry, plans to tear down the home and build his own monument to ego on the 58-acre spread. Perry has his studios in Atlanta and owns several other mansions in the area. He bought the home for a song, just $7.6 million far below the most recent listing price of $13.9 million and previous prices of as much as $40 million.

Dean teamed up with Luminocity, an Atlanta group that runs light and dance shows to create one last big spectacle. Luminocity will run 12 performance art light parade events in downtown Atlanta starting in November. The group is also planning cultural arts programs for children. The weekend’s events include a Friday night gala for $100 a ticket and Saturday’s closing event with wine, food and music for $35. In both cases ticket prices were waived for sales over $1,500.

It’s a bit of a sad ending for a home that Dean spent $25 million creating. The property also includes landscaped gardens, an 18-hole golf course, grass tennis courts, an amphitheater and a conservatory. The CNN report says that Perry’s new home will be more energy efficient and sustainable.

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Drummer Max Weinberg (he was part of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and was the bandleader on the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien) and his wife Rebecca are serial house flippers. The Real Estalker recently reported that their latest shot at a quick real estate gain is a contemporary home in Hollywood Hills. The pair bought the home in 2009 from director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Forner, the parents of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal. They put the home on the market in 2008 for $4.2 million but after a few price cuts it later sold to the Weinbergs for $2.88 million.

The charming home on the famously twisty Mulholland Drive is at the end of a long private driveway and sits on nearly an acre. The five-bedroom home was built in 1953 and has great mid-century modern lines with walls of glass, an open floor plan and a sharp, angular appeal. The kitchen has stainless counters and Miele appliances and flows into the large living room with 14′ ceilings and fireplace. The master bathroom has dual custom-poured concrete vanities and wood floors. The property also has a two-bedroom guest house and a swimming pool with views of the Los Angeles skyline. One of the Real Estalker’s commenters toured the home and dished on it, including the fact that the master bath serves as the home’s public powder room and that the bedrooms are fairly small. This home is now listed at $3.399 million.

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From the LA Times Hot Property:
–The St. Lucia home of Oscar-winning screenwriter Nancy Dowd, Belmont, is on the market for $1.995 million.
–When I’m wrong, I’m wrong. In 2008 I predicted that a Hollywood Hills home belonging to former L.A. Galaxy coach Ruud Gullit would go fast at $4.25 million. Two years later and it is still on the market, now for $3.65 million.

–Cameron Diaz has picked up a Beverly Hills Post Office Spanish hacienda owned by Candice Bergen. Bergen bought the property from Moore in 1996 for $3.4 million and renovated it. it was most recently listed at $10.25 million.
–Actor Greg Germann has leased a home in Santa Monica that had been listed for sale at $1.7 million.
–Actress Jane Kaczmarek and actor Bradley Whitford have sold their Italian Renaissance Revival villa in San Marino for $6.2 million and Whitford has bought a house in Pasadena for $3.1 million. Their home had been listed at $6.7 million.

–The site of the former Malibu Lodge has been purchased by international cellphone magnate Sebastian Harrison and his wife, actress Linda Gucciardo, for $2.4 million.
–A four-bedroom home owned by the family of the late Albert Heschong, the Emmy-winning production designer for television, film and theater who headed the art department at CBS for more than two decades, is for sale in Encino at $1.15 million. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
–Tyler Perry is the new owner of Dean Gardens in Johns Creek, Georgia. He purchased the 58-acre estate for $7.6 million (far below the original asking of $40 million) and plans to tear down the huge 36,000 square foot main house.

From the Wall Street Journal’s Private Properties:
–Media mogul John Malone is the mystery buyer behind the sale of Bell Ranch. Malone is the Liberty Media chairman and he purchased the ranch through a limited-liability company he formed with his wife, Leslie.

–A modern home designed by Marcel Breuer in Litchfield, Connecticut is on the market for $3.8 million. The listing is here.
–Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse has sold his Midtown Manhattan loft for $4.6 million, according to broker records. It was initially listed in 2009 for $7.65 million and he bought the property in 2005 for about $5.8 million.

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