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| Most expensive house ever sold in California! The second most expensive home sale in the United States! Superlatives all around on the news E.B. Solomont broke that fashion mogul Serge Azria has sold his oceanfront estate in Malibu to venture capitalist and internet pioneer Marc Andreessen for $177 million. The deal sets a record in the state of California, and it is the second-highest priced home sold in the U.S., following billionaire Ken Griffin’s roughly $238 million purchase of a New York City penthouse in 2019. Previously, the highest-priced deal in California was set by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who purchased the Warner Estate from media mogul David Geffen for $165 million last year. Read more about the mega-deal here. In time for Halloween, we talk to a Londoner who spent millions converting a cemetery caretaker’s cottage into a modern showpiece. Justin Maxwell Stuart was once in the habit of taking his dog for daily walks around Fulham Cemetery, a Victorian burial ground close to his West London home. In 2015, he noticed a For Sale sign had gone up outside the cemetery’s tumbledown, neo-Gothic-style, three-bedroom lodge house, originally built to house cemetery staff. Intrigued, he decided to contact the estate agent. That decision was the first step in an epic three-year, $3.3 million building project. The lodge has been renovated, extended and transformed into a contemporary house with an open-plan living space, a basement swimming pool complete with waterfall, and a primary suite that occupies the entire second floor. |
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 | | Mr. Maxwell Stuart is unfazed by his new home's location near the cemetery. 'My family house has 1,000 years of history, and I reckon if I was going to come across any ghouls and ghosts and headless horsemen, I would have done so by now.' PHOTOS: VANESSA BERBERIAN FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL |
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| In Michigan, luxury house hunters are setting up shop on Leelanau and Old Mission peninsulas, creating a growing market for high-end real estate, with or without vines. J.S Marcus has the details on that market here. Lastly, in Robyn A. Friedman's latest Jumbo Jungle column, she outlines some things to know before living in your RV full time. She focuses on some legal and financial issues you’ll need to resolve. —Editors, Mansion |
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| | A Londoner Used to Spooky Old Houses Converts a Cemetery Caretaker’s Cottage Into a Modern Showpiece |
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| The project took three years and cost more than $3.3 million. (For a Twitter video of the house scroll down.) |
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| | Luxury House Hunters Raise a Glass to Michigan’s Wine Country |
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 | | TONY DEMIN FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL |
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| Winemakers are setting up shop on Leelanau and Old Mission peninsulas, creating a growing market for high-end real estate, with or without vines. |
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| | Marc Andreessen is the Buyer of Serge Azria’s Malibu Home |
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| $193 Billion | | Amount investors spent buying apartment buildings, life-science labs and industrial properties in the quarter. That is up 19% compared with the same three months in 2019, before the pandemic, and the biggest quarter for commercial property sales ever.(Read more) |
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| Hilary Swank lists Los Angeles home for $10.5 million. The Netflix ‘Away’ star is selling her Pacific Palisades compound with a movie theater after moving to Colorado during Covid. |
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| Hamptons home of Macklowe Gallery founders lists for $60 million. The East Hampton house has ocean and Georgica Pond views. |
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| New York City penthouse in Jean Nouvel-designed building to list for $25 million. The sellers are Daniel Fischel and Sylvia Neil, former administrators at the University of Chicago Law School |
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Jumbo Jungle | | Things to know bBefore Living in Your RV Full Time
| | | | Before hitting the open road, here are some legal and financial issues you’ll need to resolve |
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House Call | | How Doors Guitarist Robby Krieger Went From Being Hazed to Being Cool in School
| | | | The musician and memoirist was sent to boarding school as a teen and found status in learning flamenco guitar |
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Inside Story | | A New York Builder Restores a Connecticut Lighthouse For Sleepovers With His Grandkids
| | | | In the longtime summer community of Katharine Hepburn, Frank Sciame has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to turn an Old Saybrook lighthouse into a teaching tool |
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| This London homeowner has no qualms about living next door to a Victorian burial ground. See it @wsjrealestate |
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- ‘World’s most expensive home’ with only Caravaggio mural on sale for $547M (New York Post)
- The Look Book Goes to a South Slope Open House (Curbed)
- These brave souls live in haunted houses—and they love it (National Georgraphic)
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| | October 29, 2021 Edition of Mansion |
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