Showing posts with label 10 Best Hollywood Celebrity Homes. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
Katy Perry's Hollywood House
Katy Perry's House: You Know You've Arrived When You Sell Your House Before Living In It
There are many ways to know that you have truly "made it". Katy Perry has managed to achieve almost all of them. She's won awards, had sold out concert tours, had a big screen documentary made about her career, appeared on numerous talk shows, and has even had a celebrity marriage and divorce. Most importantly, she has the real estate portfolio to back up her fame. In fact, she's so famous, she actually bought a home… and then never lived in it. Back during her married year (yes, that's singular), she purchased a home with then-husband, Russell Brand. Their busy work schedules made staying in their new mansion nearly impossible, and it sat empty. By the time either of them had a break long enough to warrant actually sleeping in their new abode, the relationship had soured, and the couple had filed for divorce. They have been trying to sell the massive mansion since then. This past week, it finally hit the open market.
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Katy Perry's house sits on 3 acres of land and is 8,835 square feet. The structure contains seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, and, like many of Southern California's large homes, features Spanish-styling. Katy Perry's house is on Laurel Canyon Boulevard, and looks out over the Sunset Strip. In addition to the multiple bedrooms and bathrooms, the house also features a swimming pool designed to look like a lagoon, a large patio, two guest houses, and a carriage house for vehicles. Katy Perry's house is on sale for $6.925 million. She bought it for $4 million less in 2011, but as her value has risen, so has the value of the property.
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Katy Perry's House in Hollywood.
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There are many ways to know that you have truly "made it". Katy Perry has managed to achieve almost all of them. She's won awards, had sold out concert tours, had a big screen documentary made about her career, appeared on numerous talk shows, and has even had a celebrity marriage and divorce. Most importantly, she has the real estate portfolio to back up her fame. In fact, she's so famous, she actually bought a home… and then never lived in it. Back during her married year (yes, that's singular), she purchased a home with then-husband, Russell Brand. Their busy work schedules made staying in their new mansion nearly impossible, and it sat empty. By the time either of them had a break long enough to warrant actually sleeping in their new abode, the relationship had soured, and the couple had filed for divorce. They have been trying to sell the massive mansion since then. This past week, it finally hit the open market.
Start Gallery
Katy Perry's house sits on 3 acres of land and is 8,835 square feet. The structure contains seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, and, like many of Southern California's large homes, features Spanish-styling. Katy Perry's house is on Laurel Canyon Boulevard, and looks out over the Sunset Strip. In addition to the multiple bedrooms and bathrooms, the house also features a swimming pool designed to look like a lagoon, a large patio, two guest houses, and a carriage house for vehicles. Katy Perry's house is on sale for $6.925 million. She bought it for $4 million less in 2011, but as her value has risen, so has the value of the property.
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Katy Perry's House in Hollywood.
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Donald Trump Palm Beach home, Mar-a-Lago
Donald Trump’s Private Club in Palm Beach, Florida
As rumors persist regarding Donald Trump making a Presidential run, perhaps it’s time to take a closer look at his Palm Beach home, Mar-a-Lago.
Mar-a-Lago | Aerial Photo - Lake to Ocean | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo
Mar-A-Lago (Sea to Lake) was built between 1924-1927 by Marjorie Merriweather Post (Post Cereals) and her husband at the time, E. F. Hutton. When Mrs. Post died in 1973 she left the property, all 17 acres of it, to the US government, which had declared the estate to be ‘The Mar-a-Lago National Historic Site’ in 1969, and placed it on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 by an Act of Congress. The government couldn’t afford to keep it — they were losing out on all of those property tax dollars and paying for the continued upkeep — so it was sold……to one Donald J. Trump in 1985 for the sum of $10 million.
Mar-a-Lago Close-Up | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo
After using the estate as his own personal residence for 10 years and spending millions of dollars to restore it to its original splendor, Mr. Trump turned this exquisite Spanish/Moroccan-inspired private home of 126 rooms into a private club, the Mar-a-Lago Club, which opened in 1995 with 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, a 29-foot marble-topped dining room table, 12 fireplaces, and to keep up with the times, 3 bomb shelters! Outside has been added 6 tennis courts, 5 clay and 1 grass, where Mrs. Post used to have her own personal golf course. There is now a large swimming pool facing the Intracoastal Waterway, a 20,000 square foot ballroom, as well as a spa which pampers the members and their guests with massages, a hair stylist, and a gym.
Mar-a-Lago | Marjorie Merriweather Post's Magnificent Tribute To Hispano-Moroccan Architecture. Pre-Donald, the hedge fronting the property was an 8-foot high stone wall, topped with embedded, broken glass. The wall extended all the way around the property to the lake. Mrs. Post was quite a fanatic when it came to her privacy. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | Beautiful front window with spectacular tile work. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | Close-up detail of the front window with its spectacular tile & stone work. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | Detail of hand-hewn stone work. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | Fabulous stone work on the outside of the bar. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | Exterior detail work. You can only see this by sticking your head out of a small window and looking to the side. It is not visible from the ground. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | The entrance to Mr. Trump's personal suite. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | The original living room/ballroom. Mrs. Post was very fond of dancing and hosted many balls. She was The Hostess of Palm Beach in her time. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | One of the half-dozen or so bedrooms available to Members and/or their guests during The Season. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | Bedroom Fireplace with hand-painted flower mural on the wall behind. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | Bedroom Fireplace. This incredibly tiled and enameled fireplace keeps one of the bedrooms warm. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | Detail of Bedroom Fireplace. This is a one-of-a-kind piece. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | Beautiful sitting area in one of the suites. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | Detail from the original living room/ballroom. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | This is the stairway up to the top of the tower. Notice the chandelier. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | Up the Tower and a view to the north. Once again, magnificent tile work with the Moorish arches for viewing openings. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Mar-a-Lago | Up the Tower. This gorgeous home is directly north of Mar-a-Lago. Mr. Trump had bought many of the adjacent properties. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo/slideshow.
Despite Mr. Trump’s run-ins with the Town of Palm Beach over things such as the size of his flagpole & flag and his on-going discussions with the Palm Beach International Airport over airplanes flying over Mar-a-Lago as they take off and/or land, making noise and disturbing him and his guests, the word’s out that he is once again considering making a run for the Presidency in 2012. We’ve heard this before, but maybe this time he just might try. Imagine him hearing ‘You’re Fired!‘ But at least he’d have this gorgeous architectural masterpiece to go home to.
Mar-a-Lago...Donald Trump's Palm Beach Getaway with the croquet course in front. | CLICK HERE to see a larger photo.
Mar-a-Lago
Friday, December 28, 2012
Michael Jordan’s New Jupiter Home
Exclusive First Look at Michael Jordan’s new Jupiter home in Jack Nicklaus’ Bears Club
Michael Jordan
The Bears Club, developed by the world’s greatest golfer, Jack Nicklaus, is now home to the world’s greatest basketball player, Michael Jordan.
The Bears Club was just a huge empty piece of land for years with a few cows and a lot of barbed wire owned by John D. McArthur until it was sold to Jack Nicklaus who had a dream for his ultimate golf course community. JN later split the parcel in 2 and developed the 2nd parcel into the Ritz Carlton of Jupiter.
While the Bears Club and The Ritz share the same stop light and first few hundred feet, the Ritz home owners drive straight and the Bears Club members and homeowners turn right into a magnificent, gated, stoned entry.
The caddies at the Ritz, when asked the difference between the two clubs, respond that the “Ritz homeowners are all millionaires, but the Bears Homeowners are billionaires”. While that may not be universally true at the Bears Club, they do have more than their share of ultra wealthy members.
MJ’s choice of a 3-acre homesite at the Bears Club is not all that unpredictable. His desire for privacy will certainly be well-served there, as entry to the Bears Club is well guarded.
His home has already been landscaped with a literal forest of trees, giving little or no glimpse of his mammoth 28,000 sq. ft. home, together with 3 separate structures; a guard house, guest house and pool house.
The Bears Club, Clubhouse
He paid $4.8m for the land and $7.6m for the construction, making this $12.4m mansion probably the most expensive non-waterfront home in the Palm Beaches. MJ’s total commitment when furnished will probably exceed $20m.
What is surprising, comparing Jordan’s piece of land to Tiger Woods’, (click here to see Tiger Woods’ Jupiter Island home) is that Tiger put together 3 parcels on Jupiter Island so that he has frontage on both the ocean and the Intracoastal. It would be interesting to see what the Jordan home resells for, being that its location, while great for MJ’s privacy, is not ideal for resale to the trophy and yacht buyer.
Michael Jordan New Home Slideshow
Jordan’s house has 11 bedrooms, 6 on the 2nd floor alone, a 2-story guard house, an athletic wing together with basketball court and lavish workout facility. It’s rumored his huge media room with state-of-the-art electronics is ‘cigar friendly’.
The Bears Club is already being used extensively by MJ. His usual routine is to play golf from sunrise to sunset. His handicap varies from 3-7, dependent on the difficulty of the golf course and whether he is spraying his drives.
Michael Jordan's Jupiter Home - Closer View
While MJ loves cigars and gambling, it’s rumored he’s tamed the latter in deference to Jack Nicklaus’ wishes to ‘tone it down’.
The Bears Club has 55 estate residences, with starter estate homes beginning at $4-5 million and the largest homes being priced just under $20m. Besides the estate residences, they have 3 other categories, Golf Villas, 14 Club Cottages, and 13 Vintage Estate Homes. Click here to see all of Michael Jordan’s new neighbors homes on the market at Bears Club real estate for sale.
The stone-clad Clubhouse is truly magnificent looking, both architecturally and the lush, dark-wooded interior. Jack Nicklaus spared nothing when building this masterpiece, notwithstanding the $350,000 initiation fee and $25,000 annual dues.
The golf course is not your typical palm-tree lined Florida course; instead the property is blessed with hundreds of mature pine trees and well maintained scrub that eats golf balls when struck off line.
The greens are firm, ultra-fast, and can be treacherous when cut very tight. I played there over a dozen times and always averaged about 3 to 4 strokes higher than my normal score. The course has a very high course rating and is fair but on the difficult side. Their caddy program is terrific.
Comparing it to real estate at Ritz Carlton in Jupiter, where I was a member for 4 years before 2 back surgeries forced my early retirement from golf, I found the Ritz to be a hair easier, maybe 1 to 2 strokes. Jack Nicklaus also designed the Ritz and made it his chief project to not let it be a lesser course, and he definitely achieved his goal. Both courses are terrific, great challenges, and a joy to play.
Having built homes in Highland Park, Illinois, I remember when MJ bought his parcel of land in Highland Park and built a 29,000 sq.ft. house together with a 3-hole golf course in his backyard. MJ had the number 23 on his entry gate. Will history repeat itself?
–Cary Lichtenstein is a former golf rater for GolfWeek Magazine. He started playing when he was 7 years old. His handicap varied from 4-5. He lives next door to the Bears Club at Admirals Cove. Cary and his son, Jeff Lichtenstein, are realtors for Illustrated Properties and Christies Great Estates.
Michael Jordan
The Bears Club, developed by the world’s greatest golfer, Jack Nicklaus, is now home to the world’s greatest basketball player, Michael Jordan.
The Bears Club was just a huge empty piece of land for years with a few cows and a lot of barbed wire owned by John D. McArthur until it was sold to Jack Nicklaus who had a dream for his ultimate golf course community. JN later split the parcel in 2 and developed the 2nd parcel into the Ritz Carlton of Jupiter.
While the Bears Club and The Ritz share the same stop light and first few hundred feet, the Ritz home owners drive straight and the Bears Club members and homeowners turn right into a magnificent, gated, stoned entry.
The caddies at the Ritz, when asked the difference between the two clubs, respond that the “Ritz homeowners are all millionaires, but the Bears Homeowners are billionaires”. While that may not be universally true at the Bears Club, they do have more than their share of ultra wealthy members.MJ’s choice of a 3-acre homesite at the Bears Club is not all that unpredictable. His desire for privacy will certainly be well-served there, as entry to the Bears Club is well guarded.
His home has already been landscaped with a literal forest of trees, giving little or no glimpse of his mammoth 28,000 sq. ft. home, together with 3 separate structures; a guard house, guest house and pool house.
The Bears Club, Clubhouse
He paid $4.8m for the land and $7.6m for the construction, making this $12.4m mansion probably the most expensive non-waterfront home in the Palm Beaches. MJ’s total commitment when furnished will probably exceed $20m.
What is surprising, comparing Jordan’s piece of land to Tiger Woods’, (click here to see Tiger Woods’ Jupiter Island home) is that Tiger put together 3 parcels on Jupiter Island so that he has frontage on both the ocean and the Intracoastal. It would be interesting to see what the Jordan home resells for, being that its location, while great for MJ’s privacy, is not ideal for resale to the trophy and yacht buyer.
Michael Jordan New Home Slideshow
Jordan’s house has 11 bedrooms, 6 on the 2nd floor alone, a 2-story guard house, an athletic wing together with basketball court and lavish workout facility. It’s rumored his huge media room with state-of-the-art electronics is ‘cigar friendly’.
The Bears Club is already being used extensively by MJ. His usual routine is to play golf from sunrise to sunset. His handicap varies from 3-7, dependent on the difficulty of the golf course and whether he is spraying his drives.
Michael Jordan's Jupiter Home - Closer View
While MJ loves cigars and gambling, it’s rumored he’s tamed the latter in deference to Jack Nicklaus’ wishes to ‘tone it down’.
The Bears Club has 55 estate residences, with starter estate homes beginning at $4-5 million and the largest homes being priced just under $20m. Besides the estate residences, they have 3 other categories, Golf Villas, 14 Club Cottages, and 13 Vintage Estate Homes. Click here to see all of Michael Jordan’s new neighbors homes on the market at Bears Club real estate for sale.
The stone-clad Clubhouse is truly magnificent looking, both architecturally and the lush, dark-wooded interior. Jack Nicklaus spared nothing when building this masterpiece, notwithstanding the $350,000 initiation fee and $25,000 annual dues.
The golf course is not your typical palm-tree lined Florida course; instead the property is blessed with hundreds of mature pine trees and well maintained scrub that eats golf balls when struck off line.
The greens are firm, ultra-fast, and can be treacherous when cut very tight. I played there over a dozen times and always averaged about 3 to 4 strokes higher than my normal score. The course has a very high course rating and is fair but on the difficult side. Their caddy program is terrific.
Comparing it to real estate at Ritz Carlton in Jupiter, where I was a member for 4 years before 2 back surgeries forced my early retirement from golf, I found the Ritz to be a hair easier, maybe 1 to 2 strokes. Jack Nicklaus also designed the Ritz and made it his chief project to not let it be a lesser course, and he definitely achieved his goal. Both courses are terrific, great challenges, and a joy to play.
Having built homes in Highland Park, Illinois, I remember when MJ bought his parcel of land in Highland Park and built a 29,000 sq.ft. house together with a 3-hole golf course in his backyard. MJ had the number 23 on his entry gate. Will history repeat itself?
–Cary Lichtenstein is a former golf rater for GolfWeek Magazine. He started playing when he was 7 years old. His handicap varied from 4-5. He lives next door to the Bears Club at Admirals Cove. Cary and his son, Jeff Lichtenstein, are realtors for Illustrated Properties and Christies Great Estates.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
10 Best Hollywood Celebrity Homes
If antiquity gods lived in the heavenly Olympus above the clouds, nowadays stars have cribs that top anything else in the world. Choose any celebrity home and you’ll hardly find any comparable house that doesn’t belong to a star. So, what’s so great about a celebrity home, apart from being famous? A celebrity home has style, Oscars by the fireplace and gorgeous gardens.
Hollywood is the most popular place for any celebrity home, for the simple reason that it is the heart of show-biz. So here i have compiled a list for some of the best Hollywood celebrity homes.
Barbra Streisand
This celebrity home is a huge mansion completely covered (inside and outside) with “aged” wood, stained glass windows and an outside garden with brick walkways in front of a beautiful water front.
Christina Onassis
Christina’s house is a 5 Bedroom, 6 bathroom estate with two separate wings, a huge pool and a squash tennis court. And the best part a personal luxurious yacht.
Madonna
The third position in the celebrity home top is held by Madonna and her villa with a personal spa salon, artificial pond, golf terrain and a top interior design touch, including leather sofas and mirrored walls.
Britney Spears
She is the proud owner of a tree-branch mansion with a resort-style pool and an amazing waterfall in the back yard.
George Clooney
The “Casa de Clooney” mansion is a 8 bedroom Tudor house with a large garden and golf terrain and with a design that makes Africa safari seem poor, being the celebrity home type in which you are likely to get lost.
Paris Hilton
As to Hilton’s celebrity home, we’re talking a large real estate with a Baccarat crystal chandelier in the lounge, several pets’ rooms and an artificial garden lake to go with the exotic palms. The picture above is of her dog house. You can imagine her own !
Mel Gibson
Celebrity home number 7 is Mel Gibson’s and is the paradise-like villa we all dream about. Tennis field, heated pool, garden astronomy observer or large screens covering the inside walls are all there, because this villa is a celebrity home where living like a star is a must.
Colin Farrell
Farrell’s celebrity home is the typical bachelor villa, with a wine cellar, limestone kitchen tops, beamed ceilings and outdoor billiards salon.
Denise Richard
Richards has redecorated her private celebrity home using a Japanese theme, with bonsais around the garden pond and a red and black color palette to match the mahogany furniture around the mansion.
Marilyn Monroe
The final position is Marilyn Monroe’s ex- estate home, an elegant villa with a collection of actors’ paintings, a ’50s decoration theme and a pool showing Marilyn’s famous movies.
Hollywood is the most popular place for any celebrity home, for the simple reason that it is the heart of show-biz. So here i have compiled a list for some of the best Hollywood celebrity homes.
Barbra Streisand
This celebrity home is a huge mansion completely covered (inside and outside) with “aged” wood, stained glass windows and an outside garden with brick walkways in front of a beautiful water front.
Christina Onassis
Christina’s house is a 5 Bedroom, 6 bathroom estate with two separate wings, a huge pool and a squash tennis court. And the best part a personal luxurious yacht.
Madonna
The third position in the celebrity home top is held by Madonna and her villa with a personal spa salon, artificial pond, golf terrain and a top interior design touch, including leather sofas and mirrored walls.
Britney Spears
She is the proud owner of a tree-branch mansion with a resort-style pool and an amazing waterfall in the back yard.
George Clooney
The “Casa de Clooney” mansion is a 8 bedroom Tudor house with a large garden and golf terrain and with a design that makes Africa safari seem poor, being the celebrity home type in which you are likely to get lost.
Paris Hilton
As to Hilton’s celebrity home, we’re talking a large real estate with a Baccarat crystal chandelier in the lounge, several pets’ rooms and an artificial garden lake to go with the exotic palms. The picture above is of her dog house. You can imagine her own !
Mel Gibson
Celebrity home number 7 is Mel Gibson’s and is the paradise-like villa we all dream about. Tennis field, heated pool, garden astronomy observer or large screens covering the inside walls are all there, because this villa is a celebrity home where living like a star is a must.
Colin Farrell
Farrell’s celebrity home is the typical bachelor villa, with a wine cellar, limestone kitchen tops, beamed ceilings and outdoor billiards salon.
Denise Richard
Richards has redecorated her private celebrity home using a Japanese theme, with bonsais around the garden pond and a red and black color palette to match the mahogany furniture around the mansion.
Marilyn Monroe
The final position is Marilyn Monroe’s ex- estate home, an elegant villa with a collection of actors’ paintings, a ’50s decoration theme and a pool showing Marilyn’s famous movies.
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