Entitled Parksite Modern residence in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Highly Creative Layout Defining Parksite Residence in Rotterdam

A design collaboration between Doepel Strijkers and LEX Architects led to the development of a modern residence in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Entitled Parksite, the dwelling is the result of converting a garage ambulance into contemporary living spaces. By shifting the rear wall with glass, an optimum indoor-outdoor connection was provided, ensuring unobstructed garden views from every room.



A dugout acts as the focal point of the house, while generating height for a second level. The interior design features quite a few interesting details: “Custom-made cupboard, kitchen and stairs finished in bright orange polyurethane, link the dugout to the entrance hall on the street side and the living room on the park side. Loose blocks on the staircase form informal chairs or function as tables. A polycarbonate light-box with integrated LED lights houses the bedrooms and spans the space above the living-kitchen“. Enjoy the views!

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Zsa Zsa Gabor Opulent Bel Air Home

Zsa Zsa Gabor Relists Opulent Bel Air Home at a Higher Price
London Luxury Real Estate


Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Opulent Bel Air home is back on the market

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Opulent Bel Air home is back on the market only this time round at a higher price. The property has bounced on and off the market over the past few years. Now it is back on the market with a $14.9 million price tag.


Gabor’s home definitely has Hollywood history to spare

Maybe Gabor, 95, and husband Frederic Prinz von Anhalt caught wind of the latest news; The US real estate market has yielded the biggest monthly gain in home values since 2006. Perhaps this encouraged the starlet and her husband Frederic Prinz von Anhalt to relist the property with a $2 million price increase. We think that the home was priced too low to begin with.


You can’t put a price on a property’s legacy

It’s true that you can’t put a price on a property’s legacy and Gabor’s home definitely has Hollywood history to spare. The silver screen starlet bought the property back in 1974. Over the years, the 26-room home has welcomed a parade political and Hollywood elites, such as Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and both former Presidents Bush: George H.W. and George W.


The massive home is too large for the couple

The home was also leased by recluse Howard Hughes for most of the 1960s, but the home was never owned by Elvis Presley, as was claimed when the home was last on the market according to our friends at Zillow.


Over the years, the 26-room home has welcomed a parade political and Hollywood elites

This grand property is sitting on over an acre with views of downtown Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean. According to one interview with von Anhalt, the massive home is too large for the couple. And with increasing medical bills for Gabor, the financial burden is too great.


Outdoor entertaining space

According to the lawsuit filed for conservatorship by Gabor’s daughter Constance Francesca Gabor Hilton, von Anhalt hasn’t been paying mortgage payments on the home. A notice of default was recorded against the property in February.


Stunning views of downtown Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean

The 8,878-square-foot property has 7 bedrooms, 7 baths and several indoor/outdoor entertaining spaces. An enormous master suite, pool, grand salon and formal dining room round out the rest of the celebrity home.


The 8,878-square-foot property boasts a pool

According to the mortgage calculator, a monthly payment on Gabor’s home would be $54,294, assuming a 20 percent down payment on a 30-year-mortgage.

Source & Images courtesy of zillow

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Adele Sussex Mansion

The £15,000-a-month Sussex mansion Adele began renting in February this year

As Someone Like You singer Adele is named the sixth richest under 30-year-old in the world, it’s evident her new wealth is being ploughed into property as she casts around for a £10m London property and prepares to buy a £2.5m Brighton seafront house next door to Fat Boy Slim and Zoe Ball, our friends at Zoopla revealed.

Which means it’s curtains for the £15,000-a-month Sussex mansion she began renting in February this year.


Lock House has a fascinating history featuring the sort of heartache Adele loves to sing about.

But Lock House, which she was filmed walking around for a US television show recently, and which has now been put up for rent again on Zoopla.co.uk, has a fascinating history featuring the sort of heartache Adele loves to sing about.

This includes links to a doomed land speed record holder, Turkish royalty, a troubled property tycoon and an order of nuns.


Lock House was built in 1900

Lock House was built in 1900 but by the 1930s had become the home of Andrew Harvey, father of world speed record holder Donald Campbell’s wife Gina Harvey.

Then, in 1971, the house became a nunnery belonging to the Roman Catholic Order of the Visitation, which in turn sold it on in 2003 for £2m to a Turkish princess, Ayse Gulnev Sutton, wife of high rolling London-based property developer Nick Sutton.

At the time of buying Lock House Nick Sutton had recently been voted Young Property Person of the Year and was riding high both as the founder of several successful businesses and as the ‘secret’ buyer of Craven Cottage, Fulham FC’s west London home ground – a deal which (happily for fans) fell through.

After this the couple, who cut dashing figures on the London social scene, then concentrated on their hotel development firm, which went on to build and operate famous name hotels including Brighton’s seafront Lansdowne Hotel.

While building a Radisson hotel in Cardiff, which is now the city’s tallest, their firm’s operation in the city was reported to be in administration leaving behind unpaid bills of up to £3 million. It is now in the hands of a receiver, Deloitte.

The couple have not lived in Lock House now for over a 18 months.

Source & Images courtesy of Zoopla

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JK Rowling home

JK Rowling’s home sells for more than £2.25 million



JK Rowling’s home sells for more than £2.25 million

The house where Harry Potter creator JK Rowling’s wrote most of her best selling
books about the boy wizard has been bought just three weeks after going on the
market.


The detached house in the upmarket Merchiston area of Edinburgh is understood to have sold for significantly more than the asking price of offers over £2.25 million.


Rowling had lived at the property since 1999, making a number of alterations to transform it into the eight-bedroomed house which she later shared with family. Her study in the property was where she wrote many of the later Harry Potter novels.


In 2009 the family moved out of the property to the outskirts of Edinburgh but the author only recently decided to sell her former home.


Estate agent Rettie and Co said the property listing for 1 Abbotsford Park attracted over 16,000 visits on its website.


About 65% of the page views came from overseas, the majority being from America and Asia.


However, Rettie said all of those who viewed the property and noted interest were Scottish-based businessmen looking for a suitable family home in the capital.

The 19th-century mansion has eight bedrooms, landscaped gardens and an office at the back.

While living there Rowling had been eager to guard her family’s privacy, with high walls surrounding the garden and a intercom entry system at the front gate.

Rettie said the sale was tied up within 21 days from the point that it went on the market, to the terms of the transaction being agreed.

James Whitson, a director of Rettie & Co, who was responsible for the sale, said: “This was an iconic house in Edinburgh and it was a privilege to be entrusted with its sale.

“The fact we secured a buyer so quickly demonstrates that even in the most challenging of economic environments, we are well-placed to service the needs of our clients at the higher end of the market.

“Further to this it also illustrates there is a shortage of quality supply in Edinburgh and that when any property is correctly priced, in a prime location, it will attract significant interest and, in most cases, a buyer.

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Zsa Zsa Gabor Opulent Bel Air Home

Zsa Zsa Gabor Relists Opulent Bel Air Home at a Higher Price
London Luxury Real Estate


Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Opulent Bel Air home is back on the market

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Opulent Bel Air home is back on the market only this time round at a higher price. The property has bounced on and off the market over the past few years. Now it is back on the market with a $14.9 million price tag.


Gabor’s home definitely has Hollywood history to spare

Maybe Gabor, 95, and husband Frederic Prinz von Anhalt caught wind of the latest news; The US real estate market has yielded the biggest monthly gain in home values since 2006. Perhaps this encouraged the starlet and her husband Frederic Prinz von Anhalt to relist the property with a $2 million price increase. We think that the home was priced too low to begin with.


You can’t put a price on a property’s legacy

It’s true that you can’t put a price on a property’s legacy and Gabor’s home definitely has Hollywood history to spare. The silver screen starlet bought the property back in 1974. Over the years, the 26-room home has welcomed a parade political and Hollywood elites, such as Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and both former Presidents Bush: George H.W. and George W.


The massive home is too large for the couple

The home was also leased by recluse Howard Hughes for most of the 1960s, but the home was never owned by Elvis Presley, as was claimed when the home was last on the market according to our friends at Zillow.


Over the years, the 26-room home has welcomed a parade political and Hollywood elites

This grand property is sitting on over an acre with views of downtown Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean. According to one interview with von Anhalt, the massive home is too large for the couple. And with increasing medical bills for Gabor, the financial burden is too great.


Outdoor entertaining space

According to the lawsuit filed for conservatorship by Gabor’s daughter Constance Francesca Gabor Hilton, von Anhalt hasn’t been paying mortgage payments on the home. A notice of default was recorded against the property in February.


Stunning views of downtown Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean

The 8,878-square-foot property has 7 bedrooms, 7 baths and several indoor/outdoor entertaining spaces. An enormous master suite, pool, grand salon and formal dining room round out the rest of the celebrity home.


The 8,878-square-foot property boasts a pool

According to the mortgage calculator, a monthly payment on Gabor’s home would be $54,294, assuming a 20 percent down payment on a 30-year-mortgage.

Source & Images courtesy of zillow

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