Foreign Property News | Posted by Si Thu Aung
Although the outside still says “church,” the inside of 539 N Mayflower Road is a fully renovated, Gothic-style home that still shines with Gilded Age charm. The property was first listed in February for $1,499,000 and made a market encore in early August for $1,399,000. Set along Lake Michigan’s North Shore in Lake Forest, IL, the three-bedroom home was originally built in 1888 by architect Henry Ives Cobb. It was known as The Ferry Hall Chapel and served the school for “girls and young ladies,” which was founded in 1869 and eventually merged with Lake Forest Academy. “Cobb was also known for designing the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, The...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Si Thu Aung
On a bluff overlooking an expanse of blue lake, this citadel sits awaiting its next knight in shining armor.At the edge of Idaho’s Frandsen Forest, a mansion-sized residential castle has hit the market, and can now be yours. Known as Castle Von Frandsen, the property originally listed for $7 million last July, a price tag that has since been reduced to its current ask of $4.5 million. The “nearly famous and truly iconic waterfront estate,” as the listing describes, is set on close to 10 acres and includes two buildable waterfront lots. “It might as well have been plucked from a fairytale and placed on the shore of one of the most stunning lakes in...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
The residence that Neil Armstrong called home during the time he made his historic expedition to the moon has listed for $550,000, according to a release from the listing brokerage. Located in El Lago, Texas, Armstrong, who passed away in 2012 at age 82, had lived in the mid-century home with his family between 1964 and 1971. Built in 1964, Armstrong and fellow astronaut Ed White, who died during the Apollo I mission in 1967, bought three lots of land to split between them. They built their houses, and lived next to each other for those years. Situated on half an acre, the architecture includes the original rock fireplace, staircase railing and the nostalgic pink pool decking, the...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
The owners of the LA home where Marilyn Monroe lived before her death and where her body was discovered have filed to demolish the $8.35million bungalow. The Brentwood Hacienda-style home is best known as the last residence of the 'Some Like It Hot' star. According to records from the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, the new owners of the home officially filed a plan to tear down the estate in August. The city gave a green light for investigators to check the plan for demolishment but a formal permit has yet to be granted by officials, records show. Monroe purchased the home in February 1962 for $77,500 - equivalent to about $790,000 today after accounting for...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
A MAN who abandoned a £3million mansion has reportedly demanded a cash payout instead as it was revealed most winners of a prize draw have already sold their new homes. Dad-of-five Glen Elmy walked away from his new "James Bond-style" coastal property in north Devon after just three days over fears it was crumbling into the sea. (A £4.5million waterfront mansion in Cornwall was won but later sold by June Smith.Credit: Omaze) (Mum-of-one Becca Pott scooped a £3.5million home in Ascot, Berkshire. Credit: omaze) (Arsenal fan Kevin Johnson is keeping his £3million townhouse in north London.Credit: Not known, clear with picture...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Si Thu Aung
Pop star Cheryl Baker is selling her £1.4 million country home as she finally faces the music after the Covid lockdown left her 'broke' and struggling to pay her taxes. The singer - who won the Eurovision Song Contest with Bucks Fizz and went on to have a string of chart-topping hits with the group - has put the six bedroom cottage on the market in a last-ditch attempt to sort out her finances. It comes after Cheryl, 69, revealed she had been left penniless by the pandemic when all her work dried up overnight and she ended up selling her possessions on eBay. Cheryl told how she sold clothes, including her glamorous outfits, her car and started growing vegetables from a plot at the...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
((Nicolas Cage’s LaLaurie House (note: Nicolas Cage is Alive)) (1140 Royal St, New Orleans, LA 70116Estimate not available.) Actor Nicolas Cage has always had a penchant for the offbeat in real estate, so it made sense that he came to own this notoriously haunted New Orleans property, the LaLaurie House, telling the NY Daily News “… You know, other people have beachfront property; I have ghost-front property… ” The story goes that Madame Delphine LaLaurie, a socialite of great wealth and prominence in New Orleans in the early 1830s and her husband, Dr. Louis LaLaurie, would host elaborate parties at the house. But, she had a reputation...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
CHER's glam former home in Miami Beach has gone on sale for a whopping £33million - ten times more than she sold it for. The pop icon bought the stunning mansion for £1.1million in the mid-nineties and almost tripled her money when she sold it for £3.4million just three years later. (Cher's former Miami waterfront mansion has hit the market for £33million.Credit: The Mega Agency) (The stunning Spanish contemporary estate on La Gorce Island was home to the veteran star in the 90s.Credit: The Mega Agency) (Cher eventually sold the property for £3.4m after purchasing it for just £1.1m.Credit: Getty) But now the exclusive...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
Jeff Bezos reportedly buys $68 million home in Miami's "billionaire bunker." Tom Brady and Ivanka Trump will be his neighbors https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeff-bezos-reportedly-buys-home-miami-billionaire-bunker-neighbors-tom-brady-ivanka-trump/ Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is buying an estate on an exclusive man-made barrier island in Miami known as "Billionaire Bunker," where he will be neighbors with a growing list of celebrities including Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. Bezos, 59, is paying $68 million for the three-bedroom, waterfront home, which sits on 2.8 acres, Fortune magazine and Bloomberg reported. The Amazon founder stepped down as...
Foreign Property News | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
Kevin Costner's estranged wife Christine Baumgartner has found a new home. Dailymail.com has obtained photos of the Santa Barbara house Baumgartner, 49, is slated to move into after a court ordered her to vacate the $145 million Carpinteria, California compound she formerly shared with the 68-year-old Yellowstone actor. Baumgartner's new rental home - which is within 10 miles of her former dwelling - is renting at a rate of $35,000 monthly, sources said. The home has four bedrooms and four bathrooms and includes amenities such as a swimming pool, fire pit and BBQ area. The luxury home is surrounded by green shrubbery in the upscale California community. Following her July 28 move from...