Celebrity Real Estate

50 Cent’s Long Island Home Burns Down - Was It Arson?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Dix Hills home of Rap star 50 Cent burned down in what investigators have deemed suspicious. The home was being lived in by Curtis Jackson’s (50 Cent’s real name) former girlfriend, his 10 year old son, and her family. [...]

31May2008 | Tom Royce | 3 comments | Continued

The 230 Million Dollar Mansion - Most Expensive Home Sale Ever

Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has bought Noam Gottesman’s Kensington Palace Gardens home for a cool 117 million pounds. The previous record was just up the road on London’s Billionaires Row.

It is interesting to see London taking the place where all of the top end real estate is selling. Outside of Trump’s sale of his [...]

23May2008 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

Palm Beach Kimmel Mansion Sells For Over 75 Million Dollars

Housing prices are dropping nationwide except if you are in the ultra expensive bracket, there the market is holding firm. The Kimmel Mansion on Palm Beach’s Billionaire’s Row has sold for over 75 million dollars according to those close to the deal.
Some of the new buyers neighbors include Netscape founder Jim Clark, rocker Rod Stewart, [...]

26Mar2008 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

Trump Tweaks Palm Beach Officials With Plans To Turn 125 Million Dollar Mansion Into a Hotel

Donald Trump is an expert at link bait.
First he puts his home in Palm Beach up for sale for a record 125 million dollars. Then after a couple of years of no action, he decides to announce to the world that he is going to turn the property into a hotel.
Now if you know [...]

17Mar2008 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

Selling Your Soul For Your Client or How To Try To Move A Property Next To Tiger Woods

I am always in favor of real estate agents go the full measure to sell their clients homes. But there is a line between full measure and down right sleazy.
A real estate agent selling the home across the street from Tiger Woods on Jupiter Island has been reportedly contacting the tabloids as potential buyers. The [...]

4Mar2008 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

Toprack Mansion Sells For Nearly 100 Million Dollars in London

London real estate is the place to be for the top end these days. Another blockbuster sale has occurred as the Kazakhstan billionaire Horelma Peramam bought the Toprack Mansion on London’s famed billionaire row, Bishop’s Avenue.
The home sold for 50 million pounds, nearly 100 million US dollars. Forbes has recently had the home listed as [...]

21Jan2008 | Tom Royce | 4 comments | Continued

Lev Leviev Spends 70 Million on Britain’s Most Expensive New Home

Diamond billionaire and Israeli businessman Lev Leviev has purchased the most expensive new home in Britain’s history for a reported 70 million dollars. With a $100,000 dollar bullet proof front door, this Palladian style home has all of the luxuries that one could imagine.
And for 70 million dollars it should. Leviev is moving to [...]

9Jan2008 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

Marin County Mansion Locksley Hall Sells For $65 Million

Who says sales in Northern California are slowing down…
Locksley Hall, the 12 thousand square foot mansion owned by mining magnate, has sold for full price. The Marin County home overlooking San Francisco Bay was originally bought for a mere 5.5 million dollars but extensive upgrades totaling an estimated 32 million dollars enabled Robert Friedland and his [...]

23Dec2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

Selling Your Home On MTV’s Cribs - All For 50 Cent

Unfortunately getting onto MTV’s Cribs show will not cost 50 cents, you have to be the rap star 50 Cent to get your home previewed before hitting the market on this popular television show.
The rapper 50 Cent is about to put the Farminton, Connecticut home he purchased from Mike Tyson on the market for [...]

28Nov2007 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued

Prince Bandar Pulls 135 Million Dollar Aspen Home Off Market

Well, it looks like the housing slowdown has taken another victim. The royal Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia has pulled his 135 million dollar Aspen estate off of the market due to not receiving a good enough offer. The family decided that they liked the home too much to part with it after not getting [...]

28Nov2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued