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See inside Donald Trump's 'starter mansion' that is now on sale for $54 million in Connecticut

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Donald Trump's old house is being sold for $54 million, according to listing agent Tamar Lurie.

The impressive mansion is nearly 20,000 square feet with eight bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, a putting green, home theater, tennis courts, and three staff apartments.

It sits on 5.8-acres and was built in 1939. Donald and Ivana Trump bought it in 1982 for $4 million, and Ivana refurbished it with the same materials she was using to redo the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan at the time, according to Top Ten Real Estate Deals.

When the pair divorced n 1991, Ivana got the mansion and sold it seven years later for $15 million. In 2000, the new owners renovated the home and added the tennis courts, additional guest rooms, as well as an indoor lap pool.

Even without the tennis courts, it must have made quite the charming starter mansion. The current owners, who wish to remain anonymous, have listed the home with Coldwell Banker agent Tamar Lurie.

Welcome to Donald Trump's old Connecticut mansion. The Georgian Colonial-style home was built in 1939.



It sits on 5.8 acres of land. Donald and Ivana bought the home in 1982 for $4 million.



It's on a peninsula so it has ample views of Long Island Sound in Indian Harbor.



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An apartment in NYC's Tribeca with a giant skylight is on the market for $10.6 million

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More evidence real estate prices in New York are insane: A ground floor apartment in Tribeca with few traditional windows is on the market for $10.6 million, according to Curbed.

There is a giant skylight allowing some sunshine in, but there are few windows looking out on to the street.

The 4,300 square foot converted commercial space has been updated with all the modern conveniences. It's located in the heart of Tribeca, so you can almost forgive listing price and the fact that it has few windows.

It also has a convenient mixed-use layout if you're the work from home type.

Esther Lixenberg has the listing.

This Tribeca pad isn't your typical sky-high floor duplex apartment.



Instead, it's a 4,300 square foot ground floor windowless converted commercial space. It's multi-use, with space in the rear to be used as a doctor's office or massage parlor.



Well, ok, there are windows — just not in the traditional sense. Skylights make sure the apartment is well-lit, but there are still only a few traditional windows to look out and see the street.



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Tom Cruise is selling his Beverly Hills mansion that was rumored to be a Scientology retreat for $13 million

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tom cruise house of the dayVariety's Mark David reports that Tom Cruise has listed his mansion on Mulholland Drive for just under $13 million with the real estate Multiple Listing Service.

The European-style villa in Beverly Hills has two parcels with a total of 2.5 acres of land, according to the listing. The home is gated with three bedrooms and a fully detached guest house with an additional four bedrooms and bathrooms.

According to Variety, the home was rumored to have been bought as a retreat for high-level Scientologists — it was purchased by two corporate entities back in 2005 — and Tom Cruise’s sister was recently living on the property.

The movie star seems to be undergoing a real estate overhaul. In November of last year he listed his Colorado estate for $59 million and back in 2013 he listed his New York townhouse for $28 million as well as an East Village condo for $3 million. Variety reports he currently lives in a Beverly Hills mansion he bought for $30.5 million in 2007.

The home is on sale for $12.995 million, according to real estate listing website Redfin.

Welcome to Tom Cruise's Beverly Hills mansion that he's currently selling for $13 million. The home is right off of the famous Mulholland Drive.



According to Variety, the estate is rumored to have been a not-so-secret Scientology retreat.



The property has both a main residence as well as a separate guest house.



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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick finally sell their Greenwich Village townhouse for $20 million

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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick finally sold their Greenwich Village townhouse, getting $19.95 million for it, according to The Real Deal.

The historic house was originally put on the market in 2012 for $25 million, but the couple later delisted it before putting it back up for sale in September for $22 million. The celebrity couple bought the place in 2011 for $19 million.

The 6,800-square-foot townhouse, which is located on East 10th Street, has five bedrooms, seven fireplaces, a landscaped garden, and a hand-carved stone tub.

Alyson Penn contributed to this story.

Welcome to Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick's 25-foot-wide Greenwich Village townhouse.



The bottom floor, or garden floor, includes an eat-in kitchen characterized by walnut and stainless steel.



The dining room contains direct access to the split-level garden.



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The gorgeous Bel-Air estate once owned by Kenny Rogers just sold for $50 million

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The Wall Street Journal reports that a gorgeous Bel-Air estate formerly owned by country singer Kenny Rogers has sold for $50 million. 

The hillside mansion went on sale last year for $65 million while it was still under construction, but was taken off the market until the home was finished last December.

Known as Lionsgate, the property was enlarged from its original 9,359 square feet to a whopping 24,000 square feet with a guest house that has an additional two bedrooms and three bathrooms.

The main home has nine bedrooms and 14 bathrooms, as well as a ballroom, saltwater pool, 12-seat home theater, and even a refrigerated wine room. 

With two acres of property, the estate also has a tennis court, gym with a sauna, and an outdoor glass elevator next to the pool.

Rogers purchased the home in the ‘70s, according to the WSJ. He added two lion statues to the main gate and renamed the property “Liongate.”

The current sellers of the home are a mystery, but the listing agent told the WSJ last year that “they are European and purchased the home for personal use,” adding that they put the mansion up for sale because they hadn’t spent enough time in Los Angeles.

The property was sold byHilton & Hyland’s agent Mia Trudeau.

This is Liongate Estate, the 24,000-square-foot property that just sold for $50 million. The home has a tennis court, saltwater swimming pool, and outdoor glass elevator.

 



The home sits on two acres of property, and both of its Bel-Air entrances are gated. Rogers was the owner to add those lions to the gate (he's a Leo).

 



Let's go inside the mansion, shall we?

 



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An entire private island in South Florida is on the market for $24.5 million

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An island paradise off the coast of Florida is up for sale.

With 104 acres of pristine wilderness and 3.5 miles of oceanfront, the island is a certifiable semi-tropical paradise. It also has a four-bedroom Spanish villa-style home on it, built in 1928.

Though the asking price is $24.5 million, the owners are looking to move quickly and all serious offers will be considered until April 30th.

For a $100,000 deposit, interested buyers can take a private tour around the island.

Michael Saunders and Company has the listing. 

An entire mass of land in South Florida called Little Bokeelia Island is up for sale.



The island covers 104 acres.



It sits near regular "Bokeelia island", which is itself very close the much larger Pine Island. All the islands sit off the west coast of Florida, near the metropolitan area of Fort Myers.



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Tommy Hilfiger relists his penthouse at New York's Plaza Hotel for $75 million

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The New York Post is reporting that fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger has dropped the price of his Plaza Hotel penthouse to a still-staggering $75 million.

Hilfiger and his wife Dee Ocleppo listed the home last year for $80 million, which at the time made it one of the most expensive homes on the market in America.

The duplex condo is located on the 18th and 19th floors of the Plaza and has five bedrooms with views of Central Park and Fifth Avenue.

It was originally marketed as a "fixer-upper” for $50 million back in 2008, but it never sold. Now it’s back on the market after a $20 million renovation and massive price bump.

Alyson Penn originally contributed to this story.

Welcome to Tommy Hilfiger's duplex at the top of New York's Plaza Hotel.



As you can see, the decor is quite grand. It's unclear whether the Warhol paintings actually come with the apartment.



Here is his all-American foyer.



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Legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Plaza penthouse has hit the market for $39.5 million

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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s former apartment at New York’s Plaza Hotel has gone on sale for $39.5 million, according to The New York Post.

The gorgeous home has four bedrooms and 4,000 square feet of space. It was featured in Architectural Digest last November by the current owners Lisa Cohen, the home editor for DuJour magazine, and her husband James, the chairman of Hudson Media, who use it as a Manhattan pied-à-terre.

The home was gut-renovated in 2011 and redecorated in a modern style. The living and dining rooms were extended and three additional bedrooms were created, one with its own private entry that is wheel chair accessible. 

The condo has 13-foot ceilings and large windows that look out on the Guggenheim, Central Park, and more. The apartment also has access to the concierge, maid, and in-room dining services that are a part of the Plaza Hotel. 

Corcoran Group Real Estate agent Marie-Claire Gladstone has the listing.

Welcome to Frank Lloyd Wright's former suite at the Plaza Hotel. He used the apartment to oversee construction at the Guggenheim in the '50s.



The current owners had the place gut-renovated and redecorated back in 2011.



They used the unit as a Manhattan pied-à-terre, but had a main home in New Jersey.



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An entire Connecticut ghost town is back on the market for $2.4 million after the winning bidder disappeared

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The village of Johnsonville, Connecticut is back on the market for $2.4 million after a potential deal fell through and the buyer disappeared, according to Curbed.

Though the bidder won the property's auction for $1.9 million, the deal wasn't able to close for an unspecified reason, according to The Hartford Courant.

Johnsonville has been a theme park, a textile mill, a movie set, and a ghost town. 

Johnsonville's founding dates back to the 1830s, when it was a mill town for the twine industry in Connecticut. Fast forward to 1960, when, according to Curbedaerospace millionaire Ray Schmitt bought up all the buildings in town. He also brought his own buildings to Johnsonville, including a Victorian-era stable and a chapel from Massachusetts, opening a quaint theme park. 

By 1994, after a fight with local officials and a few fires, the park closed. Save for the movie "Freedom" being filmed there as well as a Billy Joel music video, the 62 acres have been left abandoned ever since. 

A hotel developer did purchase the property in 2008, and tried to unload it in 2013 for $2.9 million.

Many of the original buildings from the 1800s are still standing, though they are in terrible shape.



The structures, though dilapidated, feature authentic and original colonial and Victorian design.



Fires destroyed some of the original structures, but at least eight still remain on the property.



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Jon Bon Jovi sold his $37.5 million Manhattan duplex to an Austrian-American financier

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Gerhard Andlinger, an Austrian-American businessman and the founder of private investment firm Andlinger & Company, is the buyer of rockstar Jon Bon Jovi's downtown Manhattan penthouse, according to the Real Deal.

The home was last listed for $37.5 million, though it first appeared on the market in 2013 for $42 million.

The duplex apartment has a massive great room, five bedrooms, and 5.5 bathrooms. Even better, the apartment came fully furnished, and as you can see from the listing photos, the rocker has great taste.

Bon Jovi bought the place for $24 million back in 2007, according to Curbed NY.

The apartment is located on Mercer Street, in NYC's trendy SoHo neighborhood.



It has 11 rooms in total, including a great room with 11-foot ceilings.



Floor-to-ceiling windows mean every corner of the apartment is filled with light.



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This house built into boulders in the Arizona desert has been called 'the most original home in America'

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A unique home in the affluent community of Scottsdale, Arizona, is up for sale.

Sixty percent of the structure is made from huge boulders. The walls, floors, and ceilings alternate between stucco and rock, creating an extremely earthy feel as well as an interesting floorplan.

The home is so different that author and former CEO of Neiman Marcus Stanley Marcus once called it ''the most original home in America."

Estately has the listing; the asking price is $4.2 million.

No this isn't just a random rocky outcrop ...



It's actually a house, built right into huge boulders.



The home uses a combination of stucco and boulders to mark its walls and boundaries.



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Tour the Upper East Side penthouse where Sinatra used to host wild ragers with his Rat Pack

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530 E 14 copyArchitect Marvin Mitchell has bought Frank Sinatra's former penthouse at the Edgewater building on 530 E. 72nd Street for a cool $4.995 million. 

Mitchell — who told The Wall Street Journal that he purchased the home for its spacious floorplan, not its history — takes ownership of the 3,200-square-foot, tri-level apartment just four years after the previous owner, Long Island car insurance executive Penny Hart, renovated it. Hart, who bought the home for a reported $2.5 million and never lived in it, first listed it at $7.7 million in 2012.   

Seller Penny Hart had this glass staircase made to the exact specifications of those in the Apple stores.



Sinatra owned the penthouse from 1961 to 1972. He lived primarily on the West Coast so this was his East Coast party pad; rumor has it that Sammy Davis, Jr. used to chuck Champagne glasses off the terrace onto FDR Drive.



Sinatra entertained everyone from president John F. Kennedy to Dean Martin to Marilyn Monroe in the apartment.



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Rumor has it Beyonce and Jay Z bought this converted church in New Orleans

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Music's hottest couple is putting down roots in NOLA.

According to Zillow, rumor has it Beyoncé and Jay Z have purchased a converted church in the Garden District of New Orleans for $2.6 million.

First built in 1925 as a Presbyterian church, the 13,292-square-foot space was then converted into a ballet school before being converted to a single-family home with three 1,000-square-foot apartments.

This purchase comes after the couple sold their Tribeca condo in New York City and made a very public move to Los Angeles.

It's clear Beyonce and Jay Z have great taste. The converted church has a distinctive exterior design, featuring wrought iron and dramatic window arches.



Up close, the beauty shows a bit of its age.



As you enter, you immediately experience a sense of space.



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The mansion from 'Scarface' just got its price cut in half to $18 million after being on the market for a year

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The mansion prominently featured in the 1983 film "Scarface" is not actually in Miami but in Montecito, California, 90 miles west of Los Angeles.

The mansion is still just as beautiful as you remember from the movie. It has been renovated recently, so it's possibly even more beautiful.

It is still on the market after sitting unsold for an asking price of $35 million. Its price has now been cut in half, to $17.8 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The 10,000-square-foot mansion's four bedrooms and nine bathrooms are surrounded by Persian gardens and a wild number of fountains.

Emily Kellenberger of Village Properties has the listing.

Surprise! Tony Montana's Miami mansion isn't actually in Miami.



Instead, it's a sprawling, 10-acre edifice in Montecito, California (about 90 miles west of Los Angeles).



The mansion, named El Fureidis, was built in 1906.



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THE HOUSE THAT BUTTER BUILT: Paula Deen lists Savannah estate for $12.5 million

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With a spate of new restaurant and media projects, ousted Food Network chef Paula Deen is reinventing herself.

First order of business: unload the custom-designed Savannah home where she filmed her cancelled cooking show. 

Featuring a gourmet kitchen, more refrigerators than you can count on one hand, a chicken coop, and a dish pantry, it's the house that butter built. 

The 6-year-old, French-Caribbean style mansion was built to be Deen's dream home. Christie's International Real Estate has the $12.5 million listing.



Her youngest son, Bobby, was married in the living room.



Deen is a great collector of antique dishware, so naturally there is a dish room with plenty of cabinetry.



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The most expensive apartment ever sold in downtown Manhattan is back on the market

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If you're looking to invest in a penthouse apartment in downtown Manhattan, now is your chance.

For a mere $70 million, you could be the next owner of Walker Tower's Penthouse One, located at 212 West 18th Street in Chelsea.

With views of the Empire State Building, Freedom Tower, and all of Manhattan, this penthouse is the ultimate accessory to a jet-setting billionaire lifestyle.  

The current owner, Hakkasan CEO Neil Moffitt, bought the penthouse in early 2014 for $50.9 million. It only took him five minutes to decide he wanted the place.

 



Sotheby's International has the 5,955-square-foot, 24th floor listing and describes it as "the crown jewel of Chelsea's most important address."

 

 



The apartment has a total of eight rooms: 5 bedrooms, a laundry room, a living room, and a dining room.



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No one wants to buy this gorgeous, $30-million Manhattan penthouse specially designed to 'improve wellness'

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A unique penthouse in Manhattan's Greenwich Village is having some trouble finding a buyer.

The apartment was first listed for $50 million when it went on the market 2 years ago, only to have its price cut to $39.8 million last fall.

It's now on the market for just $30.5 million, according to Curbed.

The 7,700 square foot apartment occupies the top 3 floors of a former dress factory. Its four bedrooms and four and a half baths offer a huge amount of livable space for its location in the middle of Lower Manhattan.

But not even the promise of becoming neighbors with the likes of Deepak Chopra and Leonardo DiCaprio can move the needle

The building has been renovated in accordance with Delos Building Wellness' WELL Building Standard, which Chopra serves on the board of. All six of the apartments in the building include anti-microbial countertops, nightlights that won't mess with your circadian rhythms, and showers infused with vitamin C to balance chlorine.

Dolly Lenz has the listing.

The penthouse is located on the top floors of this gorgeous, newly renovated former dress factory located at 66 E. 11th Street. In the heart of Lower Manhattan, the apartment is walking distance to the East and West villages, SoHo, the Meatpacking District, Union Square and Washington Square Park.



When you enter the apartment, you are greeted by a huge living area on the lowest floor, which features a signature light fixture. The floor boards are specially designed to improve posture, according to Delos Building Wellness' Well Building Standard, which all the apartments in the building abide by.



A curved staircase takes you between the floors. Nighttime lighting throughout the stairs and the apartment can be set to your sleep schedule and is designed specifically to not mess with your body's circadian rhythms.



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Real-life 'Wolf of Wall Street'-er is having a tough time selling his $38.5 million Tribeca townhouse

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Alan Wilzig, a real-life inspiration for a character in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” has dropped the price of his self-listed Tribeca condo from $43.5 million to $38.5 million.   

The 7,500-square-foot townhouse at 3 Hubert Street has a 2,500-square-foot roof deck, backyard, six bedrooms, and an attached garage where Wilzig currently stores his motorcycle memorabilia. It also has bulletproof windows and a lighting system that would give Miami clubs a run for their money.

In the film, Wilzig inspired the character at the pool party scene who introduced Leonardo Di Caprio’s character to his future wife.  

Entrepreneur and semi-professional race car driver Alan Wilzig is selling his townhouse for $38.5 million — with no broker.



In total, the home has 7,500 square feet of space.



It also has a 2,500-square-foot roof deck.



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A film producer is building one of the largest mansions in US history — and he wants to sell it for $500 million

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Bel Air 5Will Smith may be the "Prince of Bel-Air," but Nile Niami is the king.

The film producer and residential developer is building one of the largest homes in US history on a hilltop in Southern California.

Set to be priced at $500 million, it will be the most expensive home on the international real estate market.

The kingdom won't be completed for another 20 months, so start saving. 

McClean Design, which specializes in contemporary architecture, is masterminding the 100,000-square-foot compound. "The house will be using artificial turf and zero water will be used for the lawn," a representative from the firm told Business Insider.



In addition to the 74,000-square-foot main residence, there will be three smaller homes on the property, plus ample staff quarters. The master suite will pack twin walk-in closets, bathrooms (plural), a sitting room and office area, and an infinity pool.



Now for the fun part: amenities. How do a 30-car garage, tennis court, gym/spa, four pools, and a "jellyfish room" sound? The latter will feature tanks on the walls and a sea-creature light show on the ceiling.



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Michael Jackson's restored Neverland Ranch has hit the market for $100 million

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Neverland Ranch train stationMichael Jackson's famed Neverland Ranch has hit the market for $100 million. 

Now called "Sycamore Valley Ranch," the 2,700-acre ranch in Los Olivos, California was bought by private investment firm Colony Capital in 2008 for $23.5 million. 

With millions put into its restoration, the listing is being split by Sotheby's broker Harry Kolb and Hilton & Hyland's Jeffrey Hyland.

Hyland told The Wall Street Journal that they're "not encouraging a lot of showings." Added a representative from Sotheby's, "We’re not going to be giving tours."

Alyson Penn contributed to an earlier version of this story.

Welcome to Neverland Ranch, the famed 2,700-acre property that once belonged to the late Michael Jackson.



Passing through the gates into the driveway, visitors will see a bronze statue of children playing in front of the main house.



Here is a full view of the front of the Normandy-style mansion.



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