Although Oscar-winner Meryl Streep only bought the luxury estate in February this year, she reportedly put it on the market again for a $2.25 million profit. The 1954 Research House was designed and built by Honnold & Rex in the first year of the Case Study House Program started by Arts & Architecture magazine.
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Catherine Deneuve parts with Château de Primard for €4M/ $5.5M
Academy-Award-nominated French actress Cahtherine Deneuve,70, has reportedly decided to sell her holiday residence, Château de Primard. Nestled in a leafy spot 75 km west of Paris, Guainville, in the Eure-et-Loire department, the luxury chateau was inspired by late 18th-century architectural style and was gut-renovated in the 1960s, when it was converted into a ‘model’ agricultural farmhouse while keeping its initial character.
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s “quintessential Village” pad up for rent
Late Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s West Village apartment, in Manhattan, where the actor was found dead after an overdose has just been rented out for $10,500 per month. Allegedly Hoffman started renting the apartment only 4 months before his death.
Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady’s eco-friendly Brentwood manse listed for $50
Super model Gisele Bündchen and American football quarterback Tom Brady are selling their 14,000-square-foot estate, the most spectacular in Brentwood, the star-studded Los Angeles neighborhood. Being an ambassador of the UN Environment Program, Gisele has been supported by her partner in choosing to use recycled components as construction materials and eco-friendly technology such as composting, gray-water technology for irrigation and solar panels that supply the energy for the whole compound.
Gerard Butler’s medieval castle-style bachelor pad in Manhattan
Being fascinated by the ‘craziness’ of the Big Apple, actor Gerard Butler bought this medieval castle-style double-story loft in Chelsea, Manhattan’s West Side neighborhood, noted for its art galleries, fantastic nightlife, great shopping spots and recreation at the Piers.
Paradisiac Barbados Four Winds estate on the market for a whopping $55M
Situated on 2.5 fine acres on the parish of St. Peter in Platinum West Coast, the most expensive estate ever in Barbados, boasts 350 ft beachfront overlooking Gibbes Beach noted for its white sands. Barbados is both luxurious and casual, exciting and relaxing, offering sun-filled hot days and good and mild and refreshing nights, breathtaking sunrises and sunsets, seaside cottages and heritage plantations.
$65M Bel Air manse formerly owned by Kenny Rogers up for sale
A stunning mega-mansion in Bel Air which used to belong to celeb singer-songwriter Kenny Rogers has been recently listed (fully furnished) by its current European owners, although it is still under construction.
Pink’s Spanish-style retreat re-listed after price-chop
Alecia Beth Moore alias Pink, the American singer who performed upside down at the Grammy’s Awards, is still trying to sell her mansion located on a nearly three quarters of an acre park-like flat lot south of Ventura, in Los Angeles’ Sherman Oaks neighbourhood. In 2002 she and her father, James Moore, paid $ 2 million for the property. Not having lived there quite as much as she would have hoped, she put it on the market in 2011 with a price tag of $ 4 million, yet without any success. So now she has dropped the price by half a million, who knows, maybe she’ll get lucky this time.
Bruce Willis’ Idaho lakefront ranch – a real bargain
Die Hard star first thought of unloading his luxury Idaho ranch in 2011 for $15 million and since then it has been off and on the market , every time with its asking price chopped, until it got to just shy of $9 million.
Holly Hunter’s Greenwich Village pad gets chopped by almost half a million dollars
Academy, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award-winning actress for her role in The Piano, and Academy and Emmy Awards nominee for parts in other movies, Holly Hunter has chopped the price tag of her plush Greenwich Village co-op apartment by almost half a million dollars, which makes the current asking price $8.7 million.