John Fogerty, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter of Creedence Clear Water Revival rock band, has just sold his Beverly Hills mansion for $18.6 million, after dropping the price from $23 million which he asked for it nine months ago. Proud Mary rocker bought the Summitridge Drive estate for just shy of $3 million back in 2002 and made extensive renovations to it. Originally the estate spanned 13,476 square feet and featured 5 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms but ten years later he added another 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms and 2,500 square feet to it.
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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.
Impeccable Mediterranean waterfront retreat in Boca Raton, Florida
A rather novel way of marketing a residence is what a Douglas Elliman real estate lady agent has opted for in the case of this magnificent waterfront estate (the largest residence in Boca Raton) which is on the market for $12.75-million, sitting on 0.82 acares in this sought-after city in Palm Beach County, Florida. She included in the price of the gated estate the owner’s limited edition Rolls-Royce Phantom, with his consent, of course. The jumbo offer looks so attractive on account of the luxurious and unique quality of the components.
Shakira ditched her $15M Miami Beach retreat
“The Voice” judge and immensely popular international pop singer Shakira sold her beachfrontNorth Bay Road manse facing the Julia Tuttle Causeway for $15 million in the summer of 2013. After 12 years of ownership, she decided to unload the luxury retreat and buy a 6,672 square foot mansion with 3 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms for $3.38M on South Beach. It appears trippled the profit on the recently sold home, since she paid $3.38 million back in 2001.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Malibu pricey retreat for sale
American actor and film producer Leonardo DiCaprio has just listed his Malibu home at $19 million, more than three times the sum he paid for it eleven years ago. Last year the retreat was put up for rent for a staggering $75,000 per month but only a few months later he downloaded it for $23M, without any success, though. This is how the luxury home came to have its price tag slashed to $18.9 million.
One of a kind retreat in Barrington Hills, Illinois
This fantastic residence is set on 14.5 gated acres in Old Sutton Road in Barrington Hills, an equestrian community some 40 miles NW of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 2005, the luxury residential estate is permeated by an atmosphere that overwhelms the most fastidious buyer.
For sale: St Heliers luxury retreat, Auckland, NZ
This luxurious property is located on an approximately 2,378-square-meter parcel with lavish vegetation at the core of the Bays, in Lawndale Place, St Heliers in the county of Auckland, New Zealand. Built in 1980, the gated property was purchased by its last owner in 1994 and put up for sale in April 2013.