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NYC’s 10 most expensive neighborhoods

Posted: 15 Dec 2018 01:30 PM PST

The annual ranking of the Big Apple’s most expensive neighborhoods is out and there are a few surprises. Compiled by Property Shark, Manhattan and Brooklyn continue to dominate the list, which is based off residential sales data, the New York Post reported. But some regularly top-ranked enclaves struggled this year. Tribeca’s prices fell 18 percent year-over-year, despite hanging on to the top spot with a median sales price of more than $3.8 million. Sales prices […]

Good catch? Famous Hamptons fish shop hits the market for $7M

Posted: 15 Dec 2018 12:00 PM PST

For years, Stuart’s Seafood Market has been a must-stop shop for motorists on the Montauk Highway in Amagansett. Now, the famed fish shop at 41 Oak Lane has been put on the market for $6.99 million by its owners Bruce and Charlotte Sasso, according to The New York Post. The shop, which opened in the 1950s, is situated on a roadside acre, that includes two homes and a parking lot. The first home is a […]

Could this city be the next capital of cool?

Posted: 15 Dec 2018 11:00 AM PST

Greenville, South Carolina, wants to be the next Portland, Oregon, aka the capital of the cool and artsy. The southern town began attracting artists in 2005, with the introduction of an annual, three-day festival called Artisphere. The arrival of well-established artists in the former milltown coincided with a gradual growth in real estate prices, with the average price of homes sold since 2015 increasing by 21 percent, the Wall Street Journal reported. According to the […]

Turns out millennials’ dream homes aren’t that different from baby boomers’

Posted: 15 Dec 2018 10:00 AM PST

(Credit: Nod GIFs) Millennial homeowners want big houses with easy-access showers and loads of technology, making them not that different from baby boomers. Walk-in showers are popular with both age groups, as they make bathrooms look appealing and accessible, and both groups are also interested in smart home technology, according to MarketWatch. Size is the main difference between the two age groups, as millennials are hoping to land larger homes to accommodate children and growing […]

How wealthy buyers are scoping out second homes in a slow market

Posted: 15 Dec 2018 09:00 AM PST

At the Montage Kapalua development in Maui, prospective buyers can arrange four-night stays — complete with private dinners and spa treatments — before deciding to take the plunge on a million-dollar (or more) house. Amid the market slowdown, these trial runs are becoming more common among those shopping for a second home — or a site to build their dream abode, Bloomberg reported. Sellers are hoping the lavish sojourns will convince buyers to stay for […]

John Wayne’s former property marketed as potential pot farm

Posted: 15 Dec 2018 08:00 AM PST

Legend has it that movie legend John Wayne smoked as many as a half a dozen packs of cigarettes a day. Now, a ranch once owned by the Duke could produce a different kind of smoke. Wayne’s 2,000-acre California farm known as Rancho Pavoreal is up for sale, and it’s being marketed as a possible marijuana cultivation site, according to Inman. The listing from Coldwell Banker‘s Tatiana Novick touts the Riverside County property’s ample space […]

Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova put Bay Point home on market for nearly $5M

Posted: 15 Dec 2018 07:00 AM PST

Enrique Iglesias and former tennis star Anna Kournikova are listing a Bay Point home in Miami for $4.85 million. The 6,800-square-foot home at 4715 Bay Point Road was built in 2017 for Kournikova’s grandparents to use, but they decided the home was too big and decided to sell it, according to the Wall Street Journal. The house is in the same gated community that Kournikova and Iglesias live with their twins. The couple purchased the […]

Home rented by Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, seeks $13M

Posted: 15 Dec 2018 06:00 AM PST

UPDATED Dec. 14, at 8:34 a.m.: Frank Sinatra must have sung about “Love and Marriage” in this Chatsworth pad. A property once rented by the Sultan of Swoon — and where Marilyn Monroe was rumored to have carried on her affair with John F. Kennedy — is being shopped around for $12.5 million, according to a listing from the Agency. Located above the Chatsworth Reservoir, the Mid-Century Modern style home features seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms. […]