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“Serenity now:” Jerry Stiller’s former UWS home in contract

Posted: 06 Nov 2021 12:30 PM PDT

Festivus may be coming early for the buyer of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara’s former Upper West Side co-op. The 118 Riverside Drive where the husband-and-wife comedy team raised son Ben and daughter Amy is in contract, the New York Post reported. While the final sales price won’t be determined until closing, the most recent asking price was $5 million. The home is set to be featured in a documentary that Ben Stiller is making

Founding Fatherland: Portion of Washington’s original estate sells for $50M

Posted: 06 Nov 2021 11:47 AM PDT

That’s a lot of Washingtons. A portion of George Washington’s original Mount Vernon estate broke a D.C.-region record last week when it sold for $50 million. Featuring a 16,000-square-foot mansion with a dock and 400 feet of frontage on the Potomac River plus a guest house, Mansion Global reports that the 16.5-acre property’s sale was the priciest residential transaction ever recorded across Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. The privately owned parcel was part of the

Miami Herald brings on AI to cover real estate sales

Posted: 06 Nov 2021 10:31 AM PDT

The Miami Herald’s newest real estate reporter is pounding out copy at a robotic pace — mainly because it is, well, a machine. The Miami New Times reported this week that its Pulitzer-prize-winning competitor has enlisted the help of artificial intelligence — known as Miami Herald Bot — to take on the up-until-this-point very human job of covering the city’s booming real estate market. Since mid-October, just after real estate reporter Rene Rodriquez’s final byline

172-year-old Dutch museum putting entire collection on display

Posted: 06 Nov 2021 09:00 AM PDT

A Dutch art museum that opened in 1849 and is closed for a seven-year renovation is putting its full range of 151,000 works on display to the public for the first time. Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, located next to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, opens on Saturday. The museum itself has room to display just 8 percent of its collection at once. The six-story depot will also give visitors the chance to understand the

House passes $1 trillion infrastructure bill

Posted: 06 Nov 2021 08:28 AM PDT

The House passed a bipartisan $1 trillion bill aimed at rebuilding the country’s aging infrastructure Friday night, fulfilling a promise by President Joe Biden to pour money into highways, bridges and mass transit while also investing in climate resilience and expanding high-speed internet access into rural areas. Meanwhile, a second bill zeroing in on climate change and the social safety net — the so-called “Build Back Better Act” — was put on hold as some

Can’t “Give It Away”: George Strait cuts listing price

Posted: 06 Nov 2021 07:30 AM PDT

Country music superstar George Strait can’t seem to find a buyer for San Antonio mansion Strait slashed the price of his home in the exclusive Dominion neighborhood a second time, to $6.9 million, News 4 San Antonio reported. It had been reduced in January to $7.5 million. He first listed the 12.2-acre property in 2017 for $10 million. There’s plenty on offer for whoever decides to take the mansion off the King of Country’s hands.

Quail sale: Plantation goes for $14.6M

Posted: 06 Nov 2021 06:00 AM PDT

Quail-hunting plantations are big business in Georgia, where one such estate sold for $14.6 million in the city of Albany. Bob Kenna, a patent holder in the prosthetics industry, bought Cane Mill from John Thompson, whose family had owned it for almost 150 years, the Wall Street Journal reported. The family had partially leased it out in recent years. The property is about 4,000 acres and includes a 3,100-square-foot main lodge and two staff homes