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Short on space, but love your building and don’t want to move? Buy the apartment next door and combine the two.
Thinking about making two spaces into one? Here are some things you should consider.
Just months after selling their Connecticut home, Tommy Hilfiger and his wife are buying a Palm Beach mansion for $46.25 million.
The fashion designer and his wife, Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger, are buying the nearly 3-acre property just months after selling their Connecticut home for $45 million.
“I don’t buy expensive art or jewelry. I’ve become a plant collector.” Home gardeners and plant aficionados alike are building and maintaining greenhouses in their own backyards.
These glass outbuildings offer a functional yet beautiful space for gardeners and plant aficionados, especially during the pandemic.
Roughly 40 miles outside of St. Louis, a lavish 20,000-square-foot property with a private chapel, a sports field and more is asking a record $20 million.
If the 20,000-square-foot property in Flint Hill fetches close to that price, it would be the most expensive home to ever sell in the area.
Minnie Driver was relentlessly bullied by another girl in grade school—then she took matters into her own hands. “I had asserted myself and went into middle school on my way to pursue drama and dance.”
The ‘Modern Love’ actress says she wasn’t proud of what she did, but admits it helped her forge a path forward. ‘I had asserted myself and went into middle school on my way to pursue drama and dance.’
Sheldon Solow’s roughly 14-acre Georgica Pond property, which has more than 800 feet of water frontage, is hitting the market for $70 million.
The billionaire real-estate developer’s roughly 14-acre property is located within an exclusive enclave where some of New York’s most rich and powerful live.
Carlos Santana has bought a $20.5 million Kauai vacation home, just as his smaller Kauai property hits the market for $12.9 million.
The purchase comes just as the musician listed a smaller property on Kauai’s North Shore for $12.9 million.
Real-estate developer Mohamed Hadid had plans to build a “few” houses at the edge of Franklin Canyon. Now he’s hoping to sell the undeveloped land overlooking Beverly Hills for $100 million.
The real-estate developer is aiming to sell the roughly 70-acre property overlooking Beverly Hills after two development entities through which he owns the site filed for bankruptcy.
Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch, which includes a roughly 30,000-square-foot main home, a private air strip and a yurt, is hitting the market for $27.5 million.
Zorro Ranch, which includes several homes and a private air strip, is the latest property to be unloaded by the late convicted s*x offender’s estate.
Artist Gordon Huether didn’t want to ‘live in someone else’s house.’ So he incorporated his artwork both inside and out of his minimalist, glass-and-aluminum home on the banks of the Napa River.
Gordon Huether incorporated his artwork throughout the 3,000-square-foot minimalist home that he built with his wife, Darcy Tunt.
Following a massive, 15-year-long restoration project, billionaire Peter Sperling and his wife are listing their roughly 20,000-square-foot Montecito home for $74 million.
The roughly 20,000-square-foot property known as Far Afield is being listed by billionaire Peter Sperling and his wife after a 15-year-long restoration project.
Nathan Lane’s Tribeca condo, which the actor and writer bought in 1999 after he moved to the city from Los Angeles, is being listed for $4.65 million.
The actor and writer bought the Tribeca condo in 1999 after moving to the city from Los Angeles.
The Malibu beach home of late billionaire developer-turned-philanthropist Eli Broad has sold for $52 million, in one of the L.A. area’s biggest deals in recent months.
The late billionaire developer-turned-philanthropist’s 5,374-square-foot property on “Billionaire’s Beach” is one of the most expensive to sell in the L.A. area in recent months.
Saudi retail and real-estate magnate Fawaz Al Hokair has plans to list his 432 Park Avenue penthouse for a much as $170 million—nearly twice what he paid for it in 2016.
Fawaz Al Hokair is planning to list the 96th floor condo in Manhattan for nearly twice what he paid for it in 2016
A Las Vegas developer’s gamble on a spec mansion just paid off: Its 15,000-square-foot house has sold for $25 million, setting a record for the desert city.
The 15,000-square-foot spec mansion in Henderson, Nev., is now the priciest single-family home to ever close in the area.
No chlorine? No problem. This summer, homeowners are trading traditional pools for natural pools, which are chemical-free.
Intense demand during Covid and a shortage of chlorine tabs have homeowners hopping from chemical-treated pools to greener alternatives.
In the Hamptons, a more than 8-acre property with 500 feet of frontage on the beach is hitting the market for $75 million.
The more than 8-acre property is located on a street that’s famously home to business titans and celebrities.
When Paul Reiser approached Helen Hunt about “Mad About You,” the actress wasn’t initially crazy about the role. “But I didn’t want to be rude, so I read the pilot script. I thought it was great.”
How the show’s pilot changed the actress’s mind, plus growing up with a director-father and her early obsession with theater.
Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner are asking $16.75 million for their Los Angeles home, which features quirky amenities like an aquarium, a hair salon and a DJ turntable.
The Jonas Brothers musician and “Game of Thrones” actress bought the 15,000-square-foot spread in Encino for $14.1 million.
On the heels of his French Open championship and ahead of Wimbledon, tennis star Novak Djokovic has secured another big win: The $6 million sale of his Miami Beach condo.
The tennis star, who won the French Open last weekend, listed the Eighty Seven Park apartment just a month after purchasing it for $5.77 million.
Anu Duggal’s Hamptons home features female-centric touches like a ‘Ladies Library,’ pink and purple wallpaper from Gucci and de Gournay and framed vintage Jantzen women’s bathing suits.
The Female Founders Fund founder created a summer retreat in Water Mill that pays homage to the power of women.
Madison Mount and Charmaine Ehrhart “fell in love” with their Oakland bungalow when they first laid eyes on it. After living there for about eight years, their family needed more space.
Madison Mount and Charmaine Ehrhart spent $700,000 making their California home bigger and more practical for their family.
WeWork founder Adam Neumann is in contract to buy adjacent properties on Miami Beach’s Bal Harbour Marina for $44 million.
The co-working company’s former CEO is buying the adjacent lots, which span a combined 50,000 square feet, from an entity tied to Bal Harbour investor Joseph Imbesi.
Perched on a bluff on an island off Cape Cod, a 7.44-acre property owned by the Mellon family is being listed for $19.8 million.
The 7.44-acre property where the heiress and horticulturist showed off her green thumb sits on a bluff on Oyster Harbors
“We’re big people.” A Chicago family built a new home with double-height ceilings, ample outdoor space and an open first floor to accommodate their tall family.
Stephen Harriott and Yuleika Saume built a spacious concrete home with an open first floor and ample outdoor space to accommodate their 6-foot-tall teens.
A roughly 22,000-square-foot, 11-bedroom compound in downtown Aspen has sold for $72.5 million, setting a price record for a single-family home in the upscale Colorado ski town.
Hockey player-turned-entrepreneur Patrick Dovigi is the buyer of the roughly 22,000-square-foot, 11-bedroom compound.
Thinking about updating your home before it hits the market? Here’s how to decide whether pre-listing renovations might pay off.
Renovating your property before it sells can make a difference. But in markets where buyer demand is strong, it might not matter.
Actor and director Robert Redford has put his 30-acre horse ranch in Utah, which was informally named after his 1998 movie “The Horse Whisperer,” on the market for $4.9 million.
The 30-acre property just north of Sundance was informally named after his 1998 movie ‘The Horse Whisperer.’
An ambitiously-priced spec home in San Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood is hitting the market for $46 million.
The Cow Hollow property, which sits on a triple-wide lot, features amenities geared toward health and wellness, like a 72-foot lap pool and a glass-enclosed sauna and steam shower with a ‘chromotherapy rain head’
Two days before Britain entered its first national lockdown, Kevin and Alex Powell moved into their transformed Victorian in London. It look 14 months and more than $1 million to get there.
Kevin and Alex Powell made their new home bigger and brighter by merging the first floor with the basement level.
On Nantucket, two wealthy summer residents waged a proxy war over Article 90, a proposal to significantly reduce the number and duration of short-term rentals allowed on the island.
Two wealthy summer residents led a battle over Article 90, a proposal that sought to cut the number and duration of vacation rentals allowed on the Massachusetts island.
Linda Lavin’s toughest teacher was her mother. “She was wonderful with strangers but with me, there was too much at stake.”
The award-winning actress and singer recalls the tough love she received from her mother, feeling way ahead of her years and the teacher who brought out her ‘big Broadway voice.’
Less than two months after buying a $33 million apartment at 220 Central Park South, hedge-fund manager Igor Tulchinsky has purchased a $39.5 million mansion in North Palm Beach.
Igor Tulchinsky bought the roughly 19,000-square-foot spread in the Seminole Landing area less than two months after purchasing an apartment inside the country’s most-expensive condo tower.
An unknown buyer has paid $157.5 million for a pair of condos at 220 Central Park South in one of the city’s priciest home sales ever.
The deal at 220 Central Park South marks one of the city’s most expensive residential trades ever.
In the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, a sprawling estate with a rooftop ma*****na garden and a half basketball court has sold for $45 million.
Hedge-funder Jeffrey Feinberg bought the contemporary property from local spec developer Ramtin Ray Nosrati.
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