Supermodel Karlie Kloss just closed on a $1.97 million co-op apartment in the West Village, according to The New York Post.
The multi-level pad, which has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, will be the supermodel's first home.
The apartment features 12-foot ceilings, an eat-in kitchen, and 20 feet of master bedroom closet space — perfect for someone as fashion forward as 20-year-old Kloss.
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Fashion heiress Patricia Gucci is selling her 23-acre Mountain Center, Calif. estate for $9 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.
She's the daughter of Italian fashion mogul Aldo Gucci, whose father, Guccio Gucci, launched the eponymous fashion house.
The home has 10 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, and spans 10,885 square feet.
The property features a guest house, tennis courts, a media room, pool, spa, and oddly, a large kennel.
A grand manor in Short Hills, N.J. is on sale for $3.75 million.
The house sits on .8 acres of land. The current owners did extensive renovations on the home and added a gourmet eat-in kitchen, an addition to the family room, spa-like baths, and a recreation room.
Two condos in Trump buildings topped last week's biggest sales in the New York real estate market, according to the luxury market report by Olshan Realty.
The Penthouse at 845 United Nations Plaza, which was listed at $17 million, was the top sale of the week. The apartment has four bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms, and 5,428 square feet of living space.
Coming in at No. 2 was the penthouse inside 1 Central Park West, which was listed for $16.4 million. This 4-bedroom, 4.5-bath unit has been featured in Elle Decor. Fashion entrepreneur Andrew Rosen, of Theory, Helmut Lang, and Rag & Bone, purchased the apartment in 2006 for $6.9 million.
Since Olshan started its report in 2007, this is the best start ever for the month of December, with a total of 23 contracts signed at the $4 million and above price point.
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Daphne Guinness, the famed beer heiress and fashion icon, has finally sold her apartment inside the Stanhope Hotel at a loss, according to The Real Deal.
The apartment sold for $11.3 million, $430,000 less than she paid for it in 2008.
The apartment has four bedrooms and spans 4,118 square feet.
It has been a tumultuous few months for Guinness, who just also settled a lawsuit with her neighbors.
Guinness' overflowing bathtub caused damage to her neighbors' apartments three different times. In September, a judge ruled she must pay for the damages, but she got out of paying an additional $1 million for her neighbors' alleged emotional distress.
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The glassy New York City home the late architect Paul Rudolph designed for himself is back on the market for $27.5 million, according to Curbed.
23 Beekman Place, which is comprised of four units — a one-bedroom, two two-bedroom duplexes, and the three-story penthouse — was landmarked by the city in 2010.
Rudolph bought the home in 1976 and then added the multi-story penthouse, according to the listing. The penthouse won two awards from the American Institute of Architecture.
Rudolph really went all out designing the pad and used it a laboratory of sorts, according to a 2006 article about a renovation of the home in New York Magazine.
During the renovation, architects Jared Della Valle and Andrew Bernheimer found all kinds of weird things in the walls, such as buried mirrors and Mylar. Rudolph had apparently used those materials to reflect light and make his home seem brighter and more spacious.
The duo used Rudolph's hidden objects as inspiration, but incorporated modern day materials into the house.
Architects were torn over the changes to Rudolph's original design. The building has since been landmarked, and now the apartment is back on the market, being sold by an unnamed LLC.
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A beautiful custom-built home in Atlanta, Ga., is on sale for $1.995 million.
The house spans more than 6,000 square feet. It has four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and two half-baths.
The current owners' commissioned the house, which is inspired by French design and has a Vermont slate roof.
Former Mattel CEO Jill Barad has finally sold her fancy Sunset Boulevard house at a price cut, for $10.2 million, according to The Daily Mail.
The California mansion has gone on and off the market since 2010. It was originally listed for $14.995 million.
The home has six bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, a multi-level master bedroom, a spa, pool, and a "playhouse" in the backyard.
In 1982, Barad was in charge of the Barbie line. She helped increase sales by coming up with the idea of selling the doll in different packages with different accessories, creating an incentive to buy more than one, according to The Daily Mail.
She took over all of Mattel in 1997 and left the company in 2000.
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New York City's skyline is about to be altered once again.
City officials and developers will officially break ground today on the Hudson Yards complex on Manhattan's Far West Side, according to The New York Daily News.
The complex will be comprised of 15 buildings and cost $15 billion to construct.
One of the buildings will be a 75-story mixed-use residential and commercial building. Another will be an office building that is taller than the Empire State Building.
In total, the complex will offer more office space than exists in all of Portland, Ore., according to the Daily News.
Related Companies chairman Stephen Ross told the NY Daily News, “If you look at where all the young people are today, where they want to be, where all the money is going, it’s the West Side of Manhattan. ... The yards will be the epicenter of all that.”
The first phase of construction should be completed by 2017.
Source: New York Daily News
Source: New York Daily News
During the holiday season, many people find themselves spending lots of time in the kitchen.
We found some funky kitchen gear to spice up the room and make cooking easier.
Price: $70 for two
Where:MoMA design store
What: These inside-out champagne glasses look like standard tumblers, but when filled the silhouette of a classic champagne flute appears.
Price: $6.95
Where:Chef's Resource
What: This adjustable spaghetti measuring tool helps you get the perfect portion of spaghetti or linguine for one, two, three, or four people.
Price: $250
Where:JoeyRoth.com
What: Known as the Sorapot, this gadget by designer Joey Roth gives users a unique view of steeping tea.
In CNBC's latest episode of "Secret Lives Of The Super Rich: Mega Homes," which aired last night, three Chinese buyers fought over one $4 million New York City apartment.
CNBC reporter Robert Frank gave the perfect analogy for what foreign buyers are actually doing with real estate. He said:
The reason it's raining money on Manhattan real estate right now is because of the foreign super rich. They are trying to stuff as much money as possible from overseas here. These aren't apartments they are buying; they are safe deposit boxes with views.
Because of changing laws and economic turbulence overseas, the foreigner buyers see New York City real estate as a solid investment. Glitzy new buildings like the still-under-construction One57 building in Midtown are especially popular with foreigners.
All three of the buyers on CNBC's special were trying to snatch up the apartment for their college-aged students, so that besides a safe deposit box, it would also serve as a "luxury dorm in the sky."
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Each year, the world's newest skyscrapers are pitted against each other for the Emporis Skyscraper Award. Chosen for its aesthetic and functional design by the team of editors from the construction project database, the winner of this year's renowned prize was none other than 8 Spruce Street in New York City.
Also known as New York by Gehry and The Beekman, 8 Spruce Street was designed by Frank Gehry and completed in 2011. It is the first skyscraper by the renowned architect, and won over the Emporis jury with its undulating stainless steel exterior.
"8 Spruce Street stands out even in Manhattan's already remarkable skyline," the Emporis jury said of its choice, culled from 220 skyscrapers completed in 2011. "It is a major new architectural landmark for New York."
It is not the only of Manhattan's famous buildings to win the award — the Hearst Tower won in 2006 as well as the Sofitel New York Hotel back in 2000.
Johnny Depp is rumored to have bought a lavish 20,000-square-foot mansion in Nashville for $17.5 million, according to The Real Estalker, a celebrity real estate gossip blog.
This tidbit comes from one of The Real Estalker's anonymous sources. There are no property records or contracts to show it's a done deal.
But the house was so wild that we couldn't resist taking a peek inside.
It has four bedrooms, nine bathrooms, and sits on nearly 48 acres of land.
Depp bought another mansion earlier this year in Hollywood for his ex, Vanessa Paradis. That beauty cost him $4.4 million.
Bob Vila, known for his home improvement television shows, has bought yet another property in New York City, according to The New York Observer.
Vila and his wife reportedly purchased a three-bedroom co-op at 115 East 67th Street for $2.46 million. It was listed for $2.65 million by Brown Harris Stevens.
The couple purchased the home from the estate of the late JPMorgan banker Richard Flender and his wife, Norma.
The Observer speculates that Vila may never even move in. The home improvement guru has a track record of buying homes and flipping them, including a townhouse on the West side and a TriBeCa condo.
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This beautiful Italian Renaissance-style mansion on San Francisco's Billionaire's Row is finally, finally in contract, according to Curbed.
The home, which offers incredible views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the entire bay from almost every room, has been on market since 2006. It was first listed for $55 million.
There's no word yet on how much the home sold for or who bought it, but the house was priced chopped four times and was last listed for $34 million, according to Curbed.
It has eight bedrooms and 7.5 bathrooms, as well as a library, music room, winding driveway and clay tennis court.
The house is just down the block from one of Larry Ellison's abodes.
Source: Curbed
Source: Curbed
The London home in which singer Amy Winehouse died sold for $3.2 million at auction this week, according to NBCNEWS.com.
Winehouse died last year, at the age of 27. Her fans flocked to the Camden Square home to pay homage to the raspy-voiced singer.
The house spans 2,500 square feet, has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a sound-proof music room, and a gym.
The home was put on the auction block after failing to attract any serious bidders while on the market, according to NBCNEWS.com.
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A beloved French chateau in the village of Yvrac in Bordeaux was mistakenly bulldozed, according to the Associated Press.
Construction workers apparently "misunderstood" renovation plans for the 18th century chateau and destroyed the entire manor.
The current owner, Russian businessman Dmitry Stroskin, had wanted to clean up the manor and "restore it to its former baroque glory," according to the AP.
He was out of town when the construction began and returned home to find nothing but rubble.
Stroskin reportedly told the local media, "I'm in shock ...I understand the turmoil of the community."
The home was a "local treasure," according to the AP. It spanned 140,000 square feet and had a grand hall that could fit 200 people.
Now, it's just dust and rocks.
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Yeah, 6 stories. Luckily there's also an elevator.
Blackstone's global head of private equity, Joseph Baratta is in contract to pick up a sweet 6 story townhouse from music mogul Lyor Cohen (he's Tory Burch's boyfriend), the NY Post reports.
Jerry Seinfeld also took a look at the house which has 15 rooms — 6 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms and 2 half bathrooms. The house also boasts a working fireplace and some gorgeous outdoor space.
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Eleven months after it hit the market, Montana's Broken O Ranch has sold to billionaire St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke, according to The Wall Street Journal.
At $132.5 million, the spread was one of the most expensive ranch properties ever to ever hit the market. The sale price has not been disclosed.
The ranch covers 123,000 acres of land touching three counties in Montana, and more than 20 miles of the Sun River flow through the property, according to Bates Land Co., which had the listing.
It had previously belonged to William and Desiree Moore, the late founders of the Kelley-Moore Paint Company.
Broken O comes with 4,500 cows, including heifers and range bulls, as well as Montana's largest block of irrigated land. It also comes with a house with river views and an indoor swimming pool.
Kroenke, whose Kroenke Sports Enterprises also includes the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche teams, is married to Wal-Mart heiress Ann Walton Kroenke.
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Talk about a sibling rivalry. Just over a year after Formula One heiress Petra Ecclestone dropped $85 million on Holmby Hills' famous Spelling Mansion, her sister Tamara is rumored to be looking at an even more expensive home in the same neighborhood.
According to The Sun, Tamara "is desperate to buy" the Fleur de Lys estate, also in Holmby Hills, which returned to the market last year with a $125 million asking price. Tamara, 28, is reportedly moving from London to the U.S. to film a reality TV show.
The home, owned by philanthropist Suzanne Saperstein, has 12 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a ballroom, two kitchens, a massive movie theater, a pool, tennis courts, and a nine-car garage.
Here's where the sibling rivalry comes in. Shortly before Petra, 23, bought the Spelling Mansion, she reportedly made an $80 million offer on Fleur de Lys, but was turned down by Saperstein, notes celebrity real estate blogger The Real Estalker.
If Tamara winds up in the home, it will be a major coup for the older sister.
