At $92 million, a massive estate in Martha's Vineyard is now the most expensive listing north of New York City and the most expensive asking price ever for a estate in the area, according to Forbes.
And for that extreme price, there is not even a home on the 266 acres.
The estate is located in West Tisbury and has land that can be developed near Big Homer's pond. The land also features 1,100 feet of private Atlantic beachfront.
The seller is Martha Vineyard's resident Gerald DeBlois.
It's been a long four years for former Esprit executive Juergen Friedrich, but his Linden Estate in Southampton is finally under contract in what's likely to be the biggest Hamptons home sale of the year.
The 18,000-square-foot house was asking $49 million, although the final sale price is still unknown.
This house comes with an indoor and outdoor pool, a gym, spa, grass tennis court, fountain, carriage house, 12 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, and three half baths.
For $60,000 a month you can live in the penthouse of the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere—for now at least.
The New York by Gehry building, designed by Frank Gehry, towers 870 feet above the streets of Manhattan. The skyscraper sits on Spruce Street, over looking the construction site at One World Trade Center.
Depending on which of the three penthouses you pick, rent will range from $45,000 to $60,000 a month, according to the New York Daily News.
The kitchens in the units are equipped with luxuries such as six-burner Miele stoves and Sub-Zero icemakers.
The building offers an indoor pool, baby grand piano, and personal Pilates rooms to its renters.
A 13,500-square-foot home on the water in Pacific Palisades, Calif. is on sale for $26 million.
The home has eight bedrooms and 13 bathrooms. The property also has two guest houses.
The home is made for entertaining, with room for 22 in the dining room and an outdoor fire pit and pool.
Listing photos taken by: Simon Berlyn, Everett Fenton Gidley, and Marc Angeles.
Keys to Gramercy Park are about to become a little less exclusive this fall when luxury residence 18 Gramercy Park hits the market, according to The Real Deal.
Sixteen new keys will be created for the 17-floor luxury building, one for each full-floor unit. Currently, 398 keys to the park exist.
All the money in the world can't buy access to the super-exclusive private park. Only the 1,200 or so residents of the 39 buildings that face the park have the option to lease a key for $350 per year.
As a perk, developers the Zeckendorf brothers and Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer will pay for residents' keys for their first year.
A key to the park “is definitely a big selling point,” Jill Mangone, the building’s director of sales told The Real Deal. “Buyers are delighted to have access to Manhattan’s only private park.”
Condos inside 18 Gramercy Park are priced between $9.25 million and $42 million.
Every luxury real estate listing seems to have way more bathrooms than bedrooms.
And it's not just something we've noticed when combing listings for our House Of The Day. A 2-to-1 bathroom-to-bedroom ratio is practically a new status symbol for the wealthy, at least in Los Angeles.
Master bathrooms now have amenities that rival spas and hotels, with "emotional" showers that change colors and aromas, copper tubs, and his-and-her water closets.
Here are some of the more luxurious loos we've come across recently.
The Chapel Hill Mansion in Riverdale, N.Y. has hit the market for $13.588 million.
The home, built in 1928, has seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms.
The head of the New York Theological Society commissioned the house for the preparation of the "second coming of Jesus Christ," according to The Real Deal.
The home would house "the Christian savior once he returned to earth to judge the living and the dead," listing broker Sean McPeak of Prudential Douglas Elliman, told The Real Deal.
The 15,000-square-foot house sits on 2.3 acres of land.
Manhattan College previously owned the property, and had planned to use it as dormitories or a seminary, but is now in the hands of a private owner who is an attorney, The Real Deal reported.
The penthouse belonging to technology entrepreneur Gideon Gartner sold for $20.7 million—almost 40 percent less than the original asking price, according to The Real Deal.
The Upper West Side pad, located in the Millenium Tower, first hit the market in September 2010 asking $34.5 million.
The buyer is listed as NTS Millennium, an LLC that's registed to Ayco Company, a national financial counseling provider.
Three separate units combine to create the 5,000-square-foot penthouse. Gartner and his wife purchased the first two units in 2005 for $7.9 million and added the third a year later for $1.3 million.
The Plaza Hotel has finally sold to Sahara India Pariwar of Lucknow for $570 million, according to The New York Times. The hotel was originally asking $600 million.
The Plaza started converting into condominiums, and it took nearly seven years to finish all the units. The buyers spent around $50 million on units, and once they moved in complained about the quality of renovations.
The hotel will continue to be managed by Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, but the Sahara Group will take the controlling stake in the property. Talks with the Sahara Group were reported as early as April.
It's also rumored the Sahara Group will add another Manhattan property to its portfolio, and acquire The Dream Downtown Hotel.
The Plaza Hotel first opened its doors in 1907. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, heir to the Vanderbilt industrial empire, was the first guest to ever stay in the luxurious hotel. Marilyn Monroe and The Beatles are also among some of the famous guests who stayed at the hotel.
"Manga Reva," widely known as the former Anheuser-Busch Estate in Fort Lauderdale, has hit the market for $15 million.
The home was built on the Fort Lauderdale inlet in 1938 for the Busch beer family. The home was designed by Addison Mizner’s protégé, architect Francis Abreu.
The house has six bedrooms, seven full bathrooms and four half-baths, spanning 12,533 square feet.
A few scenes from George Wells' 1960s film Where The Boys Are, which tells the story of four Midwestern college students who come to Fort Lauderdale for spring break, were filmed in the home.
A true ski retreat in the gated Bald Eagle Club section of Park City is on sale for $20.5 million.
The home has seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms and three half-bathrooms.
It has heated steps, patios and driveway to help tame the snow, which totals more than 300 inches each year.
Zynga's chief executive Mark Pincus purchased a lovely San Francisco home on the Gold Coast for $16 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The 11,500-square-foot house was originally on the market for $16.5 million.
The house has seven bedrooms, six full baths, and four half-baths.
Before purchasing this home, Pincus sold two of his San Francisco homes for $1.9 million and $8.2 million, respectively.
The Upper East Side's Waterfall Mansion, so-called for a 23-foot indoor waterfall that runs through it, has officially hit the market for $31 million.
We recently stopped by to chat with developer Kate Shin, who purchased the mansion in 2008 and spent four years renovating it, and to take a tour of the one-of-a-kind property.
Shin said she expects a foreign buyer to purchase the mansion, most likely as a second home. The 120-year-old former carriage house on East 80th Street, near Lexington Ave., had been owned by a family with a heavy art background that Shin wanted to respect while renovating it.
She said that in designing the long, narrow mansion, she hoped the rooms and floors would flow.
"I really wanted to blend the classic townhouse with the modern," said Shin a former hedge fund employee who counts the Waterfall Mansion as her first development project. "I really wanted to change the way developers handle townhouses. The city is getting more crowded and we need to re-think how we construct townhouses."
The mansion is one of the only residential properties more 10,000 square feet to be LEED silver certified And unlike most townhouses in New York, the ceilings get higher as you go up, creating more space and light.
"This home is an investment," Shin said. "I imagine this being in a family for generations to come."
Mariska Hargitay and her husband, Peter Hermann, just bought at $10.7 million townhouse on the Upper West Side, according to The New York Post.
The 18-foot-wide townhouse, on W. 84th Street, has six bedrooms and nine bathrooms.
The home, which is just blocks from Central Park, was originally asking $11.495 million.
A 30,000-square-foot mansion, located in Indian Creek Village in Miami, has officially sold for $47 million to an unnamed foreign buyer, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
The home, which was price-chopped from $60 million to $52 million, officially went under contract in June. But property records recently made public reveal the final sale price. The home was purchased through a U.S.-based LLC.
The house is packed with insane perks—an art vault, waterfall, koi ponds, wine room with fingerprint-scan security, a garage large enough for seven limos, and much more. The previous record for a home in Miami was $40 million, which hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert paid for a nearby home in March, according to the WSJ.
Real estate prices at Dubai's famed Burj Khalifa may have plummeted in recent years, but one group of investors is snapping up property there in huge quantities.
According to Arabian Business, Iranians have purchased $128 million worth of residential and commercial space at the world's tallest building in the past six months, making them the second biggest buyers in the first half of the year after Indian citizens.
Brits, UAE citizens, and Pakistanis completed the top five, according to new data from Dubai's land department.
In many cases, the transactions have been all-cash as the West has clamped down on sanctions against Iran. Overall, 358 Iranians bought into the Burj in the first half of the year.
Prices at the Burj, which opened in 2010 to great fanfare, dropped from highs of $2,450 per-square-foot at their peak to around $721 per-square foot, the Wall Street Journal's Tahani Karrar-Lewsley reported in July.
But real estate in the emirate is finally beginning to stabilize after a major housing slump that hit in 2008, when prices dropped more than 60 percent. Housing prices rose 5.6 percent during the first six months of 2012, according to a recent report from Knight Frank.
Leroy Schecter, the chairman of steelmaker Marino/Ware Industries, has just listed a pair of apartments at storied 15 Central Park West for $95 million—slightly more than FIVE times what he paid for them.
According to the Wall Street Journal's Josh Barbanel, Schecter has hired a construction crew to rip out the walls and combine the two condos he owns on the building's 35th floor in order to create a titanic, five-bedroom pad.
He paid a combined $18.9 million for the apartments, Barbanel writes.
At $95 million, Schecter's apartment is the second most expensive property currently on the market in New York City, following the recent listing of a $100 million, octagon-shaped penthouse at CitySpire.
Schecter also recently listed a sprawling estate on Indian Creek Drive in Miami Beach for $45 million, making it one of the most expensive listings ever in the area. He has said he plans to donate 90 percent of his net worth to charity after he dies, including portions of the proceeds from his property sales.
There's no official listing for the property (yet), but it's being sold by Emily Beare of CORE.
A beautiful home on Cape Cod that sits on nine acres of land is on sale for $17 million.
The home has 10 bedrooms, eight full bathrooms, and three half bathrooms.
The main mansion has classic Cape Cod-style shingles and spans three floors. There's a quaint guest house nearby.
It's been a record couple of weeks for the high-end real estate market in New York City, at least on the sale side.
In late July, an octagonal-shaped apartment at CitySpire hit the market for $100 million, becoming the most expensive piece of residential real estate for sale in Manhattan.
A week later, steel tycoon Leroy Schacter listed a pair of condos at 15 Central Park West for $95 million, five times what he paid for them.
Now, a second apartment—this one at nearby 50 Central Park West—has gone up for sale, also with a $95 million price tag, according to The New York Times' Vivian S. Toy.
The nine-room penthouse atop the Ritz Carlton Hotel has a glass-encased solarium and large terrace, according to the listing.
The seller's name has not been revealed, but the NYT was able to dig up this:
The owner bought the duplex under a limited-liability company for $19.95 million in 2006. He promptly put another $7 million into a complete renovation, designed by the architectural firm Gustavson/Dundes, which gave the space a very contemporary look, including a sleek steel and glass staircase with treads that can be lighted from below.
Ms. Weston would not identify the owner, but said he was a ballroom dancer — Argentine tango, to be precise. That much is apparent when you enter the apartment to behold a 42-foot-long ballroom with ebony-stained wide-plank oak floors.
While sales in the price range of this new trio of listings are extremely rare, they are not unheard of. Earlier this year a Russian billionaire's daughter paid a record $88 million for an apartment at 15 Central Park West, and the Prime Minister of Qatar is rumored to have dropped $100 million on the penthouse at the still-under-construction One57 condo in Midtown.
A few photos from the new listing (via Halstead Properties):
The penthouse on top of the Four Seasons in Miami is on sale for $15 million.
The apartment, on the 70th floor, is the highest penthouse in Florida, and has outstanding views.
The space spans 7,458 square feet, and has four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and one half bath.
