Mansions

It’s hard to know what the fate will be of a grand old home like this. The Rollins Mansion in Des Moines, Iowa is an 82-year-old English Tudor built in 1925-27 by Ralph Rollins, owner of Rollins Hosiery Mills. Rollins and cosmetics maker Carl Weeks, who built another Des Moines home, the Salisbury House, were … Continue reading »

Squatters move in to £7.5m mansion with swimming pools, cinema and nuclear bunker eyed by Johnny Depp and John Terry Luxury property has a 100-yard lake, seven kitchens, 17 bathrooms, 14 reception rooms, ballroom, tennis court, spa, sauna and steam room, and orangerySeven invaders displayed legal notice stating their rights to stay at the home … Continue reading »

4 May 2012 Last updated at 06:18 ET By Tim Whewell BBC News Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. On a thickly wooded mountainside overlooking Russia’s Black Sea coast, an extraordinary building has gradually taken shape. It is alleged to be a palace built for the personal use of Vladimir Putin, with … Continue reading »

White House For Sale (Infographic) Posted: May 4th, 2012 ˑ 5 Comments Jump to Infographic Like it or not, the election season is here. Along with heated debates and campaign promises, the politically savvy will start tossing around a tried and true adage: The White House is for sale. This got us thinking: What would … Continue reading »

Nantucket’s $59 Million Mansion: New England’s Priciest Home We thought $40 million was expensive, but this new listing blows most of our multimillion-dollar mansions right out of the water. At a whopping $59 million, this Nantucket listing could end in the biggest Massachusetts home sale ever. The sprawling mansion, located in the historic Swain’s Neck … Continue reading »

He’s in a moving state of mind: Billy Joel puts his $15million Miami waterfront mansion up for sale By Georgina Littlejohn PUBLISHED: 04:28 EST, 9 May 2012 | UPDATED: 08:23 EST, 9 May 2012 He’s a boy who was born and bred in the Bronx but has lived among the glitterati and A-listers thanks to … Continue reading »

If you studied the 2011 Census, you’re apt to believe more and more people are ditching detached homes in the ’burbs for high-rise living in Toronto. Statistics Canada found multi-unit dwellings such as condos now make up roughly half of all new housing stock in Canada. Traditionally, detached homes led the way in this category. … Continue reading »

The Lake Butler Mansion, nicknamed Versailles because of its size and grandeur, was to be the dream palace for timeshare king David Siegel and his extended family. Then the economic meltdown hit his timeshare business hard, and he is now trying to sell the unfinished home for $65 million as is. A finished price hasn’t … Continue reading »

1 May 2012 Last updated at 06:54 ET A 19th Century mansion modelled on the Palace of Versailles is to be turned into a 57 bedroom hotel. Former owners the Singer family moved out of Oldway Mansion in Paignton in 1918 and most recently it has been used as council offices. But owners Torbay Council … Continue reading »

NAPLES, Fla. – Two is better than one. Naples has seen two record home sales in less than two months. Two beach-front mansions on Gordon Drive in the Port Royal area — a haven for the ultra-rich — recently sold for more than $40 million each, beating a record set in 2007. One of the … Continue reading »