Impressive Subterranean Mansion Yet to be Built

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Impressive Subterranean Mansion Yet to be Built St Margarets Road, Bowdon, Cheshire Developers first announced this impressive fully subterranean residence a few years back.  There was a buzz that several athletes and celebrities were interested in shelling out £2,000,000 to call this paparazzi proof shaft home.  Three years later and this is still a dream.  The developer, Huntsmere, [...]

Luxurious Beach Front Estate

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Luxurious Beach Front Estate Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Vita Planning & Landscape Architecture were asked to design a home that is focused on entertaining.  The small site dictated a multi-level garden approach.  Entering from the upper level, one’s view is of the main terrace below, where an infinity-edge pool bleeds into the Pacific Ocean.  Underneath the pool [...]

Bel Air Mansion with Ferrari Foyer!

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Bel Air Mansion with Ferrari Foyer! 457 St. Pierre Road, Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90077 This three-story entrance offers a stunning sweeping staircase, beautiful iron work, detailed mouldings, and a Ferrari?  That’s right, the center of this grand-scale foyer looks down below to the subterranean collector’s garage which offers a perfect view [...]

Tropical Villa with Amusement Park Water Slide

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Tropical Villa with Amusement Park Water Slide This tropical villa in Koh Samui, Thailand has a feature you don’t see everyday.  A custom built 255′ (78 meter) long, double loop slide plunging from the top floor balcony.  It was built by Pool & Spa, and is of amusement park size and quality.  The slide leads [...]

Ryan Seacrest Buys Ellen DeGeneres’ Beverly Hills Estate

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Ryan Seacrest Buys Ellen DeGeneres’ Beverly Hills Estate Beverly Hills, California, United States Just after signing a 2-year, $30 million dollar deal with American Idol, Ryan Seacrest has gone out and purchased Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi’s expansive Beverly Hills compound.  The 3-acre estate includes a main house & guest house comprising of 15,000 square feet [...]

Development Property in Pitt Meadows

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Development Property in Pitt Meadows 19095 Mitchell Road, Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Canada Just listed for $2.4 million is this nice flat 1.43 acre (0.5803 hectares) piece of development property in the heart of Pitt Meadows.  Value in the land only.  It’s located just around the corner from Pitt Meadows Elementary and a short walk [...]

Star Wars Home Theatre

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Star Wars Home Theatre The owner’s of this expansive family home just outside Seattle, WA decided to take their obsession for Star Wars to an entirely new level.  The owners of this residence commissioned Doug Chiang, the design director of Star Wars Episode I and II, to come up with the original designs for the [...]

Worst listing photos?

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Worst listing photos? 1 Wyndcrest Court, Colts Neck, New Jersey, United States There’s nothing more that I hate than a beautiful property with terrible listing photos.  I don’t understand what’s going through the owners, or the agents heads.  If my agent presented me photos like the ones below for my $13.9 million home I would [...]

Our Favourite Lottery Winner Duo

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Our Favourite Lottery Winner Duo Since winning the lottery in the Spring of 2010, a lot has happened to Leroy Fick & son Jeff of Auburn, Michigan.  The Ficks blew thru their $2 million winnings ($850,000 after taxes), and both ended up in prison.  Leroy was sentenced to 45 days in jail for illegally possessing [...]

Our Favourite Lottery Winner Duo

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Our Favourite Lottery Winner Duo Since winning the lottery in the Spring of 2010, a lot has happened to Leroy Fick & son Jeff of Auburn, Michigan.  The Ficks blew thru their $2 million winnings ($850,000 after taxes), and both ended up in prison.  Leroy was sentenced to 45 days in jail for illegally possessing [...]