Click here to view the full photogallery. Because everything comes full circle in this crazy wheel of life, the fact that Ellen Degeneres recently bought Brad Pitt’s compound in Malibu, Calif., meant that another celebrity would surely swoop in and scoop up the comedian’s own palace, which hit the market in October. Sure enough, the stars aligned in such a way that Ryan Seacrest has bought the Beverly Hills, Calif., estate, which Degeneres shares with her wife, Portia de Rossi. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the American Idol host paid close to the property’s $49M ask—a staggering price, for sure, but not even close to the $60M the couple originally wanted. And it’s certainly chump change for Seacrest, who has been earning $15M a year (although he may be forced to take a pay cut if his American Idol gig continues past 2012). Now, a bit about the new digs: featured in Architectural Digest this past November, the home was designed by architects Buff & Hensman and later expanded by Will & Grace set designer Melinda Ritz. Inside the 9,200-square-foot, nine-bedroom main house are Degeneres and de Rossi’s impressive art collection—including a Warhol-Basquiat collab, an Ed Ruscha, and a Serge Mouille chandelier—but surely these things will be hauled out and installed in the Next Big Thing. Besides, no one embraces moving around quit like these girls: “The first thing I did when I made money was buy a house,” Degeneres told Arch Digest. “And then—” De Rossi interjects: “Another one. And another one and another one and another one…” · Ryan Seacrest Buying Ellen Degeneres’ $49 Million Estate [The Hollywood Reporter] · All Ellen Degeneres coverage [Curbed National] · AD Visits: Ellen Degeners and Portia de Rossi [Arch Digest] · Did Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi Just Chop $11 Million Off Their Beverly Hills Compound? [Curbed LA]
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Sure, there are real estate listings ripped from the pages of Architectural Digest, but then there’s one Bethesda, Md., property that is, in the words of the brokerbabble, “Better Than Architectural Digest.” Surely that mint-colored faux-finish in the master bedroom would make Arch Digest editor in chief Margaret Russell stand at attention. [ previously ; Curbed DC]
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Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d love to see what you’ve got. Click here to view the full photogallery. Location: Laguna Beach, Calif. Price: $17,900,000 The Skinny: Developed on spec by architect Mark Singer and Tresor Builders, this modern oceanfront manse was completed earlier this year and hit the market for $17.9M. Set in reality-TV-ready Laguna Beach, the modern manse strikes a more minimalist stance than some of its Mediterranean-style neighbors, but doesn’t shy away when it comes to price. Those buying on views alone won’t be disappointed, as the elevated hillside lot provides panoramic views of the Pacific that are worth many millions on their own. The house itself, constructed of steel, glass, and stone, offers four bedrooms, five bathrooms, a courtyard infinity pool, limestone floors, Poggenpohl cabinetry, and space for eight cars. An entertainer’s paradise, this 4,500-square-foot mansion replaced, for better or worse, an exceedingly modest beach cottage. · 992 Ocean Front [Zillow]
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Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman has found a way to unload part of his $24M estate that was first listed a year ago. He divided his land and just sold off one plot, but still hasn’t found a buyer for the house, which is asking only $14M. [ previously ; Candy'sDirt via Curbed DC ]
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Botox treatment and Thai massages, please step aside: the latest in agent incentives are ridiculously expensive cars. The owner of a 1914 David Adler design in Lake Forest, Ill. has promised his 1991 Bentley 8 to the person who completes the sale. The 10,000-square-foot mansion is listed for $4.9M. [ previously ; Curbed Chicago]
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Here now, From Curbed Marketplace , highlighting an intriguing real estate listing from the many thousands of properties found in the Curbed Marketplace . Browsing the Marketplace and spot a property worthy of being featured? Send it to the tipline . Click here to view the full photogallery. Jennifer Aniston has notoriously modern taste when it comes to architecture and design. In November 2011, not long after her sleek, Arch Digest – anointed Beverly Hills hideaway hit the market, the actress settled on a gorgeous, gleamingly new unit on Gramercy Park in Manhattan. This January, she doled out generously for a 1965 A. Quincy Jones-designed modern in Bel-Air, Calif. Now Aniston and boyfriend Justin Theroux are paying $40K a month to rent a thoroughly renovated Hal Levitt design in Los Angeles. But just because Jen’s laying her flaxen hair here doesn’t mean you can’t too, eventually: according to Trulia Luxe Living, the five-bedroom home—which, with details such as white oak wide-plank flooring, “hand-chiseled stone flooring imported from Tandoor, India,” hand-blown Venetian lighting, Ann Sacks tiling, a “Bulthaup B3 Walnut Floating Chefs Kitchen,” and a temperature-controlled wine room, probably doesn’t have much in the way of Levitt’s original vision—is also quietly asking $11.5M. Curbed LA, which has covered this property extensively, took notice when it first came to market for $14.9M last July—the owner, who bought the 6,500-square-foot home for $4.6M in April 2010, was shooting for a nearly unheard-of flip. Perhaps an A-lister is just the kick in the caboose it needs to finally sell? · Peek Inside Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s New Beverly Hills Rental [Trulia Luxe Living via Curbed LA ] · 425 Martin Lane, Beverly Hills, Calif. [Zillow] · Madeover Hal Levitt Flip in Beverly Hills [Curbed LA] · Inside Jennifer Aniston’s Sleek New Piece of Starchitecture [Curbed National] · All Jennifer Aniston coverage [Curbed National]
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That was fast! Not three months after hitting the market, Ernest Hemingway’s childhood home has sold. The 4,200-square-foot house, in Oak Park, Ill., had been listed for $525K. [Sun-Times via Curbed Chicago; previously ]
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Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We’d love to see what you’ve got. Click here to view the full photogallery. Location: Madison, Conn. Price: $2,495,000 The Skinny: The iconic midcentury architect Philip Johnson is best known for his pure, original modern forms—namely the Glass House, his personal residence in New Canaan, Conn.—but, in this case, Johnson adapted a Colonial house, circa 1720, adding a glass-walled barn and tall stone walls in the 1950s. The result is a somewhat odd mix of colonial woodwork and minimalist steel and glass, but also produces some outstanding vignettes, like the glowing glass barn and a swimming pool that opens seamlessly onto a broad lawn dotted with hundred-year-old trees. Listed for almost $2.5M, this place was never going to be that affordable with a name like Philip Johnson attached, but may be the perfect home for a certain sort of couple, with one who loves modern design and the other who can’t help but stick with the older stuff. · 6 Opening Hill Road [Sotheby's]
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Click to enlarge Here’s a contender for the Bronx’s most utterly ridiculous bathroom, which is located in a 15,000-square-foot mansion that just hit the market for $14.998M. If this is what the lavatory—slash home office, maybe?— looks like, then other details come at no surprise: marble floors imported from the Vatican and chandeliers taken from the Plaza Hotel (whose “own artisans spent four years painting and gilding the ceilings of each of the rooms”). Curbed NY has the full, truly glorious photogallery. · Mind-Bogglingly Gilded Riverdale Mansion Asks Nearly $15M [Curbed NY]
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Click here to view the full photogallery. The idle rich have been seeking refuge from summer’s urban heat in the country for generations, most frequently masquerading as farmers on so-called “gentleman’s farms.” That’s the term for a farm that has all the space and capability to serve as an agricultural producer, but instead is maintained purely for the enjoyment of its wealthy owner. America’s version of the landed gentry got their start in the plantations of Virginia and the tradition persists in that area today. This 1,466-acre estate in Warrenton, Va., centered around a stone manor dating from 1776 and several outbuildings, boasts an impressive 22 bedrooms and 16 bathrooms over 38,500 square feet. Accessed by a long, gated, tree-lined drive, the Historical Register estate is listed for $22.95M. Click here to view the full photogallery. ↑ The famed summer colony of the Hamptons might be known mostly as a beach community, but the horse set also rears its well-quaffed head on the East End of Long Island. This famous farm, known as Two Trees and owned by the Walentas family (developers of Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood), may be one of the largest plots available in the area. Currently listed for $55M, the Bridgehampton, N.Y. property hosts an annual polo classic, but also manages to squeeze in some farm houses, making it at least somewhat homey. Click here to view the full photogallery. ↑ Despite the East Coast origins of this phenomenon, California has its fair share of gentleman’s farms. Take this equestrian facility in Thousand Oaks, Calif., a stylish combination of functional barns and stylish living space, the property is currently listed for $14.9M. That price includes no fewer than eight guest cottages, lush foliage, a riding ring, yoga pavilion, barns, a tennis court and a “sophisticated private security system.” Click here to view the full photogallery. ↑ Back in the East, in the Philadelphia suburb of Fort Washington, Pa., this massive estate was designed by Rafael Viñoly to transform 70 acres of Pennsylvania farmland into a pastoral escape for a captain of industry. The cost to create the 37,000-square-foot home and accompanying 20,000-square-foot “playhouse” is said to have far exceeded even the current asking price, a heady $30M. Two stone farmhouses and a three-bedroom caretaker’s apartment complete the offering. Click here to view the full photogallery. ↑ In Greenwich, Conn., that tony New York suburb, the gentleman’s farm is something of a standard, as finance types compete for the most elaborate country estates. This one, at “the top of Round Hill Road,” has the necessary acreage—17 acres to be exact—but currently sits vacant, the only structure being the near-abandoned, boarded-up stone stables. The lack of an inhabitable residence hasn’t done much to reduce the asking price, which was no doubt set based on the rarity of the land, at $24.5M. · 7500 Ironwood Lane [Zillow] · 231 491 And 849 Hayground Rd [Zillow] · 1666 Hidden Valley Rd [Zillow] · 7111 Sheaff Ln [Zillow] · Round Hill Road [Sotheby's]
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