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Keys to the magic kingdom: Disney to build $8M homes in Florida
Disney began selling lots last week for a new luxury vacation-home resort at Walt Disney World in Florida, The Wall Street Journal reports. It’s not the company’s first foray into the real estate...
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Waterfalls, golf courses and helicopter pads: America’s most expensive homes,...
We all remember the opening lines of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since....
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Snowbird Diaries: Foreclosure hunting in Arizona, Part 12
By Roberta Avery “Now is the time for bottom-feeding,” blares the headline in the Las Vegas Sun. The accompanying piece advertises bargain real estate for sale in Arizona and Nevada, whose foreclosure...
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Pierce Brosnan selling Mediterranean-style beach house
Pierce Brosnan’s two-storey Malibu beach house is on the market for US$3.9-million, according to The Los Angeles Times. The erstwhile James Bond’s gated Mediterranean home was designed as an artist’s...
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For Sale: Custom log home three years in the making
2 Parker Point Rd. (Bala) Asking price: $3.595-million Taxes: $22,909 (2008) Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3 MLS# 440202002902020 By Connie Adair Granite outcroppings may be beautiful and synonymous with...
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For Sale: Arboreal cottage close to Muskoka Bay
Muldrew Lake 714 Peninsula Rd. (Gravenhurst) Asking price: $599,000 Taxes: $4,881 (2009) Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2 MLS# 440202002303002 By Connie Adair Cedar Sauna Elevated on a treed hill but close to...
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For Sale: Lake Rosseau waterfront estate
Lake Rosseau 1466 Peninsula Rd. (Township of Muskoka Lakes) Asking price: $2.189-million Taxes: $9,759 (2009) Bedrooms: 5 Bathrooms: 5 MLS# 445304001000400 By Connie Adair Large Residence Wellsbourne...
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Au contraire: Buyers for Vancouver condo prefer traditional over open-plan...
Perhaps they’re just being coy. Buyers in Vancouver’s real estate market might say they love open-plan design, but it was a more traditional floorplan that won out when developer Rize Alliance built...
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For Sale: Executive retreat on Georgian Bay
Georgian Bay 225 Peel St. H (The Blue Mountains) Asking price: $$2.395-million Taxes: $10,835 (2009) Bedrooms: 8 Bathrooms: 6 MLS# 20102706 By Connie Adair Private retreat for executive This...
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For a mere US$18.9-million, you too can live La Vida Loca
After a brief hiatus, Ricky Martin’s beachfront estate in Miami is back on the market at the reduced price of US$18.9-million. Martin bought the home in the private oceanfront neighbourhood of Golden...
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For Sale: Post-and-beam waterfront bungalow
Lake Simcoe 2839 Bayview Dr. (Ramara) Asking price: $719,000 Taxes: $5,380 (2009) Bedrooms: 5+1 Bathrooms: 2 MLS# X1825914 By Connie Adair Five-bedroom bungalow Custom-built by the owners 20 years ago,...
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For Sale: 75-year-old cottage on Muskoka Lake
Muskoka Lake 2896 Muskoka Rd. #169 (Township of Muskoka Lakes) Asking price: $1.395-million Taxes: $4,500 (2009) Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2 MLS# 445307000508700 By Connie Adair New Hardwood This Muskoka...
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Follow the yellow-brick road: Tin Man’s family home on sale in Beverly Hills
The family home of vaudevillian Jack Haley, who played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, is on the market at just under US$3.6-million, says The Los Angeles Times. Mr. Haley raised his two children in...
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Dr. Phil’s Beverly Hills villa on the market at $16.5-million
Dr. Phil, as pop psychiatrist and TV personality Phil McGraw is known, has listed his walled and gated Mediterranean villa in Beverly Hills at US$16.5-million, The Los Angeles Times reports. The...
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Eco-friendly company from U.S. finds Canadian market for circular prefabs
An American homebuilder that specializes in eco-friendly, circular prefabs is making inroads in Canada. Deltec Homes, of Asheville, N.C., has shipped nine of its energy-efficient homes to Ontario,...
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Own a piece of Monroe-abilia: House Marilyn died in listed at US$3.6-million
She had only lived at the home six months when her housekeeper found her dead in her bedroom — Marilyn Monroe had died of a barbiturate overdose. Now, 48 years later, Ms. Monroe’s Spanish revival...
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He will sell it, with or without you: Former U2 show director lists unique...
Bruce Ramus, who spent 16 years directing hundreds of shows for Irish rockers U2, has listed his 1,860-square-foot post-and-beam waterfront home in British Columbia for $1.5-million. The home sits on...
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Vancouver condo lets you choose your own wall placement
Vancouver developer Rize Alliance has come up with an innovative idea for customizing condo interiors: movable partitions. Units in its new development, OnQue, have “OnePlusOne” partitions that...
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Final holdout in Carnegie Hall Towers says goodbye to apartment of 40 years
Octogenarian Elizabeth Sargent, the final tenant in New York’s storied Carnegie Hall towers, has agreed to vacate her rent-controlled apartment in one of the buildings that played host to many of...
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After Chelsea Clinton wedding, opulent Astor Courts Estate back on the market
Astor Courts, the historic 50-acre property in Rhinebeck, N.Y., where Chelsea Clinton recently wed investment banker Marc Mezvinsky, is on the block at an appraised value of US$15-million. The...
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