L.A. Home Where You Can Train Like The Hulk Lists for $3.9 MillionThe Wall Street Journal. - Candace TaylorLou Ferrigno’s life is imitating his art. The 2009 comedy “I Love You, Man” revolves partly around a real-estate agent’s attempt to sell Mr. Ferrigno’s Los Angeles home, with the actor playing himself.
U.S. Politics How Once-Doomed Mortgage Giants Gained New Lease on LifeThe Wall Street Journal. - Andrew Ackerman, Nick TimiraosFor years after the 2008 mortgage-market meltdown, Republicans and Democrats agreed on little about what to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac except one thing: Get rid of them. A Trump administration
Cincinnati Reds Barry Larkin Takes Another Swing at Selling Orlando MansionThe Wall Street Journal. - Katherine ClarkeBaseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin and his wife Lisa Larkin are relisting their Orlando, Fla.-area home for $5.4 million, or roughly half of what they sought when they first put it on the market seven
Philip Roth Philip Roth's Connecticut Estate Lists for $2.925 MillionThe Wall Street Journal. - Candace TaylorPhilip Roth’s roughly 150-acre estate in rural Connecticut couldn’t be farther from working-class Newark, N.J., where the author grew up and which he chronicled in his novels. But the Pulitzer Prize-winning
Coffee Table A Living-Dining Space That Brings the Glitz and GlamThe Wall Street Journal. - Beth DeCarboThe clients were empty nesters looking for a fresh start in a 1940s Manhattan building that had been converted into condominiums. Their directive to designers Jamie Drake and Caleb Anderson: Give us “some
Snowmobiling Building on Mackinac Island, Where Horses Rule the RoadsThe Wall Street Journal. - Nancy KeatesA big draw of Mackinac Island in Northern Michigan is the feeling of living in a simpler, less hurried time. A ban on motor vehicles most of the year makes the green oasis set in the blue waters of Lake
The Smiths They Sold Their Company for $500 Million, Then Went Real-Estate ShoppingThe Wall Street Journal. - Katherine ClarkeCarey and Nancy Smith toured 41 New York City homes before finally agreeing this spring to pay almost $20 million for a Greenwich Village townhouse once owned by Malcolm Forbes. Their real-estate agent
Condominiums 15 Central Park West Condo Hits the Market for $65 MillionThe Wall Street Journal. - Katherine ClarkeA sprawling penthouse at 15 Central Park West, one of New York City’s most expensive condo buildings, is coming on the market for $65 million. The 5,902-square-foot, four-bdroom duplex apartment is on
The Rise and Fall of the Front PorchThe Wall Street Journal. - Adrienne GaffneyThere is perhaps no architectural feature that conveys a sense of home, warmth and community like the front porch. And yet, what was once a staple of American life is often skipped in modern homes. What
Once Asking $120 Million, Fifth Avenue Co-op Sells to Stanley Druckenmiller at Steep DiscountThe Wall Street Journal. - Katherine ClarkeA sprawling Fifth Avenue co-op that for decades was home to former Salomon Brothers chief executive John Gutfreund has sold for $53 million, a fraction of its original $120 million asking price, records
Dogs Man's Best Friend (Until It's Time to Show a House)The Wall Street Journal. - Amy GamermanJim DiMartino Broker associate at Strickland Group/Douglas Elliman St. Petersburg, Fla. I had a client who had seven yorkies—teeny-tiny dogs. The male dogs needed to wear a little diaper thing to prevent
David Spade Too Cool for School, David Spade Turned to ComedyThe Wall Street Journal. - Marc MyersDavid Spade, 55, is an actor and stand-up comedian. A former “Saturday Night Live” cast member, he has starred in more than 35 films. He hosts Comedy Central’s “Lights Out With David Spade.” He spoke Marc
Townhouses Martin Chavez Lists New York Townhouse for $19.95 MillionThe Wall Street Journal. - Katherine ClarkeMartin Chavez, Goldman Sachs’s departing coder-in-chief, is listing his townhouse in New York’s West Village for $19.95 million amid a planned move to the West Coast. The four-story, four-bedroom property—one
Home Ownership Homeowners Get Into the Groove of Reclaiming Old WoodThe Wall Street Journal. - Alina DizikWhen Charles and Laura Preston were building their vacation home in Texas Hill Country, they kept returning to one material in the plans: antique timbers reclaimed from an 1800s Vermont barn and shipped
Tallahassee, FL Readers Reflect on Lessons Learned While Building Their Own HomesThe Wall Street Journal. - Beth DeCarboIn the Counting House column on Aug. 2, Beth DeCarbo shared “The Five Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Built My House.” Readers had a lot to say on the matter. Here are excerpts from some of their letters.
Southampton A Historic Estate Older Than Southampton Lists for $28 MillionThe Wall Street Journal. - Katherine ClarkeIn the Hamptons, a recently redesigned English manor-style property is going back on the market for about $28 million. The home was initially listed in 2016 for $31.7 million, but it didn’t find a buyer
Palm Springs When Buying a Home Comes With a Monthly Rent PaymentThe Wall Street Journal. - Katy McLaughlinWhen buyers peruse agent Domingo Perez Jr.’s listings at 420 East 51st St. in Manhattan, they swoon over the high square footage, and list prices that he said are nearly half those of comparable units
Alicia Keys Alicia Keys is the Buyer Behind $20.8 Million Razor House SaleThe Wall Street Journal. - Katherine ClarkeGrammy-winning singer Alicia Keys and her husband, hip hop producer Swizz Beatz, have paid $20.8 million for “Razor House,” a strikingly modern local landmark in the affluent Southern California town La
Arizona Coyotes Hedge-Fund Manager to Auction $35 Million Philadelphia Dream HomeThe Wall Street Journal. - Katherine ClarkeHedge-fund manager Andrew Barroway, a minority owner of the Arizona Coyotes hockey team, first listed his elaborate Pennsylvania estate in 2016 for $28 million. Now, he is auctioning the property with
Ron Howard For Brian Grazer, Eavesdropping Paid Off With His Hollywood BreakThe Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street JournalBrian Grazer, 68, is an Oscar-winning film and television producer who co-founded Imagine Entertainment with director Ron Howard. Among the films he produced are “Splash” (1984), “Apollo 13” (1995), “A
Cincinnati Bengals A Cincinnati Neighborhood With a Presidential PastThe Wall Street Journal. - Jessica FlintOf Cincinnati’s 52 neighborhoods, Mt. Adams, on a hill east of downtown, is one of the southwestern Ohio city’s most historic communities. Its first road dates back to 1793, and its name pays homage to
Scuba Diving A Kansas Megamansion Has a Network of Scuba TunnelsThe Wall Street Journal. - Katherine ClarkeIn a small city outside Kansas City, Kan., an estate with an eccentric perk—a network of underground, water-filled tunnels designed for scuba diving—is slated to list for $11.8 million. The brainchild
A His-and-Hers Home Office You Won't Fight OverThe Wall Street Journal. - Tim GavanIF THE NATURAL state of man is to frolic, carefree and naked, through the forests, it’s no wonder we balk at the high-stress confines of the modern office cubicle. When planning their workspace at home,
Martha's Vineyard On Martha's Vineyard, All Eyes on Obamas' Real EstateThe Wall Street Journal. - Katherine ClarkeOff the coast of Cape Cod and reachable only by boat or plane, Martha’s Vineyard has long been a popular summer destination for top-shelf politicians, from the Kennedy clan and former Secretary of State
Condominiums Collectors and Speed Freaks Take Car Condos for a SpinThe Wall Street Journal. - A.J. BaimeWhen some people dream of a second (or even third) home or property, they imagine views of a pristine lake or a peaceful golf course. Not Julie Hertzberg. When it was time for her to take the plunge, wanted
Cabinetry A Pool House That Makes a Splash, Even in the FallThe Wall Street Journal. - Beth DeCarboA Houston family could stay cool in the pool, but their backyard was too hot for hanging out. The solution: a pool house for al fresco dinners, birthday parties and football-watching in the fall. They
Nantucket Nantucket Homeowners Shake Last Call by Building Their Own BarsThe Wall Street Journal. - Amy GamermanMelanie Sabelhaus loves Nantucket, cocktail hour and the French luxury brand Hermès. So when she was designing a bar for the 9,000-square-foot Nantucket home she owns with her husband, Bob Sabelhaus, looked
Copenhagen A Danish Villa's Heroic BeginningsThe Wall Street Journal. - J.S. MarcusA family’s dramatic escape from Nazi-occupied Denmark is the back story to a stately suburban villa north of Copenhagen. The two-story, beige-brick home was built by businessman Heinrich Infeld in the
Chris Hughes Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Wants $26 Million for Greenwich Village TownhouseThe Wall Street Journal. - Katherine ClarkeChris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook who recently called for the social media behemoth to be broken up, is listing his downtown New York townhouse for $26 million. Mr. Hughes and his husband, political
