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Owner: Bill Gates, net worth $77.5 billion
Market value: $120.5 million, 2014 tax assessment
The high-tech Lake Washington complex owned by the world’s second-richest man boasts a pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500-square-foot gym and a library with a domed reading room.
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http://realestate.msn.com/worlds-most-expensive-billionaire-homes#2
Rohit Sabhlok said he’s upset he lost a bidding war on a London house. Katy Barnes bought her home to avoid rising rents, while Holly Martin purchased hers as an investment. Both are hooked on a website that shows their property values soaring. Kay Durrant used her home’s growing equity value to pay bills.
Welcome to London’s frenzied housing market, where low mortgage rates and a dearth of properties for sale have sent prices rising in a year by an amount almost twice the average annual London wage. From centuries-old pubs to Mayfair clubs to the halls of Parliament, London is abuzz with talk of escalating values, foreign buyers with piles of cash and half-built garages selling for vast sums.
London’s housing boom “has become a mainstay of conversation,” said Paul Stenson, an asset manager at Dunbar Assets Plc as he sipped a pint of Aspall cider at Ye Olde Cock Tavern on Fleet Street, a pub dating back to 1549. “Never mind the hackneyed view of it being the conversation of dinner parties, it’s gone beyond that. It’s like the elevator music that’s constantly on play.”
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-19/london-housing-talk-of-ye-olde-tavern-alarming-carney-mortgages.html
Fueled by backlash from the financial and housing crisis, these homes — typically sized 500 square feet or smaller — are having a moment. In April, the first Tiny House Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, sold out, attracting some 170 attendees.
Tiny-house pioneer Dee Williams, who has spent the last decade in an 84-square-foot home in a friend’s backyard, has toured touring the nation to promote her memoir “The Big Tiny.” Even students at the Savannah College of Art and Design are getting into the game, building an entire floor of 135-square-foot homes inside an old school parking lot.
These home may be environmentally friendly — they force owners to reduce their possessions and, often, to use less power — but they’re not exactly cheap. Tiny houses typically cost between $200 to $400 per square foot. On a square-foot basis, that’s far pricier than the average American home-and tiny homes don’t include land.
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http://realestate.msn.com/12-tiny-tricked-out-homes
Metro Atlanta’s housing market continued to rebound at the end of 2013, posting double-digit growth, according to the CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indexes.
The area’s house prices jumped 17.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013, compared with the fourth quarter of 2012. CoreLogic also predicts metro Atlanta’s home prices will increase 2.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014.
National home prices rose 11.3 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with the fourth quarter of 2012. Home prices nationwide were 20 percent above the trough reached in the fourth quarter of 2011, but remained 21 percent below the peak reached in the first quarter of 2006.
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http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/05/13/metro-atlanta-home-prices-jumped-18-at-end-of-13.html
[All photos by Bob Estremera.]
The Woolworth Building‘s opulent lobby is 101 years old, and while it’s not a nice, pretty centennial, it’s still pretty darn old, immaculately preserved, and positively beautiful. While it used to be open to the public, it’s not anymore due to security concerns, so it’s only ogle-able to the folks who work in the building—we’re looking at you, SHoP Architects. Meanwhile, there are occasional tours of the neo-Gothic, gilded-to-the-nines space. Architectural photographer extraordinaire Bob Estremera went on one last week hosted by Landmark Branding, and though he’d try something different from his last glimpse inside, taking a slew of shots in both color and sepia-infused black-and-white. Compare and contrast two views of the same scene, and marvel at how the architectural details pop in the bi-chrome version and how dazzling the full-on color ones are. It’s positively grotesque! No, really, there are tons of those carved faces and figures, all of which are unique—the workers had a lot of fun, apparently. And, FYI, whoever ends up living in the 34 condos amazing condos being constructed on the landmark’s upper floors will have a separate lobby, which just goes to show that even money can’t buy this kind of beauty… but working for a cool company can
It’s getting more crowded at the top.
Owning a piece of a skyscraper’s top floor — where your closest neighbors have feathers — is the pinnacle of real estate. Penthouses make up less than 1 percent of real estate listings, but their average price a square foot is 84 percent higher than that of similar, nonpenthouse units, according to an analysis by real estate website Zillow.
The word itself will cost you. Simply having the designation of “penthouse” in the listing can result in a sale premium of 5 percent to 10 percent, says Jonathan Miller, a New York City-based appraiser and president of Miller Samuel Inc.
Now, the word “penthouse” is being applied to all sorts of condos — even those on lower floors — and it’s not uncommon to see multiple penthouses stacked on top of one another. Echo Aventura, a new development in Miami by Property Markets Group and JDS Development, will sport 18 penthouse units when it is completed in 2015, and Trump Place at 120 Riverside Blvd. in Manhattan has 44 penthouses.
Here’s a look inside homes around the globe that feel like they’re on top of the world.
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http://realestate.msn.com/panoramic-penthouse-views-from-around-the-globe
↑ First up on the Roundup is this cute little townhouse in Clinton Hill. Built in the 1860s, it has carved marble mantels, ceiling plasterwork, oak flooring, 10-foot ceilings, and exposed beams. There’s also a planted garden. Asking price is $2.599 million.
↑ Up next is this two-building property in Boerum Hill. The lot includes a brick townhouse, a contemporary carriage house, and a very nice landscaped garden. The 1800s townhouse has original wide plank floors, tin ceilings, and marble mantles, while the carriage house has a huge kitchen and three floors of living space. It’s asking $3.3 million.
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http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/05/11/cute_clinton_hill_townhouse_asks_26_million_and_more.php
Photo via Arch Daily
Built by pile o’ sticks guru Kengo Kuma—whose quirky, previous projects include high-design Starbucks locales and timber-lined dog huts—this bamboo basket-shaped bakery in Tokyo just might be the oddest, most flammable purveyor of sweets in all the land. Constructed using Kuma’s signature Japanese joint technique of “Jiigoku-Gumi,” the design team explains that the SunnyHills pineapple cake shop uses its interior and exterior wooden latticework to differentiate itself from its surroundings by appearing “completely different from a concrete box.” Inside, the space feels open and sunny, thanks to the filtered daylight streaming through the slatted walls. French architect and filmmaker Vincent Hecht has a video tour of the standout little building, below:
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http://curbed.com/archives/2014/05/08/take-a-virtual-stroll-through-tokyos-bamboo-basket-bakery.php
