It looks like the plans to develop Europe's tallest residential building are set to for forward. The will be a 60-story tower located next to Manchester Piccadilly station in England. Ballymore, and international property development and investment group, has in what is also being called the Piccadilly Tower project. The tower will have 430 residential units in phase one and the second phase will add an additional 267 residential units added and a luxury hotel. Construction is set to start early next year. No completion date or potential pricing has been released yet. | | |
The lure of this one is all about the land, prime Southern California real estate. Middle Ranch was formerly Cecil B. DeMille's Paradise Ranch in Los Angeles and is now an equestrian park with lodge and club facilities that include a pool, tennis court and a commercial kitchen. The 119 acres also includes 200 concrete block stalls which are leased out, eight arena, a grass grand Prix field, horse trails, pastures and turnouts. The land also includes parcels of land earmarked for residential development. . There are also an additional 185 acres available which can be used for residential development and which includes a pueblo-style home. The pictures on this one aren't great but like the , this land is a piece of the Los Angeles that used to be.
Denver is set to get a new luxury residences tower that will make a big impact on the skyline. The recent groundbreaking of marks the start of a building that will stand approximately 600 feet high and will be a new residential building in downtown Denver. The building will include 240 rooms of luxury hotel accommodations and 102 private residences that range from 1,000 square feet to 6,100 square feet. The new Four Seasons Hotel Denver will take up the first 16 floors of the building and will include a restaurant, lobby lounge and bar, spa, fitness center, meeting space and a rooftop pool and dining area. The private residences start on the 18th floor and extend up to the 45th floor offering gorgeous Rocky Mountain views. The tower is scheduled for completion by Spring 2010. | | |
There's no denying the green trend but it's fascinating to see how it plays out in the luxury real estate market. This new build is a ,800 square foot, five bedroom, mountain home in Bear Dance just outside of Larkspur,Colorado. The house was designed to have a utility bill costing no more than $350 a month. It may not sound like a big reduction but heating and electricity for a home this size in the winter can run into the thousands. Thehome's energy-efficient features include wrap-around wall insulation, solar thermal panels on the roof that pre-heat all the domestic water and four additional solar electric panels that produce enough electricity to run the homes six refrigerators.
The home was also built green, using recycled, reclaimed and organic materials whenever possible, including the Cultured Logs(TM), log-finish exterior, made from composite material and non-toxic blown-in insulation. The hardwood floors are reclaimed antique hickory, taken from a barn built in Virginia in the late 1800's. All the paints and stains are VOC free and even the vegetation cleared at the homesite was mulched and returned to the land. The home has a media room, wine cellar, game room and exercise area as well as a wet bar and family room.
There's no denying it, winter is on the way. But it that isn't necessarily a bad thing. This house on the California side of Lake Tahoe would make a lovely place to spend a snowy day. The home has over 100 feet of lakefront and a slip at the marina and includes both a four-bedroom main home and a two-bedroom guest house on over an acre of land. The great room with its stone fireplace and large windows is the perfect place for hanging out. The home has four bedroom suites each with a whirlpool tub, fireplace, custom-fitted walk-in closet and deck. The master suite has a Turkish steam bath, double-sided fireplace and two decks. Other deluxe features include an eight-person spa room, home theater, wine room and a heated garage.
The seven-bedroom home in Miami Beach offers a feature I have never seen before, a putting green with an ocean view. This is often where homes in the area put the pool but instead you can find the pool up a few floors on the roof. This Miami Beach contemporary sits on a whisper of land (under a quarter acre) but has over 7,000 feet of interior space.The new home has marble and wood floors, a formal dining, waterfront kitchen with morning niche, family and media rooms, guest and staff quarters. The large master suite has a private terrace.
I've seen cruise ships on the ocean offering condos before (a trend that seems to have begun with ) but this is the first time I have seen condo boats for river cruising. is selling floating condos that will travel through the intracoastal waterways of the U.S. Amenities include a grocery store, restaurants, concierge service, a rooftop lounge, theaters, activity rooms, a library, hot tubs and pools, fitness equipment, walking tracks, a rooftop chipping course and even fishing. The condos range from studios to two bedrooms and cost between $161,000 and $499,000. Shared expenses for the staff of 30 range from $6,700 to $23,100.
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have put their Nashville home in a gated community on the market. The story, which I first spotted in and then , is that Urban and Kidman aren't leaving Nashville, they are moving into a new home (reportedly they have bought land and are . The four-bedroom house was bought by Urban in 2005 for $1.7 million. It was built in 2004 and pretty much looks brand new. As the , this home is not too distinctive. There's a lot of beige and soft colors and nothing except the gleaming black piano and the plethora of fitness equipment that makes it recognizable as a celebrity home. For your you also get a celeb neighbor, LeeAnn Rimes lives in the neighborhood.
The other day I mentioned a LEED neighborhood development , now comes news of another LEED neighborhood development project, the $1 billion project in Colorado, . The project at the base of Vail Mountain seeks to become the largest LEED-certified project for resort use in the U.S. The resort will include residences, a hotel, office space, retail shops, restaurants and a public park.
Eco-sensitive measures at Ever Vail will include using woods certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and local area beetle-kill Lodgepole pine trees in building construction, using a geothermal system for snowmelt, using micro-turbines in Gore Creek to power the outdoor streetscape lighting and using reclaimed water from snowmelt for use as water in toilets rather than using drinking water. A "closed-loop" gray water system would also be in place for washing all mountain operations vehicles, such as snowcats and snowmobiles at the site of the new mountain operations maintenance yard. The project will also include affordable housing in the form of studio, one- and two-bedroom units that will range in size from approximately 900 to 1,600 square feet. | | |
From --Madonna's former house in Beverly Hills is listed for $17.495 million. The eight-bedroom mansion, shown here, is a Wallace Neff showplace that Madonna bought in 2000 for a reported $6.5 million from Diane Keaton, who had bought in 1996. Madonna listed the house in 2003 for $10.9 million and then reduced it to $8.9 million. The current owners recently refurbished the home. --Spice Girl Melanie Brown has paid $3 million for a home in the Hollywood Hills, and has sold her Los Feliz home for an undisclosed price (the home she sold was listed at $1,499,000. --Joely Fisher has reduced the price on her Encino home, down to $3.999 million. It was our when it was listed at $4.75 million. --Charlie Sheen's fiancee Brooke Mueller has sold her four-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills for $2.317 million. --The official purchase price on Anne Heche's house sale to Matt Olmstead was $3.66 million. --A Mediterranean-style mansion in Los Feliz area that was owned by actor Lorenzo Lamas from 1996 until 1999 has sold for $4,150,000. --A three-bedroom house in Beverly Hills that once was owned by the Monkees' Mike Nesmith has been reduced from $5,450,000 to $4,995,000. --Jack Black has sold a 1,959-square-foot home in the Hollywood Hills for $1,210,000 --Former baseball star Hideo Nomo has sold his condo on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $1,200,000. --A Bel-Air home once owned by Farrah Fawcett is listed for $4,195,000. --The price for Ursa Major, the architectural beauty once owned by Wilt Chamberlain has been reduced from $11.5 million to $8,950,000. --Model Rachel Hunter and her hockey-player boyfriend Jarret Stoll have paid $3,645,000 for a house in Hermosa Beach.
From the --The Shabby Chic home of interior decorator Rachel Ashwell is for rent for in Malibu for $20,000 a month. --It looks like designer Vera Wang's $35 million Park Avenue apartment has already gone to contract. --Nic Cage has listed his Bel-Air manor for $35 million. --Alex Band, of the band The Calling, has put his home in the Outpost Estates are of Los Angeles on the market for $2.995 million. -Brad Garrett has dropped the price on his Hidden Hills home to $8,790,000. --Damien Wayans, , has put his Los Angeles home on the market for $2.050 million. . --Linda Evans has listed her Beverly Hills home for rent for $14,500.
From the : --As we previously learned, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne sold their Beverly Hills home to Christina Aguilera and hubby and have moved to Hidden Hills. --Actress Denise Richards is also in Hidden Hills in a new home which had been listed for about $4.6 million. --More Hidden Hills news, Melissa Etheridge already lived in the community but recently bought a larger house for $5.1 million. --And one more Hidden Hills story, Graeme Revell, the award-winning film-music composer, just sold his home there for about $8 million.
From the --Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters has bought a five-story townhouse in New York for $14.995 million from Coach leather goods president Reed Krakoff. --News anchor Campbell Brown and her political strategist husband Dan Senor are close to closing on a three-bedroom home in lower North Haven. --Grey's Anatomy actress Chandra Wilson is buying a three-bedroom residence in the 30-story condo complex going up in Harlem. --Ex NFL player Tiki Barber is spending about $6 million to connect four adjacent condos at the at 515 East 72nd St.
Also from the: --Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have listed their Nashville home for $2.5 million. It is our estate of the day later today.
From the --New York Rangers hockey player Scott Gomez has paid $3.2 million for a duplex penthouse at the Chelsea Mercantile on Seventh Avenue. --Architect Thom Mayne has paid $2.675 million for a two-bedroom loft at 85 Mercer Street. --Nobel-prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk has paid $1.8 million for an apartment at 355 Riverside Drive.
From the --Atlanta Hawks rookies Al Horford and Acie Law have both bought homes listed at about $1 million in gated communities on opposite sides of Atlanta. Horford bought a four-story Georgian-style townhouse in norther Atlanta. Law picked up a European-style single-family house in the southern part of the city. --Actress Arlene Dahl's husband has listed their Sparkill, New York home for $8.5 million. The home was our --Professional golfer Justin Leonard has a tentative deal to sell his Dallas suburban home for close to his $6.8 million asking price. | |