#luxury-real-estate

#luxury-real-estate

Toll Brothers has promoted Executive Vice President Seth J. Ring to president and chief operating officer, succeeding outgoing president and COO Robert (Rob) Parahus, according to a company announcement. Ring, a 22-year Toll Brothers veteran, will also join the company's board of directors. Parahus, who has been with Toll for 40 years, will retire from his operating role but remain as a senior advisor to support the transition and provide strategic counsel.

The proposed 'pied-à-terre tax' will allow New York City to levy a yearly surcharge on luxury second homes valued at $5 million or more, targeting wealthy out-of-towners.

Branded residences have become the luxury hotel industry's favorite revenue strategy, characterized by recognizable names and a 30% premium for the brand badge, often resulting in real estate that borrows a brand's reputation without its design philosophy.

The agency has confirmed what it called a "very difficult" decision to close its last remaining office on Brompton Road, bringing an end to operations that once stretched from the Home Counties to Monte Carlo.

Harlow filled her lavish estate to the brim with extravagant furniture, including antiques, rare porcelain, mink headboards, gold bathroom fittings, and ermine-covered toilet seats.

I moved from Israel to New York because I saw it as the centre of global real estate. It's one of the most competitive markets in the world. If you can succeed there, you can succeed anywhere. I wanted to be in that environment early on.

An 1890s estate, known as the Owl's Nest, on more than one and a half acres with eight bedrooms, five bathrooms, three half baths, three fireplaces, a recreation room, two covered porches, a lap pool, and a rear patio.

He is still an owner, but I'm trying to buy him out. He is living in the house, and I'm trying to get him out. Powers said he wants Cornfeld to move so that the 71-year-old house can be refurbished before it is aggressively marketed, but Powers acknowledged that he agreed to put it up for sale with Green.

The brainchild of Friendly's Ice Cream co-founder S. Prestley Blake, who has undertaken numerous building projects in recent years, the estate was a swan song of sorts as he approached the century mark. Blake held his 100th birthday party in the newly constructed residence this month.

Built in 1991, the two-story home features a formal entry with a sweeping staircase that opens to a living room with a fireplace. A formal dining room in red sits off the living room area. An updated kitchen with a 120-bottle wine cellar, a family room with a wet bar, five bedrooms and 4.25 bathrooms also lie within more than 3,900 square feet of living space.

The 22,906-square-foot home, built in 2009, is at the heart of a two-plus-acre compound that includes a tennis court, indoor and outdoor swimming pools and a large motor court. Designed for large-scale entertaining, it features large formal areas, a ballroom and a brick wine vault. The movie theater is Moroccan themed.

This Spanish Colonial-inspired home in Irvine's Shady Canyon community is set up for entertaining with a wine cellar and tasting room, a massive center-island kitchen and outdoor cooking and dining areas. Rows of French doors set off the double-height great room and provide access to a swimming pool and spa, set in the backdrop of mature trees and rolling hillsides.

The recently built Villa Della Costa feels like a private island set high above Santa Barbara's Gaviota Coast. With vaulted ceilings and oversized windows, the sprawling single-story house takes in the surrounding landscape from every perspective. The ranch-style modern Mediterranean shares its 106-acre perch with a helipad, a guest house and a pool cabana.

It's kind of surreal. It opens up your imagination to what the possibilities are for your own family or your friends or if a ballplayer owned it for private training. The surrounding areas are great for training, particularly having hills and trails to run.

The house was originally a ranch hand and foreman's quarters. It is now California ranch in style with hand-carved woodwork reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. A wine cellar was built in what was the root cellar, and a 200-year-old church door was added.

The palatial, 7,500-square-foot house has four bedrooms with marble baths and fireplaces. In the dining room, a waterfall flows over crystal rocks and the embedded ends of severed optical fibers, creating underwater pinpoints of colored light, like drowning fireflies.

I essentially print one copy of the book for the owner. It tells the story of their house and all the owners from the time it was built until today. The books run from 150 to 250 pages, can take more than 200 hours to produce and are filled with boldface celebrity names and archival photos of stars hanging out in the home with famous friends.