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Mar 13, 2024 | 
mansionglobal.com | Maggie Stephenson AllModern |Maggie Stephenson |Katherine Clarke
The Hamptons home of the late Ahmet Ertegun, the Atlantic Records co-founder who has been called the “greatest record man” in U.S. history, was built for entertaining on a grand scale. The Southampton house was built in the style of a Russian dacha by the Turkish Ertegun and his wife, Romania-born society doyenne Mica Ertegun. After seeing the initial plans, Ertegun had the living room enlarged to accommodate an orchestra, according to Vanity Fair.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
mansionglobal.com | Maggie Stephenson AllModern |Maggie Stephenson
Mansion Global’s daily round-up of the latest luxury real estate news from around the worldOriginally Published March 13, 2024 Rihanna is planning a high-value adjustment to her real estate portfolio, having put her Los Angeles penthouse, which was once owned by the late actor Matthew Perry, on the market for $24.95 million.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
mansionglobal.com | Maggie Stephenson AllModern |Maggie Stephenson |Laura Hine
Suzanne Lovell, a Chicago-based designer, had already worked with her clients—who are in their late 50s and work in the boating industry—on a condo in Chicago and a 15,000-square-foot penthouse in Naples, Fla., when the husband called with a special request. “He had just purchased a car condo about 5 miles from their Naples residence,” Lovell says. “And he asked me to design the coolest man cave ever.” The car condo is in a gated community, but instead of front doors, there are garage doors.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
mansionglobal.com | Maggie Stephenson AllModern |Maggie Stephenson |Evelyn Battaglia
A reimagined mid-century four-bedroom home with a saltwater pool on an oversized lot in Miami has hit the market for $9.495 million. The 4,225-square-foot family home, located in the Miami Shores community, has 84 feet of open Biscayne Bay frontage. “Miami Shores is a very well-known community in the North Miami (NoMi) area, between Downtown Miami and Fort Lauderdale,” said selling agent Chad Carroll, executive president of the Carroll Group at Compass, who listed the home earlier this month.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
mansionglobal.com | Maggie Stephenson AllModern |Maggie Stephenson |Claire Carponen
Listing of the day Location: Hunting Valley, Ohio Price: $3.9 million This historic Ohio estate has a manor house that transports residents and visitors to the Roaring Twenties. The 7-acre property, known as Roundwood Manor, is just outside the city of Cleveland and was once the country estate of the famed industrialist brothers O. P. and M. J. Van Sweringen.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
mansionglobal.com | Maggie Stephenson AllModern |Maggie Stephenson |Ameena Walker |Taran Wilkhu
There’s nothing like cozying up in a comfy chair with a book that you can get lost in for hours. For avid readers, a reading chair is an essential and knowing how to pick the perfect one for you and your space is key. It goes without saying that the perfect reading chair has to be extremely comfortable, but it’s also important to consider weight, size, color, style and durability, design pros said.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
mansionglobal.com | Maggie Stephenson AllModern |Maggie Stephenson |Liz Lucking
A home in one of the charming villages within the U.K.’s posh Cotswolds region that combines the traditional with the modern has hit the market for £4.5 million (US$5.75 million). The sellers, who built it in 2012, wanted to create property with a contemporary interior but with an exterior that retained the charm and character of the local architecture, according to Savills, which brought the home to the market last month.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
mansionglobal.com | Maggie Stephenson AllModern |Maggie Stephenson |Liz Lucking
Rihanna is planning a high-value adjustment to her real estate portfolio, having put her Los Angeles penthouse, which was once owned by the late actor Matthew Perry, on the market for $24.95 million. The pop star, businesswoman and billionaire has owned the full-floor penthouse on the 40th floor of the 42-story Century building in Century City for a little less than a year. She purchased the property through a trust at the end of March 2023 for $21 million, records with PropertyShark show.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
mansionglobal.com | Maggie Stephenson AllModern |Maggie Stephenson |E.B. Solomont
The late trial lawyer Fred Levin battled Big Tobacco and won. He became a boxing manager and had his own television show. And he did it all without leaving his hometown of Pensacola, Fla., where he owned an ornate residence with a room modeled after the Titanic. Known as Timeless Tanglewood, the waterfront home spans approximately 6,500 square feet; the Titanic room is on a lower level and features a replica of the ocean liner’s bar and a clock set to the time the ship sank.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
mansionglobal.com | Maggie Stephenson AllModern |Maggie Stephenson |Zoe Rosenberg
A Tuscan-villa-inspired Houston home of the late billionaire real estate developer Gerald D. Hines has sold in one of the city’s biggest home sales. The mansion, which was asking $20 million, closed last week for an undisclosed sum after three years on the market, though the sale ranks as the second-priciest home ever sold in the city, according to Nancy Almodovar of Nan & Company Properties, one of the agents involved in the sale.
