Filed under: Estates

For the next couple of weeks we’ll be checking out some homes in the most high-priced zip codes in the United States, up today, 60022 . This zip code refers to the town of Glencoe, Illinois. This zip code has a median price of $1,850,000 with an appreciation rate of 218% since 1990. Glencoe is a small, highly affluent community on Lake Michigan that is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.

Today’s estate is definitely not a representative sample of the real estate in the area. Glencoe homes tend to run to the traditional and this home is definitely not that. It’s a bit of a contemporary fun house.This home is full of wacky modern furniture and all sorts of funky details including multi-colored wood floors, a bulbous fireplace, a kitchen full of swooping counters and wild bathrooms. It is listed at $6.9 million.

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

For months the possibility of living with Richard Gere has been one of the quiet selling points for Palazzo Chupi, director Julian Schnabel’s monument to his own Schnabeliciousness in New York’s West Village. Now that dream is over, Gere’s full-floor, four-bedroom apartment is listed with Sotheby’s. Gere’s apartment has some benefits over the over two apartments which are listed at $27 million and $32 million, mainly that it’s a tiny less over-the-top and doesn’t have that odd avocado-colored kitchen. Curbed says that Gere purchased the apartment in September for $12 million and has listed at $17,995,000. Is New York ready for “Venice in Manhattan?” We’ll have to wait and see how long these places stay on the market.

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Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better begin running.
-African proverb

Source: “The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman

Pic Credit: Image by Subhadip Mukherjee from sxc.hu

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