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Today’s home has East Coast style with the luxury of West Coast weather. This compound is located in a colony of beach homes on Sand Point Road in the coastal community of Carpinteria, California. The five-bedroom estate includes both a main home and a guest house. The design takes the traditional Cape Cod style and lightens and brightens it with an exterior of bleached cedar shingles and an interior of massive windows and white beams. The home is practically perfect (maybe the media room is a bit off but other than that, wow). Because it is Carpinteria though you’ll pay through the nose for a home like this. It’s listed at $32.5 million and doesn’t even seem to have a pool.

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The last time I checked out a home in Honolulu, Hawaii the top home was listed at $10.8 million. Since back in April, that house has been reduced to $9.25 million and there is a new home in the top spot. Today’s home is located in the Diamond Head area and has extraordinary water views. The two-story residence has three master suites with ocean views and private balconies, maids room and a three-car garage. It also has a particularly alluring feature, an infinity edge pool that faces the ocean. This home is listed at $10.75 million.

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Today’s home in Phoenix, Arizona was once the home of John and Cindy McCain. The home, on over two acres, was Cindy McCain’s childhood home, where she was raised as a privileged beer distributor’s daughter. When the McCains lived there they spent $250,000 remodeling the home back in the 1980s. In 2006, the couple downsized into a condo and put the home on the market. When I first heard about it in 2006, they had a bit of trouble selling the home, listing it for around $3.75 million.

The current owner is going for a bit more. They’ve listed the home, which has seven bedrooms in the main house and two bedrooms in the guest home, for a hefty $12 million. The home includes a master suite with a Mexican-tiled private patio with a spa and built-in fireplace and seating. The gourmet kitchen has slate floors, granite counters and heavy commercial stainless steel appliances. The guest home also has an attached his/her dressing cabana. More pics at the virtual tour. It seems to have had quite the renovation since the McCains lived there. Check out the photos from 2005 when Architectural Digest visited the McCains. It’s virtually unrecognizable except for certain telling details like the fireplace in the master bedroom. I’ve to state, I like Cindy McCain’s version of this house.

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I first heard about this estate a year ago after the Wall Street Journal reported that media billionaire Haim Saban was putting his Acapulco, Mexico vacation home on the market. A year later and the home is still on the market for the same price. The three-acre gated compound in the Las Brisas community is the estate that Warner Communications (which became Time Warner) used to entertain clients and celebrities. In the late 1990s, Time Warner needed to cut costs and sold the home known as Villa Eden to Saban for around $7 million in 2001. The home has 12 bedrooms (plus five bedrooms in the servant quarters), 17 bathrooms, indoor and outdoor tennis courts, two pools, five massage rooms and a wine cellar. The expansive home has jetliner views of the Acapulco bay. It is listed at $12 million.

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Last time I checked out a home in the Tiburon area for a look at the most expensive zip codes, the top home in the area was listed at $38.5 million. Since then that same house has climbed to $44 million and the top of the market has seen a few more lavish homes such as today’s estate listed.

The Tiburon peninsula lends itself to beautiful properties that make the ideal of the views in the San Francisco Bay area. This one, called Paradise by the Bay turns its approximately 6.8 acres into a charming family compound. This luxury estate has been in the same family since 1926. The estate includes a five-bedroom main home, three outbuildings, a championship tennis court, pool, children’s playground, and scenic waterfront area in a secluded cover.

The main home has water views from the dining room, kitchen, master suite and living room. The lower level media/family room opens to the lawn area. There’s a patio room that has been historically enjoyed as an area to entertain and host noted musicians. Other features include an office which is situated adjacent to the main home, overlooking the gardens and distant Ring Mountain. The lower deck “cottage” is an ideal guest retreat overlooks the water and opens to a deck.

The small pool is surrounded by grass and also has a cabana and bar designed for amusing and resting by the pool. This area is accessible by a private road for the catering staff. The massage sanctuary is a private massage deck that allows one to hear the lapping of the water and enjoy complete serenity while getting a massage. You can also enjoy veggies from your own organic gardens or send the children off to play in the children’s play area with sand box. In fact the property is so rambling that the pathways are marked with cute signs pointing the way to different areas. This property is listed at $22.6 million.

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Back in Might word came out from various sources that socialite Cornelia Guest had put her family’s estate in Old Westbury, New York on the market. The listing was available then but now we’ve got some interior photos of the 11 bedroom home. The two-story brick colonial manor home built in 1924 has 28 rooms in total and the grounds are home to a pool, tennis courts, barn, formal gardens, and a greenhouse.

But let’s talk about the interior. Namely, the animal prints. I haven’t seen quite so many animal prints used in one home since we checked out Suzanne Somers’s place in Palm Springs. The interior of this home is an eclectic mix of vintage antique furnishings and art combined with newer pieces from around the world. Tying it together is a whole zoo of animal prints used in the upholstery and rugs. Templeton is listed at $20 million.

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It’s a bit eclectic and not really an estate but I just love the livability of today’s home which was written up in the LA Times Hot Property section. Owned by Doug “SA” Martinez of the band 311 this home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz was built in 1927. The Spanish Colonial home is full of archways and stucco and original wood details. The four-bedroom home has two tiled balconies, one that’s off of the master suite. No decorator here, this home is a riot of different colors and styles, a comfortable hodge-podge of unmatched furniture, colorful art and books everywhere stuffed into armoire-like cases. The kitchen is the only room that looks bland. The brilliant blue-tiled restroom is a bit much but I love it for its vibrancy. The outdoor space is nice too with a saltwater pool and a custom Tennessee oak-covered patio with views of the Griffith Observatory. It is listed at $2.195 million.

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From the Wall Street Journal’s Private Properties:
–Florida automobile dealer, Terry Taylor has listed his Palm Beach home, shown above, at $72.5 million which is almost three times what he paid in 2003. The main home was built circa 1924 and designed by veteran Palm Beach architect Addison Mizner. It has nine bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a motion picture theater with a ticket window and concession stand, an exercise room, a wine cellar, pool, large pool home and two three-car garages, each with a second-floor guest apartment. The listing is here.
–Joseph Simmons, superior known a Rev. Run, has relisted his suburban New Jersey house for $5.2 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
–William Chadwick has put his home in the high-priced Carbon Beach area of Malibu on the market for $65 million. It was our estate of the day on Friday.
–”Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane picked up a home in Beverly Hills that wasn’t listed for $13.5 million.
TV producer Jay Tarses has sold a home he built in 1987 in Pacific Palisades for $2.995 million. The home was first listed in January for $3.489 million.
–Singer Doug “SA” Martinez of the band 311 has listed his funky Spanish colonial in Los Feliz. It’s our estate of the day later this day.
–Philippe Naouri — a.k.a. the Vintage Denim King has put his Hollywood Hills contemporay on the market for $3.185 million. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
–Rage Against the Machine drummer Brad Wilk has picked up a home in Calabasas that was listed at $5.89 million. Britney Spears has also been said to be looking at homes in the same area of Calabasas.
–Hugh Laurie has paid $3.84 million for an English Country style residence located in the Outpost Estates section of the Hollywood Hills from music manager Pat Magnarella who bought the home in 2001 for $2 million.
–Actor Justin Long has picked up a two-bedroom bachelor pad in the Blue building on Norfolk Street in New York for $2.425 million.
–Businessman Peter Morton has put a seven bedroom home on the market in Beverly Hills for $22.5 million. The listing is here and notes that the home has such a view that the property will be shown only on a clear day.
–Ambleside, the Indian Hill, Ohio residence of late Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott has hit the market for $5.4 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post’s Gimme Shelter:
–Katie Holmes has been spotted duplex penthouse at Trump park Avenue with a $200,000-a-month price tag.
–A new listing in the famed Dakota building is hitting the market with a $7.5 million asking price.
–Alex Rodriguez, aka A-Rod, was seen a few weeks ago checking out units at 15 Central Park West just two blocks from where Madonna lives. He’s been checking out the four-bedroom duplex that Lindsay Rosenwald has put unofficially on the market for $90 million through Brown Harris Stevens.

From Berg Properties Large Time Listings:
–Nicole Kidman has purchased record producer and songwriter Ron Fair’s home in Beverly Hills, Calif. for an undisclosed price after it had been listed for $4.795 million.
–Los Angeles anchorman Harold Greene and his wife, Charlene have put their Toluca Lake home on the market for $2.299 million. The listing is here.
–Basketball star Elton Brand has placed his three-bedroom, Hollywood Hills home on the market for $4,998,500, two years after he first had listed the home at close to $5 million. The listing is here.

From Golf Magazine:
–Golfer Phil Mickelson’s home, built on 4.55 acres in Rancho Sante Fe, California is on the market for $10,750,000 - $12,225,876. The listing is here.

From News Australia:
–Russell Crowe is renting a home for around

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Today’s home is a Palm Beach, Florida classic. The five-bedroom oceanfront residence was built in 1921 and designed by architect Marion Sims Wyeth for entrepreneur Earle Perry Charlton, one of the founders of the F.W. Woolworth Company. Its name Qui-Si-Sana (”Here One Heals”) comes from a hotel on the island of Capri, and the home has a Mediterranean appeal, making ample use of the outdoor space with large oceanside lawns and an open courtyard plan surrounding a private garden terrace by the formal pool. The interior includes four stately fireplaces, pecky cypress paneling, Cuban tile floors, and filigreed ironwork gates. Huge hedges help preserve privacy on this corner oceanfront lot in one of Palm Beach’s finest neighborhoods. While most of Florida has been faltering real estate-wise, Palm Beach has continued to rise, scoring $81.5 million for Sidney Kimmel’s mansion and $100 million for Donald Trump’s oceanfront flip. This home is listed at $20 million.

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I’ve seen a ton of condo-hotel projects in Cabo and even a few in Ensenada, now the next stop on the Baja Peninsula to get a facelift is the Rosarito Beach Hotel. The hotel has a long history. It started out as a 12-room hunting lodge in 1925 and played host to many celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Orson Wells, Rita Hayworth and John Wayne. Now the hotel will become a 500 room and suite resort with an official grand opening on August 2. They are offering a Sunday through Thursday special room rate of just $79.

New to the compound is the oceanfront 17-story, 271-suite Pacifico Tower. The new tower offers an infinity pool and a rooftop restaurant. The Pacifico Tower has fully furnished suites that are offered for sale and can be placed in the hotel rental program. One bedroom condos start at $190,000, two-bedroom condos start at $362,000 and two-story, three-bedroom penthouses start at $599,000.

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