Realtor.com If you want a piece of history with contemporary flair, this luxurious home at 2243 Duane Street in Los Angeles might be just the place. The four-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom abode has 3,325 square feet and is perched on a beautifully manicured, 7,506 square-foot lot. It’s listed for $3,195,000. The renovated home, built from a 1903 bungalow, is a newly completed masterwork by Den and Dwell Estates. The high-end remodel was handled with contemporary priorities in mind. For their projects, the firm uses “the latest materials and aesthetics, while incorporating classic design with a modern ..read more

Realtor.com This week’s most expensive listing on Realtor.com® is smokin’ hot! A massive 24,000-square-foot mansion packed with nearly every lavish amenity possible, including a hookah lounge, is back on the market for $72.5 million. Designed for large-scale entertaining, the over-the-top property built just three years ago comes with a white-sand volleyball court, a 30-person hot tub, a 20-seat theater, and a nightclub. The owner of the Los Angeles spec mansion is said to be developer and physician Joseph Englanoff, who also owns the Bel-Air estate dubbed “La Fin” listed for a staggerin ..read more

Courtesy of The Ebbin Group; Getty Images Josh Brolin, who starred in films such as “Avengers: Endgame,” “Dune: Part Two,” and “True Grit,” has snagged a luxury farmhouse in Montecito, CA, for $7,100,000. The list price was $7,650,000, so the actor got the Santa Barbara County spot for a discount. The six-bedroom, six-bathroom getaway has about 6,000 square feet of living space and sits on a 2.8-acre lot. It was built in 1939 and features white clapboard siding and beautifully manicured gardens. In addition to his new SoCal spread, Brolin has an impressive Atlanta mansion, which he put up for ..read more

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Academy Museum of Motion Picture; Realtor.com Legendary singer Diana Ross has put her fabulous, five-bedroom, five-bath Miami home on the market for $17,898,200. The waterfront San Marco Island, FL, mansion has nearly 5,000 square feet on a quarter-acre lot. It was meticulously built in 2017 and recently received over $1.2 million in extensive upgrades. According to public records, the Detroit native snapped up the deluxe domicile in 2022 for $15.5 million. The famous performer purchased this Miami mansion in 2022. Realtor.com ‘It’s my house’ The former Supremes l ..read more

Virginia Sherwood /Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images; Realtor.com Here’s a scoop: Matt Drudge, creator of the Drudge Report, has finally snagged a buyer for his Miami home. In September of last year, Drudge listed his five-bedroom, 4.5-bath property for just a tiny bit under $3 million. In January, he slashed the price to $2,499,500, then $1,995,000, and eventually $1,895,000. The final sale price was $1.6 million, which is a tad more than the $1,450,000 he paid for the place in 2011. The home was built in 1996. Realtor.com You can barely make out the structure from o ..read more

Realtor.com; Getty Images Mortgage rates are likely set to rise again. The U.S. Federal Reserve is poised to hold interest rates steady for longer than expected because inflation has remained stubbornly high. That could mean the Fed won’t cut rates this year or will cut them fewer times than many had predicted. This could result in mortgage rates edging back up to 8%, says Realtor.com® Chief Economist Danielle Hale. “We’ll need greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably towards 2% before [it will be] appropriate to ease policy,” Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday during a panel ..read more

Engel & Voelkers Nashville; Leah Puttkammer/FilmMagic Singer-songwriter Alan Jackson recently nabbed a new nest in Nashville, TN. The country crooner laid out $3 million for the 6,003-square-foot, five-bedroom, 5.5-bath dwelling. This newly built abode hit the market last spring for $3.7 million and received multiple price cuts before Jackson picked it up in January. Previously, the musician owned a palatial property in nearby Franklin, TN. He put it on the market in 2020 for $23 million and reportedly sold it the following year for $19 million. Built in 2023 Courtesy Engel & Voelkers ..read more

Realtor.com As chic as Hollywood’s shiny, new glass-and-steel mansions might be, it’s hard to beat the stately Spanish Colonial Revivals of the 1920s and 1930s. And if your tastes tend in that direction, you’re in luck—a Pasadena, CA, landmark, designed by California architect Wallace Neff, just landed on the market for $10.8 million. “The 1920s was the Golden Age for Southern California architecture and an era of unprecedented wealth, where innumerable opulent mansions were built in spectacular locations by celebrated architects, such as Wallace Neff,” explains listing agent Carol Chua, a Co ..read more

Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images; Realtor.com Stephen Belichick, who recently joined the football coaching staff at the University of Washington, is ready to sell his lovely modern mansion in Dover, MA. About 15 miles southwest of Boston, the six-bedroom, 5.5-bath home offers over 8,200 square feet for $4,195,000. The elegant abode is flanked by two grassy lawns and plenty of mature plantings. This custom-designed, modern farmhouse boasts rough-hewn beams overhead, black-lined windows, and a neutral color scheme. Fancy finishes and designer cabinets abound in the open-concept livi ..read more

Jose Fuentes Tucked into California’s Santa Ynez Valley, the quaint town of Solvang is known for its windmill, bakeries offering Danish delicacies, and its Danish-style architecture. And now you can buy this five-bedroom, three-bath house built by one of the town’s architects. It’s a rare find in this town of roughly 6,000 people. “There are probably only a couple of other Danish-style homes [in Solvang],” says listing agent Laura Drammer, of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties. Ferd Sorensen, sometimes called the father of Danish architecture in Solvang, designed this 3,272 ..read more