Round Hill is an estate community of Potomac, Maryland, filled with custom-built mansions in a variety of architectural styles. Prestigious? Yes. Stodgy? Not necessarily. The sellers of an elegant fieldstone estate now listed at nearly $9 million know how to have fun. Matures trees and lawn surround the imposing residence, which has a swimming pool
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Set on 700 acres of oaks and meadows outside Ashland, Oregon, is a true one-of-a-kind find – a home so distinct that it will never be duplicated. Corners are curved, natural materials are used in unexpected ways and windows are shaped like spruce trees, pines and clouds. A variety of window shapes and sizes add
Having sold millions of albums, Katy Perry is now looking to sell her Beverly Hills Post Office-area mansion for millions. The celebrity retreat, priced at $19.475 million, arrives on market almost a year after the singer-songwriter handed off a second home just down the street for $7.5 million. The property on Hidden Valley Road is
The Michigan countryside offers an escape from urban cares with a natural landscape dotted with green forests and lakes – and more lakes. (More than 10,000 if you only count those larger than five acres.) This two-story estate home, built in 1990, sits on 20 acres on the western flank of the Lower Peninsula, near
On the hilltop corner of 75th Street and Riverside Drive is a rare single-family manor house with three sides of exterior exposure and sweeping river and palisades views. The palatial Beaux-Arts mansion was designed by noted New York architect Charles P. Gilbert for Herbert Horace Vail, chairman of the American Book Company. Completed in 1905,
The National Association of Realtors is fighting a court ruling that says homeowners who post floor plans of their homes on Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com and other websites could be open to copyright lawsuits. NAR today filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in an effort to protect American consumers from a recent decision of
ATTOM, a property information and analytics provider, today released its first-quarter 2022 U.S. home affordability report, showing that median-priced single-family homes were less affordable in the first quarter compared to historical averages in 79% of counties across the nation with enough data to analyze. That data was up from just 38% of counties that were
Small rooms, narrow hallways, cramped powder rooms, tiny vestibules – all are common to houses old and new. Useful spaces are not always big, but big spaces are easier to decorate. Here are a few guidelines for bringing color and atmosphere into those trickier small rooms. Conventional wisdom has long held that small rooms should
With its wrap-around porch, gently gabled roofs and saltbox design, this newly listed Bel-Air home seems more likely to be found in New England than Southern California—but a hillside setting overlooking the canyons and the city below makes it quintessentially Los Angeles. And like many L.A. properties, this one comes with its own slice of
Spring is in the air and home buyers and sellers are coming out of hibernation. New survey data by Realtor.com shows that homeowners are gearing up to sell this spring and summer. According to the report, 64% of prospective 2022 sellers anticipate doing so within the next six months and with high expectations for making