The Vacation Home Of My Dreams

This California Villa With A Vineyard, 100-Car Garage, And Its Own 1950s Diner Is Freaking Incredible 

We’ve seen a lot of mansions that one would consider a “dream home,” but this California villa currently up for sale that has a vineyard, a 100-car garage, and its own 1950s diner is literally where I want to go when I die. And the price tag is actually very reasonable.

Located on 80 acres of land in Fairfield, 20 minutes from Napa, Villa De Madre is currently is listed for just $12.9 million. You will understand why I say “just” in a few moments.


The Villa De Madre Estate has 63 acres of cabernet vineyards, while the 22,882-square-foot main home boasts marble fireplaces, hand-painted murals, a living room with a 40-foot-tall ceiling, a double winding staircase, an indoor pool covered by a ceiling of glass, six bedrooms, eight baths, an in-law apartment, a wine cave, and an elevator.

There is also a chef’s kitchen with three ovens, four freezers and built-in step stools. And oh yeah, all of the furnishings come with the home.

The two car barns are a re-creation of a typical 1950s Main Street with storefront facades and a diner with a working soda fountain.

You also get a four-bedroom caretaker’s cottage and a 24,000-square-foot vineyard equipment barn because, as SFGate reports, “the vineyards provide grapes for making up to 150,000 bottles of wine and olive trees provide ample crop for bottling your own olive oil.”

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Finally, Someone Built A Garage That You Can Live In

Do Everything You Can To Buy The World’s Best Live-In Garage 

Okay, so it’s being marketed as a private car museum, but this $10 million piece of real estate in California would make an unbeatable garage space 

If you’re looking for the perfect place to store your cars, tools, pool table and sound system, we think we’ve found exactly what you need. This $10 million ‘private car museum’ has appeared for sale, and we’ve gone all weak at the knees.

This 7000-square-foot climate-controlled space has room for 25 cars, with plenty of space around each for getting around and underneath them. It’s the baby of Steve and Azita Goldman. Steve is a double Masters Championship winner in the Pirelli Porsche racing series.

You get a bedroom, three(!) bathrooms, secured grounds, a seating area and a raised viewing podium from which you admire all your things. To keep stored cars in peak condition the Malibu-based ‘room’ is temperature-, humidity- and dust-controlled.

(CarThrottle.com)

California Real Estate Well Explained

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This Is Unfortunately True

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Real Estate, Well Illustrated

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Welcome To L.A. Real Estate

Bijan property on Rodeo Drive sells for $19,000 a square foot 

The demand for $5,000 handbags and $25,000 suits is slipping amid global turmoil.

But enthusiasm for real estate on Rodeo Drive, where such high-end goods are sold, isn’t hurting. Instead it’s setting records.

The parent company of Louis Vuitton recently paid $122 million, or $19,405 a square foot, for the yellow House of Bijan building at 420 N. Rodeo, long home to a boutique known as “the most expensive store in the world.” The deal, revealed in public records, was the second time in seven months that a record fell on Rodeo.

Late last year, Chanel paid $13,217 a square foot for a store it was leasing nearby at 400 N. Rodeo, the high-water mark for California retail until last month’s Bijan sale.
 
The eye-popping amounts reflect how few properties there are on the Beverly Hills street, as well as how infrequently they go on sale. And in a struggling market for luxury goods, the deals underscore that high-profile streets such as Rodeo or Manhattan’s upper Fifth Avenue are far more than a place to sell a $10,000 timepiece.

“They are billboards in some places for the brand,” said Milton Pedraza, chief executive of consulting firm Luxury Institute. “The companies can demonstrate power, and their staying power, by buying up these properties.”

Indeed, Marc Schillinger, a director with commercial real estate company HFF who represented the seller Bijan Properties, said “everyone came out of the woodwork when we announced the opportunity to buy this asset.”

“There are only 2½ blocks on Rodeo Drive,” said Schillinger, who declined to confirm the price or buyer. uEvery luxury retailer wants to anchor their brand on Rodeo.”

(LATimes.com)

The Manor Reigns Supreme

10 of L.A.'s Most Iconic Residences

10. The Manor: 594 S. Mapleton Drive, Westwood

• When it comes to design, is less really more? It certainly wasn’t for Aaron Spelling. The television mogul commissioned this flashy, 56,000-square-foot mega mansion in 1988, and it quickly rose to fame as the largest residential home in Los Angeles County (a record it still holds today). Few escape the spotlight unscathed, however, and the Manor is no exception. From the beginning, it’s been the target of ridicule from socially aware critics who deride its shameless display of consumerism; as well as from aesthetes, who find its gaudiness more than enough cause for concern. The gargantuan, 123-room chateau boasts a bowling alley, an ice skating rink, three designated gift-wrapping rooms and parking space for 100 vehicles (or what we assume was an average Sunday dinner at the Spellings'). Aaron died in 2006, and in 2009, his widow, Candy, put the home on the market at an astronomical $150 million. The listing didn’t budge for two years, until it sold in 2011 at far under asking (practically a steal at $85 million!) to then–23-year-old trust-fund baby Petra Ecclestone Stunt. Candy gave up the Manor — along with her personal hair and beauty salon, and the entire wing of the house dedicated to her clothes — and “downsized” to a two-story, 18,000-square-foot penthouse in Century City. If that’s considered roughing it, sign us up.

Complete list (LAWeekly.com) 

Sad, But True

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