Before you put up the “For Sale” sign in the ground, there are several key pieces of information that you should consider gathering that today’s savvy buyers are going to want to know. (via 9 Overlooked Items to Prep Your Home for Sale | Coldwell Banker Blue Matter)
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What I love most about home…
Home. It’s a simple word with more meanings than one would expect. It’s a term that crosses continents and has universal appeal. Sports, entertainment and even financial sectors all use the word on a regular basis. It’s a part of pop culture, music and a niche market all wrapped in one. Today the headlines have tried to change the definition of home. The meaning has been construed to be solely about financial value, investment and an indicator of market plight, but what is missing is seeing the true definition of home in the eyes of those who own one (via Trying to Define Home | Coldwell Banker Blue Matter)
This 13,721-square-foot chateau is the cream of the crop in a land of really creamy crops. The upper-crust denizens of Mercer Island, Wash., are straight-up winners, and their knock-you-on-your-heels waterfront mansions, sitting across Lake Washington from Seattle, wouldn’t ever lead you to think otherwise. (via House of the Day: Mercer Island Magnificence | AOL Real Estate)
As lavish birthday gifts go, it’s hard to top this one: Naomi Campbell received an island vacation home for her 41st birthday from her Russian billionaire boyfriend Vladislav Doronin, according to numerous online reports. (via Naomi Campbell’s Eye-Catching Fantasy Home - Yahoo! Real Estate)
The world’s most expensive and most unique house ever built featuring 200,000 kilograms of solid gold and platinum fixtures and fittings.The Swiss chalet is an eight-bedroom home featuring a terrace, large garden, stone wine cellar and a four super-car garage.
And for an added historical interest it features flooring made from meteoric stone with shavings of an original 65 million-year-old T-Rex dinosaur bone embedded in each tile. (via Overseas property blog | Housing market news from Primelocation)
Nowhere else is living alone celebrated the way it is in Manhattan, where solo dwelling has been exulted in pop culture from “Seinfeld” to “Sex and the City.” But single living declined during the past decade in Manhattan, though it still is the nation’s capital of single-person households. (via Solo living drops in Manhattan, up elsewhere - Business - Real estate - msnbc.com)
This is seriously unique. By way of FastCoDesign.com, I discovered this video and photo of what appears to be the first portable and foldable house. It’s like a modular tent for the 21st century bedouin. You can rearrange walls, room sizes and the entire layout if you’re feeling quite handy (via The Foldable House | Coldwell Banker Blue Matter)
Your Next House Could Have a Snoring Room
No one likes to have their beloved sleep disturbed by the person next to you sawing logs all night, but some people are going so far as to have sound proof rooms built to deal with their snoring slumber partner.
