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America’s Top 10 Real Estate News

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A look at America’s most interesting real estate news. 

America’s Top 10 Real Estate News

Trump Hits Brakes On Housing Legislation
A historic housing law designed to increase supply and reduce housing costs overwhelmingly passed Congress last month, but President Donald Trump’s last-minute delay in signing it raised concerns about the proposal’s future. With significant bipartisan support, the 21st Century Road to Housing Act was approved by the Senate 85-5 and the House 358-32. The strong legislative majorities left the president in a difficult position, and the bill is currently awaiting his signature to officially become law. 

NAR Predicts $1 Million US Home Prices 
The National Association of Realtors expects median home prices to increase 4% in 2026 and interest rates to be about 6.5%. They also predict that the national median home price will rise from the current $430,000 to $1 million within 25 years. 

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Best Place To Buy a Home? Try Oklahoma
According to a report from Niche.com, the best city to buy a home is McCord, Oklahoma. Located in a rural area in northeastern Oklahoma, McCord has fewer than 2,000 people with a median home value of $202,400—less than half the national median of $430,000. A typical rent there is $629 per month—also less than half the national average of $1,413. McCord also scored well for education and family life. 

The Hidden Costs Of Delaying Homeownership 
A recent Lombardo Homes report examining the hidden costs of delaying homeownership found that 77% of Americans believe waiting to buy a home has financial consequences, while 76% say renting prevents long-term wealth building. Among renters delaying a home purchase, the top reasons are high home prices (84%), lack of savings for a down payment (67%), and rising interest rates (61%). The financial pressure appears to be growing as well: 81% say their housing costs have increased over the past three years, with 26% reporting increases of $300 or more per month.

Florida Is #1 Search Site For International Buyers
According to a recent Realtor.com report, three Florida metro areas were among the top five US housing markets searched by foreign buyers in the first quarter of 2026. With 10.3% of all international views on Realtor.com, Miami condos and homes continued to be the top US market for foreign online home-shopping activity. Tampa came in fifth at 2.8%, and Orlando came in fourth at 3%.

Seniors Own 34% Of US Homes
Older Americans make up about 18% of the US population, but they own about 34% of the US housing stock. How that wealth is transferred to their heirs can make a difference of thousands of dollars in what is actually passed on after their death. 

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Florida To Gain Over Two Million People 
Despite a small slowdown in the state’s economy, Florida continues to draw new residents at a strong rate. The Sunshine State is expected to grow by almost 2.3 million people between 2026 and 2035, according to Florida TaxWatch’s recent quarterly prediction.

Glass House from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – 40th Anniversary
It’s the 40th anniversary of the premiere of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Architectural Digest and TopTenRealEstateDeals.com have the details about the movie’s home, its glass car pavilion, and the red Ferrari that crashed through it. The iconic steel-and-glass home was listed in 2009 for $2.3 million but did not sell. In 2014, the price was cut to $1.25 million, and it finally sold to its current owner for $1.06 million.  

US Home Sales Surge In May
According to the National Association of Realtors, existing-home sales increased 3.2% in May to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 4.17 million. It was one of the largest monthly increases in the last three years as more first-time homebuyers entered the market. Sales of previously owned homes increased in the Northeast, Midwest, and South compared to April, but were unchanged in the West.

Many Florida Homeowners Face Big Tax Crush
According to the National Association of Realtors, many homeowners in Florida will face a large tax bill when they sell their homes. According to its report, 17.9% of Florida homeowners, and 15% of all U.S. homeowners, would have home sale profits that exceed the federal capital gains exclusion criteria of $250,000 for a single taxpayer and $500,000 for a married couple. The limits were set in 1997, but U.S. median home sales prices have gone up about 178% since 1997.

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A look at some of the most interesting recent real estate news stories in the United States. 

America’s Top 10 Real Estate News

Luxury Home Prices Up 60% Since 2016
The price of a luxury home in the United States, homes worth $1.3 million or more, has increased 60% since 2016. A home that would cost about $1.3 million today was $796,622 in 2016.

Midwest Home Sales Lead the U.S. 
U.S. home-buying contracts increased by about 2% in October, with the Midwest posting a 5.3% increase and the more expensive Western U.S. down 1.5%, compared to October 2024. With more homes on the market and lower interest rates, the National Association of Realtors projects existing home sales to increase 14% in 2026. 

New Mansion On Indian Creek May Shatter South Florida Real Estate Records 
An unfinished mansion on Miami Beach’s Indian Creek Island has come on the market for $200 million. The nearly 28,000-square-foot home with nine bedrooms and a 135-foot dock will set a new record for South Florida home sales if it sells near the asking price. The Indian Creek property was once the home of singer Julio Iglesias, and the island is currently home to Jeff Bezos, Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.

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U.S. Home Prices Still Going Up 
Despite slower home sales and ongoing high interest rates, US home prices rose 0.4% in August, according to the U.S. Federal Housing Authority.  The South Atlantic division, which includes Florida, experienced a 0.7% increase. 

First-Time Home Buyers Are Getting Older 
According to the National Association of Realtors’ 2025 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, the percentage of first-time U.S. home buyers has dropped to a record low of 21%, while the typical age of first-time buyers has hit a record high of 40. The yearly survey of recent home buyers covered sales between July 2024 and June 2025.

Florida Dominates Best Retirement Towns
According to WalletHub, Orlando is not just for young people. The financial website rated Orlando as the best city in the United States for seniors, citing the area’s low taxes, health care and abundance of outdoor activities. Miami and Tampa are also ranked in the top five U.S. towns.

Florida Home Prices Down, After Years Of Rising Prices
Due to more home inventory and fewer remote workers, Florida condo and home prices have softened after years of steep increases. Single-family home prices have gone down by 3.6% since 2023, while condo prices have slid 9.3%. However, condo prices have increased by 26% since 2020, and single-family home prices have risen by 34%.

LA’s Iconic Stahl House Lists At $25 Million 
The Stahl House, one of the world’s most significant Mid-Century Modern homes, has come on the LA market at $25 million. Located in the city’s Hollywood Hills as Case Study House #22 and made famous by photographs from Julius Shulman for Time Magazine in 1960, the home was built for Buck and Carlotta Stahl and designed by architect Pierre Koenig, after other architects told them the lot was unbuildable. The glass-walled home has city, mountain and ocean views and has been in the Stahl family since it was built. 

Atlanta White House For Sale 
A home in Atlanta built as a replica of the White House is for sale at $35 million. Built in 2001 to three-quarters scale, the 16,500-square-foot estate features six bedrooms and an Oval Office modeled after the real one. The home was built by an Atlanta-area developer and is a favorite site for tourists and school history classes.

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NYC’s Cotton Club Is For Sale
New York City’s historic Cotton Club opened in Harlem in 1920, operated by heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson. Top names in jazz, including Duke Ellington, Lena Horne and Louis Armstrong performed there. The most recent Cotton Club opened in 1978 in Harlem and closed in 2024. It is now for sale at $20 million.  

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America’s Most Affordable Big City 
According to a recent financial company analysis, Cleveland, Ohio is the most affordable of the country’s largest cities, with a yearly income of only $60,000 required for homeowners to live a comfortable lifestyle. The least affordable is Irvine, California, where an annual income of $326,645 is needed for homeowners to live comfortably.

U.S. Homes Inventory Hits the One-Million Mark 
For the first time since the winter of 2019, the number of U.S. homes for sale hit the one million mark. And 19% of the homes for sale had price reductions – the highest number since at least 2016.

America’s Wealthiest City
According to a recent analysis by two investment firms, New York City is the richest city in the world with 66 billionaires and 384,500 millionaires. The San Francisco-Bay Area came in a close second with 342,400 millionaires and 82 billionaires – more billionaires than New York. Tokyo came in third, Los Angeles in fifth and Chicago at #10.

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Millionaire Renters Flocking To Miami
More people are choosing to rent rather than buy a home or condominium in Miami, Florida. While the number of rental millionaires has surged in Naples, Tampa and Orlando, the rental trend has become especially common in the Miami area, where the number of millionaire renter households has increased 325% since 2019.

U.S. Home Prices Still Going Up
Despite predictions of a drop in U.S. home prices, home prices rose 4.0% between the first quarter of 2024 and the first quarter of 2025. Prices rose in 89 of the 100 largest metropolitan areas with Newark, New Jersey at the top with an 11.6% price increase.

Billy Joel Sells Gatehouse For $7 million 
Not your ordinary gatehouse, Billy Joel has sold the gatehouse at his Long Island property for $7 million. Although Joel referred to the property as his gatehouse, it is actually two homes, the original gatehouse and a carriage house, which Billy combined the two into one 5,565-square-foot home with two kitchens and the large beachfront property. The main house on the property is a 20,000-square-foot beauty, which is still listed for sale at $39.9 million.

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NYC’s First Concrete Building 
The first New York building made of concrete is for sale at $2.995 million. Built in the 1870s as a showroom for a construction company, the building’s exterior has been restored to its historic white-washed concrete, but the interior needs extensive repairs. Currently owned by Whole Foods, it has previously been on the market at asking prices as high as $6.5 million.

Honolulu Sale Sets New State Record 
The recent sale for $65.75 million for an oceanfront estate in Honolulu is the biggest dollar sale in Hawaii history. The property includes three homes, which are connected by breezeways for a total of almost 12,000 square feet.

Best Main Street In America
In a recent USA Today contest to choose the best Main Street in the country, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was the winner. The choice was based on the former steel town’s walkability, a wide selection of restaurants and bars, and a chocolate trail that runs through the town to Main Street. Bethlehem Steel was the second-largest steel producer in the United States but went out of business in 2003. Emporia, Kansas, and Ogden, Utah, were runners-up.

More U.S. Homes But Few Affordable Ones
More homes are coming up for sale on the U.S. market, many a result of increased construction after the covid home-buying surge. A few states, including Texas and Florida, actually have more home inventory than before the pandemic. However, most of the homes are not affordable for most Americans.

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America’s Top 10 Real Estate News

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A look at some of the most interesting recent real estate and home-related news in the United States. America’s Top 10 Real Estate News is featured at TopTenRealEstateDeals.com.

Baby Boomers Hogging the Housing Market

Baby boomers are still the major factor in U.S. home purchases. According to the National Association of Realtors, baby boomers made up 42% of home buyers in the past year, compared to just 29% for millennials. And while 95% of buyers under age 44 used a mortgage for their purchase, close to 50% of buyers over age 60 were able to use cash.

U.S. Home Prices Up, Except the South

Most of the U.S. metro markets saw price gains in the first quarter of 2025. “Most metro markets continue to set new record highs for home prices,” said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. “In the first quarter, the Northeast performed best in both sales and price gains by percentage.” The Southern US did not fare as well, with declining sales and virtually no price appreciation.

Quincy Jones’ Epic $60 Million Mansion

The late Quincy Jones owned one of LA’s most remarkable mansions. At almost 25,000 square feet, Quincy commissioned a high school friend to build the home with a central wing, east and west wings. Features include a domed living room ceiling, wine cellar, screening room, five bedrooms and 17 bathrooms. Located in LA’s ritzy Bel-Air neighborhood, it is for sale at $59.99 million.

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America’s Most Expensive Home Sells for $225 Million

A Naples, Florida waterfront estate on 15 acres has sold for $225 million, a record price for the Sunshine State and the second-highest price in US history. Listed in early 1994 for $195 million, the DeGroote family from Canada began putting the property together in the 1990s. Although not as well known as Miami Beach, Naples home and condo prices are about equal to Miami Beach.

J-Lo & Ben Offer a Better Price

After almost a year trying to sell their mansion and no buyers in sight, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have lowered the price on their 38,000-square-foot marital home to $59.95 million. The 12-bedroom, 24-bath home with a 12-car garage was listed at $68 million. Their divorce was finalized in January.

Florida Ranks #1 for Economy, #2 for Education

According to U.S. News & World Report’s Best States list, Florida has the best economy of any state in the nation and the second-best state for education. It is ranked the 6th best state overall. Utah is ranked #1.

U.S. Home Sales Slow Down

U.S. home sales have slowed to their slowest rate since 2019. Experts blame high mortgage interest rates, tariff fears and economic uncertainty. Parts of Texas and South Florida had the slowest sales markets in the country.

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New Yorkers Who Moved to Florida

According to the New York Post, New Yorkers moved to Florida in droves between 2018 and 2022, taking nearly $14 billion in income with them. About 125,000 New Yorkers moved to Florida in the four-year time span, including 26,000 who went to new homes in Miami-Dade County.

Mark Wahlberg’s Beverly Hills Mansion

Mark Wahlberg’s former Beverly Hills mansion is back on the market for $68 million. Mark sold the home two years ago to a Chinese billionaire who has relisted the home for $13 million more than he paid for it. One of the most expensive homes in the US, it has 30,000 square feet on six acres with features including 20 bathrooms, a five-hole golf course, a glass gym, elegant home theater, a waterfall and 20 bathrooms.

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January’s Top 10 Celebrity Real Estate News

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Celebrities Who Lost Homes In the California Fires
The devastating California fires hit some of Southern California’s most popular celebrity neighborhoods. The homes of Billy Crystal, Mandy Moore, Anna Farris, Adam Brody, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tyra Banks, and Paris Hilton were destroyed or heavily damaged in the fires.

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Drake Looks For Big Buy Or Rent Money
Canadian singer-rapper Drake is asking for $88 million to buy or $250,000 per month to rent the Beverly Hills home he bought from fellow singer Robbie Williams in 2022 for $78 million. The 25,000-square-foot home includes an elevator, wine cellar, gym, and game room. Outside is a pool and guest house, a tennis court, a pool and an outdoor kitchen.    

$200 Million To Live Next Door To Jeff Bezos
It is the ultimate Florida celebrity island, where Jeff Bezos, Tom Brady, and Ivanka Trump live. A 1.87-acre Indian Creek vacant lot next door to the properties that Jeff Bezos bought for $237 million in 2024 is for sale at $200 million.

Bing Crosby’s Golf Home—Includes Kennedy Suite named after JFK and Marilyn Monroe
“White Christmas” crooner Bing Crosby’s favorite place was on a golf course. His Palm Desert golf course home, which Crosby nicknamed a wing of the house “The Kennedy Suite” after JFK and Marilyn Monroe spent a weekend there together, is for sale at $13.5 million.  

Michael Jordan’s Timeshare Mansion
The suburban Chicago home that Michael Jordan recently sold after 12 years on the market is slated to become a $1 million-per-week timeshare. According to a press release, the new owner is going to offer the home to buyers for annual shares of seven days. Buyers will be limited to just one share.

Elvis Presley’s Honeymoon House of Tomorrow
A Palm Springs home made famous as both the “Look” magazine “House of Tomorrow” in 1962 and Elvis Presley’s honeymoon house in 1967 is for sale at $9.27 million. Elvis leased the House of Tomorrow as a wedding location and honeymoon house for his marriage to Priscilla. But once the press caught wind of the nuptials, Elvis and Priscilla snuck out the back and flew to Las Vegas for a quickie wedding.  The lovebirds flew back to Palm Springs and spent four days at the House of Tomorrow before Elvis had to go back to work filming a movie.

“Breaking Bad” Home For $4 Million
The Albuquerque, New Mexico home that was used as the TV home of Walter White in the Netflix series Breaking Bad is for sale. Listed at $3.995 million, the 1,910-square-foot home is being marketed as an Airbnb or a collector’s home.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Marina del Rey Home
Considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all time, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was chosen as the NBA’s most valuable player six times and an NBA All-Star nineteen times during his storied twenty-season career for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers. The swanky Marina del Rey pad Abdul-Jabbar called home from 2011 to 2021 is on the market for $2.995 million.

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Wayne Huizenga’s Blockbuster Estate
Wayne Huizenga, who died in 2018, was a legend in Florida: the founder of Fortune 500 companies AutoNation and Waste Management Inc. and the co-owner of Blockbuster Video, the Miami Dolphins, the Florida Panthers, and the Miami Marlins. His former 17-acre estate on the St. Lucie River in Palm City, Florida has come on the market at $45 million. One of the largest riverfront properties on the East Coast, the estate also includes a six-bedroom, 9,150-square-foot home, a pool and a lake.

Top 10 Celebrity Home Sales In 2024
The #1 celebrity home deal in 2024 was Ellen DeGeneres’s sale of a mansion in Santa Barbara, California for $96 million. Other big 2024 sales include David and Victoria Beckham’s purchase of a $72 million Miami Beach home, and a Steve Wynn home he sold in Nevada for $63 million.

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America’s Top 10 Important, Strange and Interesting Real Estate News

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New England States Lead US Home-Price Appreciation
The US state with the largest home-price increase between 2019 and 2024 is Maine at 78.5% – a jump from $219,000 to $391,000. New Hampshire and Rhode Island came in next with 76% and 73% increases. Louisiana had the smallest increase at just 23%, from $206,500 to $254,000.

Top 10 Homes Of Tomorrow – As Predicted In the 1950s
Seventy years ago, homes of the future were sure to generate publicity, including Monsanto’s House of the Future at Disneyland and Elvis Presley’s honeymoon House of Tomorrow.

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Where Americans Might Move
In a survey of 1,000 Americans, 84% said they were open to moving to another city. Respondents said they wanted low crime, affordable living, good weather and low taxes. Tampa, Florida was the #1 choice the respondents said they could move, followed by Charlotte, North Carolina and Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Ohio Apartment In a Swimming Pool
A Cincinnati, Ohio building that was once the local YMCA was converted to apartments. One of the apartments is inside the former swimming pool and another is in the basketball court.

New Mexico Ranch Is Bigger Than Houston
One of the largest ranches in the United States just hit the market for $142 million. The family behind home-building giant D.R. Horton is selling the Great Western Ranch, their roughly 500,000-acre cattle ranch in New Mexico. With about 790 square miles, the ranch is bigger than the city of Houston. In addition to the land, there are eight homes, including a primary lodge for guests and a ranch manager’s house.

Fort Wayne Is America’s Most Affordable Town
With a strong local economy, low home prices and major employers, including General Motors and Amazon, Fort Wayne, Indiana is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as America’s most affordable city.

Record $70 Million Fort Lauderdale Sale Heads To Wrecking Ball
A Fort Lauderdale home where the Intracoastal Waterway and the New River join just sold for $70 million, the most expensive home ever sold in the popular beach town. Located between ultra-expensive Palm Beach and Miami Beach, the prices on Fort Lauderdale condos and homes have been reasonable until now, but a surge of recent top-dollar sales has changed the market dynamics. The $70 million home is likely to be torn down to make way for something even more expensive.

LA Stilt Home Sells Over $1 Million
One of LA’s stilt homes has sold for $1,075,000. Located in Laurel Canyon—famous as a 1970’s-era home for musicians, including David Crosby, Mama Cass and Stephen Stills—stilt homes were designed to take advantage of small, hilly lots otherwise deemed “unbuildable.” About 1,500 of these striking houses were built in California during the 1950s and 1960s, but very few are still standing today.

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Top 10 US Cities To Retire
Looking to retire to a city with a low cost of living, low taxes, a good quality of life, lots of activities, and good health care, seniors might want to buy a home in Orlando, Florida. The amusement park capital of the world is ranked #1 on the WalletHub list of the best American cities to retire. Or perhaps a condo in Miami, Florida, ranked #2 or Minneapolis at #3. Tampa and Fort Lauderdale, Florida round out the top five.

Some Good US Housing News
U.S. single-family home listings are up to almost 700,000, an increase of 41% since 2023; inflation has dropped below 3%, the lowest level since early 2021; the average rate on a 30-year mortgage is down to 6.20%; and mortgage applications increased to their highest level since early 2023.

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Top 10 Celebrity Real Estate News: Jennifer Lopez, Kanye West & Rob Lowe

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Jennifer & Ben’s Home Hits Zillow

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Looking to reach more potential buyers, the 38,000-square-foot home of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck has hit the Zillow listings at $68 million. The 12-bedroom, 24-bath home with a 12-car garage had been on the market for over a month before the Zillow posting. Jennifer & Ben spent months looking for the perfect family home before they pulled the trigger and paid $61 million for the Beverly Hills home in 2023. Jennifer recently filed for divorce, ending their two-year marriage.

Burt Reynolds’ Mountain Home Sold

A North Carolina home in the Blue Ridge Mountains that was once owned by Burt Reynolds just sold for $2.9 million. The North Carolina home includes four bedrooms, five baths and a stone bathroom built by his then-wife, Loni Anderson, for Burt. According to the listing agent, Burt fell in love with the area while filming Deliverance and subsequently purchased the home. He said that it was his favorite home.

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Goodbye Wave House—It Sold for $29.5 Million

Supermodel Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner, brother of Jared Kushner, have purchased one of Malibu’s most famous homes. Designed by surfer-architect Harry Gesner in the early 1960s, the Wave House was designed to complement the ocean’s waves.

Tom Petty’s Malibu Home

The Mediterranean-style home that Tom Petty bought in Malibu in 1998 is on the market at $19 million. The property includes a 10,000-square-foot main home, a guest home, a recording studio, seven bedrooms, a pool and 2.6 acres. Petty died in 2017.

Ellen Does Another Real Estate Flip

Ellen DeGeneres
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When Ellen DeGeneres was growing up, her parents always rented and never were able to own their own home. But they often looked at homes for sale, and Ellen dreamed about how it would be to have her own room in one of them. When she became financially successful, Ellen started buying homes and flipping them, over and over, for large profits. She just did it again, selling neighboring properties consisting of a five-bedroom home on 3.44 acres and its next-door 6.58-acre lot in Carpinteria, California for $96 million. She bought the properties for $70 million in 2022.

Kanye Unloads His Malibu Gut Job

In 2021, Kanye West paid $57.3 million for a Malibu oceanfront home designed by architect-to-the-stars Tadao Ando but tore just about everything out of the home, leaving just a bare shell. He listed the home earlier this year for $53 million and quickly reduced the price to $39 million. The home just sold for $21 million.

US VP Candidate Tim Walz Is Homeless

Democratic VP candidate Tim Walz has not owned a home since he sold his home in Mankato, Minnesota in 2019 for $315,000, following his election as the state’s governor. He has no real estate, stocks or bonds, but he is currently living in the historic Minnesota Governor’s Mansion.

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Clint Eastwood’s Longtime Seaside Home

A Carmel, California home where Clint Eastwood lived when he was the mayor of the town is for sale at $21 million. Eastwood bought the Spanish Renaissance-style home a few years before he was elected mayor and sold it in 1996. The four-bedroom home was built about a hundred years ago with ocean views, 4,400 square feet, an interior courtyard, and a walkway to the beach. Eastwood was the mayor of Carmel from 1986 to ‘88, getting over 72% of the vote.

NBA MVP Lists All-Star Penthouse

One of Boston’s best penthouses, currently owned by the NBA Boston Celtics MVP, Jaylen Brown, is for sale. An apartment with all the bells and whistles you might expect in the home of a three-time NBA All-Star who signed a five-year, $304 million contract in 2023.

Rob Lowe Home For Sale

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The Beverly Hills home that Rob Lowe bought in 2020, about the same time he sold his longtime Montecito home for $45.5 million, is for sale at $6.575 million. The three-bedroom home includes 2,940 square feet, a gym, den and pool.

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