Deluxe Condo in Quiet Neighborhood

This comfortable deluxe condo is located in “Jaboncillo” Escazu, in a quiet residential neighborhood. Schools are close by, malls and shops at 10 minutes distance and the internationally recognized hospital CIMA only 15 minutes away.

With a little less than 4000 square feet (375m2) it’s the biggest home of 8 in this condominium. The community is completely gated and there is 24 hour security. A secure underground parking includes 3 parking spaces for this condo.

This spacious house would be an ideal home for a family or executive couple wanting to be close to commodities and work. The house is tastefully decorated and comes with high valuable contemporary furniture.

The house is 3 stories high. At the ground floor there is a living with terrace doors to an outside garden, an office, a dining room, fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area, laundry room and maids quarters. The second floor counts with a hobby/TV area, large master bedroom with private balcony overlooking the central valley, private bathroom / Jacuzzi and spacious walk in closet, 2 bedrooms and bathroom.

The third floor has another bedroom – currently used as a gym, sitting area with vaulted ceiling, sauna / bathroom and balcony with great views.

The house holds a lot of storage space, but a separate storage room is included at the underground parking area. The construction is very solid. Finishing, doors and closets are made of Colombian hardwood. Bathrooms are equipped with high quality griffins. Hot water tanks on every floor.

The property is owned by a company and comes with 4 telephone lines.

Townhouse in Quiet Community

This house is located in Santo Domingo a quiet village close to the city of Heredia with all commodities you’d expect in a first world country.

Just outside Santo Domingo you’ll be driving in country side and coffee plantations. Great international schools close by.

The condominium counts only 35 townhouses and is completely gated. Twenty-four hour security.

The house has a living, kitchen, outdoor patio and half a bathroom at the first floor. The second floor has 3 small bedrooms and 1 bathroom. Possible to break one wall and join two bedrooms in a bigger one. Outdoor green area and lots of parking space!

Ideal for a couple wanting to retire or a professional couple depending on work close by.

Trejos Montealegre Condo

Excellent opportunity, last condominium left. This location has become the most desirable since it's very close to all commercial areas (Multiplaza, Plaza Rolex, Sareto, Cima Hospital and much more.

Great House for Sale in Rorhmoser

Thirty year well kept house in the best area of Rorhmoser just two blocks away from the President of Costa Rica Mr Oscar Arias house. This house with plenty of windows and light.

On the first floor after being received by a foyer to the left you will find an office a very spacious living room and the dinning room with a bar with access to the kitchen and great space for laundry and maids' quarter with bathroom. To the right of the foyer at the main entrance there is a TV room, full bathroom, an exit to the back yard or garden with swimming pool, sauna, BBQ and Jacuzzi.

On the second floor there is another TV room and three bedrooms; the master room with its own bathroom and the two other rooms share one bathroom.

Beautiful Spanish Colonial Compund

This wonderful home was built to the highest standards and follows a Spanish Colonial design. The home is complete with four bedrooms all with walk in closet, (the master bedroom has a private terrace), office and an apartment. Furthermore maid's quarters, laundry room and separate housekeeper building presently used as storage. The home has a spectacular swimming pool and tremendous mountain views. There is a great outdoor Bar BQ and entertainment area as well as beautifully manicured gardens around the property. The home has satellite dish and cable T.V. and tel. outlets in every room, alarm system and two phone lines. Country Club membership available as well. Great climate and very private. The perfect retirement compound!

Woolworth mansion gone from Prudential site

The listing for Winfield Hall, the Glen Cove estate built in 1917 for businessman F. W. Woolworth, has been removed from the Prudential Douglas EllimanWeb site. Nancy Donin, who had represented the property for the past year, says that the mansion has temporarily been removed from the market while negotiations are under way with a potential buyer who lives outside the United States.

The most recent asking price for the 16.30-acre spread was $19.5 million. In November, a source told REAL LI that the property’s owner, Martin Carey, had rejected an offer of $15 million from the Crown Prince of Dubai. At the time, Donin denied that report saying that the offer had been significantly higher, and that the potential buyer, whom she identified as “an Arab gentleman,” was not the Crown Prince of Dubai.

Carey, brother of former Gov. Hugh Carey, has had Winfield Hall on the market for several years, previously listing with Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty.

What David Paterson's childhood home sold for

The man who will be governor has solid Long Island roots that date back to the 1950s.

David A. Paterson, who assumes the state's highest office on Monday, grew up in a two-story white house on Carolina Avenue in Hempstead. Paterson's parents, Portia and Basil, moved their legally blind son to the area from Brooklyn so that he could be schooled in a mainstream classroom.

The home the Patersons bought in the late 1950's has undergone a few minor changes since it was built in late 1947, but remains essentially the same. Public records indicate that the six-room, 1,300-square-foot dwelling sits on just over a tenth of an acre of land. The family owned the house until 1988 when they sold it for $132,000. Property records value the house today at about $350,000.

The current owners of the home have told Newsday that when they pulled up the old brown shag rug in the home, some of Paterson's grade school report cards were found underneath.

David Paterson and his family now live in Harlem and maintain a residence in Guilderland, N.Y., near Albany.

Susan Lucci's neighbor selling Garden City home

If your life is a bit of a soap opera, you may want to check out this Garden City mansion that’s on the market for $6.1 million, listed with Kathleen Thornton of Coach Realtors. The dramatic 14-room, cedar shingle Colonial, built in 1995, sits on 1.66 acres near the Garden City Golf Club. Amenities include a guest cottage, indoor lap pool, and putting green. The property is within walking distance to the village. The taxes are $42,864.61 per year.

Public records show that the mansion is just across the road from the home of actress Susan Lucci, Emmy-winning star of ABC’s All My Children. Lucci, who plays Erika Kane, lives in a 11-room, 7.5-bath 1929 Colonial. She also owns a home on Dune Road in Quogue with husband, Helmut Huber.

Cornelia Guest selling Old Westbury estate for $20 million

Heiress, actress and socialite Cornelia Guest has put her 15-acre Old Westbury estate on the market for $20 million. Public records show that the property includes a two-story brick Colonial home built in 1924, with 9 ½ baths and 5 fireplaces. The grounds include a pool, tennis courts, and a greenhouse. The home is listed with Wendy Grant of Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty.

Guest is the daugther of the legendary garden writer, equestrian and society doyenne, C.Z. Guest, who died in 2003. The family moved to Old Westbury in 1968, after selling 150 acres in Brookville that is now the De Seversky Center of the New York Institute of Technology.

Guest became famous in the 1980s as the blueblooded beauty who was dubbed “debutante of the decade” by Andy Warhol, once dated Sylvester Stallone, and was a regular at Studio 54, along with friends-relatives, Richard and Robert DuPont. She is also related to Winston Churchill, who was her father’s cousin.

These days, Guest has become better known for her philanthropic and fund-raising efforts in support of causes like the Humane Society of New York.

Centre Island's Southerly sold to British yachtsman

Last year when Patricia Altschul’s estate Southerly went into contract, listing agent Barbara Candee of Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty proclaimed the new owner to be a denizen of the United Kingdom and a “lover of boats.”

Although Candee would not comment further, REAL LI has confirmed the buyer is Londoner Colin Buffin and his wife Susan. Buffin is chief executive of Candover, one of Britain's largest private equity firms and a competitive yachtsman who was surely lured by the property’s deep water dock.

The deal closed March 20. The latest asking price had been $15.8 million. The home sold for $12.5 million. The 10-acre estate had been on the market since 2006.

Altschul was travelling and could not be reached for comment. She is the wife of the late banker and philanthropist Arthur Altschul. His daughter is CBS contributing correspondent Serena Altschul.

Now that Southerly has sold, maybe there is hope for neighbor and Newsday-wannabe-owner Rupert Murdoch, who is listing his nearby estate for sale at $12.8 million. Billy Joel is also still trying to sell Middlesea on the island for $32.5 million.

Former summer home of Vogue photog for sale

The former Oyster Bay summer home of the late trend-setting Vogue photographer Horst P. Horst is on the market for $1.85 million. The one-story white house sits on five acres of what is left of Horst’s original 12 acres, purchased from the Tiffany estate for about $5,000 in the late 1940s. In a 1991 interview, Horst told The New York Times that he had sold an original Picasso painting to pay for the house.

Horst lived in the home until his death in 1999 at age 93. During his career, he photographed and partied with Salvador Dali, Noel Coward, Greta Garbo and Coco Chanel, all of whom visited him on Long Island. Hewas also responsible for many iconic advertising shots, some of which were taken in the garage at the home.

The house has four bedrooms, three baths and three fireplaces. Taxes are $18,052 per year.

David M. Haggerty and Angela Buzzerio of Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty have the listing.

Sean Hannity closes on Centre Island estate

The house that conservative talk show host and Murdoch employee Sean Hannity was trying to buy has officially closed, real estate sources says. The 16-room mansion on Centre Island closed Wednesday. Hannity paid $8.5 million.

The Hampton-style mansion was purchased from a trust set up after a transfer of the property from Deborah Dolan, ex-wife of Cablevision’s James Dolan.

The home was listed with Peggy McCormack of Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty. Regina Rogers of Prudential Douglas Elliman represented Hannity in the deal. Neither agent would comment.

The sale of this home proves that despite a real estate slowdown, homes will sell if the price is right, and Centre Island is no exception. The Hannity house had originally been listed at $13.5 million in 2006, then earlier this year was reduced to $10.5 million. Patricia Altschul’s Centre Island manse went into contract last year soon after a price reduction from $18.5 million to $15.8 million. It closed in March 2008 for $12.5 million to Londoner Colin Buffin. Murdoch also recently dropped the asking price for his nearby mansion from $14.8 million to $12.8 million.

One holdout in the pricing game is Billy Joel, whose Centre Island estate, Middlesea, has been on the market since 2006. It was originally listed at $37.5 million in 2006, with a price drop to $32.5 million in early 2007, but Joel has not reduced his asking price in more than a year now and the home remains unsold.

Vinny Testaverde's Long Island home back on market

After a brief hiatus, Heisman winner Vinny Testaverde’s Oyster Bay Cove home is back on the market, listed with Shawn Elliott Luxury Homes and Estates.

The price remains $6.995 million for the 13,000 square-foot mansion on Talls Oaks Court. Testaverde and wife, Mitzi, orginally listed the home in October 2007, taking it off the market this January as they prepared to move to their new $4.5-million Tampa, Fla., mansion.

The six-bedroom, 7 ½-bath center-hall Colonial sits on four acres and is a sports-fan’s paradise with a fitness center, a sauna and steam room, a movie theater, a video game room, a billiards room, a full basketball court and a sports court. The home includes a cabana, a heated Gunite pool with a 20-foot waterfall, a kiddie pool and an eight-person Jacuzzi.

$1 million rental in Sagaponack sells instead

Chalk up another one for Sotheby’s International Realty’s super-agent Beate Moore.

Moore tells REAL LI that her $19.9 million Sagaponack listing has gone into contract “for close to the listed sales price” and that the deal should close “very quickly,” as early as next month. Moore says the new owner of the eight-bedroom, 12,000-square-foot home on Parsonage Lane is a European. She declined to provide further details on the buyer’s identity.

The home had also been listed as a $1 million rental for the summer 2008 season. Moore says that another party had made an offer to rent the property for close to the amount, but was turned down in light of the sale. The seller of the property is real estate agent Andrew Saunders, who did not represent himself in the sale.

Moore’s last big sale was the $60 million deal on the Gin Lane mega-mansion once owned by producer Marty Richards. That sale closed in March. Tiger Woods had been rumored to be the buyer of that home, but Moore and Woods himself have steadfastly denied his involvement in the transaction.

Another Centre Island home sells

Another home has changed hands on Centre Island, this time a 1914 waterfront compound with four-plus acres, a carriage house and a three-car garage with an apartment. The home has four bedrooms, 4 ½ baths and three fireplaces.

The estate had been listed for $5.8 million and sold in less than three weeks for $5.6 million.

Listing agent Carol Cotton of Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty declined to comment on the sale.

There’s been a flurry of real estate activity on Centre Island in recent months. Notable deals include an $8.5 million dollar sale (the buyer is said to be radio host Sean Hannity) and a $12.5 million sale to Londoner Colin Buffin.

Billy Joel’s Middlesea is still for sale for $32.5 million, although the rocker recently switched his listing to Dolly Lenz of Prudential Douglas Elliman.

Landmarked Roslyn home for sale

A piece of Roslyn’s history has just hit the market for $1.695 million.

Jack Rossinsky of Shawn Elliott Luxury Homes and Estates is listing this circa 1875 Victorian overlooking Roslyn Harbor that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The three-story home was built on two wooded hilltop acres for local attorney George Washington Denton. The interior was designed to imitate an Italian villa. The Roslyn Landmark Society oversees permission on renovations and upgrades.

The home has gone through a series of owners yet retains all original architectural elements, including doors, hardware, decorative moldings and six fireplaces. In the 1930s and 1940s, it was used by the Girls Service League of America.

One area that’s been modernized is the kitchen, where there’s a Thermador gas oven, Sub-Zero refrigerator, dishwasher and upgraded cabinetry.

Northwood in Oyster Bay is under contract

Northwood has found a buyer. The 26-plus acre Normandy-style estate in Oyster Bay is now under contract. The most recent price for the 10-bedroom, 10-½ bath mansion was $18 million.

The property once belonged to a 900-acre estate owned by banker Mortimer Schiff, who built a 120-room Tudor house on the site. His son John replaced the structure with the current one in 1948. Last year Nassau County purchased 33.5 acres of the estate for $11 million for preservation purposes.

Designer Oleg Cassini, whose clients included Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy, lived on his nearby estate for many years until his death in 2006.

Upper Brookville's 'Gossip Girl' house for sale

If you've got $12.9 million and are a big fan of television's "Gossip Girl", why not buy this 5-acre estate where two episodes of the show's upcoming season were filmed?

The Villa at Chestnut Hill, where scenes for a "white party" for the show take place, has just gone on the market with Shawn Elliott Luxury Homes & Estates. The gated five-bedroom mansion boasts nearly 15,000 square feet, a grand foyer with dual wraparound staircases, a 65-foot ballroom, a gym and a glass-enclosed salt water swimming pool. The third story cupola affords a 365-degree view of the manicured grounds and neighboring Planting Fields Arboretum.

The listing agents are Angela Rothenberg and Kim Greenberg. Greenberg owns the home with fiancee and real estate developer, Fred Rudd. The former owner was chop-shop king Michael Pescatore.

Greenberg and Rudd have made many improvements to the property since purchasing it from the government for $8.3 million in 2007, beating out dozens of bidders. "They went above and beyond in every detail," Elliott says. "They've taken it to a level far above the previous owner."

Elliott says that recently, a Kohl's commercial was filmed at the estate, and in June rapper Ludacris filmed an At&T commericial there as well.
Pennington, now a quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, "is one of the nicest clients I have ever met," Elliott says.

Chad Pennington's Muttontown home in contract

Quarterback Chad Pennington, who was cut from the New York Jets earlier this month to make room for Brett Favre, has gone into contract on his Muttontown home.

Pennington first put the six-bedroom, 7½-bath, brick center-hall Colonial mansion on the market in July for $4.095 million, later lowering it to $3.995 million. The 2-plus acre estate went into contract "within 30 days and for close to the asking price," says Shawn Elliott of Shawn Elliott Luxury Homes & Estates, whose company both listed the property and brought the buyers. The listing agents are Barbara Tomko and Sharon Hyman.

Elliott says that the closing is expected by early October, and that the new owners are a Manhattan couple in the financial industry.

Pennington’s 7,000-square-foot home has a state-of-the-art fitness center, a billiards room, Gunite pool and a four-car garage. Records show the home was purchased in 2005 for $3.595 million.

Restored Gold Coast estate for sale for $3.276 million

Interior designer Kim Hendrickson-Radovich and husband, Glen, are selling their 23-room Colonial Revival home in Muttontown. Woodstock Manor was originally built in 1912 by architect Henry Otis Chapman.

The estate was once the summer home of William H. Vander Poel and his wife, Gretchen Billings Vander Poel, whose father, C.K.G. Billings, was chairman of the Union Carbide company, and one of the nation's wealthiest men. Billings owned the property in Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, which would one day become the Cloisters museum.

Kim Hendrickson-Radovich, owner of E. Courtney Interiors & Design, says the home has been completely renovated in the four years since she and her husband purchased it. Efforts were made to retain or restore original details. All 11 bathrooms were retiled and new water-efficient toilets installed, while all orginal tubs and most sinks were saved. The original oak floors have been retained, and copies made of the original shutters and awnings add to the home’s authenticity. A new driveway and classical style pool were added to the property, and 87 rolls of wallcovering applied to the hallways.

"The house was in huge disrepair … now it is pretty spectacular," says Hendrickson-Radovich, whose daughter Elizabeth Hendrickson plays Chloe Mitchell on the CBS soap opera "The Young and the Restless." "The home has its life back again," she says. "It’s my greatest achievement as an interior designer."

The home is listed with Bonnie Williamson of Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty for $3.276 million.

Rupert Murdoch's Centre Island home off the market

Looks like media mogul Rupert Murdoch is staying put on Centre Island, at least for now. The listing for Rosehearty, his 10,000-square-foot Colonial mansion, has been pulled off the Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty website, as well as the MLSLI Web site.

So is the house still for sale? “It’s in a gray area,” says listing agent Barbara Candee of Daniel Gale. Candee says that Murdoch and wife, Wendi, are currently deciding what they want to do with the property for the short term. The 11-bedroom, 7-½-bath manse was last offered at $12.8 million. The 5-acre estate went on the market in June 2007 for $14.8 million. The couple purchased the home in 2003 for $7.8 million.

Part of Syosset Gold Coast estate lists for $2.199 million

At one time, this 6,000-square-foot Georgian mansion in Syosset, built in 1928, was the centerpiece of a 110-acre summer estate owned by William Kennedy, president of one of New York City’s largest construction companies.

Today, the home sits on 2-plus acres, but remains “grand and palatial,” with its marble entryway and gold-trimmed steps, original crown moldings, bridal staircase, French doors and banquet-sized dining room, says listing agent Linda Koziatek of Coldwell Banker Residential in Syosset. There is also in-ground pool and all new stainless steel appliances in the kitchen. The home has five bedrooms, five full and two half baths, and four fireplaces. It is listed for $2.199 million.

Vinny Testaverde slashes price of Oyster Bay Cove mansion

Former New York Jet Vinny Testaverde has slashed the asking price on his Oyster Bay Cove home to $4.6 million. The quarterback originally put the 13,000-square-foot mansion on the market in October 2007 for $6.995 million, lowering the price at least twice since then. Shawn Elliott Luxury Homes & Estates had the listing.

The home is now co-brokered by Lynda Baker Realty Corp. in Hicksville and Century 21 Prevete Real Estate in Plainview. Elaine Lovaglio of Lynda Baker Realty says that the mansion is an “absolutely beautiful family home.” One of her favorite features, she says, is the lap pool which leads to a 20-foot waterfall, then into another gunite pool with a hot tub.

The center hall Colonial has six bedrooms and 7 ½ baths on four acres. Testaverde and wife, Mitzi, now live in a home in Hillsborough County, Fla., that they purchased in 2007 for $4.5 million.

Upper Brookville's chateau on market for $4.995 million

As the story goes, in 1927 financier Ashbel Barney was so taken with a 17th century chateau in the French village of Les Petits Thons that he paid a princely sum to have a wing of the castle dismantled, shipped to the United States and reassembled on Long Island.

Today, the Chateau des Thons in Upper Brookvile sits atop 6.7 wooded acres on Wolver Hollow Road, and is for sale for $4.995 million. It is listed with Linda Brown of Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty. It has been on the market since 2006, when it listed at $6.995 million.

The home in Upper Brookville retains the grandeur of the original chateau in France, which has links to the family of the writer Voltaire. The seven-bedroom, 6-1/2 bath, 6,800-square-foot manse has formal and walled gardens, leafy oak groves, classical fountains and ivy-covered turrets. The front garden was designed by Umberto Innocenti, who worked on the gardens of the Chelsea Mansion in what is now the Muttontown Preserve and whose clients included people like Marjorie Merriweather Post and Evelyn Marshall Field.

The master bedroom has an 18-foot-high mirrored fireplace. The 1,000-square-foot grand salon has floor-to-ceiling paneling, and a there's a 40-foot-high sweeping staircase dating from more than 330 years ago.

The modernized kitchen is capable of serving 300 guests. There's also a heated, 1,000-square-foot pool on the property.

Brown says that the estate represents, "an exquisite marriage of vintage materials, historic details...and premium contemporary amenities," adding that the home has been used by many upscale companies, such as Ralph Lauren, as a location for advertising photo shoots.

Record producer's Cove Neck estate taken by bank

A Cove Neck estate owned by Grammy-winning record producer Ric Wake was reclaimed by the bank at auction earlier this week in Nassau County Supreme Court in Mineola, the court clerk's office confirms.

The "upset price" for the home had been set at $4.4 million. There were no bidders. The property is now owned by Bancorp Bank.

Wake, who has produced recordings for Brookville residents Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez and singer Mandy Moore, has had the home on the market for the past year, listed at $6.5 million. While the bank now has ownership of the property, it will still be represented by Prudential Douglas Elliman’s John Martin and Barbara Brundige, who could not be reached for comment.

Tennis great John McEnroe and former wife actress Tatum O’Neal at one time lived in the carriage house on the 4.18-acre compound, when it was owned by McEnroe’s parents. They sold the property in 2000.

The home was featured last year in an episode of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

Former Underhill estate for sale in Jericho

The Kennedys had their family compound, and now you can too.

An 18.64-acre property in Jericho, once part of the Underhill estate, is listed with Barbara Brundige and John Martin of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate for $8.44 million. The price was reduced earlier this week from $9.799 million.

Brundige says that several large families have already looked at the estate, which includes a seven-room guest cottage with a gym, a housekeeper's cottage, two barns (one with a half-court basketball court on the second floor) and a home office over a three-car garage with heated floors. The main house, Brundige says, has undergone a $1 million renovation. There's also a heated pool and a tennis court.

Brundige says the estate is "like an arboretum" with many plantings and a waterfall near the tennis court. The property was once part of a 100-plus acre estate owned by the Underhill family since the 1700s, when Jericho was still a Quaker farming village. In the late 1970s, 81 acres adjacent to this property were purchased by the Tilles Investment Company, which later sold 50 acres to the state, county and town for preservation.

The current owners purchased these 18 acres from the Underhill family. The property consists of one 14-acre parcel and one 4-acre parcel, development rights included, Brundige says.

Edgardo Alfonzo lowers price of Little Neck home

He’s done it again. Former New York Met Edgardo Alfonzo has lowered the price of his home in Little Neck. Alfonzo, who played this past season for the Long Island Ducks, put the home on the market in 2006 for $8 million. He has lowered the price at least five times since then. The asking price now stands at $5.1 million, according to the Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty Web site. The most recent price had been $5.3 million this past summer.

Public records show Alfonzo paid $900,000 for the property in 1999, and has since done renovations, including a $750,000 master bathroom.

Sylvia Kumar lowers price on Upper Brookville estate

The price has been lowered on La Selva, the 24.3-acre Upper Brookville estate owned by Sylvia Kumar, wife of imprisoned former Computer Associates chief Sanjay Kumar.

The 40-room villa, once used by the Roman Catholic Church as the St. Francis Retreat House, was purchased by Sylvia Kumar in 2001 for $6.75 million. It was put on the market in June 2007 for $17 million. The price for the estate is now $14.5 million, according to the Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty Web site.

The Italian Renaissance mansion was built in 1915 for investor Henry Sanderson, and the gardens were laid out by the Olmstead Brothers landscapers. The home is across from the Planting Fields Arboretum. There are seven bedrooms, 7 ½ baths, eight fireplaces and a seven-car garage, according to the listing. Annual taxes are $77,612.

Billy Joel's on-again-off-again Centre Island listing

Looks like Billy Joel is still in a Centre Island state of mind, at least for now. The singer's $32.5 million mansion, Middlesea, which was until recently listed with agent Dolly Lenz, has disappeared from the Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate, Web site. Lenz could not be reached for comment, but a source close to Joel tells Newsday that the home has not been sold.

Joel purchased the home in 2002 for $22 million, and married wife, Katie Lee, there in 2004. He listed the Tudor-style waterfront mansion for sale in September 2006 with Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty for $37.5 million, later reducing the price to $32.5 million. In fall 2007, Joel's listing with Daniel Gale lapsed. Lenz began representing the property in March 2008.

Middlesea sits on 14.26 acres with 1,550 feet of direct waterfront. The home has eight full and three half baths, and 13 fireplaces. Designer Nate Berkus designed the living room for Joel and his wife.

Price lowered on Fox Hall in Upper Brookville

An Upper Brookville mansion, said to be a replica of the Scottish summer palace of Bonnie Prince Charlie -- the 18th century Young Pretender to the British throne -- is now listed with a new broker and at a less princely sum.

The 12-bedroom brick manor home known as Fox Hall, originally listed for $17 million with Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty, is now priced at $14.9 million with Doug Peterson of North Site Realty Corp.

The mansion was completed in 1915 and sits on more than 18 acres. The grounds include a restored three-bedroom carriage house, a six-car garage, a cottage and a greenhouse. Teddy Roosevelt was said to have favored a spot on the grounds known as "Teddy's Rock" as a resting place while hunting.

The home has a banquet-sized formal dining room, a kitchen with a butler's pantry, a grand entry foyer and a library. The master suite includes his and hers baths, a men's dressing room and a private lady's writing room.

Brookville's Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony buy house next door

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have brand-new neighbors -- themselves. Public records show that the superstar couple purchased the home next door to the one they already own in Brookville for $2.05 million.

The sale closed Dec. 19 on the 2.24-acre property. The deed is in Anthony’s name.

The five-bedroom, 4 ½-bath Colonial originally went on the market last March for $2.299 million with Regina Rogers of Prudential Douglas Elliman. The property shares estate gates with the home that Lopez and Anthony already own. The couple reportedly spent millions of dollars to fortify security and the gates to the estate prior to the birth of the twins, Max and Emme, last year.

At the time the house went on the market, Rogers told Newsday, “In order to access this house, you have to enter through the estate gates. I love the approach, and the long Belgian block-lined bluestone driveway."

Folk artist selling Roslyn Harbor home where show shot

Folk artist Thomas Langan is selling the Roslyn Harbor compound that he owns with his wife, Penelope. The one-acre property on Glenwood Road is listed with Antonietta Rijo and Maria Young of the Manhasset office of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate for $2.9 million.

Annual taxes are about $26,207.

The three-bedroom waterfront home with its wraparound deck was built in 1860. The property includes a post-and-beam barn that serves as Langan’s studio and a boathouse leading to a 138-foot dock.

Scenes from Glenn Close’s television show “Damages” were recently filmed on the property. Commercials for Progresso soup and Folger's Coffee also were filmed here, as was the 1999 movie "Double Platinum" with Diana Ross and Brandy.

Langan’s works are in the private collections of luminaries such as John Cleese, Penny Marshall and Caspar Weinberger. He also has a work in the permanent collection of the Museum of American Folk Art in Manhattan.

Bank-owned Glen Cove mansion 'as is' for $1.2 million

A 14-room Gold Coast mansion, built in 1907, is looking for the right buyer to bring it back to its former grandeur. The seven-bedroom Colonial is on 1.66 acres on Crescent Beach Road in Glen Cove. “It is grand and beautiful, but needs to be restored,” says Gail DeLane of DeLane Realty in North White Plains.

The home is listed for $1.2 million, and comes with water views, three fireplaces, an inground pool and beach rights. The property is bank owned and is sold “as is.”

In 2008, the Nassau County SPCA seized two horses from the property and charged the home’s former owner, Kelly Pfeifer, with animal cruelty. The horses were found emaciated, without food, water or salt, and living in filth in a garage that had been converted to a stable, according to a report in Newsday. Pfeifer eventually forfeited the animals and pleaded guilty to a minor charge. She paid a $250 fine, as well as $4,540 in restitution, and agree to undergo psychological counseling, the article says.

Jonathan Vilma's Woodbury house taken off the market

The listing for the Woodbury home belonging to former New York Jet Jonathan Vilma has been taken off the market. The Eagle Chase condominium, which had been on the market since March 2008, is now the scene of a double murder investigation in which Vilma is not implicated. Police are reportedly looking to question Vilma’s cousin in connection with the crime.

Vilma, who now plays for the New Orleans Saints, had originally listed the two-bedroom home in the gated community for $929,000. He had recently lowered the price to $899,000. The two-story condo has an eat-in-kitchen, a master suite with a bedroom, bath and loft, and a fireplace. The development has a clubhouse, pool and tennis courts.

Taxes on the unit are $18,462.

Vilma was not the only former New York Jet to live in the Eagle Chase development. Former Jet wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson once lived in a three-bedroom, 3-1/2-bath unit there . That condo was listed last November for $1.199 million.

Phuket Property - A Real Estate First for Phuket

Phuket Airpark have recently opened the first private airstrip in Phuket and released a limited number of hangar lots and 'pilot village' condominiums for sale.

Located in Pa Khlok on the east coast of Phuket, The Airpark has a 500m runway and occupies a site of 116 Rai (185,600m2). The Airpark caters for small private planes and is an ideal location for pilots and light aircraft enthusiasts who need somewhere to park their wings. Facilities at the Airpark include a club house, restaurant and a small number of bamboo bungalows.

Adrian Held, Director of Phuket Airpark and himself a keen pilot, said in a recent interview ''the idea is that people want to have their house and their hangar just next to the house, that's an airpark.''

''At the moment we have a 550m strip but we have already purchased land to extend it to 700m and we may extend to 1000m in the future. We don't want to restrict the aircraft here we want to be open to everybody, that's the idea of aviation, no borders.''

It is now common to see private planes arriving in Phuket, a direct result of the increase in the supply of luxury property on the island. Four years ago you could count the annual number of private plane arrivals on one hand but now they number between four and five hundred per year.

Hangar lots at Phuket Airpark can be purchased from 6,000,000 Baht and 'pilot village' condominiums are available from 5,000,000 Baht.

The Best Real Estate Markets in Mexico

The Best Real Estate Markets en Mexico?

Real estate investment in Mexico. mexico.vg considered each region based on affordability, cultural and natural attractions, infrastructure, economy, proximity to U.S. and a number of other factors contributing to overall appeal to tourists, retirees and, therefore, investors.

The Best Mexican Real Estate Markets are:

1. Loreto, Baja California Sur
2. Merida, Yucatan
3. Guadalajara, Jalisco
4. Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco
5. Oaxaca, Oaxaca

There are many myths about purchasing real estate in Mexico, and the process can be complicated and risky. Many investors never even reach that point, as the challenge of finding a suitable location often proves too difficult. This works to the advantage of savvy and tenacious investors who can navigate the process successfully. As demand increases for Latin American and Mexican real estate, more investors should take advantage of the deals out there while they exist, which is why NuWire published this list. Each region’s market has its own unique qualities, attractions and drawbacks. Interested investors can use one or more of these cities as starting points or as destinations when seeking the location most appropriate for them.

More Vo Real Estate for Sale: Memorial Mansion with Multiples

As recently as last Friday, the home owned by State Rep. Hubert Vo and his wife in Memorial’s Rivercrest subdivision was listed on HAR as “Option Pending.” Then — by yesterday — it was back on the market. Did something happen to disrupt a potential sale?

The new, 23,000-sq.-ft. “awesome Mediterranean estate” at 31 W. Rivercrest has been listed at the same price for 21 months.

What’s the story? A comment posted to HAIF last November offers some clues:

That house is a disaster. I believe, it was, initially being built for Rep. Vo, but when the budget quickly ran out and then they realized it wasn’t worth what was spent on it, it has been a mess trying to get rid of the thing.

I met with an agent that was showing the house privately about a year and a half ago just before I started a project down the street and she eluded that it was initially being offered, still incomplete, for 7.5mm. So far as I know, it is STILL incomplete and has dropped a lot. Eventually, they will have to liquidate it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a tear down with as hideous as the house is.

The actual $4.7 million asking price has in fact held steady. For $200K less than Vo’s other real-estate offering, you get a 2.66-acre lot, an enormous brick home with 5 stairways, 2 attached garages holding a total of 8 cars, plus a separate guest house. And it’s all almost complete!

But this isn’t just your typical Memorial mansion for column-and-arch-crazed empty-nesters! Everything about this home — from its 8 bedrooms, 9 full baths, and 2 half baths, to its dual Master Bedroom suites — is tailor made for occupancy by large numbers of people!

Real Estate Foreclosure

The good news for first time home buyers is that as long as they are willing to out up with a maybe “not quite perfect” real estate foreclosure property, The real state foreclosure people looking for their first property and he looking to build a large real state foreclosure there is the possibility of developing what is referred to as “sweat equity”. Sweat simply equity, or increased value, created by the willingness of a new owner to do the clean-up and repairs many distressed properties require. Each state in the United States has its own procedures for how a lender can foreclose on a loan in default. These procedures are determined by state law and although the procedures and timeframes can vary widely, there are common characteristics to all of them. The biggest difference in the foreclosure process between states is the use of either judicial or non-judicial foreclosure, which simply means the foreclosure will be handled through the courts or handled outside the courts by advertisement and publication (non-judicial). There are also three phases to the foreclosure process that need to be discussed, the default phase, the auction phase and the REO (foreclosure) phase. Most everyone will agree real estate markets that have had huge price increases for many years in a row cannot keep rising in price at the same pace as in the past. Other real estate markets have seen appreciation, but at a more moderate pace. A slowly appreciating market is far less likely to suffer a “bubble burst” than a market that has seen huge gains in just a few years time Understanding the type of foreclosure process, Foreclosures occur when payments aren’t on a loan that is secured by real estate, and the lender takes the security (real estate) because those payments have not been made. Understanding the process, and what steps you need to take at different parts of the process, is essential to successful investing in distressed property.

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Real Estate Blogging

Recently, I've noticed an increase in home builders and real estate companies reaching out to Compendium for an easy blog software to help combat these difficult economic times. It's no secret that the housing market is a major catalyst in the downturn of the economy.

Because few people are buying new homes, and the ones who are now do far greater research before buying, real estate companies are rethinking how they put themselves in front of their market. $500,000 newspaper advertisements that are ignored throughout the year will not sustain many of these companies.

That is why search marketing and blogging for SEO is a much better avenue for these companies to commit their limited resources; both time and money. A multi user blog software allows agents, corporate marketing offices, and other real estate employees to help with content creation, which will drive the online visibility. By putting the properties and messages in front of this immense online traffic, real estate companies can stop suffering and be ready when the buyer seeks them out.

Plus, Compendium's blogging platform is so simple to use, anyone can join in the effort. Our client success team will help track the ROI so that the company has more control in these unstable times. It's time for these companies to re-think marketing strategies if they want to weather the storm.