Real Estate

A Coogee property owned by the family of the former prime minister of Australia’s wife-turned-artist Annita van Iersel cost $91,382 in 1982 — it’s just sold for $198,863,500 USD. The three-bedroom strata residence with one bathroom and no parking at 150 Beach St had a $1,972,200 price guide via The Agency’s Bethwyn Richards and Jess

A 173-year-old church has been converted into a modern house — and it’s listed for $2.8 million. Located in Berkshire, England, the Holy Trinity Church is now an eight-bedroom, seven-bathroom property fitted with contemporary additions. Many of the original features remain intact, including stone walls, stained-glass windows with religious imagery and intricate carvings. As daylight

A Los Angeles estate that has been home to Megan Fox, Machine Gun Kelly, LeBron James, and Cardi B over the years — and has been a set location for “Lethal Weapon” and “NCIS: Los Angeles” — has hit the market for $6.39 million. The seller is recording artist and real estate investor Betty Moon, who will be releasing a new

Fitness entrepreneur Anne Mahlum and high-performance coach Brett Eaton are in contract to buy a Miami manse asking $13.5 million. The deal comes just two months after Mahlum paid $8.35 million for a triplex penthouse investment property at 260 Bowery in Manhattan, as Gimme Shelter previously reported. Mahlum is the founder and former CEO of Solidcore, a

Souped-up amenities like gyms, spas and lounges have become givens in any luxury New York residential building. But with the much-anticipated return-to-office scenario being weaker than expected in the wake of COVID, sleek co-working spaces are the latest perk to join the list. Based on data from Placer.ai from a sample of 50 Manhattan office

Who says it’s nobody’s business but the Turks? Despite a catastrophic earthquake and the hotly contested reelection of President Tayyip Erdoğan, Istanbul is booming this year with some of the best new luxury hotel and tourist offerings in the world.  Straddling Europe and Asia along the 20-mile-long Bosphorus Strait that connects the Black Sea to the

The unfortunate case of 111 Wall Street might be even more unfortunate than it sounds. Two months since we wrote that the vacant, 1.2 million square-foot tower at the corner of South Street “epitomized the crisis” of the downtown commercial market, the building owned by Nightingale Properties and Intervest Capital Partners now faces a foreclosure action by

A Washington D.C. resident is selling a giant wall he inherited from his father for $50,000 — in a petty move to annoy his neighbor. Allen Berger told the Washington Post that his father initially bought the wall as a joke — so he could say he owned property in Georgetown. Berger revealed that he

This tony Manhattan neighborhood is experiencing an extremely crappy problem. The Upper East Side has reportedly become a hot spot for vans moonlighting as short-term rentals despite lacking a functioning toilets.  At least two Chevys — one a blue Suburban, the other a white Express — have been repeatedly spotted around the pricey nabe sporting

Downtown Manhattan is about to get a big dose of upstate New York. Almost exactly two years after the Rochester-based grocery giant Wegmans announced it would debut its first-ever Manhattan location in the former Kmart on Astor Place during the second half of 2023, now comes word of its specific opening date. And, just like

A custom three-story home built on the top of a chic Upper East Side building has sold for $21 million in a speedy all-cash deal. The buyer, we hear, is a local hedge funder with three kids who attend school in the neighborhood. The seller is real estate mogul Rodney Propp, who paid $20.37 million

A celebrity-magnet resort in the Hamptons is the latest high-profile property looking to cash in on the East End’s tight hotel market, Side Dish has learned. The Capri Hotel and Restaurant in Southampton — which over the years has drawn stars from Howard Stern to Jennifer Lopez, and has been a popular venue for politicians

A feast for the senses is probably no gamble at Sphere. Don’t be distracted by the mesmerizing viral series of exteriors blasting out breathtaking, 360-degree high-resolution visuals — spanning solar scenes to a massive basketball, a disturbingly real eyeball and some patriotic themes, among many more. The 20,000-seat, reportedly $2.2 billion Las Vegas venue’s audio

Another week, another giant fitness center in an office building! This one’s at RXR’s leviathan Starrett-Lehigh Building, where Adidas will launch a 15,000 square-foot 601 Athletic Club. The facility joins the 100,000 square feet of tenant and public amenities at the building, which include Marcus Samuelson’s restaurant Hav + Mar, the new Olly Olly Food