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Samantha’s beach front property from Sex and the City

Posted on February 23, 2011 | 1 comment

Do you happen to be able to spare $55.000 a month? Or $75.000 if you are not in town for long? In both cases, you can rent the magnificent beach front property Samantha lived in in the first Sex and the City movie. It’s in the Californian town of Malibu, a short drive from Los Angeles. Malibu is known for a LOT of famous inhabitants. And for Malibu Barbie off course.

Samantha's Malibu home in 'Sex and the City'

Lot of glass and a lot of sticky sand. I'd go mad

Do you recognize it from the movie?

If the house comes with Samantha’s hunky neighbour it might be worth your money.

Thanks for Hookedonhouses for sharing the story on Facebook. Images courtesy of come2malibu

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Posted in Famous buildings and movie locations, See how others live, Unusual homes

Tagged Beach front, Beach house, Los Angeles, Malibu, movie locations, Samantha, Samantha's house, SATC movie locations, Sex and the City

Oops, I’m moving again

Posted on February 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

What a little rehab and time on the couch can do for you huh? Well, it might not immediately revamp your career but it does make you want to start fresh. Thus proves pop sensation has-been Britney Spears. She reportedly paid $12,900.000 for this ultra-luxurious pad in Hidden Hills California.

La Spears' new home

Her house is huge! A staggering 9,107 square feet, which roughly translates to 850 m2. It has 10 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms, a ball room, two staff apartments, guest quarters, a wine cellar, chef’s kitchen and a games room. The landscaped garden boasts a tennis court, a pool and several hot tubs.

Landscaped garden

Hidden hills is a private, gated community for the über rich and wealthy. Britney will be hooding it up with the Kardashians, the Osbournes and Melissa Etheridge to name a few. As it is gated, paparazzi won’t be following her every move or shave.

Sitting room

Ballroom

Source Homebunch.com

Sack the realtor

Posted on February 15, 2011 | 2 comments

In keep with the Dutch blog Foutehuizen.nl, who were featured in an earlier post here, I thought it would be fun to post a few more pictures taken by realtors that need to be sacked; today.

Realtor rake in hefty bucks on the buying and selling of homes of others. For this they are supposed to advice you on how to best buy and sell a home. In my humble opinion, selling a home starts with an attractive presentation. Yet it is shocking to see how often realtors seem to be blindfolded when they take pictures of properties they are about to put on the market.

A recent example I stumbled upon.

Sack the realtor exhibit 1

A nice enough home in a leafy suburb of Amsterdam. Nice sized rooms, big kitchen, back yard bordering a park, it has a lot going for it. Yet this is the picture they decide to use as the main image to present it. A picture my dog could have taken! This is the first impression they want people to have? A weird angle of a cluttered kitchen with cloths hanging in clear view? Bizarre. Especially considering that the realtor in this example usually takes better care. Maybe a momentary lapse of sanity, let’s call it that.

Can you find other examples where the realtor needs to be sacked? Let me know!

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Posted in General living and fun stuff, See how others live, Share your house with us

Tagged Bad real estate photography, Bad real estate pictures, foutehuizen, photography real estate, presentation, sack the realtor

There’s no place like Judy’s

Posted on February 12, 2011 | 1 comment

Hollywood history was written by the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Fred Astaire, Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogard and Judy Garland. These people once partied in the same streets now frequented by the new Hollywood Royalty. Their former homes now often owned by anonymous owners. Every now and then one of them is up for sale as was the case with Ms Monroe’s home not too long ago. And now Judy Garland’s former residence is up for grabs. Grabs worth $5,5 million that is….