Rachel Leroy, Author at Expensive Places

Jun04

For Sale: Celine Dion’s Mansion ($29 Million)

Priced at $29 Million, Celine Dion’s custom built mansion (24,000 sqft) stands on an 830,000 sq ft private island. The exterior features numerous stone terraces from which one can appreciate the surrounding water views and natural forested environment, a large in-ground pool and fabulous pool house equipped with its own kitchen and built-in grill making outdoor entertaining a delight. The main floor features a formal living room and...

Jun04

It set a record for the sale of comic book art: $1.6 million

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I use to like comic book and I’m glad to announce you that the original artwork for the cover of 1932’s Tintin in America has set a record for the sale of comic book art fetching $1.6 million at Paris auction Artcurial. The buyer was anonymous. Tintin in America is the third volume of the Tintin adventure books and collects the serials that ran in the newspaper supplement Le petit vingtieme. Only five covers are known to exist...

Jun01

For sale: Former Set For ‘Miami Vice’ – $22.3 Million

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For $22.3 million you can buy Key Biscayne’s most expensive home. It also was a set on multiple episodes of Miami Vice so you can feel like a star in the movie… The single-family house was built in 1981 and it features 6 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms, a circle drive, 4 garages, 2 car ports, a swimming pool, fireplace, and sauna. Link www.ewm.com VIA www.huffingtonpost.com

Jun01

Chicago new most expensive property listing: $32 million

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$32 million someone should pay for 14,260 square feet in the highest residence in the Western Hemisphere. The penthouse suite is at the 89th-floor of Trump International Hotel & Tower. Funny is that at this price the property has no doors … Link www.redfin.com Via Curbed Chicago

May29

Malaysia’s The Most Expensive License Plate

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9,998 bidders for Malaysia WWW 1 license plate and the winner was Ibrahim Ismail of Johor with $165,068 (520,000 Malaysian ringgits) winning bid. Why this crazy auction? Because in Malaysia you cannot buy personalized plate for your car, you must wait until the number of cars registered reached that sequence and this can take months or even years. The bidding for the WWW 1 plate and other car plates with the prefix WWW, which stands...