Richard Gere Pays $10.8M for Paul Simon’s Lush Connecticut Sanctuary

After over three years on and off the market, the Connecticut estate Paul Simon and Edie Brickell has changed hands. The buyer, according to Dirt, is Richard Gere, who paid the pair $10.8 million for their longtime home. The property had been listed for as much as $13.9 million since first appearing for sale courtesy of its now-former owners in the spring of 2019.(American Luxury).
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Most expensive home in Naples history sells for $62 million

The most expensive home in Collier County history sold Thursday for $62 million, shattering the old record by $10 million.
Built in 2014, the 16,000-square-foot estate features six bedrooms, a glass wine room, a gourmet kitchen, a game room and a second-level pool and came furnished in the transaction.

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2020: The Top End comes Roaring Back

One of the surprise of the last 2-3 years – to me at least – has been that there has not been more activity in the top end of the market, even as activity increased at lower levels. But that changed in 2020.
Let’s look at sales by price point:

The number of sales over $1 million increased 39% from 353 to 489:

Million dollar sales

The number of sales over $2 million increased to 60 compared with the prior high of 51

Million dollar sales

 

Sales over $3 million doubled from 10 in 2019 to 21 in 2021, passing the prior peak of 18 in 2007:

Million dollar sales

And there was a rebound in sales over $4 million to 12, also passing the prior 2007 peak of 11.

 

Million dollar sales

These charts support what one would normally expect in a rising market – an increase in top-end sales. It took a COVID-inspired exodus from cities to achieve it on this occasion.

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Pierre Cardin’s $400M ‘Bubble Palace’ in France Up for Sale

“House-hunting in the Cannes, France, area and find modern linearity staid, or downright stolid? Then you may want to take a tour of Pierre Cardin’s 1970s fantasy of a mansion: Palais Bulles, the ‘Bubble Palace’ that the late fashion czar owned for the past three decades. The home is looking for a new owner, and first hit the market in 2017 for $420 million.” The current price is available on request, according to American Luxury article which includes more photos.

Pierre Cardin

“Each of the home’s ten bedrooms received a unique treatment at the hands of a different prominent designer of the era. Lines are graceful, but on the whole surprisingly less extravagant than one might expect. It is large, though; interiors measure in at a whisker less than 13,000 sq. ft. and the property’s living areas are distributed over six levels on a promontory setting overlooking Cannes and Nice.

To enhance its Mediterranean setting, there are many indoor/outdoor living spaces, as well as a series of swimming pools and water features amid the tropical and semi tropical plantings and lawns. There are over two acres of terraces and gardens to augment this extraordinary house.”

Well, yes, I suppose one would expect an “extraordinary” house for an “extraordinary” price.

Andrew Oliver
Market Analyst | Team Harborside | teamharborside.com
REALTOR®
Sagan Harborside Sotheby’s International Realty
One Essex Street | Marblehead, MA 01945
m 617.834.8205

www.OliverReportsMA.com
Andrew.Oliver@SothebysRealty.com

Sotheby’s International Realty® is a registered trademark licensed to Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC. Each Office Is Independently Owned and Operated

Andrew Oliver
Sales Associate | Market Analyst | DomainRealty.com
REALTOR®

Naples, Bonita Springs and Fort Myers
Andrew.Oliver@DomainRealtySales.com
m. 617.834.8205
www.MarbleheadSouth.com