Bethany Erickson
Just a scant couple of weeks after showcasing the expansive Park City, Utah, home of NBA legend Michael Jordan, we find ourselves in Edmond, Oklahoma, gazing a the surprisingly – and substantially – more modest home of former Oklahoma City Thunder point guard (now with the Houston Rockets) Russell Westbrook. Westbrook, according to sports news…
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The city of Southport, North Carolina, has been a spot for exploration since the 1500s when the Spanish landed and poked around. By the 1700s, it was founded as Smithville, after Revolutionary War colonel Benjamin Smith, who was also later governor of North Carolina. In the late 1800s, in a bid to become a major shipping…
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A second home on the water may seem like a lofty goal – and possibly an unattainable one. Waterfront homes sound pricey, and a second mortgage for many would need to be well, decidedly not pricey. A recent report from GOBankingRates, however, works to dispel that notion, surveying 112 top ocean and lakefront cities based…
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Megadeth guitarist and lead vocalist Dave Mustaine has listed his Franklin, Tennessee, equestrian estate for just shy of $2.5 million, Variety reported last week. If “metal guitarist sells equestrian estate” seems like a sentence that would be the product one of those refrigerator magnet games, rest assured Mustaine’s 10-acre property is indeed the real deal,…
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Sixteen-year-old Henry T. Daily Lonsdale likely didn’t picture himself as one day being the owner of a stately mansion that would, 163 years later, still stand as part of the historical fabric of New Orleans. After all, at that tender age, he was an immigrant working in the city’s shipyards. Sitting in the Garden District…
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New England has the lock on the states with the most vacation homes, with Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire topping a list of states with the most second homes compiled by IPX1031. Maine, where 19 percent of the homes are second homes, came in first, with Vermont (at 17 percent) and New Hampshire (12 percent),…
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