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Sunday, August 15th, 2010 at 8:20 PM

Down to $49.6 Million

Posted on Sunday, August 15th, 2010 at 8:20 PM in Interesting Houses, Prominent Homes | 13 Comments » | Print Print You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Reader Comments: 13 Responses

  1. Let me know when it goes down another, say, $49M and then I’ll be ready to go! ;-)

    tj & the bear | August 15th, 2010 at 9:09 pm

  2. Okay, now *that one* is really, really, really, really nice. Like, WOW!!!

    tj,

    All we need to do is find 50 families who want to pay $1MM each to live communally…OR, if that’s too much money, we can get 100 of our closest friends to contribute $500K, and IT’S ALL OURS!!!!

    Who’s in? ;)

    CA renter | August 15th, 2010 at 11:07 pm

  3. This house was featured on HGTV’s “What’s With That Really Expensive House”. They were asking $75 mill two years ago. It has it’s own water slide resort area and a lower level that has a replica of the owner’s town, or at least a movie theater that looks like a movie theater and a malt shop. Oh, and there’s a car elevator so you can drive your car into the massive garage underneight.

    MrBEE | August 16th, 2010 at 12:22 am

  4. Wow, now that’s a house.

    shadash | August 16th, 2010 at 6:52 am

  5. Ok, I was smitten with the house up until they went to the bottom level…. they basically turned the home into a cruise ship. tacky!

    James | August 16th, 2010 at 8:07 am

  6. @CA renter, don’t forget the $20,000 yearly your 50 people are going to pay for the property taxes. And I don’t want to know what the utilities, landscaping, etc. come to, lol.

    bubblenerd | August 16th, 2010 at 10:30 am

  7. First thing I’d do is rip out that annoying rock sticking up in the sea as it’s blocking my view. : )

    And, I wouldn’t pay a dime over $42mill

    Dan | August 16th, 2010 at 12:13 pm

  8. Video was way better when I turned the sound off – “Portabello – the name suggests an overpriced cremini mushroom. Immediately you notice the fungal shapes which inspired the name.”

    Joe | August 16th, 2010 at 3:32 pm

  9. Nice place, but that commentary! Sounded like the realtor wrote it during a drunk all-nighter, typing into thesaurus.com.

    Dwip | August 16th, 2010 at 6:24 pm

  10. It has too much of the previous owner’s personality, so it needs millions in remodeling. Anybody who could afford it wouldn’t want the more idiosyncratic features. They’d want to rip those out and put in their own.

    YetAnotherMike | August 17th, 2010 at 1:11 pm

  11. You could gut that lower floor and make one hellava grow room.

    Just sayin’……

    Art Eclectic | August 17th, 2010 at 5:32 pm

  12. 50 mil and all you get is that dinky little t.v. @3:56??? Plus, there should be a major discount b/c the buyer will have to ship in some real sand…that doesn’t seem like it would feel comfortable laying a beach towel down on all those boulders.

    Petra | August 18th, 2010 at 10:15 pm

  13. Only just now bothered to watch the video. Having grown up around this, Portabello slots in very nicely with my sense of aesthetics. The lower floor is a bit garish, but it’s nothing money won’t fix. The theater would probably have to be updated. I’d probably keep the bowling alley.

    I half-expected to see the building spontaneously explode as James Bond sardonically sauntered away…

    ewhac | September 1st, 2010 at 12:27 pm

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