13 Comments

1. 

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

   Let me know when it goes down another, say, $49M and then I’ll be ready to go! 😉

2. 

   CA renter on August 15, 2010 at 11:07 pm

   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? 😉

3. 

   MrBEE on August 16, 2010 at 12:22 am

   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.

4. 

   shadash on August 16, 2010 at 6:52 am

   Wow, now that’s a house.

5. 

   James on August 16, 2010 at 8:07 am

   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!

6. 

   bubblenerd on August 16, 2010 at 10:30 am

   @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.

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   Dan on August 16, 2010 at 12:13 pm

   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

8. 

   Joe on August 16, 2010 at 3:32 pm

   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.”

9. 

   Dwip on August 16, 2010 at 6:24 pm

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

10. 

    YetAnotherMike on August 17, 2010 at 1:11 pm

    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.

11. 

    Art Eclectic on August 17, 2010 at 5:32 pm

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

    Just sayin’……

12. 

    Petra on August 18, 2010 at 10:15 pm

    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.

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    ewhac on September 1, 2010 at 12:27 pm

    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…