The latest issue of Significant Sales features top sales from around the world beginning with an extraordinary home in New York. Also featured is an elegant waterfront property inMartha’s Vineyard, a sprawling ranch in Texas and more than twenty other properties from around the globe.
$30,000,000 USD | New York, USA | Sotheby’s International Realty – East Side Manhattan Brokerage
New York – History, elegance, and the conveniences of modern restoration converge in this magnificent home. Boasting unobstructed views down Fifth Avenue, Central Park, the midtown skyline and The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, this home’s 26 windows and custom detailing accentuate the graceful layout of the grand scale rooms. A Shelton, Mindel and Associates extensive three-year renovation, featured by Architectural Digest, only enhances this rare opportunity to live in one of Fifth Avenue’s most highly regarded buildings.
$24,750,000 USD | Massachusetts, USA | Wallace & Co. Sotheby’s International Realty
Massachusetts – This residence is part of the exclusive 600-acre Oyster Watcha Midlands Association, an enclave of 15 privatehomes containing some of the most sought after properties Martha’s Vineyard has to offer. With direct accessto more than half a mile of private, sandy beach along the South Shore, this world-class setting also includes aneighborhood tennis pavilion with a clay court and two hard courts. The compound includes a six-bedroom mainhouse and two-bedroom guest house with 180 degree water views, gourmet chef’s kitchen, solarium, remarkablewine cellar with attached billiard room, home gym and steam room all offering spectacular attention to detail,design and craftsmanship.
$24,750,000 USD | Texas, USA | Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty
Texas – One of the largest ranches in McMullen County, where land is rarely ever for sale, this property has been ownedand operated by the same family since 1963. The ranch was named after a hundreds-of-years-old Live Oaktree, or Encino, that along with the San Caja mesa, appears on maps as far back as the Spanish Colonial Period.The property includes five homes, cattle pens, 18 pastures, and eight water wells. Under a Managed Land DeerPermit, it is a haven for native wildlife including whitetail deer, turkey, quail, dove, javelina, hogs and others.
$21,000,000 USD | Florida, USA | Premier Sotheby’s International Realty
Florida – With 200 feet of private interior Gulf of Mexico beach frontage this home was expertly crafted by JerrydeGennaro (architect), Newberry North (builder) and Russell Bencaz (landscape designer). Step throughthe walled and gated entry and get the feeling of a botanical garden with lakes, waterfalls, koi ponds and nativetropical foliage. The dark wood and stone detailing of the interior coupled with the walls of mahogany and Frenchdoors create seamless living indoor/outdoor spaces that bring the Gulf views into almost every room. Featuresinclude a state-of-the-art media room, outdoor kitchen and one-bedroom carriage house over a three-car garage.
$15,600,000 USD | New York, USA | Sotheby’s International Realty – East Side Manhattan Brokerage
New York – This residence is located on a prime residential block off 5th Avenue near Central Park and the MetropolitanMuseum. 21 feet wide and 6-stories tall, the house was built as a single-family residence in 1883 andre-designed in the 1970’s by renowned architect Robert A. M. Stern. The house is in excellent condition with highceilings and working fireplaces throughout.
>Explore more than 20 other homes from around the world in Significant Sales, Volume 7 2015