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Think the McMansion is just an American idea? We’ve definitely exported the concept. Check out today’s home in the luxury Emirates Hills section of Dubai. This villa has seven bedrooms and 24,500 square feet of space. Some only in Dubai detailer include an underground garage and a room just for your driver, a professional service kitchen with Tandoori oven and a formal dining room with silk wallpaper and an ornate inlaid table. The home also has home theater, a gym and a a massage area with a Jacuzzi, a gym, cinema, sauna and steam room. This home is listed at $21 million.

[Thanks, Ben!]

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We’ve seen some expensive homes in the Hamptons but if there’s anything I’ve learned in years of covering the high-end real estate market, it’s that there is always another even bigger place around the corner. This home in Southampton Village has nine bedrooms, four floors and +13,500 sqft of living space. The home was the last project of renowned builder Kurt Andresson and famed New York Architects DAquino Monaco. It sits on approximately 11 acres of which six are Peconic Land Trust natural preserve lands with 1,000′ oceanfront and 1000′ pond front.

 On particularly winning detail is a two story enclosed gazebo with beautiful ocean views. The property also includes a sunken tennis court, gunite pool and Jacuzzi, pool house, two-car garage with h garden/potting area and second floor storage, private walkway to beach and pond with wooden dock.Read

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The Bargain Neighborhoods, Madison CT, Estate of the Day
Posted Apr 26th 2008 1:02PM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Estates
NeighborhoodScout.com has used their matching function to find neighborhoods that are “discount equivalents” of some of the hot and pricey communities we recently covered in our Most Expensive Zip Codes estates.

The Neighborhood Scout deems that the town of Madison, Connecticut is a good equivalent for Malibu, the expensive celebrity-filled beach area north of Los Angeles. Malibu has a median price of $2.93 million but Madison has a far more reasonable median price of $649.344. Madison also has a much longer history than Malibu, it was first settled in 1641. Madison is also a beach community on the Connecticut shoreline. Hammonasset State Park in Madison boasts the state’s longest public beach and like Malibu it gets crazy crowded in the summer.

In Malibu, especially in the elite Carbon Beach area where it is rumored that a sale in the $65 million range recently took place, you have to be prepared to pay a lot. Also even some of the most striking homes such as one of my favorite estate of the day properties, special effects master Stan Winston’s Malibu home are in tight proximity to one another. In Madison, prices are for more reasonable. Today’s home has a great setting on Long Island Sound with a front yard that leads to a double tiered sandy beach. The 5000 square-foot home has been renovated and includes a great room with floor to ceiling stone fireplace, a gourmet eat-in kitchen and six bedrooms total. The master bedroom has a private balcony overlooking the water and a spacious master bath. This home is listed at $4.9 million.

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