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io9UnReal Estate Brings Popular Culture Locations to Life Through Art
The places that characters frequent in movies or TV often become characters themselves. Homes, hideouts, workplaces, these locations can often be as important to your love of something as the fictional people who dwell in them. Which is why, in 2012, Austin artist Tim Doyle started a series called UnReal Estate. He drew and printed … Continued
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Get Out! The Amityville Horror House Is Back On the Market
The Conjuring 2, which comes out this week, opens with a scene set inside the Amityville Horror house—and, as it happens, the iconic Long Island home has just gone back on the market. A mass murder, a fake haunting, a best-seller, a hit movie series, eternal pop-culture infamy, and a boat house—108 Ocean Avenue has … Continued
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This Is How Your City Got Crazy Expensive
If you’ve been considering the idea of purchasing real estate, this map of “Million Dollar Listings” in the US’s priciest cities will make you want to roll up into the fetal position and bawl your eyes out. Trulia has compiled some maps and data for properties valued at $1 million and how those numbers have … Continued
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Would You Pay $500 a Week to Live in This Glorified Hostel?
The housing crisis is edging an entire generation out of the most expensive cities on the planet. But what if you could still live in those cities, moving between them like a digital-age vagabond, sharing well-appointed apartments for short stints with likeminded globetrotters? That’s the promise of a new co-living startup called Roam. Founded last … Continued
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io9A Determined Real Estate Agent Takes on a Fixer-Upper in Need of an Exorcism
Horror short The Maiden is described as “a dark tale of real estate, demonic houses, and Photoshop tutorials.” Because who needs a Ghostbuster when you’ve got elbow grease and serious ambition on your side? Michael Chaves is not the first filmmaker to take advantage of the spooky ambiance of Los Angeles’ Beckett Residence. The run-down … Continued
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12 Perfect New Tenants For Ohio’s Building That Looks Like a Basket
Those planning a road trip to see the Newark, Ohio headquarters of the famous Longaberger company might be disappointed. The company is downsizing and abandoning its famous basket-shaped HQ. Not to worry. We have 12 great ideas for who should move in next. Last week I issued a call to save this basket from certain … Continued
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LA’s Creepy Murder House Is Now Up For Sale After Laying Vacant for 50 Years
The house at 2475 Glendower Place in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles has it all: four bedrooms, ample parking, and a hell of a history. In 1959, its owner killed his wife and critically injured his teenage daughter before committing suicide. The house has been unoccupied ever since—but that may soon change. The … Continued
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Hell Yeah I’d Live Inside a Box in San Francisco for $400 Per Month
Peter Berkowitz is my new favorite guy. The 25-year-old illustrator recently moved to San Francisco and instead of settling for some landlord’s price-gouging, he found some other cool kids who let him build a box in their living room. Peter’s rent is just $400 a month. That sounds good to me! The median rent for … Continued
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This Chic Penthouse That’s Frozen in the 1970s Is Surprisingly Cheap
Do you have $150,000 burning a hole in your pocket? Have you always dreamed of throwing a Boogie Nights-themed party in a penthouse with a view of the Chicago skyline? Then you’re going to love this real estate listing. The three-bedroom apartment near Evanston, Illinois was built in 1972 and decorated with the hippest orange … Continued
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Dude Building $500 Million LA Mansion Also Building “Tinder for Straight Bros”
One of the largest houses in history is currently being built in Los Angeles. The man who is building it says he will sell it for $500 million, which would make it the most expensive single-family home ever sold. In the meantime, he made an app for straight men to find other straight men. Details … Continued
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This Batshit Crazy Company Wants to Build Mobile Private Islands
Yachts are for chumps. People who really know how to spend their money get submersible yachts from Migaloo, a mysterious company that offers five different models of underwater palaces. But true evil villains just go for the Migaloo’s crown jewel: Kokomo Ailand. Kokomo Aisland is a mobile private island that floats on two semi-submersible platforms. … Continued
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What You Can Buy for $9 Million (If You’re Not Buying This Island)
It must feel thrilling to be rich, free to fling millions of dollars at whatever your heart desires. Right now, you can buy a private island and former sea fort off the coast of Denmark for a little under $9 million. That includes a restaurant and a hotel. What a bargain! Nothing screams luxury like … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Texas Ranch For Sale Is Bigger Than NYC and LA Combined
You know what they say about Texas: They make really good queso. And Texas is also home to the biggest ranch in the US—over half a million acres. It’s currently for sale, and for just $725 million this Little Empire on the Prairie can be yours. Bloomberg has the insane inside story of the Waggoner … Continued
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For Sale: 1960s Missile Site, Bring Your Own Missiles
Looking for a new place to live? Have I got a deal for you: Single family home, good school district, 18,930 square feet. Did I mention it’s a former military base that housed Nike missiles from 1960 until 1966? Yes, this former missile site can be yours for just half a million dollars. The property … Continued
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The Internet Was Unable to Buy Itself a Ghost Town After All
It was a longshot, a dream, a Google Doc-enabled fantasy. In the end, 82 people used an online spreadsheet to pledge over $122,000 for a ghost town, but alas, it was not enough. Some lucky buyer (I assume it was one person) snatched up all 62 acres of Johnsonville, Connecticut for $1.9 million. The auction … Continued
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Tech NewsThat Time the Internet Teamed Up to Buy a Town Through a Google Doc
Ghost towns are known to pop up on Craigslist and eBay every once in awhile, but are often snapped up just as fast by eager developers or industrious preppers. Not so for the 62-acre town of Johnsonville, Connecticut which is currently up for auction after remaining abandoned for more than 20 years. Now, a group … Continued
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Berlin’s Creepiest Abandoned Amusement Park Burned Down Over the Weekend
Sorry, fans of ruin porn, creators of would-be Saw-sequels, and demented Walt Disney wannabes: The famous abandoned amusement park in Berlin named Spreepark wasdestroyed by two separate fires over the weekend. Arson is suspected. Over a decade after it was closed, the dilapidated park was put up for sale this spring and then taken over … Continued
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Soon You Can Sleep in This Fake Bavarian Castle in the Middle of China
China loves to counterfeit, and architecture is no exception. So it was no surprise when a massive, massive German-style castle popped up in the seaside city of Dalian. It’s exciting, however, that Starwood Hotels has announced that it will open a giant hotel inside of it. The new and appropriately named Castle Hotel will feature … Continued
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You Can Now Make an Offer to Buy Dracula’s Castle
If you prefer your houses large, drafty, and associated with vampire lore, then now’s your chance to bid for Bran Castle. The castle isn’t technically up for sale, the owners insist, but they’re willing to entertain offers from the “right” people. Buyer beware though—this isn’t the only castle purporting to be Dracula’s. The confusion comes … Continued
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The EPA Just Made NYC’s Most Radioactive Place Into a Superfund Site
Yesterday, we enjoyed The New Yorker’s engrossing interactive look at the strange history of NYC’s most radioactive place, an auto shop in Queens that occupies a former factory that produced radioactive thorium for the Atomic Energy Commission. Today, after months of study, the Environmental Protection Agency decided to declare the area a Superfund site. Now … Continued