CurbedWire: Champ d'Or's Official Auction Reserve; Redfin Amps Up Apps

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EVERYWHERE—Home Depot has extended its contract with Martha Stewart, in fact expanding its licensing deal to include a new line of craft furniture. [Furniture Today]

HICKORY CREEK, TEXAS—More intel about the troubled Champ d'Or megamansion: it's headed to the auction block with a reserve of $10.3M. What a deal, considering the fact that it first hit the market for nearly $70M in 2002 and was most recently PricedChopped by 50 percent. [WSJ; previously]

THE INTERNET—Listings site Redfin has added new features such as Facebook functionality and access to local agents to its iOS apps. [CurbedWire Inbox]

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Birth of Hip-Hop Headed for Auction: More auction news on this fine...

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On the Market: Suburban Chicago's Le Grand Rêve Set for Pre-Halloween Auction

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Friday, September 9, 2011, by Rob Bear

Eagle-eyed readers might recognize Winnetka, Ill. as home to the Home Alone house, but this overwhelming, overbuilt monstrosity has little on the stately brick Georgian Kevin Macallister called home. Le Grand Rêve—"The Big Dream"—has been more of a nightmare for the empty nesters that attempted to downsize, starting in 2009. The house, which reportedly cost as much at $40M to build, was initially listed for $32M, then over the next two years was chopped down to $23M without selling. Now, the owners are getting a little fed up with waiting and have decided to send the 27,000-square-foot palace to auction. The auction is scheduled for October 29, meaning the new owner could take possession just in time to throw a nightmarish Halloween party.
· Winnetka, Illinois [Concierge Auctions]
· Le Grand Reve Headed for Le Grand Auction [Curbed Chicago]
· Dreaming a Little Smaller at Le Grand Reve in Winnetka [Curbed Chicago]
· Home Alone House For Sale, Macallisters Moving On [Curbed National]

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Auction Block: Would You Like to Own a Prime Piece of Clint Eastwood's Tehama?

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Friday, August 19, 2011, by Sally Kuchar In the 1960s, actor Clint Eastwood starting shelling out dough for plots of land in Carmel that eventually became a development project known as Tehama. Shoot forward to today, and fancy folks are more than willing to write a check for several million dollars so that they can snag a slice of Tehama and call it (vacation) home. Especially celebrities! They love it there. But not all is good in ultra swank Tehama. One of the area's prime lots—a 15.4-acre hilltop building site—is hitting the auction block. The property was previously listed for $3,450,000, but will be auctioned off with an opening bid of just $1,750,000. Local brokers are concerned that this will put a damper on Tehama's reputation for being a magnet to the rich. They'd prefer the seller, Gateway co-founder Norman Waitt, to wait it out and go through what they believe are the proper channels to secure a sale. Unfortunately for them that doesn't seem too likely, as the property is fit to go to auction on August 31. Do invite us over for a picnic.
· Tehama Carmel [official site]
· Auction Prompts Concern at Eastwood’s Carmel Development [WSJ]
· Carmel Auction [Sheldon Good & Company]
· Snag a Piece of Clint Eastwood's Wild West at August Auction [Curbed National]

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On the Market: Snag a Piece of Clint Eastwood's Wild West at August Auction

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Friday, August 19, 2011, by Rob Bear

In the 1960s, actor Clint Eastwood began acquiring land in Carmel, Calif. that would eventually become a development project known as Tehama. Today, plots in that development are among the most sought after in this ritzy seaside escape some two hours south of San Francisco. But now local brokers are concerned that the auctioning of one of the area's prime lots—a 15.4-acre hilltop building site—may erode the cachet of this celeb-driven development. That home site, with its views of Carmel Bay and the surrounding hills, was previously listed for $3.45M, but will hit the auction block with an opening bid of just $1.75M. Adding fuel to the fire brokers are starting over this is the fact that the seller is not some disgraced Ponzi schemer, but wildly wealthy Gateway co-founder Norman Waitt, who would apparently just like to free himself of the headaches of a property lingering on the market. But, who knows, maybe a call from Dirty Harry himself will be enough to dissuade the computer king from cutting and running. That seems unlikely though, considering the auction is set for August 31.
· Tehama Carmel [official site]
· Auction Prompts Concern at Eastwood’s Carmel Development [WSJ]
· Carmel Auction [Sheldon Good & Company]

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