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Weird Real Estate: It’s the Treasure Island House!

August 31, 2023 by J. Scott Coatsworth

The Treasure Island House Melds Art Deco With a Pirate Ship

From “The Best of Zillow” via the folks at Bored Panda, I bring you the Treasure Island House.

According to Insider.com, this house was built in England by magazine publisher Felix Dennis (who published Maxim magazine, among others. It was last for sale in 2021 after Dennis’s death.

It was inspired by Dennis’s love of adventure novel “Treasure Island” and tithe barns, and is divided into three distinct wings. Its main pool area is designed to resemble the inside of a pirate ship. You ho ho ho, a pirate’s life for me. Pirating must be really lucrative!

I would totally live in this 12,000 square foot house. Anyone willing to give me $6 Million?

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Weird Real Estate: Living in a UFO

August 17, 2023 by J. Scott Coatsworth

From “The Best of Zillow” via the folks at Bored Panda, I bring you the “UFO Yurt.”

A little internet sleuthing reveals that it’s in Lake Placid, floriday, fitting in perfectly with the state’s What the F@ck” vibe.

I would totally live there. Except it’s in Florida, so nope. But maybe I could fly it somewhere else?

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Weird Real Estate: The “Super Mario Castle” in Montana

August 12, 2023 by J. Scott Coatsworth

From “The Best of Zillow” via the folks at Bored Panda, I bring you the “Super Mario Castle” in Montana.

Though I’d just call it the “hell yeah, I’d totally live in a castle” house. Could you imagine the writer retreats you could host in this place?

And the epic Renaissance Faire on the castle grounds… I’m sold.

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Weird Real Estate: 1960’s Underground Ranch House (In a Bunker!)

August 10, 2023 by J. Scott Coatsworth

From “The Best of Zillow” via the folks at Bored Panda, I bring you the 1960’s Ranch House in a bunker.

Buried deep under the Las Vegas desert, this is not the typical bunker. At 15,000 square feet, it has everything you could want in case thee’s a nuclear (or zombie) apocalypse above ground – spacious rooms, Flintstones barbecue, a wide expanse of fake grass fake growing under a fake sky…

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Weird Real Estate: The “Living Inside a Bad Wedding Cake” Condo

August 7, 2023 by J. Scott Coatsworth

Real estate listing sites feature plenty of homes for purchase that give us a glimpse into the worlds of architecture and interior design.

While most are pretty normal, the Twitter account The Best of Zillow consistently finds some funny, ridiculous, and downright strange ones, too.

These, let’s call them, solutions, are a testament to human creativity and proof that what someone finds tasteful can make another sigh in disapproval. Bored Panda has gathered some of the best of these.

I don’t think I could live here. I agree with Bored Panda – it does look like a bad wedding cake. Or like French Revolution Barbie thew up all over this one.

Weird Real Estate: Live in a Spaceship

August 3, 2023 by J. Scott Coatsworth

Today in our “weird real estate” column, ever wanted to live in a spaceship? Check out this Area 51 themed rental in Hurricane, Utah, part of a three unit rental property:

Vacation Resort Opportunity – Unique & Rare opportunity – 3 nightly rentals in one commercial zoned property, fully furnished and turnkey with pool/hot tub.This is a themed vacation property based on Area 51 conspiracy spoofs from the 1950’s. Located off State St. in Hurricane, this home is right where vacationers want to be, near Zion National Park, Sand Hollow, Quail Lake Recreation areas as well as close enough to St George to enjoy sports and entertainment venues.Building 1 is a studio suite, queen bed with private bath and kitchenette. Building 2 is a 3 bedroom 1 bath full kitchen unit. Building 3 is a steel building with 5 full suites with 5 full bathrooms. One room is a full size flying saucer complete with flight bridge. Spend a night in a cryogenic tube or discover a secret entrance to the ventilation system and crawl your way to an indoor slide for hours of fun inside and out.

And it can all be yours for the low low price of just $1.9M.

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More Weird Real Estate Listings – TheClose.com

August 15, 2021 by J. Scott Coatsworth

Since so many people seemed to love our bad listing photos article, we decided to take a break from writing more actionable real estate content to bring you this list of weird real estate listings. But not just any weird houses. We’re talking 15 of the weirdest and most wonderful real estate listings of all time.

So turn your ringer off, tell your broker you’re taking a mini staycation, and get ready to gawk at some of the wildest real estate listings to ever go on the market—oh, and bad puns. There are lots and lots of bad puns in this article, too. We had an insanely long list to work from, but we managed to pare it down to just 15 very weird and very wonderful weird real estate listings.

1. Dick Clark’s Flintstone’s-inspired House in Malibu

Location: Malibu, California
Asking price: $1,777,777
Did it sell?: YES!

More wonderful than weird, radio legend Dick Clark’s Flintstone’s-inspired house in Malibu was a no-brainer for our list. Believe it or not, it wasn’t actually built to look like Fred and Wilma’s beachfront vacation villa. In reality, the architect was tasked with appeasing the local home owner association (HOA), which didn’t want anything “crazy” built on the site. The design he came up with is intended to look like a natural rock formation. They accepted his design, and the rest is history.

Full Story at TheClose.com

30 Weird Real Estate Listings From Zillow – Bored Panda

August 12, 2021 by J. Scott Coatsworth

Zillow is a holy database of “more than 110 million US homes for sale, for rent, and those ones that are not even on the market.” Now, keeping in mind this number, imagine the chances of stumbling across a property listing that transgresses the borders of common sense, practicality, and something as basic as taste. You say high? We say, tremendous.

Thanks to the new fan-favorite Instagram page “Zillow Gone Wild,” we now have this hand-picked collection of seriously weird real estate findings that’ll make you look twice, thrice, and think of something nice to say about it. Because many times, money can get you a mansion, but it won’t buy you taste.

525,000 followers are in for a daily treat of zillionaire-approved Zillow listings and trust me, each one seems better than the previous one. From the real-life Flintstones house and mushroom house unit to a $399,900 house featuring all the planet’s windows, and a roof house that looks how it sounds, 100% pure roof, the listings are ready for some cringe treatment.