Crazy Luxury Homes, Seattle, WA (2026)

09/10/2026

He won the World Series MVP and then left the jersey on the closet floor...

David Eckstein and Ashley Eckstein bought their five-bedroom, 4,200-square-foot Orlando house in 2020, the same year it was built. David had one condition when they moved in: a wall of TVs so he could watch several games at once. Everything else was Ashley's call, and she went with Alice in Wonderland, a little Cinderella, and one corner for him.

That corner is the mudroom, which came already built to look like three lockers. They filled one with Gators gear, one with Angels, one with Cardinals, and modeled the whole thing on Casey's Corner at the Magic Kingdom, right down to a replica sign that reads David's Corner instead. A friend who builds themed spaces for Disney helped bring it together.

The reason it exists at all is that David never wanted any of it on display. His World Series jerseys, his cleats, the bat he won MVP with, all of it was sitting in bins. Ashley told him the room was meant to be a locker room whether he liked it or not.

He admits now that he gets a lot of joy walking past it. Ashley says the next phase is hanging up every first-hit and first-home-run ball he collected, plus baseball cards on the wall. Both of them just released books, his memoir Just Enough and her novel Lucky 22, which cover how they met at a game while she was wearing his number.

Some people need someone else to tell them their life was worth framing. He got lucky twice.

09/10/2026

He built the place before he ever needed it...

Jimmy Kimmel picked up two neighboring parcels in Hermosa Beach in 2017 for a combined $8 million, giving him about half an acre a short walk from the sand. The house that stood there had four bedrooms and two bathrooms. He tore into it and built something much bigger, and aerial photos from 2023 showed the custom build close to finished.

The property now has ocean views through walls of glass, a large rectangular pool in the back, and a two-story guesthouse. Almost nobody outside his family has seen the inside of it.

When ABC pulled his show off the air in September 2025, that beach house is where he and his wife Molly McNearney went. He was gone six days before returning to the studio.

There are now reports that his contract will not be renewed, which would end the show in May 2027 after more than twenty years. ABC has publicly called those reports inaccurate and says anything about the show's future is speculation at this point.

Whatever happens with the desk, the house is already there. He spent six years making sure of it.

09/10/2026

They are asking less than they paid, and the market has nothing to do with it...

Cody Ko and Kelsey Kreppel bought Cranberry Ranch in April 2023 for $7.7 million, a 4,170-square-foot house on 1.86 acres above Zuma Beach. Reese Witherspoon owned it before them, and the woman in between ran it as a wedding venue. They listed it in January for $9.28 million, dropped to $7.99 million in May, and are now at $7.5 million.

The property is stacked with things most people would never give up. There is a detached all-glass gym, an outdoor sauna, a cold plunge, a hot tub, horse stables with a riding area, a bocce court, a chicken coop, and an Airstream parked permanently as guest quarters.

Inside, they worked with a Los Angeles design studio and told them to make it as funky as possible. There is a low purple couch they admit cost way too much and bought before they even moved in, rainbow onyx counters in the kitchen, and a recording studio with blue carpet, purple ceilings, and a Minecraft couch.

The problem is arithmetic. Their son Otis arrived in January 2024 and a second baby came in June 2026, and Cody has pointed out that a lot of that square footage is in the barn and the studio out across the yard, which is not space you can put a toddler in. They also want to be closer to Kelsey's parents.

The dream house was built for the life they had. The life changed first

09/10/2026

The kitchen everybody watched her cook in just sold...

Selena Gomez closed on her Encino estate this week for $5.399 million. She paid $4.89 million for it in 2020, listed it in May for $6.49 million, and came down about a million dollars to get it done. Six years of ownership, and she walked away with roughly what she put in.

The house runs nearly 11,500 square feet on just under an acre, with six bedrooms and ten bathrooms. The lower level holds a wine cellar, a gym, a massage room, a glam room, a second kitchen, and a vocal booth believed to be left over from the original recording studio. Outside there is a cabana with a bar, a fire pit, and a waterfall that spills into the pool.

The white brick kitchen is the part people recognize. It was the set for the first three seasons of Selena + Chef, filmed while she was living there with her grandparents.

The bones of it belong to someone else entirely. Tom Petty and his first wife Jane Benyo had it custom built in 1989 after an arsonist destroyed the house that stood on the same lot two years earlier. It went through foreclosure in 2015 and developers bought it from the bank in 2017 for $2.6 million before the renovation that Gomez eventually purchased.

She and Benny Blanco bought a $35 million place in Beverly Hills in December 2024 and married last September. Encino was the last piece of the old life to go.

09/10/2026

A year has passed. The world knew him as a political figure — but Erika Kirk knew him as everything else...

In a New York Times guest essay, Erika Kirk reflected on the first anniversary of her husband Charlie Kirk's assassination, writing with the kind of clarity that only comes after surviving the unsurvivable. She wrote about watching "extraordinary good" emerge from unimaginable evil — people returning to faith, families reconciling, old wounds healed because of what Charlie's life meant and how it ended.

"To the world, he was Charlie Kirk," she wrote. "But to me, he was the love of my life. To our children, he was the center of their world."

The essay is a portrait of grief that doesn't apologize for itself, of faith tested and somehow deepened. Erika's words — "I can stand and say without a shadow of a doubt that God is good" — aren't the words of someone who has moved on. They're the words of someone still standing, still looking.

09/10/2026

He bought it as a teardown in 2013. Twelve years later, Juwan Howard's vision is finally complete—and listed for $28.9 million...

The former NBA All-Star acquired the 1.73-acre Coral Gables property for $3.4 million when a dated 1970s structure still occupied the land. Rather than renovate, he demolished it entirely and partnered with Miami architect Kobi Karp to design a contemporary estate from the ground up. The project took years to realize, but the finished product—completed in 2025—tells the story of patience and precision.

The home spans nearly 9,000 square feet across 7 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms. Inside: a floating staircase, 23-foot ceilings, a wellness suite, wine room, and media room. Outside: a 75-foot pool, tennis courts, a deeded boat slip, and private marina access within the gated Journey's End community. This is a home built to entertain, to relax, to live deliberately.

It's the kind of project that only makes sense if you're willing to wait—to see the empty lot and envision something that doesn't yet exist. Juwan Howard did exactly that.

09/10/2026

A $10 million purchase in 2009. A $20 million sale in 2020. Now $27.6 million...

Julia Roberts and her cinematographer husband Danny Moder bought the Limahuli Beach estate on Kauai's North Shore as a quiet escape — a place to disappear from the machinery of Hollywood. Over more than a decade, they raised their family on 8.29 acres of some of Hawaii's most private oceanfront land, 400 feet of beach that felt like their own world.

When they decided to sell in 2020, the price had climbed to $20 million. The new owner held it for just a few years before listing again — and this time, the market spoke even louder. The sale closed at $27.6 million, a jump that says something about what happens when a property carries both privacy and prestige in equal measure.

Hā'ena doesn't give up its best land easily. This one just proved why.

09/10/2026

He didn't just want a house — he wanted to build the future inside one...

Bill Gates' Seattle estate, Xanadu 2.0, sits on the shores of Lake Washington as a 66,000-square-foot monument to what happens when a technologist with unlimited resources decides to reimagine residential living. The $150 million property reads less like a home and more like a prototype — an underwater sound system in the pool, a high-tech library that feels more like a command center, climate control systems that anticipate your needs before you do.

What's striking isn't the price tag or the square footage. It's that every detail reflects a particular vision of what a home could be if you removed the constraints most people live with. This is a house designed by someone who thinks about problems differently.

The result is something that exists at the intersection of luxury and obsession — a place where comfort and innovation aren't separate things, but the same thing.

09/09/2026

Imagine paying millions for a beach house, then watching the ground eat it…

Nicolas Cage's $10.5 million Malibu home nearly slid into the earth this week when the ground beneath his driveway suddenly gave way. Photos show a gaping hole where the pavement used to be, littered with broken concrete and debris.

Firefighters rushed to the scene expecting a gas leak. Instead they found a sinkhole roughly 30 feet wide, blamed on coastal erosion after days of heavy rain battered the Southern California coast.

No one was home when it happened, and thankfully no injuries were reported. The house appeared to be mid-renovation, making the timing even harder to believe.

Nature doesn't check property values before it moves. Sometimes the priciest view comes with the shakiest ground.

09/09/2026

Some homes hold too much to keep living in…

Aubrey Plaza has finally sold the Los Angeles house where her husband, filmmaker Jeff Baena, passed away in early 2025. She let it go for $4.4 million, less than the $4.7 million the couple paid for it back in 2022.

The sale didn't come easy. The home sat on the market for the better part of a year, with buyers circling and offers falling through, and the price dropping again and again before it finally closed.

The timing carries its own weight. Plaza welcomed her first baby just weeks before the sale went through, closing one of the hardest chapters of her life as an entirely new one began.

Grief and new beginnings rarely wait their turn. Sometimes they arrive in the very same season.

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