The house contains 13 bathrooms - seven full and six half. Inside the home, mahogany floors span the rooms that aren't wall-to-wall carpeted. The 33-room Arts and Crafts-inspired house sits on more than 13 acres adjacent to the Weston Country Club. Touring the behemoth home and the surrounding property can easily take hours.
By comparison, the median price for the same time frame in Weston was $1,250,000. The median price for single-family homes sold in the state from January to November was $289,000, Berman said. She said that to build a similar home would run the buyer in the range of $1,000 per square foot.ĭickerson said she could only think of two properties on the market in the state in the same price range as the Weston home - both in Brookline with price tags of around $15 million and $25 million, respectively. She added that the home in Weston is actually a pretty good deal - the math comes out to about $750 per square foot. "We have seen no negative effects on the high-end, upscale sales since many homeowners are currently building $20 million-plus homes in neighborhoods as we speak," Harrison said. During the same time period, only one in town sold for more than $10 million, and only seven statewide.Įven in the sour real estate market, sales in towns like Weston, Wellesley, Sherborn and Natick have fared well, said Dickerson, who, along with Julie Harrison, is the broker for the listing. Makes you wonder why he built a home 35 minutes from Calgary’s downtown core.Eric Berman, the communications director at the Massachusetts Association of Realtors, said few home sales in recent memory have even approached the asking price for the Weston estate, citing a sale of a Brookline home in 2007 for $14 million as the highest he could remember.īerman said that over the past five years, 11 homes sold in Weston for between $5 million and $9.9 million. Calgary’s late to this, but you’re seeing that revival of downtown after the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s-30 years of neglect.” “People are more interested in downtown living. “I see the future of cities as being very urban,” Hon told Alberta Venture just prior to construction of the prairie mansion. The Alberta Venture identified Ernest Hon as the lead spokesperson for major residential projects in downtown Calgary, and he frequently offers analysis on real estate. The Hons are now well-known Calgary developers, most noted for the Guardian, a 44-storey building in Victoria Park that is currently the city’s tallest condo tower. According to a profile in Alberta Venture, the Hon family immigrated to Canada in 1988, shortly after Ernest was born, after investing heavily in Hong Kong real estate. The owner remains a partial mystery, but the name on the land title is Ernest Hon. “It’s been called an ‘eyesore,’ ‘hedonistic’ and, most harshly, a ‘grotesque and narcissistic tribute to the owner’s ego,’ reads the article. The land houses a nine car garage and two guardhouses as well. Budget issues halt progress on future Calgary Flames arenaĪccording to the Gerson, the front door of the impressive residence is protected by statues of life-sized golden horses, led by a golden chariot driven by a giant winged man, who is also (you guessed it) gold.
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