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Most of the homes are on the Eastside, though four are in Seattle and one, purchased by Oprah earlier this year, is on Orcas Island. The most expensive home was a $26.75 million mansion whose gardens are registered with the Smithsonian.

An exquisite four-bedroom, four-bathroom Minneapolis home is on the market for $3.449 million.

The home is at 1701 Mount Curve Ave. and is just a few blocks away from both Lake of the Isles and the Walker Art Center.

It's 10,279 square feet and sits on .77 acres. The home has its own sculpture garden and an expansive pool.

The interior of the home speaks to the range of artistic influences that went into the design. It's partly playful, but it also has a classic luxuriousness one expects from…

Southern Falls Plantation — a 2,410-acre property in Alabama and the former home and estate of Major League Baseball All-Star Jake Peavy — is for sale.

The property could be used for a commercial hunting operation, event destination or corporate retreat, according to the listing. The home is listed for $9.9 million, according to National Land Realty's website. Click through the slideshow above to tour the property.

Clint Flowers, National Land Realty partner and accredited land consultant,…

Once again, the Katy Independent School District dominated Niche’s list of the best Houston-area public elementary schools.

Katy ISD schools took the first 16 spots, according to the Pittsburgh-based review company, which ranked more than 800 elementary schools in greater Houston for its “2019 Best Public Elementary Schools in the Houston Area” list. Last year, the district held a total of 19 spots in the top 25 list. Click through the slideshow above to see the 25 best public elementary…

New survey from realtor.com suggests housing inventory has dropped 47 percent in the past three years.

A four-bedroom estate in Falmouth, which was previously listed for sale for $2.5 million, has sold at auction for an undisclosed price.

The property at 47 Gunning Point Rd. sold through Concierge Auction in cooperation with Lisa Kenny and Matina Heisler of Kinlin Grover Real Estate.

The 4,000-square-foot oceanfront home includes a chef’s kitchen with custom cabinetry and breakfast bar; a master bedroom with built-in cabinetry and dressing room; a temperature-controlled wine cellar; a finished…

Gary Garcia has seen his share of change and then some in the decades his family has owned and operated a bar and restaurant at the corner of 35th and Larimer streets, on the northern edge of Five Points.

Garcia’s grandparents bought the establishment at now called Phil’s Place at 3463 Larimer St. in the early 70s, long before anyone called the area RiNo or talked about an arts district. Garcia and his wife, June, built a kitchen there in 2004 and have been running it since they bought out their son Phil in 2006.

“This building here shot up overnight,” Garcia said Thursday gesturing toward the Larimer Row Townhomes just a few lots south of his business. “Same with this one here,” he added, pointing at the three-story building with 66 apartments, a coffee shop and a burger joint in it across the street. It replaced a meat-packing facility, he recalled.

This weekend, Garcia will go beyond observing the turnover in the neighborhood and participate in it. He and his wife have agreed to..

Mattress Firm, that ubiquitous dealer of sleeping surfaces, announced Friday that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it embarks on a corporate restructuring that could see it close up to 700 stores across the United States.

The Houston-based company, which markets itself as the nation’s leading specialty mattress retailer, currently operates thousands of stores across the country, including more than 65 in Colorado. A bloated real estate portfolio was tagged as one reason the business is entering into a court-supervised restructuring process.

“Leading up to the holiday shopping season, we will exit up to 700 stores in certain markets where we have too many locations in close proximity to each other,” Mattress Firm CEO Steve Stagner said in a statement.

The money saved through those closures will be put toward upgrading product offerings, opening new stores in new markets and expanding in places where the company is profitable, Stagner said.

Mattress Firm has filed mot..

Dwight Manley, whose clients have included NBA stars Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone, bought the 21-room hotel and restaurant three years ago for $1.7 million.

Misdemeanor charges against developer and restaurateur Michael Darby, accused by a cameraman of assaulting him while working on Bravo's “Real Housewives of Potomac,” were dropped Thursday after the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office determined there was insufficient evidence to pursue the allegations.

The accuser, Orville Michael Palmer, told prosecutors that there were no witnesses to the alleged incident, Ramon Korionoff, a spokesman for the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office,…