Corcoran’s A-List: October 2024
Enjoy our monthly survey of incredible listings across the Corcoran network. Highlights in this edition: A chic Brooklyn loft, a modern waterfront manse in Coral Gables, a gated fairy-tale estate in Charlotte, modernity and space in Houston, and a sleek beachfront villa at the pinnacle of luxury on Virgin Gorda.
Manhattan
What’s Here: Brilliance washes over you when the private elevator door slides open on the upper floor of this corner Park Avenue duplex. Gravitational charm will pull you all over its Versailles pattern wood floors. The living room overlooks prestigious Park and holds one of the home’s three wood-burning fireplaces. It is flanked on either end by a handsome wood-paneled library with substantial built-ins and a royally formal dining room teeming with warmth. Vast informal dining space, custom cabinetry, and near-innumerable storage stock the windowed kitchen with everything a chef (and an eater) needs.
What We Love: The home’s lower tier primarily houses private quarters and echoes its upper sibling’s wondrousness. Like the living and dining rooms it rests beneath, the primary suite overlooks Park Avenue. It also flaunts a separate bedroom-sized sitting room and more closets than seems allowed in an NYC home — including a walk-in and a windowed dressing room. A second windowed kitchen has an almost countryside vibe and adds a breakfast nook.
Represented By: Cathy Franklin and Alexis Bodenheimer of Corcoran’s East Side Office.
Brooklyn
What’s Here: While it sounds implausible in NYC, this Boerum Hill townhouse lets you keep warm by the stone wood-burning fireplace from beneath a substantial skylight. Adjoining this vividly comforting space is an expansive kitchen with a built-in marble dining table and top-grade appliances. A private terrace is tucked above the great room, introducing a further sense of escape to the residence. This building’s remaining rooms are divided into front and rear wings across three levels. The primary bedroom duplex particularly shines, flaunting a gas fireplace and custom closets in the sleeping quarters below, plus a sunny den and balcony aloft.
What We Love: The home’s rear wing holds such flexibility, and its rooms can serve whatever purposes life may require. Both have ensuite baths, making them prime candidates for guest bedroom space. However, their sizes — not to mention one of the spaces possessing a skylight — make them equally ideal for dream home offices or art studios.
Represented By: Lesley Semmelhack of Corcoran’s Park Slope Union Office.
East End
What’s Here: Among abundant flora — hydrangeas, privet, and more — awaits this blissful Sagaponack home. Upon entering, your eyebrows will raise to the double-height entry’s lofty eyebrow window. A cadre of French doors from across the living, dining, and kitchen areas boost sunlight’s travel throughout a main floor done up in warm, neutral tones. Find tranquility in the primary bedroom suite, which flaunts twin walk-in closets, personal outdoor access, and a windowed ensuite with a soaking tub. Head back to the foyer and up the impressive staircase to discover more space for gathering (or a home office) and four additional ensuite bedrooms.
What We Love: Stone terraces populate the exterior, granting you space to sip morning coffee, dine beneath a pergola, catch up on your reading backlog, or poolside lounge about.
Represented By: Peter Huffine of Corcoran’s Southampton Office.
South Florida
What’s Here: It’s a seaside rendezvous at this eight-bedroom Coral Gables mansion. You’ll have your pick of patios and terraces — covered and open-air — for letting the hours slip by guilt-free, consistent breeze blowing through. Among those places to pause are al fresco living and dining rooms and an outdoor kitchen pavilion boasting a vented hood grill and wet bar seating. This home also knows well the simple pleasure of gazing at one body of water from inside another, placing its infinity pool and spa alongside the adjacent canal. Most spectacular: a 100-foot-long private dock that allows you to sail from home to the open ocean and back.
What We Love: Inside, things are no less appealing, visually and functionally speaking. Natural light mingles effortlessly with the living spaces — fostering irresistible indoor-outdoor flow — while trayed, coffered, and exposed beam ceilings highlight attention to custom detail. The vast kitchen contains an equally vast cabinetry array, including around the center island. There’s even a home movie theater with plush reclining seats.
Represented By: Julian Johnston and Matthew Elliott of Corcoran’s Miami Beach Office.
Central Florida
What’s Here: Your home can be your castle in this five-bedroom hacienda in Windermere‘s Lake Butler Sound community. Built in 2008, the estate incorporates accents from around the world, resulting in a showcase of palatial proportions, with elements like decorative pillars and ceiling beams from Turkey, brick flooring from France, and mosaic tiles from Lebanon, all defining the space. At the heart of the house is a foyer that opens up to a dramatic circular staircase with carved risers imported from Tibetan monasteries.
What We Love: All the amenities in this house have a fun twist, including a courtyard pool that allows swimmers to backstroke under a bridge and around a corner, a full outdoor kitchen, an underground wine tasting room, and a separate two-story guest house with a dramatic home movie theater, complete with a wet bar to serve drinks and popcorn for the best movie nights in the neighborhood.
Represented By: Steve Healy and Matt Tomaszewski of Corcoran Premier Realty.
Charlotte
What’s Here: Every day is a vacation is this spectacular 4.5-acre gated estate in SouthPark that boasts a primary residence, a pool house, and a guest house, all surrounded by rolling lawns and mature trees. The main home has a majestic primary suite with its own porch, lounge area, dual primary baths and a multi-level closet, as well as five additional bedroom suites upstairs, including a bunk room with dual beds — perfect for sleepovers. High-end details like Phillip Jeffries wallpaper and Waterworks fixtures abound.
What We Love: Three acres of the turfed yard include a private putting green with multiple tee boxes. The grounds also include a fire pit surrounded with comfortable seating and a splendid pool. The primary house has a home theater, the pool house has a full kitchen — ideal for catering poolside soirées — and the guest house has a gym, arcade, golf simulator, kitchen, and office.
Represented By: Heather Gibbs of Corcoran HM Properties.
Houston
What’s Here: A graceful ranch house at the end of a circle drive, with modern interiors that include three bedrooms and three large areas on the first floor. While it lives and feels like a single-story home, it boasts additional bonus space in its upper wings, with one hosting a large bedroom with an en suite bath and the other being home to a game or activity room and additional storage. Did we mention the enormous primary suite, boasting a 26-by-14-foot closet?
What We Love: These five green acres are the place to be, with the outside property including a covered veranda with an outdoor kitchen, a fire pit, as well as a pool and spa. Tomball is only five minutes away from The Woodlands, but this unrestricted property allows homeowners to take up hobby farming or the keeping of chickens and horses to match Tomball’s rural style.
Represented By: Beth H. Ferester of Corcoran Ferester Realty.
Nashville
What’s Here: A newly built six-bedroom residence in Nashville’s Oak Hill neighborhood, covering more than 7,600 square feet of free-flowing interior. Designed by Andrew Scott of August House Co. and constructed by Province Builders, this sleek and stylish home boasts a dramatic great room with double-height ceilings and a handsome kitchen with custom cabinetry and JennAir appliances. There are two home offices for your work-from-home days, while the basement rec. room and adjacent sauna provides rest and relaxation whenever needed.
What We Love: The two-level covered porch, an outdoor kitchen, and a large pool and spa — not to mention the four-car garage.
Represented By: Aaron Goins and Aaron Joyce of Corcoran Reverie.
Seattle
What’s Here: This new construction home is perfect for multi-generational living, with six bedrooms and four bathrooms in the main house, as well as with a fully permitted one-bedroom, one-bathroom ADU, affording its occupants full privacy and separation. The main house has a great room and an open kitchen, boasting a 48-inch gas range with double ovens, while the primary suite enjoys an enormous spa-style bathroom. In the back, there’s also a heated covered deck with a fireplace and a two-car garage.
What We Love: This house offers the newest technological amenities including an integrated whole-home audio system, a four-camera security system, solar panels, an EV charger, and a backup gas generator, making it both green and smart.
Represented By: Keith Nelson of Corcoran Lifestyle Properties.
Hawaii
What’s Here: An absolutely stunning custom-furnished residence in Hualalai Resort on the Big Island, with five bedrooms and six bathrooms, covering 5,157 square feet, all set on a generous 20,524-square-foot lot. This house takes inside-outside living to a new level, with a floor plan that seamlessly weaves between the the gorgeous grounds and the beautifully designed interiors, with sliding doors that open completely and floor-to-ceiling windows. The property’s heart is a courtyard with a koi pond and a waterfall, which connects to luxurious infinity pool with a spa, all surrounded by manicured lawns, tropical landscaping, and ocean views.
What We Love: The Hualalai Resort is the ultimate in relaxation, offering residents access to two world-class golf courses, tennis courts, a spa, pools and water sports, as well as several excellent restaurants with both fine dining and casual options available.
Represented by: Yvonne J. Khouri-Morgan of Corcoran Pacific Properties.
British Virgin Islands
What’s Here: Bella Beach Villa is a glorious six-bedroom beachfront property in Oil Nut Bay, laid out in a way so that each of the six bedroom suites feels like a private retreat, with four of the en suite bathrooms boasting outdoor showers. The shared spaces include an elegant great room that flows into a gourmet kitchen with a central island and a breakfast bar, as well as a second chef’s kitchen, which can be used for entertaining. The property also a home gym and a laundry room for the more quotidian parts of daily life.
What We Love: Walk out of the sliding doors to a veranda with an infinity pool, sunbathing and shaded lounging areas, a grill, and an outdoor dining area. Or alternatively, walk across the lush lawn to the idyllic beach and watch the waves in the protected bay.
Represented By: Roz Colthart and Jeron Timmons of Corcoran BVI.