Gary Neville's house, English footballer

British footballer Gary Neville  became the owner of an unusual house, built on the slopes of the Pieniny Mountains, in Bolton. With altitude, organically integrated into the natural context of a huge pyatilistny flower can be taken as a mysterious character, left to us by space aliens. When devising innovative embedded in the ground facility architects have planned quite traditional functional areas. Pyatilistny flower includes living room, four bedrooms, kitchen, dining room, spacious patio, which merged with each other by underground passages.

According to the authors, the customer was actively involved in the development process, as she is a passionate patriot of the natural beauty of this area. Certainly, high quality technology and design has become the main driving force of the project, but the desire to maximize eco-efficiency of future housing was defined from the outse.
Beautiful and functional home, lying in the area of 750 square meters, was built using the most advanced eco-technologies. Organic roof helps to maintain a comfortable indoor temperature and humidity, as in the cold season, and in the warm season. Flower – dugout is energy self-sufficiency. Electricity generated by wind turbines and solar panels installed on the roof. For an autonomous heating and hot water supply architects installed a geothermal heat pump that uses the properties of land, groundwater and surface water.

Peter Crouch's house, English Footballer

It’s a familiar story in today’s Prime property market – a Cheshire mansion bought for £1.85 million in 2007, bull-dozed, re-built and put on the market for £5 million. Two years and a price drop later Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff has finally sold his Prestbury pile – to another sports star, footballer Peter Crouch.

Apart from the set of cricket wickets carved above the front door and a mosaic of the Ashes urn in the swimming pool, this is the type of uber-luxurious house that was built for a footballer – even though it was actually built by a cricketer.

Flintoff bought the plot in October 2007 from ex-Fulham football manager Mark Hughes and after fights with locals and an initially refused planning application, he was able to knock down the existing property and build a six bedroom mansion akin to others on one of the UK’s most expensive streets, Withinlee Road, AKA Footballer’s Alley.

The house was designed for Flintoff family life and includes a large pool plus a smaller one for their three children. It also has a luxury gym and home cinema but the Flintoffs never lived in their made-to-measure home. Instead, they turned their attention to the dizzying heights of Dubai and their Cheshire mansion has waited patiently for two years for a buyer.

Despite being in Prestbury – the centre of footballer land (the Rooneys, Ferdinand and Tevez all live nearby) – Freddie wasn’t bowled over with offers for his £5 million pad. And only after changing estate agents, dropping the asking price by £500,000 – the price of a decent size house to most – plus the luck of footballer Peter Crouch moving Clubs, has the house finally sold.

Crouch is transferring from Tottenham Hotspur to Stoke City and moving up North with his new wife, Abbey Clancy and their six month old daughter and we have no doubt the house will suit the star couple’s needs perfectly, model Abbey will surely love the huge walk-in wardrobe (pictured above) and the WAG neighbours.

Michael Jordan’s house at 2700 Point Lane in Highland Park Chicago

 If you’re in the market for a new place and wouldn’t mind relocating to the Midwest, we have found a sweet deal for you. Baird & Warner Realty in the Chicago metro appears to be selling Michael Jordan’s house. The listing doesn’t say it’s Jordan’s house, but it has a basketball court and the entrance gate says 23. We did the math.

Located at 2700 Point Lane in Highland Park, IL, the giant, modern mansion is reasonably priced at a mere $29 million dollars. This is recently reduced, meaning the seller is motivated. The house has nine bedrooms, 15.4 bathrooms and a 15-car garage.

The residence boasts elegance and utmost privacy in a gated estate on more than seven acres of land. According to the listing, it has luxurious entertaining areas and is “as comfortable as it is elegant.” The realtor says it will be sold furnished with a few exclusions.

With a modest down payment of only $50,000 the house could be yours for a monthly mortgage payment of slightly more than $180,000. Of course, you’ll have to prove you’ve got the money to back your interest before they’ll schedule a showing.

 

Steven Spielberg's house in California landscape

Steven Spielberg redefined the cinema going experience for a decade and his house does just this to the California landscape. At a gargantuan 56,000 square feet, it’s truly a lost world in itself.