Witney Carson and her family made a big life change when they decided to move from Utah to Florida.
“I was so scared of this huge change because it’s not just that I didn’t have my family; I was postpartum and just trying to get in the swing of things,” the Dancing With the Stars alum, 30, exclusively reveals in the latest issue of Us Weekly. “But I knew it was the right [move] so I pushed through and I’m so grateful that my husband [Carson McAllister] was there with me to help bring it all together.”
Carson tells Us that she and McAllister, 30, were initially looking for “a vacation home” for their family, including their two sons: Leo, 3, and Jet, 10 months. However, once they stumbled upon their current home in Orlando, they knew the property was meant to be theirs.
“My [father-in-law’s] name was Kevin Leo and ever since he passed away, every symbol of a lion we’d find reminded us of him,” she explains. “The first thing we saw on the doors of the house were two lion heads and then the realtor was like, ‘Yeah the owners love lions’ so you’re going to see a lot of them in here.’ We bought the house that week.”
After purchasing the abode, Carson teamed up with interior designer Lindy Allen to make the house a home for the whole family.
“The process has been so much fun,” the dancer says of the decorating process. “Now we’re finally settled and excited to create memories here.”
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While most of the show was filmed at the Warner Bros. Studios in Los Angeles, the exterior shots of the Full House house were shot in San Francisco, California. When watching the iconic opening credits of the show, one might think the Tanner family lived in one of the Painted Ladies (or Postcard Row) on Steiner Street. In reality, the Tanners lived about a mile north of Alamo Square Park, at 1709 Broderick Street in Lower Pacific Heights, an affluent neighborhood rich in history, architecture, and culture.
The Victorian home, built by famed architect Charles Lewis Hinkel, is distinctly San Franciscan, with intricate moldings, bay windows, a brick stoop, and a red front door. It’s a real-estate-lover’s dream. You can visit the home, as well as Hinkel’s personal residence, a transitional Second French Empire home at 280 Divisadero Street in the Lower Haight neighborhood.
According to an article for MeTV, Bob Saget called the Full House home architecturally impossible. “While the real home may seem like it could possibly fit the Tanner family from an outside perspective, Saget said the house would have to have a rather unique shape if it were to actually represent what fans saw on the show,” MeTV states. According to Landis Construction, row houses are usually no wider than 12 to 25 feet, making 1709 Broderick Street much too long and narrow to house the spaciously wide living room seen in the show. In a Full House home tour for Entertainment Tonight, Saget joked that the house would have to be about 12,000-square-feet to fit the family. The real Full House house is just over 3,700-square-feet with three stories, four bedrooms, and four bathrooms, according to Zillow.
The renovation
In the years since Full House wrapped filming, the Victorian residence has undergone quite the transformation. According to Business Insider, Full House creator Jeff Franklin purchased 1709 Broderick Street for $4 million in 2016. His intention was to turn the home into a replica of the TV show set, using it to film the show’s reboot, Fuller House. According to Travel and Leisure, building permits fell through after some neighborhood pushback.
Rachel Swann, the director of luxury division for The Swann group (Coldwell Banker), came onto the project at the start of the renovation in 2016 and saw it through to the sale in 2019. The project was spearheaded by architect Richard Landry of Landry Design Group, an award-winning design studio founded in 1987. “I personally have done a lot of development myself and have overseen and worked for a lot of developers, builders, and architects,” Swann tells AD. “Typically on projects, I see a range. Some people have okay appliances, but then they’ve got great countertops. Or they’ve got cheap cabinets and cheap countertops but nice appliances. Everything they did here was top-of-the-line.”
Shortly after tying the knot at Jay-Z’s Tribeca penthouse, the newlyweds snapped up a property in Miami on the exclusive Indian Creek Island, where notable residents include Julio Iglesias, billionaire Carl Icahn, Adriana Lima, Tom Brady, and Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Their Mediterranean-style villa (one of only 35 homes on the island) was built in 1991 and boasted seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms, plus its own private boat dock. The couple was believed to have paid a little over $9 million for the compound, but they didn’t hold onto it long, selling it for $9.3 million in 2010.
Hamptons rentals
The power couple next paid a casual $400,000 a month to rent a 31,000-square-foot New England–style mansion in Bridgehampton, New York, in 2012. The vacation home was outfitted with all the necessities of a perfect summer getaway. In addition to a two-lane bowling alley, the home also offered a rock climbing wall, a skateboard half-pipe, a full bar, a pool, a tennis court, and an outdoor kitchen.
The pair also famously rented a home in nearby Wainscott, located just off Georgica Pond, with friend and Roc-A-Fella Records CEO Damon Dash for two weekends that July. “I felt like a little kid in a big haunted house there,” Jay-Z told New York magazine at the time. The Italianate stucco house sat on 8.5 acres and featured an indoor-outdoor pool and a 120-seat screening room, which was used for an intimate yet star-studded premiere of End of Watch starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Celebrities like Madonna and Jennifer Lopez have also been known to rent the property.
Holmby Hills rental
The Carters then began their search for a home base in Los Angeles, but they had a surprisingly hard time locking one down. They were outbid on a number of properties (once by Minecraft creator Markus Persson), so they opted to rent first instead. In 2014, the superstars shelled out $150,000 a month for a newly built, contemporary Holmby Hills estate with floor-to-ceiling glass sliders, an infinity pool, a wine cellar, a 75-foot-long art gallery, and a home theater. When the property sold in 2015, the couple had to vacate the premises, meaning that their search for the perfect West Coast pad continued.
New Orleans church-turned-home
Elsewhere in America, rumors buzzed that Jay-Z and Beyoncé were the new owners of a historic home in New Orleans’ Garden District in 2015. It was later revealed that the pair had indeed picked up a former church turned ballet school turned residence through an LLC linked to the Renaissance singer. Though it’s unknown how much the couple paid for the unique 13,300-square-foot mansion, it was listed for $2.6 million at the time of their purchase. Built in the 1920s in the Spanish Baroque style, the towering three-story building, known as La Casa de Castille, was divided up into a main residence and three separate apartments, with seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms between the spaces. The place made headlines again in 2021 when a fire broke out at the property; several months later, TMZ reported that the couple was listing it for $3.5 million and then a more ambitious $4.45 million. The home didn’t appear to sell, and it was later pulled from the market.
La Villa Contenta
After tying the knot, Brady and Bündchen moved to Brentwood, California, renting a home and eventually buying the land next door. They hired architect Richard Landry and interior designer Joan Behnke to build a sprawling, eco-conscious mansion to the tune of $11.75 million. Unique features of the 18,298-square-foot pad included two huge solar panels that supplied energy throughout the property, a moat and bridge at the entrance, and a swimming pool shaped to resemble a natural lake. The couple used reclaimed materials for the interior of the home and leaned into the idea of being “as sustainable as possible,” they told Architectural Digest in 2013. They later sold their sanctuary to Dr. Dre for a whopping $40 million in 2014.
Costa Rican retreat
Details of the Costa Rica home Brady and Bündchen once shared are scant, though the supermodel did open its doors to Vogue in 2010 for a cover shoot. (The images, perhaps unsurprisingly, focus mostly on Bündchen rather than on the house itself.) Brady shared a rare snap from their tropical retreat in 2018 following his Super Bowl loss; the photo showed the couple embracing before a stunning sunset while standing by a reflective infinity pool. “This Sunday’s outcome is a lot better than last Sunday’s!” the caption read. It’s unclear who got the vacation home in the split, though Bündchen has been spotted in Costa Rica since the divorce and even invited CBS news there for a 2023 interview, so it seems like she may have kept the property.
Massachusetts mansion
Brady and Bündchen teamed up with Landry once more in 2014 to build a similarly luxurious home in the Boston suburb of Brookline. The pair paid $4.5 million for the five-acre property and then worked with Landry to custom-build a sprawling 12,112-square-foot mansion, complete with a yoga studio, wine room, play room, gym, and a 2,400-square-foot guest house that Bündchen called her sanctuary during a tour with Vogue. In early 2020 Brady was traded to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and they put their Brookline home on the market, ultimately selling it for a reported $32.5 million that Christmas.
NYC condo
Around the same time they purchased property in Boston, the couple also put down $11.7 million for a Peter Marino–designed condo in the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan. Located on the 48th floor of the luxury building, the four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom unit boasted 360-degree views of the city, with floor-to-ceiling windows all throughout the pad. The mansion in the sky had a large living room, an open kitchen, a large den, and a main suite with a floating marble tub. Brady and Bündchen put the pad on the rental market for $40,000 a month before listing it for sale for $17.25 million in 2016. They ended up cutting the asking price down until they finally had it listed for $13.95 million in 2018. It sold shortly after that for an undisclosed price.
Big Sky getaway
In addition to owning homes on both coasts, the two superstars were also reportedly members of the Yellowstone Club in Montana, an exclusive resort community known for skiing, mountain biking, mountain climbing, and golf. To be a member of the club, you must own property within a certain parameter. The exclusivity comes from both the price of the homes themselves—which range from $2.5 million to $25 million—and the fact that membership is capped at 862 households. Membership reportedly starts at $300,000, with annual fees of $37,500. Brady and Bündchen reportedly purchased a home there in 2017, but little is known about how much they spent. Other celebs who own residences there include Bill and Melinda Gates, and Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake. It is still a mystery as to who will retain ownership of the vacation house in their split.
Tribeca apartment
After attempting to sell his massive Hamptons estate on and off for over a year, Alec Baldwin is hoping a multimillion dollar discount will help move things along. To really drum up interest, the award-winning actor, comedian, and producer appears in a two-minute video that sees him touring the grounds and waxing nostalgic about summers in the seaside community.
The now $18.995 million Amagansett compound has seen its fair share of price slashes. Baldwin’s first attempt to sell was back in 2022 with an accompanying price tag of $29 million. But without any takers, the 30 Rock star reduced the asking price to $24.9 million in January 2023, and then again to $22.5 million in March. By September, Baldwin had pulled the property off the market altogether.
Now, the property, which the Dr. Death actor bought in 1995, is back up for sale. In the video, the father of eight makes a convincing case to potential new owners, walking along the beach while introducing himself and talking about fond childhood memories of his family trips taken to the villages of eastern Long Island.
“When you’re young,” he whispers to the camera, “this place is the best.” He goes on to discuss his first rental and first purchase there, before getting to the 18th-century property for sale.
According to Behind The Hedges, the saltbox house was built in the early 1700s, then later converted to a two-story dwelling in 1790. In the early 1900s, the farmhouse was reportedly moved via a team of oxen from Amagansett’s Main Street to its current location. In the video, Baldwin says that he added the eastern wing in 1996, after which his current wife, Hilaria, added the western wing in 2014. The 10,000-square-foot home boasts five bedrooms and includes a movie theater, a wine-tasting room, two upper-level balconies, covered porches, and views of the surrounding reserves. Nearby are a pool and spa and an outdoor pavilion.
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“I fell in love with this place the moment I came here,” Baldwin says of the property. “I’m always happiest when I come here, especially this time of year. I love it in the wintertime; it’s so peaceful and it’s so beautiful.”
The Manhattan town house where the late musical theater composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim lived for approximately 60 years has a lucky new owner. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sondheim’s estate was able to get the full $7 million asking price on the sale of his Turtle Bay Gardens home. As told by Compass listing agent Michael Franco who held the listing, the coveted dwelling garnered plenty of interest as it was well-priced and came with some serious Broadway cachet. Although the buyer has not yet been revealed, Franco told the WSJ that they are “a Sondheim fan” and that they plan to use the 5,700-square-foot town house as their primary residence.
Sondheim bought the five-story abode in 1960 and held on to the property until his death in 2021. The 19-foot-wide residence is part of a sought-after group of 20 historic homes from the 1800s, established as Turtle Bay Gardens in 1920. The homes surround a private garden. Writers E.B. White and Robert Gottlieb resided in one of the houses, while actor Katharine Hepburn was also once a neighbor of Sondheim’s.
Sondheim is said to have paid for the house with proceeds that came after writing the lyrics for hit productions West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959). “I realized that with the royalties from the recent success of Gypsy, I could afford a down payment,” the composer said in the 2008 book Manhattan’s Turtle Bay: Story of a Midtown Neighborhood. “And then I rented out the top three floors of the town house to help me pay the mortgage.”
The icon’s former abode was built in 1899. One of the home’s highlights is the second floor’s solarium, which leads to a 30-foot terrace overlooking the garden courtyard. The sunlit room is lined with original stained glass windows. Near the solarium is Sondheim’s former music studio, which comes complete with built-in bookshelves and a wood-burning fireplace. Separating the spaces is a dramatic wood-paneled archway. The dining room on the first floor is adorned with classical motifs and has French doors that open to the communal gardens. The entire fourth floor is occupied by the primary suite and the fifth floor houses a studio that comes with a kitchenette and another terrace.
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Sondheim, who also composed the beloved musicals Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods, earned numerous accolades throughout his long career, including a Pulitzer Prize, an Oscar, seven Grammys, and nine Tonys.
It’s one down, one to go for J Lo. After getting married last year and setting their sights on a newlywed home to share, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez got to work offloading their separately owned properties. Most recently, the Wall Street Journal reports that Lopez found a buyer for the eight-acre Bel Air, California estate that she listed for $42.5 million in February. The French Country-style mansion ultimately sold for about $34 million—under the initial asking price, but still a very solid profit given the $28 million that the Selena star paid for the 14,000-square-foot home in 2016.
Now, Lopez just needs to sell her Manhattan penthouse, which has been off and on the market for years. That abode, located atop a 1920s Georgian-style building near New York’s Madison Square Park, was most recently listed about a month ago for a touch under $25 million. Affleck sold his East Coast-style Pacific Palisades abode for $28.5 million in October 2022 and in May, the couple spent $61 million on a contemporary Georgian-style estate in Beverly Hills. The sprawling 38,000-square-foot residence boasts a plethora of resort-like amenities, including an indoor sports complex, a hair and nail salon, a home theater, a 155-foot infinity pool, and a 12-car garage.
The buyer of the nine-bedroom Bel Air home that Lopez just sold remains unknown. “My clients fell in love with the land,” agent Lea Porter of the Beverly Hills Estates told the Journal. The plot comes complete with a sandy beach bordering a private lake, a waterfall, a putting green, a 100-seat amphitheater, a fire pit-equipped pagoda, an above-ground pool, two guest cottages, and acres of woodland laced with hiking trails.