Steve Jobs would likely approve of successor Tim Cook's ascetic condominium, designated "unit A" on a shared Palo Alto single-family home lot. He would be far less happy with the high-ranking Google executive in the "unit B" in-law dwelling right behind it.
Facebook announced it will move to new offices nearly seven times the size of its current headquarters. Someone is planning on conquering the world, clearly.
Google is reportedly poised to buy a building covering an entire Manhattan block. The 2.9 million square foot Chelsea building, if fully occupied by Google, would grow the company's New York headquarters fivefold. Thank God for the intra-office razor scooters.
His Palo Alto, California-based social network is valued at around $35 billion, but that doesn't mean 26-year-old Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is ready to commit to something as, like, serious as a lease. He's happy as the world's richest hobo.
A forthcoming Facebook movie should further Sean Parker's reputation for enjoying coke-fueled parties with college coeds. Maybe the celeb-studded soirees he's been throwing at his $20 million Manhattan mansion, Bacchus House, will class up the Facebook co-founder's rep a bit.
Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner sold his stake in an Upper West Side townhouse to wife Jane, from whom he is separated but not divorced. Jann and his boyfriend retain their condo a few blocks away. Also, three other pads:
There's a rumor circulating in the San Francisco press and real estate community: Tom Cruise just bought an $18 million mansion in town. An overgrown pied-à-terre wouldn't be too terrifying — except for that local Scientology expansion drive.
Historically, big tech companies start building new gigantic corporate campus instead right before they implode. Oh, look: Yahoo's drawing up plans for a 42-acre project and hadn't laying off thousands of workers.
It's hard to imagine anyone taking seriously a satirical proposal to build an airport on Central Park. Except maybe for the Huffington Post, which ran with the story on its front page tonight.
Steve Jobs can finally build his dream home; the Woodside City Council approved plans to dismember the mansion he owns and detests. But the Apple CEO must give the pieces to someone who knows from good architecture. Oh, snap!
Perhaps there's a reason Apple CEO Steve Jobs keeps a veil of mystery drawn over his private life: He's a spoiled, rich dude with a raging sense of entitlement, as his real-estate ventures reveal.
Whenever real-estate bubbles pop, the words of Percy Bysshe Shelley are trotted out by lit-major columnists. Before it gets too hackneyed, here is the text of "Ozymandias" with images of Dubai and other former boomtowns.
