Daniel Harper is the byline on Homes Archives, covering what notable houses cost, who designed them and how they changed hands. Articles are built from public property records, archived listings and published reporting, and flag any figure that is an estimate rather than a matter of record. The name is a pen name: the site is written and edited by one person.
Long before Andy Griffith Show fans started making pilgrimages to Mount Airy, one quietly significant destination sat about 90 minutes away in Chatham County: the former home of Frances Bavier, the actress who brought Aunt Bee to life for millions of American viewers. Located on West Elk Street in Siler City, North Carolina, the Frances … Read more
Dr. Nicole Saphier’s house is located in Morris Township, New Jersey — an affluent community in Morris County where the median home listing price sits at $999,000 as of mid-2026. The Fox News medical contributor and Director of Breast Imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center lives there with her husband, Dr. Paul Saphier, an … Read more
Before Joe Pyfer became one of the biggest names in the UFC middleweight division, he was a fighter with nowhere to sleep. The story of how Dana White stepped in to keep him housed after a single knockout on Dana White’s Contender Series is one of the most searched moments in recent MMA history — … Read more
Mike Basich was once pulling around $170,000 a year as a professional snowboarder, living in a 4,000-square-foot house in Utah and driving a luxury car. He walked away from all of it. Today, he lives in a hand-built stone cabin perched at roughly 7,100 feet in the Sierra Nevada mountains — no indoor plumbing, no … Read more
When Chip and Joanna Gaines decided to mark ten years of Fixer Upper by taking on a cliffside lake house in Waco, Texas, they gave themselves a specific challenge: restore a forgotten 1960s home without erasing what made it special in the first place. What they produced is one of the most layered renovations the … Read more
When billionaire film producer Thomas Tull listed his Westlake Village compound in January 2018 for $85 million, it was widely described as one of the most extraordinary private estates ever built in Southern California. By the time it finally sold — at $35 million — it had quietly set a record as the most expensive … Read more
Shannon Elizabeth’s House was a 4,689 sq ft, 5-bedroom Mediterranean estate in Los Feliz, Los Angeles. She bought it in August 2001 for $1.425 million, listed it in 2012, and finally closed the sale in June 2014 for $2.8 million. The new owner resold it in March 2023 for close to $6 million. Instead of … Read more
Meghan Trainor’s house is a $17.1 million mansion in Encino, California — a property she and husband Daryl Sabara bought from DJ Zedd in May 2024. The home sits on nearly an acre in the San Fernando Valley, spans roughly 15,000 square feet, and carries a celebrity ownership trail that reads like an award show … Read more
Romeo Kapudija isn’t your typical real estate developer. The former professional race car driver has spent over two decades channeling the same intensity he brought to the track into building properties across the Chicago suburbs. Today, his Miller Street Partners firm is behind some of Lake Zurich’s most ambitious projects—luxury garage condos, waterfront townhomes, and … Read more
John Travolta’s house in Ocala, Florida, isn’t just a celebrity mansion with a nice pool and a long driveway. It’s a fully operational private aviation compound where a Boeing 707 once parked within 100 feet of the living room windows—and where the taxiway runs straight to the front door. Situated within Jumbolair Aviation Estates, the … Read more