Kermit the Frog’s Mansion Has a Hi-Ho Price
So the rainbow connection is near Beverly Hills?
Our friends over at Movoto Real Estate Blog have once again taken a delightful look at the real-world prices of our favorite fictional characters’ homes. Now on the market? Kermy the Frog’s $71.7 million mansion. Who knew dabbling in vaudeville and reporting could be so lucrative?
As always, when writing listings for homes we would love to live in if reality/money were no object, Movoto’s Randy Nelson used the size and location of the property as well as the cost per square foot of comparable real-life mansions to determine just how many capers one would need to pull off to live like the world’s most famous frog.
However, first Nelson faced the agonizing decision of which Kermit pad to value, deliberating between the frog’s apartment on Sesame Street (hopefully it was rent controlled), his swamp in The Muppet Movie, or the boarding house he shares with Gonzo et. al in Muppets From Space. Nelson eventually decided to value Kermit’s most recent residence from a big feature: his Beverly Hills mansion from The Muppets.
Interestingly for a hypothetical Movoto listing, Kermit’s swanky home from The Muppets is an actual residence. Greystone Mansion was built in 1928 and has since appeared in numerous movies including The Big Lebowski, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Spider-Man. With 46,000 square feet and 55 rooms, Greystone is large even by Beverly Hills standards, with a lot of empty space for Kermy to fill when his off-again, on-again romance with Piggy fizzles.
Thankfully, Nelson writes that the Mansion comes with a lot of amenities to distract a bachelor frog from heartbreak, including a movie theater, billiards room, and 16 acres of land on which to shoot chickens out of cannons and throw fish.
Interested in purchasing Greystone Mansion? Kermit can recommend a real estate agent if you’re in the market, writing on Movoto that “Piggy can be pretty intense, but she really fought to get me a great deal.” But obviously, buyer beware: it ain’t easy being green, nor is it likely that you have enough green to purchase the house that Henson built. Guess you’ll have to shell out money for a ticket tomorrow and see it on screen instead.
(via Movoto Blog)
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