Tyler Perry’s Atlanta Mansion Sold To Steve Harvey For US$15 million; Sets Record

in Real Estate June 10, 2020 0

ATLANTA, Georgia June 10, 2020 — Inventive, creative powerhouse, Tyler Perry, has charmed his film audiences with his acting, writing and production skills, generating a massive wealth of over US$600 million, well before the age of 50.

He has homes in the Bahamas, Wyoming, Texas, Mulholland Estates in Los Angeles (currently on loan to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle), but chooses to live and work in Georgia on his 1,100-acre property, where his film studios are located.

Partial to the Atlanta area, his long-time home was a palatial mansion in the Paces Ferry community of Buckeye, which he built, in 2007, on 17 acres of prime land, overlooking the Chattahoochee River.

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When he sold it for $17.5 million in 2016, it was the highest-priced home in the history of the city. That buyer, televangelist, David Turner, turned it into a production studio for a web-based Christian TV network, Jesus Live TV, and has now sold it to comedian, talk-show-host and self-help author, Steve Harvey, for $15 million — still the highest-priced home in Atlanta.

Over the top for laid-back Atlanta, Perry built his home with a design, based on the Palace of Versailles, but added features that would have left King Louis XIV speechless.

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In addition to a helipad, the 34,688-square-foot home has seven bedrooms and 14 baths, stately formal rooms, a two-story library, infinity-edge swimming pool outside, resistance pool inside, lighted tennis court on top of a two-story parking garage, fully equipped gym, spa, theater, hobby house and an underground ballroom with catering kitchen.

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Photo credit: Sotheby’s International Realty.

Photo credit: Sotheby’s International Realty.

There are both formal and informal gardens, an entire estate generator, guard house, caretaker’s suite and presidential-level security system, including two gated and secured residential entrances.

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Perry didn’t hold back when it came to formal landscaping. He originally spent about $40 million to build the home, and a good portion of the money went into full grown plants, trees and topiary shrubs. Lush greenery that now spills out into terraced formal gardens from the house with paths twisting through the trees, flowers and plants.

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The grounds include an outdoor pool with a Versailles-style painting on the bottom and seating areas among fountains where guests can relax on bar stools while enjoying drinks and conversation with swimmers. The house and grounds could easily accommodate over a hundred guests, with plenty of space left over.