TopTenRealEstateDeals.com Hot Home News: Sheryl Crow's Solar Horse Farm & Connie Stevens' Holmby Hills Home

Online, August 1, 2013 (Newswire.com) - This week's Top 10 homes spotlight at TopTenRealEstateDeals.com includes a look at the Tennessee horse ranch that Sheryl Crow has owned since 2006. Located just outside of Nashville, Sheryl is selling her 152 acre Cross Creek Farm with a 10,264 square foot main home, 14-stall barn, solar electric power, a western-style saloon, indoor and outdoor riding arenas, large storage buildings, guest-staff houses and a pool with waterfall and spa. Originally listed for $7.5 million, Sheryl is now asking $5.8 million.

Connie Stevens is almost as gorgeous today at age 74 as she was when teenage boys and grown men swooned over her teen-oriented films of the 1950s and 60s and her starring role in the hit ABC-TV series "Hawaiian Eye." Also beautiful is Connie's 12,000 square foot Holmby Hills colonial estate with main house, two bedroom guest houses, a chauffeur's apartment and a separate recording studio for sale at $17,999,000.

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Sheryl Crow's Solar Horse Farm

Sheryl Crow is one of the American celebrities who we admire for staying grounded and maintaining balance in her life. Not to say that Sheryl hasn't experienced the extreme professional and personal ups and downs that come with celebrity. She just handles it better than most.

What makes Sheryl so successful? She took over her own life by starting to work on her own without the security of a group in 1996 with her album Sheryl Crow, that fully expressed the real Sheryl. She's never afraid to be herself and her sometimes eccentric views are transmitted through her Grammy winning songwriting and singing. It's what we've loved about her since she started in 1983 and she's still mesmerizing us with her newest country music album, Feels Like Home.

Also feeling like home is the fabulous Tennessee horse ranch that Sheryl Crow bought as a great place to raise her adopted baby boys. Cross Creek Farm is situated on 152 rolling acres of open pasture, pond, woods and flat land perfect for hayfields or other crops. There is a main house of over 10,000 square feet, a 14-stall barn which includes a cowboy (or cowgirl) style saloon, several riding arenas, storage buildings, guesthouses, and a pool with waterfall and spa. One of the most interesting and timely features of the estate is a solar system that is designed to reduce electric costs by 42%.

Sheryl Crow's Tennessee home was first listed for $7.5 million in early 2010. Sheryl put the home back on the market in early 2012 for $6.399 million. Now asking $5.8 million.

1960's Glamor Girl Connie Stevens

Pert and glamorous Connie Stevens has been a star in movies, TV and song, and a major American Sweetheart since the 1950s. Connie was the third wife of singer Eddie Fisher, following Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor. Her many artistic talents and business acumen have taken her through the tough times and the good times as a cosmetic company mogul and owner of the Connie Stevens Garden Sanctuary Day Spa in Los Angeles.

Connie's singing was filled with perky personality that flowed naturally and lead her into Bob Hope's many USO troop tours. She has earned a number of humanitarian awards from Shriners Hospital and Sons of Italy among others, and has a star on three different Walks of Fame. This year she was awarded the Founder's Medal for Patriotism for over 40 years of work with the USO by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. At age 74, Connie is still a stunning beauty.

Connie has started to downsize her real estate holdings. With homes in Palm Springs and Las Vegas, Connie has decided to sell her enviable two-acre Holmby Hills compound in the middle of one of Los Angeles' choicest neighborhoods. The gracious Paul Williams-designed main house was built in 1939 as a brick center hall colonial. Along with the two one bedroom guest houses, a chauffeur's apartment and a separate recording studio, the estate measures 12,000 square feet. The main house has seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms including the staff suite. In addition to formal and family rooms, there is also a third floor gym and a wine cellar on the lower level.

Grounds include an Olympic-sized pool, pool house, north-south tennis court with viewing deck, fountains, rose garden, gazebo and spa. There is an attached three car garage and carports for up to eight more cars.

Connie Stevens was the dream girl for millions of teen boys in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Starred in 77 Sunset Strip and Hawaiian Eye. Sang 1959 hit single "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb." Now asking $17,999,000 for her Holmby Hills estate .

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