A two-acre property in Richmond, Texas, garnered 1.2 million page views in just two days for its unusual listing photos. How’d they do it?
If you flip through
the photos, you’ll see how “one of a kind” this five-bedroom, 5.5-bathroom home is. Nearly every room contains at least one mannequin, prompting the nickname “mannequin house.” The photos feature a mannequin sitting on a kitchen stool, peeking into windows from the outside, and even one hanging from the walls wearing a swimsuit and platform shoes.
The homeowner is a renowned artist who works in painting, needlework, crochet, jewelry design, and clothing design, listing agent Diana Power of RE/MAX told
realtor.com®. “Being an artist, she turned them into playful, whimsical things,” she says. The owner wished to remain anonymous.
Power says she usually tells her clients to have two to three items per counter and no personal pictures, but she made an exception with this listing. “That doesn’t work so well when you have so much stuff,” she says. “It would be so expensive to store everything.”
The 7,406-square-foot home is listed for $1,275,000 and features miscellaneous art alongside the mannequins in every room. Even though the listing has been viewed by more than a million visitors this week, Power says most of the calls she’s received so far are from people wanting to know what the mannequins are all about.
The mannequins are not included in the listing price.
Source: “Welcome to the Mannequin House: The Story Behind This Week’s Most Bizarre Listing,”realtor.com(R)
