Buy Britannia Manor II!

It seems Richard Garriott has Britannia Manor II on the market, according to this Remax online listing. For only $4.1M, you can get the 4790 sq ft house with its own observatory on nearly 4 acres of land.
Unfortunately, only 3 bedrooms rules me out…
More information.

Estimated Taxes 58770.0

It's still worthy of cosideration.

You pay taxes for owning a house? Where I live I pay less taxes for owning one (thanks to mortgages)…

Only $4.1 million for Britannia Manor?
I've got to have it!! I need to start saving now… only $4,097,800 dollars to go.

BTW… why didn't Remax post pics of the dungeon/torture room and the last resting place of Pedro? While some people have skeletons in their closet, Richard Garriott keeps his human corpse in the coffin in his basement.

http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/16086…tml#id=1564231

OMG! That's near I-35, which goes right near my home! I live just up the street from Lord British! (Well… two states up the street…)

I would buy it but there would be way too much dusting to do.

Originally Posted by Vindicator
Only $4.1 million for Britannia Manor?
I've got to have it!! I need to start saving now… only $4,097,800 dollars to go.

BTW… why didn't Remax post pics of the dungeon/torture room and the last resting place of Pedro? While some people have skeletons in their closet, Richard Garriott keeps his human corpse in the coffin in his basement.

http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/16086…tml#id=1564231

Do you know of any other videos of the house? That one has that lovely "not available in your region" message.

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Don't know why but this makes me a little sad..

Is it his new wife that is making him sell it?

I looked through the pictures and thought about him dreaming up Ultima plots.

They should turn it into a museum or something.

Was the place up for sale when he did that MTV Cribs show, or whatever that vid was? I'm sure he thought his magnetic hiding places were cool and all, but it's kind of stupid to show off where you have your safe.

Edit: I couldn't find the exact same vid, Skaven, but here are two others. The first focuses on the hidden spaces:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM109_EbMcs

The second points out of few oddities and examples of the macabre in his collection:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BasXNb4UPnQ

Originally Posted by Zloth
OMG! That's near I-35, which goes right near my home! I live just up the street from Lord British! (Well… two states up the street…)

I would buy it but there would be way too much dusting to do.

Actually, it's right off of loop 360, I lived down the street from the old boy for about a year and would occasionally drive past the house just to check it out. I have a friend from High School now working for Garriot, and he actually got to go to a few parties inside the damn house, lucky bastard.

Originally Posted by Saxon1974
Don't know why but this makes me a little sad..

Is it his new wife that is making him sell it?

I looked through the pictures and thought about him dreaming up Ultima plots.

They should turn it into a museum or something.

I think it is the cost of maintaining two huge houses, his other castle is like a medieval fortress.

What is the other one? I thought #3 was the unfinished one.

Thanks Huggy.

Looking at the vids this quote comes to mind, "It's good to be the king."

$4,100,000 ? He's not going to make any money that way.
I'm not saying that he should sell it for one dollar but I'm certain that he he could sell a lot more manors if he charged $10 - $15 for each.

Originally Posted by Drithius
Estimated Taxes 58770.0

wow thats cheap! In UK the tax for buying a house over 1m is 5% so you will pay 205k!!!!

You Americans are lucky bastards

For that price, it better have a Shrine of Virtue in the backyard.

Well I was planning on moving back to Austin anyway….

Originally Posted by lostforever
wow thats cheap! In UK the tax for buying a house over 1m is 5% so you will pay 205k!!!!

You Americans are lucky bastards

That's not the sales tax (there is none in Texas), that's the ANNUAL property tax bill. Not so cheap.

Hmmm, my company has offices down in Texas. Is it near Houston or Borger?

Originally Posted by crpgnut
Is it near Houston or Borger?

It's in Austin. The exact address is in the listing Dhruin linked to.

*Edit* If you're asking which of those cities it's closer to, it would be Houston. About a 3 hour drive.