Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen Find Their Suburban Dream Home

By Mark David of The Real Estalker (Subscribe to Mark David's posts)
Jan 13th 2010 3:35PM

Categories: Celebs, Famous Homes, Design, etc, House Tours, Celebrity Homes

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Now that NFL superstar quarterback Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen are the proud new parents of a genetically blessed baby named Benjamin, they've reportedly settled on a $10 million mansion in Brookline, Massachusetts so they can set up a happy home.

The comely couple have been spotted peeping properties in many of the priciest suburbs of Boston including Dover, Sherborne and Brookline where, it's rumored and reported, they've scored a real estate touchdown with an historic and fully renovated mansion built in 1850.

The 11-room manse, located in a leafy enclave off Route 9, is owned by radio veteran Richie Balsbaugh. Back in October of 2009, Balsbaugh denied that the Brady Bundchen bunch were buying his big house in Brookline. Recently, he was quoted in the Boston Herald as saying, "It's not a done deal. There was some momentum, but then football happened, and the baby, and the other houses, so he's a little overwhelmed."

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Sources told the Boston Herald that the well paid Patriots pig skinner and the even better paid catwalk queen have already dropped a million dollar deposit on the property – which was never on the open market – and that the official transfer is expected to occur sometime in March. Property records show the sprawling mansion sits on almost three gated acres (2.76), and measures just under 10,000 square feet with 4 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms and 7 fireplaces. There is also a large detached guesthouse adjacent to the swimming pool.

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tom brady condo Photo: Campion and Company

Both Brady and Bundchen have been on a bit of a real estate whirlwind lately. Records reveal that in December of 2009 Bundchen sold her New York City townhouse for $12.95 million. The 5-floor townhouse on the West Village's beautiful Barrow Street has 4 bedrooms, six bathrooms, an elevator, a basement gym and 7 fireplaces. Just a month earlier she sold another Manhattan property, this one a triplex penthouse overlooking the Hudson River for which she banked a cool $4.4 million.

Brady sold his condo in the historic Burrage Mansion in Boston's swank Back Bay neighborhood back in early 2008 for just under $5.3 million and in mid-2009, perhaps in anticipation of buying a big house in the 'burbs for he and his growing and good looking family, he put his current duplex penthouse home on the market at $10.9 million. The Brady Bundchen's current Boston crib, according to listing information, measures 5,300 square feet with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms and includes a gourmet kitchen, high-tech media room, a home gym, his and her dressing rooms in the master suite, 2 landscaped terraces, garage parking for 4 fancy cars and unobstructed views of the Charles River.

In late 2008 the pretty pair paid $11.75 million for a 3.6 acre a vacant parcel in the very same, very fancy Los Angeles community where Gov. Scwhazernegger and his cell phone law flouting wife Maria Shriver live when not in residence in the state capital of Sacramento. It's unknown what the couple plans for the property, but according to listing information, the purchase came with plans and permits for an 11,500-square-foot Mediterranean style manse that, if built, would give the delectable duo stately estates on both coasts.

Comments (52)

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Expatista 1-13-2010 @ 5:38PM

I'm confused, I thought a "manse" was a pastor's property basically... like, church-owned and for a preacher to live in?

Procrastinator_ 1-14-2010 @ 5:58PM

You are correct, a "manse" is a clergyman's home also known as a "rectory".

jessie 1-16-2010 @ 9:54AM

You are correct...that isn't the only error, grammatically speaking in this ridiculously written article.

dhayescharlotte 1-14-2010 @ 7:32AM

HELP ME UNDERSTAND.....Why can't reporters just write the stories, instead of trying to be funny with their stupid words?
"Score real estate touchdown", "Pig skinner", "Brady Bundchen", .... Get a life. reporter, and stop trying to make yourself look more intelligent than you really are...

abby 1-14-2010 @ 8:17AM

I say god bless them with their new baby son and good luck with their new home

joan 1-14-2010 @ 10:52AM

Unlike some people on here, the couple is getting on with their lives. Good for them, and wishes for much happiness for both of them!

BRADY POOFER 1-14-2010 @ 11:52AM

I knew he was a looser right from the beginning of the season. Now his Queen and what about the other son-poof Brady. Hate pigs like you!

Jan 1-14-2010 @ 8:36AM

Wow..Lisa Marie..why are you so angry? You apparently know them personally to have such a strong opinion of them..or are you the "psycho b*tch"..twisted comment..I'll pray for you

GiGi 1-14-2010 @ 10:47AM

Jan,
I'm with you girl!!!! These other two female nimwits that have nothing good to say about Tom and his wife and then attack you for showing them that they need to take a chill pill, as if they know Tom personally and he or his wife did something to them for them to make such attacks on them....I think you would agree that, first of all they are probably very jealous of talent and beauty because they do not have any...second they are probably football fans of another team..so my questions to these morans is...Why are you even on this forum in the first place if you don't like Tom Brady and his family or the Patriots?.. I guess they have to put in their jealous two cents to make them feel BIG!!!
I guess we know who the real losers are, don't we Jan?

Gary 1-14-2010 @ 9:13AM

Brady better grab someone with a little money, not much of a superstar after that thrashing last week. Marino had a game like that once, the last game of his career before he retired. Maybe Brady should hang it up, he either gets injured every year or turns in a lackluster performance like the one last week.

vaivivaldi 1-14-2010 @ 10:18AM

With all the problems that we are facing it is of no consolation to read that a famous couple has spent 10 mil. on a home. It just reminds us as to how much unfairness there is in this world. We have people sleeping in tents, children starving, but the media thinks its appropriate to announce that this couple dishes out all this money for a lavish home!
Unbelievable!

steve 1-14-2010 @ 10:58AM

I agree with you 100%.

pat 1-14-2010 @ 10:12AM

Wow! It's amazing to me how many people take the time to comment....................and then their comments are filled with jealousy and venom. Tom Brady is rich indeed. He went to college, played football and earned a degree. He was drafted into the NFL and got his big break and MADE GOOD on it! He's worked hard and he deserves his success. His wife is beautiful and genetically built to be a supermodel. She too MADE GOOD on her blessings. Why do you people resent them so much? They have succeeded in life because they had the courage and confidence to follow their dreams. I wonder what you look like? I wonder if any of you have had to breakup with a boyfriend/girlfriend and had a child to support after the breakup? I wonder if any of you have even been to college? So easy to judge others right? Maybe you should just work on improving your own lives..............

kathy 1-14-2010 @ 2:05PM

thank you very much. i think some of these people need to get a life instead of bashing tom brady and family. i say good luck to the both of them .why are they on this site except to bash them. good luck to the pats next year.at least we made the playoffs!!¬

Josie 1-14-2010 @ 10:27AM

Yep........Vaivivalde....I totally agree with you. Disgusting what the world is coming to. I can't believe the MILLIONS OF DOLLARS people are making while the rest of us struggle doing our jobs. Something is just not right, here. Football and skin flashing making the big bucks that they do. Didn't take much EDUCATION or corporate advancing to do either. Who cares about these people anyways? I am sick of Entertainment Tonight, People Magazine, EXTRA and all these other means of media that continue to WORSHIP these people. I am not watching or reading anything to do with all of the HOG WASH while people in this world are struggling to survive.

Hyeaghcheg 1-14-2010 @ 11:44AM

If you're less than pleased with the accomplishments in your life, then do something to change it. Do not begrudge these people for their success. They've both worked hard and earned what they have; it was not handed to them on a silver platter. This is the land of the opportunity, so nobody is standing in your way. Come up with an idea and implement it.

ZAKE 1-14-2010 @ 10:29AM

since tom has been with his sumptious wife he's been throwing more touchdown passed with her than on the field.

steve 1-14-2010 @ 10:50AM

so much money, so many poor people.

Z 1-14-2010 @ 11:00AM

this remark on "pig skinner" is totally unnecessary to use as an attractor to you headline. dork! you don't know it a football is made of leather contrary to the misnomer.