Pop Singer Mariah Carey Lists Atlanta Mansion for $6.5M

Mariah Carey doesn’t need quite a bit this Christmas — simply $6.5 million for her suburban Atlanta mansion.

The pop diva has put her 12,600-square-foot residence in Sandy Springs, Georgia, in the marketplace for practically $1 million greater than she paid for it a 12 months in the past, the Wall Road Journal reported.

The colonial-style home has acquired some upgrades because the five-time Grammy Award winner purchased it for $5.7 million final November, together with a recording sales space and a pink dressing room with a light-up mirror and salon chair. It was rented by actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, earlier than Carey moved in, Grime reported.

Exterior, the four-acre property features a pool, tennis courts and an “leisure pavilion.”

The nine-bedroom residence was burglarized in late July whereas Carey was vacationing within the Hamptons, however itemizing agent Shanna Bradley of a neighborhood Christie’s Worldwide Actual Property affiliate advised the Journal the break-in didn’t issue into her resolution to promote.

Having bought the house to be nearer to her Atlanta-based band in the course of the pandemic, the Lengthy Island native is itemizing it as a part of a transfer again to New York, Bradley mentioned.

The prosperous suburb has seen a spate of celebrity-home burglaries over the previous 12 months, in accordance with native information stories. Different victims embody “Actual Housewives of Atlanta” solid member Marlo Hampton and rapper Gunna.

The crimes don’t seem to have suppressed residence costs within the city, the place the median itemizing was $695,000, in August, up 22 % from the identical time final 12 months, in accordance with Realtor.com.

— Cailley LaPara