Actor Nicole Kidman and her musician husband Keith Urban have finally sold their rural retreat in Franklin, Tennessee, for $US2.7 million ($3.68 million) after two years on and off the market.
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In a declining market the entertainment industry power couple had started at an optimistic $US3.45 million
The Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor and the Grammy winning crossover pop-country star can also be thankful they slipped by with a puny profit on the almost 14.5 hectare country spread they raked up in two 2007 transactions that totalled $US2.45 million.
About 40km south of downtown Nashville and squirrelled privately down a long drive that winds through dense woods and cuts across rolling pasture land, the fairly traditional looking red-brick main house sports intricate, dentil-style exterior mouldings with four bedrooms and four full and two half bathrooms in close to 475 square metres.
An extensive lower level includes a den, several guest and family bedrooms, a small office and a large fitness room while a separate cottage accommodates on-site caretaker, guests and/or domestic staff.
Unsurprisingly, the globe trotting couple maintain an international portfolio of residences that, in addition to a mansion in one of Nashville's most prestigious enclaves they bought in 2008 for not quite $US3.5 million, includes: a penthouse in Sydney; a contemporary home in a quiet, celebrity-packed neighbourhood of Beverly Hills they've owned since 2008 when they bought it for almost $US4.8 million; and a duplex condo snatched up in 2010 for more than $US9.6 million in a sleek building in the Chelsea neighbourhood of New York City.
Australian Associated Press