New Hope mansion on 45 acres could be Bucks County's most expensive

An 18,000-square-foot estate house in Solebury is selling, and its asking price is a whopping $14.5 million.

That would make it the most expensive sale in the county’s history, said Cary Simons, who has the listing for Kurfiss Sotheby’s International Realty.

The house at 6250 Meetinghouse Road is on about 45 acres and was designed by architect Allan Greenburg and built in 2008 by owners Steven Gabowski, a financial adviser, and his wife, Cheryl Olsten, an author, the Philadelphia Business Journal reports. The couple purchased the property for $600,000 in 1997 to preserve it from development.

“The house is absolutely stunning,” Simons said. “It’s a full masonry home, slate roof. They had renowned, world-class professionals every step of the way, and craftsmen for the construction and all of the details as well.

The highest home real estate sale in Bucks County topped out at $8 million, reports The Wall Street Journal. The median home price in the county is just under $400,000.

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What do you get for $14.5 million?

A whole lotta “Wow!” The estate has seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms and two half-baths. The master bedroom has two “bathroom suites” for each.

There’s a wine cellar, media room, game room and exercise room. There are six fireplaces, two heated, salt water swimming pools (one indoors, one outdoors) and garage parking for up to nine cars. There’s a wine cellar, media room, game room and exercise room. A separate “accessory building” with vaulted ceilings and heated floors could make a swell home office or can be finished as a guest house.

“The kitchen is stunning,” Simons said, with its “gorgeous” oak flooring, wood island, custom stainless range hood, and top notch appliances “as you would expect.”

“Everything is very elegant, and the finishes they chose would appeal to the masses,” Simons said.

Oh, and there’s also a pond.

How big is the mortgage and taxes?

Not for the faint of heart. A $14.5 million mortgage, with 20 percent down ($2.9 millon) and taxes which last year were $17,922 (according to county tax records) would put you at about $92,000 a month, not including homeowner’s insurance and Private Mortgage Insurance. Unless you’re paying cash, of course.