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Luxury home tours on YouTube are exploding, and transforming the way high-end real estate is discovered and sometimes sold. YouTube personality Enes Yilmazer walks us through the making of a video for his channel, which gets an average of 15 million views a month. Photo: Michal Czerwonka for The Wall Street Journal

https://m.wsj.net/video/20210429/042921mansionyoutube3/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

YouTube Home Tours Are Blowing Up. Enes Yilmazer Is Cashing In.

This WSJ series walks you through the halls of one-of-a-kind mansions, where homeowners share the amenities and design features that make their homes unique.

Greek architect Tilemachos Andrianopoulos provides a tour of his design: a triangular home that blurs the line between inside and the olive grove outside. "Even for a completely new structure, there is always something that already exists there," he says. Photo: Rob Alcaraz/The Wall Street Journal

https://m.wsj.net/video/20191220/122119mansiongreece/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

In Greece, a Radical Triangular House Brings the Outdoors Inside

Kristin Tang first camped on her lakeside property in Fruita, Colo. Then, she wanted to make that feeling permanent, creating a home comprised of three yurts. She gives us a tour of her high-end glamp retreat. Photo: Alex Griffin

https://m.wsj.net/video/20190710/071119mansion_glamp/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

A Love of Yurts Inspired This ‘Glamp’ Retreat

Bill Broadhead says his family's second home – what he calls "Mid-Century mountain" – works best when it is full of guests. Beyond its six bedrooms and a bunk room that sleeps 13, common areas give guests plenty of room to spread out and enjoy the views. He gives us a tour. Photo: Bill Broadhead

https://m.wsj.net/video/20190501/050219mansioncamp/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

A Cascades Home Designed to Feel Like Summer Camp

After their house burned down, David Montague and his wife decided to rebuild a home tailored to their needs, where they could display their art, access their books and entertain up to 100 people. David gives us a tour of their modern home in Fort Worth, Texas. Photo: Rob Alcaraz/The Wall Street Journal

https://m.wsj.net/video/20190220/022118library/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

A Home Built to Be a Live-In Museum and Expansive Library 

Architect Jaime Fernández restored a 250-year-old mini-castle from ruins to create a unique home with fossils embedded in the walls. He gives us a tour of Dinton Castle in Buckinghamshire, England, which is for sale for £765,000. Photo: Jimmy Cape for The Wall Street Journal

https://m.wsj.net/video/20190129/013019vanhattem3/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

A Mini-Castle, Saved From Ruins, Now Fit for a New King

Architect Malika Junaid gives a tour of her $10 million home, which was designed with her family's science-fiction interests in mind. It's full of automations, an elevator and what she calls an abstract Starship Enterprise. 

https://m.wsj.net/video/20181205/120618mansionjunaid/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

'Beam Me Up, Scotty:' A 'Star Trek' Home in Silicon Valley

Rick and Susan Turner tailgate before every Auburn University football game. But with their 45-foot-long Tiffin Zephyr RV, it's not your average tailgate. Take a tour of the big rig with the Turners. Photo: Caleb Chancey/The Wall Street Journal

https://m.wsj.net/video/20181010/101118megarv2/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

Elevate Your Tailgate With a 500-Square-Foot RV

In an era of high-profile security breaches, this $15 million Scottsdale mansion shows how the ultrawealthy are baking protection directly into their floor plans. Photo Illustration: Josh Lisanby

https://m.wsj.net/video/20260212/8f993920-bbdb-4b97-b231-5c55e5411c82/1/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

In an era of high-profile security breaches, this $15 million Scottsdale mansion shows how the ultrawealthy are baking protection directly into their floor plans.

Inside a $15 Million Mansion Designed Entirely Around Security

The Towie Barclay Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, has all the features of a traditional castle. It’s also a family home, once visited by the late Queen Mother. Owner Karen Ellington shares the restoration journey from ruin to refuge. Photo: Michal Jelski for The Wall Street Journal

https://m.wsj.net/video/20230713/c88ada9b-ca1c-456e-9bc5-10fb701b2129/1/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

Castle Tour: the Restored Towie Barclay Castle in Scotland

Tour a 430-Year-Old Scottish Castle Transformed Into a Family Home

This oceanfront property in southeast Alaska, with concrete floors and a pink kitchen, cost $2.07 million to build and furnish. Homeowner Kristi Linsenmayer describes the joys and challenges of custom-building a home over the water in rural Ketchikan. Photo: Kyoko Fierro for the Wall Street Journal

https://m.wsj.net/video/20230622/761a1325-48e8-4cd7-909d-b4ee54ee12f2/1/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

Tour an Oceanfront Custom Home in Ketchikan, Alaska 

Inside an Alaska Home Built to Feel Like a Boat in Water 

Their ties to the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte, N.C. inspired Dorlisa and Peter Flur to custom-build their forever home. The 5,354 square-foot house on Lake Wylie features a similar cantilever design by architect Toby Witte. Photo: Rusty Williams for The Wall Street Journal

https://m.wsj.net/video/20230524/a9614acd-d614-4649-a52c-2a588a1bc17a/1/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

Home Tour of a Luxury, Lakefront Modern House in Charlotte, N.C. 

A Modern Art Museum Inspired This Luxury Lakefront Home

After her husband’s death, Sue Deagle wanted a home enveloped in nature. With architect Robert Young, Ms. Deagle, who is the SVP and Chief Growth Officer of V2X Inc, created a treehouse in the woods. Photo: Roddy Hafiz for The Wall Street Journal

https://m.wsj.net/video/20230511/0a64068c-4115-4b93-9bb5-6c9bd21a9da4/2/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

Home Tour of a Luxury Tree House in the Woods

The $2.8 Million Tree House That Became an Oasis After Loss

For his home on Crete, Greece’s largest island, George Kalykakis wanted something unique. He got a sculptural structure, nicknamed the “Tear of God,” designed to keep the harsh sun in check through a series of cuts. Kalykakis gives us a tour.

https://m.wsj.net/video/20200904/041120mansioncrete/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

Unique Cuts Earned This Cretan House the name ‘Tear of the God’

Inside the ‘Tear of God’: A Unique House on Crete That Filters the Sun

A modern, 7,500 square-foot home connects owner Elizabeth Grossman to the nature and ‘spiritual vortex’ that drew her to Lanikai, a neighborhood on Oahu. She gives us a tour, and explains why it’s time to sell. Photo: Adam Falk/The Wall Street Journal

https://m.wsj.net/video/20200130/013020mansionhoty/hls/manifest-hd-wifi.m3u8

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