A month before voters decide who will next occupy the White House in Washington, D.C., another White House, less than 15 miles away, will be going up for grabs.
The mansion, located in an exclusive area of McLean, Va., will go on the auction block Oct. 6, according to Jeff Stein, a partner with real estate auction company Tranzon Fox.
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Built in 1989, the 12,500-square-foot White House replica is situated on a two-acre estate; its lush, wooded grounds are set off by a pair of wrought-iron gates. The home features six bedrooms, seven full baths and three half-baths. Five of the bedrooms have en-suite baths; the owners’ suite also includes a fireplace, a wet bar and two walk-in closets.
The three-story mansion has a commercial-grade kitchen, game room, music room, dance room, media room, gym, library, wine cellar, two outdoor kitchen areas, an in-ground hot tub and a pool with frescoes, a swim-up bar and a waterfall.
The owners originally put the home up for sale in 2014 for $6.9 million, but Mr. Stein said they pulled it off the market after three months because the family, with five kids, could not maintain it in the condition needed for showing and selling a property of its size. This year, he said, with their youngest child a senior in high school, the family looked to relist the mansion but was told the average time on the market for a home in their price range was more than a year.
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Unwilling to wait that long, they put the house up for auction, with an asking price of $4.9 million.
Mr. Stein said that rather than set a minimum bid, he will let interested buyers decide, but he anticipates an opening bid in the $3 million range. He is holding the first of three open houses this weekend; as one measure of buyer interest, he said, there were at least 1,700 views on the website in the week after the auction was announced.