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TH E M REP O RT | 9 DEPARTMENT New Orleans, Louisiana Properties Potentially Affected by Hurricanes: 381,149 Total Reconstruction Cost: $85 Billion 12-Month Home Price Index Change: 3.3% Hot Home: Christian Leblanc is best known for his role on the daytime television show The Young and the Restless, but he's now also making some waves by listing his $1.1 million New Orleans home. This Victorian is within walking distance of Uptown, and has five bedrooms and more than three baths. The third- floor master suite is large enough to rival most other rooms in the house, and best of all, Christian isn't moving far away, so you can still ask him for autographs while you're out on the town. Cape Coral, Florida Properties Potentially Affected by Hurricanes: 299,508 Total Reconstruction Cost: $60 Billion 12-Month Home Price Index Change: 9.1% Hot Home: Cape Coral has a history as a "start-up," designed from concept to completion as a resort town of luxury and beauty. This four-bedroom, six- bathroom, four-garage home situated right on the famous canals of the town lists for almost $2.3 million, but it includes a dock with water deep enough for keeled ships, access to the Gulf of Mexico, a below-ground pool, and a spacious 5,646 square feet with masterful design elements. The community is gated, and the area has history stretching back to the founding of modern American technological culture, including Henry Ford's winter estate in nearby Fort Meyers and Thomas Edison's visits to the area. Bradenton, California Properties Potentially Affected by Hurricanes: 227,821 Total Reconstruction Cost: $43 Billion 12-Month Home Price Index Change: 9.1% Hot Home: If you've ever wanted an opulent fountain on display in your foyer, this is your home. Sixteen million dollars is nothing to sneeze at, but a tour of this 17,000-square-foot mansion is more than enough to convince anyone that the price is reasonable. The list of amenities is exhaustive: six bedrooms each with a private balcony, eight full baths and four half-baths, a media room, gated community with security provided, a covered pool in a glassed-in atrium, a billiards room with its own kitchen, a master kitchen with more than one walk-in pantry, and fireplaces in the bedrooms. Houston, Texas Properties Potentially Affected by Hurricanes: 216,880 Total Reconstruction Cost: $42 Billion 12-Month Home Price Index Change: 8.9% Hot Home: John F. Staub had a mind for designing homes using elements of various historical periods and blending them into sensible creations. This Houston home, built by Staub in 1937, is no exception. Clocking in with seven bedrooms and 13 bathrooms, this 10,153-square-foot manse lists for $11.5 million and features original millwork installed by Staub, a gated community, fireplaces, and beautiful topiaries in the front yard. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Properties Potentially Affected by Hurricanes: 213,668 Total Reconstruction Cost: $42 Billion 12-Month Home Price Index Change: 2.7% Hot Home: Though not in Philadelphia, this home is too noteworthy to pass up for 110 reasons: that's how many different rooms exist inside the $20 million Lynnewood Hall in Elkins Park, only a few miles north of downtown Philadelphia. Measuring in at 70,000 square feet, this mansion has 55 bedrooms and an outbuilding for grounds staff. Although current information on the property is scarce, the mansion is known to have housed churches and military training programs and features architectural elements masterminded by Horace Trumbauer, known best for designing homes for the American captains of industry. Sources: Information acquired from Zillow and luxuryhomemarketing.com. Summer brings both heat and storm systems to large sections of the world, and while a gentle summer rain can cool down muggy days, not all rainstorms are created equally. Here are the most expensive cities to repair after hurricane damage takes place. CoreLogic, Zillow, NOAA.gov, and Weatherbase.com.

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