Katie Couric shows off the lavish Hamptons house

DailyMail.com ^ | 6/9/11 | John Stevens

[Steely Tom]

I wonder if Charlie Cook thinks that Couric has more money than God ever intended her to have?

Obviously, a rhetorical question.

[GnuHere]

I don’t know the Hamptons. But if you decide you’re “a beach person” and you have money, why are you 5 blocks away from the water?
Having said that, I’m all in favor of the pool and tennis court!

[Labyrinthos]

It is a rather nice home, but consider how insanely overpriced the Hamptons are when a $6+ million house puts you five blocks from the ocean.

You just got an "F" in Economics 101. Real property (and any other commodity) is worth what a willing buyer pays to a willing seller in an arm's length transaction. Couric paid $6+ million for the house and therefore, the fair market value for the house is $6+ million.

[shoff]

Perky Katie is trying to show she is still relevant in today’s market. Four years ago she tried to destroy Palin with badgering and unflattering editing. While her star has fallen, Palin’s star is rising it must eat her up. Rush was kidding that we know where Sarah is on her bus but Katie is unemployed. She even got a story in the New York Times about secretly all the big networks were bidding for her, I guess that’s why CBS fought so hard to keep her destroying their news view ship.
Palin buys a big house in Scottsdale and Katie has to show how she has a nice house too. Look at me I am important too. By the way she bought it in 2006 for 6.3 million what’s it worth today, 3.3 million?

[andy58-in-nh]

Okay smartass, you got me: the home is worth whatever the market will bear. LOL. Fair enough.

But many of the über-wealthy society types who infest the Hamptons have competitively bid the prices of those houses to astronomical levels relative to what they might fetch in most of the country, where home prices are still falling. I suspect the economy will catch up with them too in time, especially given our current course.

[Osage Orange]

I dunno...but you said about Couric,

"Very few women anchors combine the skills and maturity necessary to make it at the highest levels with the ability to stay young-looking while being a committed liberal.

I happened to find that sarcastic. Maybe I was wrong.