Fox News host Bret Baier recently listed a French chateau style gated mansion in a safe Washington, DC, neighborhood for $31.9 million after opting to live in his $37 million Palm Beach mansion.
Baier, the chief political anchor of the Murdoch family’s Fox News, listed the walled mansion located on Foxhall Road in the District’s swanky Northwest. The neighborhood is far removed from the crime ridden areas of the District that experienced a 35 percent homicide increase in 2023 from 2022, according to police statistics.
The potential sale of the megahome could garner the most expensive home sale in D.C., according to TTR Sotheby’s International Realty. The current sales record in the District is $24.56 million the year before the 2008 recession.
Baier briefly lived in the home before purchasing another mansion in Palm Beach over the summer for $37 million. “The move to Florida was a great adventure for our family, and the boys fell in love with it,” he told the Wall Street Journal.
Inspired by the Château du Grand-Lucé in central France, Baier built the District mansion in 2022. It features 16,000 square feet with five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and two half-baths. The home boasts a golf simulator, a putting and chipping green, a basketball court, a sauna, and a theater. The structure sits on 1.47 acres and took three years to construct, the listing says.
“We’re going to be setting a new sales precedent with the sale,” real estate agent Daniel Heider told WNBC NBC4. “You know, the value is evident everywhere you look. There is the impression of dozens and dozens and dozens of artisans who have touched every single space in that house.”
Property records show Baier bought the property in 2018 for $5.4 million. He demolished the previous structure and rebuilt the property. The total project cost about $30 million.
Baier told the Journal that “he will look for a smaller place” in the District where he hosts his nightly show Special Report, which often features establishment guests who oppose the America First movement and the populist agenda.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
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