A Mediterranean-style mansion in the celebrity-filled Nashville suburb of Brentwood, Tennessee, is headed to auction later this month with a starting bid of $3.4 million.
The 15,705-square-foot spread has been on the market for $9.75 million since August, but after seeing his business partner have luck with selling his own home via Interluxe Auctions, owner Jeff Rothenberger decided to take the same route with his house.
“[His] experience was spot on with what they said it would be, and they got the price that he wanted, so that means a lot,” Rothenberger told Mansion Global.
The home sits on the third hole of the Governors Club.
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He also hopes that selling the house by auction will allow it to be exposed to more potential buyers outside of the Nashville area, especially as the local luxury market has been booming, particularly attracting Californians.
Rothenberger, who was the COO of HealthSpring—now part of Cigna Healthcare—bought the underlying property in 2004 for $749,000, according to records on PropertyShark.
He worked with Florida-based architect Mark Nasrallah to design the home, which was built on 1.8 acres overlooking the third hole of the Governors Club. Rothenberger liked Nasrallah’s Mediterranean designs—more typical of Florida than Nashville—as well as an amenity Nasrallah had just designed for a Major League Baseball player.
The bowling alley provided inspiration for the rest of the home.
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“He was also the architect for [baseball player] Ken Griffey Jr., who was building in Orlando. He put in a bowling alley, and that was our inspiration to put in a bowling alley and we kind of built the house around that,” Rothenberger said.
The five-bedroom, eight-bathroom home was completed in 2007 and is outfitted with many more amenities than just that bowling alley. The lower level—there are three floors of living space—is dedicated to entertaining with a movie theater, an arcade game room and a sports bar-like room with a full bar, four TVs, a pool table, dartboards and a shuffleboard table.
“We’ve had so many gatherings down there for Super Bowls, the Fourth of July and New Year’s,” Rothenberger said. “It’s a really special place down there because there’s something for everybody.”
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An area of the lower level is also dedicated to wellness, with a home gym, a sauna and a steam room.
The lower level leads directly out to the backyard where there’s a covered patio, a built-in barbecue, a putting green, a fire pit and an infinity pool with a hot tub. The property also has a sports court that serves as both a half basketball court and a pickleball court.
Stacy Kirk, vice president of Interluxe Auctions, said she was so impressed by the home that it makes her “top 10” list of properties she’s sold at auction over the last 26 years.
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Though Rothenberger said it’ll be hard to part with the home, he and his wife, Stacy, have had less use for it as of late, as they’ve been spending about half the year at their home in the Bahamas.
“To leave a house like this vacant for six months doesn’t make a lot of sense to us,” he said.
The online auction begins March 24.
