Surreal Estate

Karl Rove (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Seller: Karl Rove

Asking price: $1.585 million

Details: The longtime George W. Bush adviser has less reason to hang out in Washington these days, so he's unloading the Federal-style home in D.C.'s Kent neighborhood he bought eight years ago for $799K. Five bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, brick-and-stone exterior, built 1968. Real estate photos show sunny kitchen, big entertaining spaces, pleasant yard, lots of bookshelves, one wall-mounted deer head. Where to now? Rove and his wife, Darby, built a beach house in Florida a few years ago, but an aide says they spend most of their time in Texas. Unclear if they'll keep a crash pad in D.C.