Chris Cooley, Leesburg House

Chris Cooley, Leesburg (pictured above)
Cost (2007): $2.9 million
Assessed value: $1.8 million
Fans of Cooley’s popular blog, The Cooley Zone, are granted frequent glimpses into his Loudoun County mansion—a stone house at the end of a long drive that has a pool with waterfall, a hot tub, and a home theater. “I haven’t been to the basement in months,” Cooley told The Washingtonianlast year.