Touring a $18,900,000 Moroccan Oasis in Palm Desert with Howard Panes

What's up, what's up? Howie P, the billion dollar brand builder. Welcome back to Luxury Home Show. Welcome to my home. Check out these massive steel Moroccan doors to the Howie Moroccan Palace. Check out the glass retractable roof. Approximately 20,000 square feet under air. Five bedrooms. It's got the whole spa below. This was handcrafted over six years with Moroccan artisans. They had multiple architects from the U.S. and Morocco working together to orchestrate the building of this masterpiece. It's a one of a kind, probably one of the greatest Moroccan pads in the U.S., if not around the world. You've got the mountain views from all sides, all the living trees. Everything's alive in here. The energy, the spirit, the vibe, the stars on the ceiling where the sun shines in. The sun is always shining on me in this pad. This is why I bought it. Check it out. All the mosaic tile, all hand laid on the walls, all the marble, steel, all the plaster hand done. This is a guest suite. It's got two bedrooms, two separate bathrooms. It's got a whole balcony overlooking the mountains. It's extraordinary. Every view in the house is so energizing and exciting. That's the Palm Desert vibe. This is the Howie Master Suite. Look at all these doors. They're all hand carved, all real wood. You don't find this anymore. Moroccan artisans came in and they actually hand carved all the doors, real wood floors, the beautiful herringbone pattern. And this is incredible. I mean, this is all hand done plaster. The views from every angle, the real crystal chandelier. When I came to the desert for the first time, I said, this is the kind of vibe that I could really, it relaxes my mind. It energizes my soul. So for me, this is a getaway to really recharge, repower all my ideas, my inventions, the things I'm looking to do. It's just, it's healing for me. There's no better view in the world. I see the snow caps and I also see the whole downtown, the city with all the lights, the 75 foot pool. I do laps. So for me, just walking around this house, it's so big. I get in 20,000 steps here. I'm moving all day. I'm swimming laps. I'm hiking. It's great. But I'll tell you, this bathroom with all the marble, what's incredible in here is they actually have the skylights match up with the stars on the floor. And when the sun comes through, it actually lights up on the stars, which is really cool. I mean, if you just look at the design, it's real Moroccan. You know, you feel like you're in Morocco. I've never been there, but she flew in the best of the best, the woman who I bought it from, and she just made this place perfect. Beautiful French tub. Check this out. This is so cool. And everything has stars, this star vibe, outdoor shower. Check this out. This is like one of my favorite spots. Out here, I do some meditation, yoga, but come on, everybody. Look at this view. How can you not be energized? When I saw this place, I said, wow, this is like a hotel. You know, this could be like my hotel, Howie Hotel. And what I did is I launched a retreat called Think Billions in 2022 when I bought this place. Had a hundred entrepreneurs come from around the U.S. international. I had speakers, I had chefs, I had guest speakers. It was incredible. It was Think Billions, health, wealth, and mindset. It all happened here. It was super magical, organic food, juice, no alcohol. Everything is about health is wealth, high energy. And this is, you know, this is the way I envisioned for my life. My story, if you don't know it, in 2010, I had nothing. I was 600,000 in debt. I was broke, divorced, bank took my house, three kids, just a will to win. And here we are today. I'm telling you, anything is possible when you believe and love yourself. This is what it's about. So when I saw this place, I just fell in love and I couldn't resist. Lap pool, which is amazing. There's two pools, lap pool, circular pool. Then we got another hot tub out here. But this area here under the trees is super magical for me. What's incredible too is everything is commercial grade in this house. There's the AC is these Mitsubishi huge systems that you'd see on commercial applications. Everything in this house is built like commercial, the highest level standards. And that's something important to me. I like high quality. This is all high quality. So what's cool is too, these washrooms, they have, everything's all glass. The fountains have real pearls. Look at this. These are real pearls inlaid into the sinks. The sinks are all real silver imported from France. Incredible. And the shower, it's amazing. It's all marble, real sterling silver, his and hers. You can check it out in there. Everything is marble etched. Incredible. Here we are in the master suite entrance. The Howie P. magical room here of some of my clothing. Little Fendi, Filipe, Flying Gucci. We got a little bit of everything. All right, let's go. Let's check out the rest of the house. I mean, look at this incredible, the sunlight's coming through the courtyard with all the live trees, the fountains, the handmade fountains of marble, stone. It's just incredible. I mean, every day I come out here, right here, and I'm like, wow, super grateful. Then over here, my library. I don't do much studying here, but I do make a lot of calls here. These sliders, pocket for privacy. So a lot of times if I have guests, I'll go in my office here and pull these sliders together. I mean, look at the view. That's the billion dollar view right there. Come check it out. The Think Billions billion dollar view with the billion dollar brand builder, Howie P. This is priceless. I mean, you could listen to the birds. Out here, it's perfect to meditate. You don't hear a thing. No cars, no yelling, no confusion. Just focus on yourself and connecting with the earth. The mountains, it's magical. This is why I got this place, because there's nothing like it. So I love this place. I haven't been using it as much as I'd like because I'm an inventor. I'm a creator, which means I travel. I'm always looking for the next big thing, the next big wave. And so it takes me away from my homes that I can travel and use. So yes, this house is now for sale and waiting for the next, say, lucky or fortunate homeowner that will enjoy, love, and create as much as I did here. This property is almost an acre. And the land value here is pretty much priceless because this in Bighorn, which Bighorn is one of the most prestigious golf entrepreneur clubs, I'd say, in the world. The location that the previous owner chose here was back 20 years ago. She was just waiting and researching how to create the masterpiece that would take pretty much eight years of flying people in from Morocco, architects, orchestrating. And when I was looking to buy the house, which was originally listed at 25 million, the gentleman who actually takes care of the house said to me, Howie, if you gave me 25 million today, I couldn't even build this house for you. That's how expensive it is to build this house. And I was like, wow, I think it's listed right now at 18.9 million, which I believe is a steal. I know people try to sell their places, but when you come see this place, it's a one of a kind. The courtyard's insane. Then those beautiful custom doors that are about three meters high, just pocket, automated. And the beauty with this whole courtyard up here is you get so much exercise. I mean, for me, I love to do calls and I just walk. I'm doing laps and it's fun. I mean, these hallways are long. The beautiful marble floors here, inlaid with black stone. You just don't see it. You don't see this kind of craftsmanship. All the doors here, these are all custom made, very hard to find. Everything was custom for this house. One of the big things I'm working on now is expanding my fitness tech company, Stealth, which you guys saw in my Florida house. We're gonna be doing the world's first balance trainer using your phone, which is super cool. And we're really just building out our app to really incorporate sort of a whole sphere of gamified lifestyle. So that I'm super excited about. Actually, I'm leaning in heavy into real estate and we're doing spec houses in Boca Raton. I became a partner in empire development. We're really high-end builders, spec and also custom spec homes in Boca Raton, Florida. So I'm really focused on that. I love the kitchen. I look at the reverse 45 edge marble. All of this was just handcrafted with the best marble, stone, steel. You gotta check out this. This is cool, this. I don't even know how to pronounce it, but I know it's fancy French stove. When you can't pronounce it, it's a boatload. I love the spiritual, you know, they had the Star of David up there. You see them, hand etched. You know, I think one of the most important things to get energized and get excited is to really focus on number one, you. Basically, to spend time in silence and really think about gratitude. What are you grateful for? A lot of times, everybody just gets caught up so busy in their lives, and they think about the negative things, what's not going right. But the reality is, in life, you have so much to be grateful for. I really like to use this part of the couch here. I know I'm not a big TV guy, but I bought all new big TVs. This comes out. I'll watch a little Netflix. I like watching the Red Bull, the Red Bull athletes do some crazy stuff since I don't do that crazy stuff. So I like to watch the crazy stuff that people do that I don't do. And then the fireplace vibe is good. So the speaker system, I mean, I think they spent over a million dollars on. Basically, AV. We have outdoor movie projector. Huge speakers. If you look on this wall, we got a big bass panel there for bass. All these speakers for surround sound from the TV. And the whole house is just surround sound. As I said, commercial grade. There's a cool bar over here. I don't drink, but we have smoothies here. Beautiful stone. This is definitely an entertainment house. I haven't done a lot of entertaining here. People like Howie. You gotta throw more parties. And I'm like, I'm not a party guy. But maybe tomorrow I'll throw some parties. Oh, I just love it out here. Incredible. Especially jumping on my spin bike. There's no better vibe than spinning, looking at the mountains. I mean, come on, you don't get a better spin class than this. And by the way, I was one of the first ones to teach spinning, Johnny G's Schwinn Fitness back in the 90s when spinning was, and still is popular. But I was one of the first guys teaching the classes back in my gym, How Fit, in New Jersey. I started bodybuilding when I was 12. Then I started competing when I was 18. Then I went to school, Syracuse. I was exercise physiology minor. Went out, started training people after I got out of college. Was training people in college. Built my personal training business. And in between that time, I was an inventor, a tinkerer. At age 16, I built my first motorized skateboard. It was amazing. I built it with, it was a wood, probably that size skateboard. Had fork, had a BMX fork off the end. Bolted it, had a little bicycle tire on it. Took one of those bumble bike motors, clamped it on there, and then basically ran with it and jump started it. Went 40 miles an hour. So that was my first invention, motorized skateboard. I tried more things. Energy shots for gamers, health and fitness search engine, beach carts, tattoo t-shirts. I mean, the list goes on for 39 different, I call learning startups. And then in 2010, when I was 600,000 in debt, that's when I hit it big. I skipped the millions, went to billions, and built the world's largest electronic cigarette company, Logic, with 10 grand. So I went store by store, putting electronic cigarettes in smokers' mouths, saying, hey, listen, you gotta get off the combustion, get onto electronic. I believed in it. It is the future. As a fitness guy, I hate smoke. So I said to myself, I get millions of people every year off deadly cigarettes. I'm doing a great thing. So people are like, Howie, how'd you go from fitness to cigarettes? And by the way, my new book's gonna be coming out probably in June, July, where you'll hear the story of basically how I went from fitness to cigarettes back to fitness, and that's electronic cigarettes. And here we are now, on top of the world here in Palm Desert. Wow, whew, that sun is strong. So in here, we have the cinema room, where these doors pocket in at night. And then we're gonna show you the movie cinema that actually comes out of the ground and goes up 15 feet. This is a great area for entertainment, and when the nights are 50, 60 degrees, it's amazing to just watch a movie on the big screen outside. I never thought I'd be doing that in 2010, but here we are. New world, new day, new opportunities. So some of the key things I learned on that journey was don't listen to other people around you, because everyone told me, Howie, don't do this electronic cigarette business. It's stupid. Who is gonna smoke a hard pen that lights up if I listen to everyone around me? I'd never be where I am today. You have guidance around you and a higher energy that you just have to tap into. I know people say shortcut, follow someone else. I say take your own path, because you know what? That's the magical path. That's the path that's your path, your way, your style. A lot of people look at me and go, Howie, you know, wealthy guys don't act like that. Why do you run across all your cars like that and do these silly things? And I say, because I can, I like it, I feel good. I like doing silly stuff. It's like, okay, I haven't done jumping jacks in the last two hours. I'm sitting here with the crew. I'm feeling lazy. I need to get my heart rate going. I need to get my energy going. And you know what that does just now? It just gets my endorphins going. Just check out all the Carrera marble, all hand done. Amazing, I just love all the stars, the fountain. This is one of the most amazing hidden gems in the house. First of all, look at the door, all wood, hand carved, like the master and all the other doors. But look at this, the blacked out powder room with the gold, all the marble, incredible. Come take a look at this sink. So it's all just inlaid marble. So you can't even see the sink. It's just sort of invisible and floating. Check out all the beautiful arches. This is the dining area that leads out to the patio. So we have guests here. We have nice chef cook meals, organic, fresh, healthy. That's how we do it. I mean, check out the massive scale of this entrance. And then all the beautiful custom woodwork and stars and glass and overlooking the spa here, the massive courtyard. Like I said, when I came in here first and the view of the mountains, I was like, I've never seen anything like it in my life. I looked at hundreds of homes, literally flew to LA to look at homes. I knew like the second I walked in here and those doors open, this was for me. I feel like I arrived. All my hard work, my efforts, my discipline, my dedication over the last 40 years was like, wow, this was a trophy piece of real estate that I deserve. For me, it just represented all the tough times, five feet under from being six feet dead in 2010. These benches, it's all handmade of wood attached into the cement, but they're beautiful. They're on both sides. Same with the fireplaces. Everything's super symmetrical. So these are really cool. I love them. And let's go down to the spa where the magic happens. Welcome to the spa. Look at this incredible area here filled with light, live trees, the beautiful fountain. Let's see if we get this fountain going here. Look at that, the magic, the fountain in action. We've got the spa on. So here at night, you can see all the stars. And actually one of the things I really love is being in the hot tub and opening up the roof and seeing all the stars shining on me. All the hard work and efforts that paid off to be here. Look at all the mosaic, all the mosaic tile was hand laid and they spent thousands of hours doing all the plaster throughout the home to support this glass structure, which took a year. They had to put these huge steel pilings through the earth. I think they went, they go down 15 feet because it's California. This structure has to be earthquake proof. Whoa, I hope you got that one. You can have a party in this spa, it's big. I watched the movies in the spa. I also, I'll tell you a little secret, Uber Eats. Yes, I have Uber Eats. I don't just have a chef, I have Uber Eats. I grab my Uber Eats, we eat in the hot tub, open the roof and we have a party. Big steam room, I meditate in here. Got 120 degrees, I just love it. Get all those toxins out of my body. Coming out of the steam, I love to just come sit here, put on my fireplace. It's as easy as one, two, three. Magic, I put all new big TVs in. This is the spa vibe. This is a spa floor. We also have a guest suite downstairs and then we also have, toward the end, commercial grade elevator, capacity 2,000 pounds, TV. Not that I watch TV in the elevator, I don't know who does. Then we have the wine room here, which I don't drink wine, but there's a full wine rack here. I guess a couple hundred bottles or more. I don't use this room much, but you can, if you like your wine. I don't like to wine, I like to get the job done. No whining, just doing. We have a little refrigerator here, some protein drinks. When you come out of the spa. The garage is quite large, so you fit five cars and also a golf cart on the end. We also have double wall hung AC systems in here that I installed. I'm a garage guy, this is a nice garage. You could actually put a triple lift in here, I think. Maybe. Hope you enjoyed the amazing tour of my place, the Howie Castle in the desert. Thank you, Luxury Home. I'll see you next time in the next Howie Pad. I'm not sure where it's gonna be, but I'm looking forward to it. Have a great day. Health is wealth. Believe in yourself. It's Howie P. See you soon. Man, I just love those doors. You're number one. Believe and you will achieve. Until next time, let's go, baby, let's go. I got you. Hey, what's up, what's up, Luxury Home Show? It's Howie P, the billion dollar brand builder. Welcome to my home.