We head upstairs, past bedrooms for Wahlberg and his wife of five years, former model Rhea Durham, through the kids’ rooms, and over to a two-level study, with a spiral staircase that takes you down to the basement below. (Well, most of them: Wahlberg jokes that WME agent Adam Venit, whose home is perched above, keeps asking in frustration, “When are you going to get it done?”) He leads me to the garden and a grottolike pool, dug into a covelike setting with hills blocking out the neighbors. “ I knew it was a smart investment after the market crashes, I don’t want some stockbroker calling me, saying, ‘Hey, by the way, you lost everything.’ “ “When I built it, I didn’t necessarily know if this was something we were going to live in,” he acknowledges as we move through the two-story foyer. He leads me into the house and shows me around. He’s long gotten used to dealing with obstacles like these, and worse - money that fell through for films producers who didn’t believe in him even thugs who jumped him in jail and gangbangers who tried to keep him on the gritty streets of Boston. If the answer isn’t quite what Wahlberg wanted, he shows no sign of irritation. “They’re being shipped,” the man replies with a shrug. “We got the doors yet?” Wahlberg asks a foreman as he gets out of the car. PHOTOS: Mark Wahlberg’s Road From Movie Star to Mogul And the front yard looks like a construction site.

But there’s a massive amount to be done - wooden and marble floors to be laid, walls painted. The place is enormous - it’s 30,000 square feet and three stories tall (if you include the basement), a modern-day Versailles, so huge it dwarfs many of the gargantuan houses around it.ĭozens of workers scurry around, racing to finish the building before Wahlberg moves in at the beginning of 2014. Then he pulls up abruptly to an elegant megamansion in the final stages of construction.

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