Proudspire Manor

Description
Proudspire Manor is the most expensive house available in Skyrim. It is located next to the Bards College and Vittoria Vici's house on the eastern side of Solitude. Though blights and cobwebs appear at first, renovating it will soon improve its appearance. When you are walking towards the Blue Palace there is a brazier on fire on your left just before the Bards college. Proudspire Manor is the door before the brazier. You can also go up the steps before that doorway, Vittoria Vici's house is the door to the left, Proudspire Manor is the door on the right. The exterior of the manor has a nice amount of flowers that can be picked.

Acquisition
This manor may be bought for 25,000 from Falk Firebeard after completing The Man Who Cried Wolf and Elisif's Tribute. The total cost, including decorations, will be 36,000. Buying this house is one of the things you have to do before becoming a Thane of Solitude.

Advantages and disadvantages
Proudspire Manor is by far the most expensive home for sale. While it has both an alchemy table and an enchanting table, it is smaller and offers fewer storage options than Hjerim. Solitude itself offers excellent amenities, however, including the widest selection of shopkeepers in the game. The Solitude fence is conveniently located nearby in-town. Proudspire Manor is also home to a Stone of Barenziah, making it very desirable for purchase.

Upgrades
A selection of upgrades are available for purchase from the Steward after you have bought the house.

Item displays
''See Solitude Home Decorating Guide for more detailed descriptions. ''
 * 2 Weapon Plaques
 * 2 Shield Plaques
 * 2 Mannequins
 * 7 Weapon Racks
 * 12 Bookshelves (holding a total of 132 books)

Current Bugs
Bugs are not guaranteed to occur, these are simply the bugs encountered by small groups of players and should not deter you from using the house as some players have none of these bugs occur. Workaround: Use "Unlock" on console commands; "Fix" - Becoming Thane of Solitude entitles the player to a housecarl, which for some reason unlocks all doors, including the back door. Workaround: It is possible to unlock this door using the key to the Solitude Fletcher, which can be pickpocketed off of one of the store owners.
 * The mannequin in the basement may move off of its stand and stand in the middle of the enchanting room, but it will still act as though it is on the stand as you can walk through the mannequin but not walk through the stand. Also, the mannequin can only be activated from where it should normally be on its stand and once something is taken from it (And possibly given, though this hasn't been confirmed yet) the mannequin will instantly move back to its stand.
 * After becoming Thane of Haafingar, Proudspire Manor will become slightly bugged and won't "count" as your house. While you can enter it and use it fully like a player home, you will be treated as a trespasser: Your Housecarl will berate you for entering the home, and you won't get bonuses from sleeping.
 * Sometimes walking out on the patio, after purchasing the upgrade, the door will say "Requires Key" even though you have it, making it impossible to enter through the patio door. Entering through the other two entrances still works.
 * Spouses will often sleep on the Bedroll in the basement near the enchanting and alchemy tables. This can prevent you from getting the Lover's Comfort effect after sleeping.
 * Near the mannequins, there is a texture bug that can appear on the wall behind them.
 * The Weapons Rack and mannequins in the basement which can hold weapons/shields/armor do not always work. Sometimes, weapons can be put in racks but no armor on the mannequins, and vice-versa. The mannequins tend to disappear regardless of what you place onto it. However, if you remove one piece of apparel from the mannequins, the other pieces will become visible.
 * The Weapons Rack in the master bedroom on the third floor might not allow any weapons to be mounted on them at all.
 * Near the Weapons Rack in the basement, Hay floats a few feet in the air above a side table.
 * Upon becoming Thane of Solitude the Housecarl's Quarters in the basement remain an undecorated room and do not become furnished like the Housecarl Quarters in the other homes.
 * Workaround:  and   will decorate this room. If two boxes on the right is not disappear then click on it or just type console commands   then type.
 * Bugs related to sometimes the mannequins are spawned in the middle of the room instead of on their respective platforms but the interaction with the mannequins is still over their platform; it's possible that when the mannequins disappear that they are merely spawning in the walls or some other inaccessible location.
 * The 5 weapon rack in the basement is only able to accept weapons in the three middle slots. It's unknown if this is a bug, oversight, or intentional. Sometimes if you place weapons on the outside racks, the weapon can not be taken again. It will still ask to place weapon. You can layer the slot, not being able to retrieve them either. However if you place a staff in the slot, it can be taken from the top. It is unclear if it is larger than the "unable to retrieve" bug box.
 * Manequins will replicate items placed on them if you put it on and then take it off the mannequin without leaving the inventory window. There is no known way to stop this, but could be beneficial to the user
 * On loading my save inside of Proudspire Manor, standing near the front door, after installing Patch 1.6 a bookshelf opened that was out of sight and the books began to disappear one-by-one. Upon subsequent loads I was able to 'take all' and they are all inconsequential books, possibly from the bookshelf upstairs. A few of the reloads opened presumably the same bookshelf, from the front door, but had no books in it or less books in it. Workaround/Exploit: If you want to change what item is being duped but the spot is taken (it actually always dupes the old items as well, but this way adds more), go into the mannequin inventory, take off what item was duped, now exit, go back in, put it back in, then put on the new item, then exit, enter it again, take the item off, put it back on, then take it off again, exit, open it again, put the item on, then take it off again, then put it back on, leave, come back, take it off, leave, then come back again.
 * The Ghostblade cannot be put on any of the Weapon Racks in Proudspire Manor. It will be instantaneously deleted.
 * When you first access the mannequins, if you mount something, then remove it without leaving the inventory screen it will duplicate the item when you leave the house. While this can be useful it also means nothing can be displayed except that item.
 * Upon going into your house your possessions that are in the brown "tray" near the enchanter may be scattered everywhere on the floor.
 * When you leave your house you sometimes drop out of solitude and ALL of your followers die.
 * Workaround: Fixed by loading working save file
 * It is possible that when you load a save in the house all your upgrades disappear.
 * Workaround: Fixed by reloading your save
 * Bugs such as Basement Wall Clipping, Three Item Weapon Racks, and "Dissapearing Mannequins" still exist on the.
 * When putting two headpieces on the mannequins and later leaving your house, when you come back take away your first then leave again. Next time you enter the house, your first hat have duplicated and is active on the mannequin. Sometimes putting armor on the mannequin which is duplicating headpieces will cause the armor to be deleted upon re-entering the house.
 * As with other Holds, sometimes the chain for acquiring Proudspire Manor will break for various, poorly understood programming reasons. For example, Jarl Elisif will tell the player she is considering making them a Thane of Solitude, on the condition that the player own a house in Solitude first. In some cases, if the player buys the house immediately after being told to, Jarl Elisif then will not acknowledge you as a Thane, also preventing you from being given the associated ceremonial enchanted weapon and housecarl. In some cases, this can be avoided by talking to the Jarl again immediately after she tells you to buy a house, and choosing the new conversation choice "Is there anything else I can do for you, Jarl?" Once this is done, then buying the house may not break the quest chain.
 * The far right slot on the Wepon Rack downstairs will allow you to put as many weapons as you want on it, but you can't get them back.
 * Sometimes, everything in proudspire manor will be marked as stolen, despite you owning it. This includes weapons and armour mounted on display objects and everything placed within chests. Could be caused by either entering through the lower entrance on the street, or purchasing an upgrade of sorts.
 * The chest at the foot of the upstairs bedroom is backwards, so the latches are facing you when you are opening it, and the chest opens facing the bed.
 * Placing the Daedric staff Skull of Corruption on the 5 weapon rack in the basement will cause it to fall on the ground always when you enter back into Proudspire Manor even though you'd put it back it will still fall off.
 * Sometimes a weapon will fall off the weapon plaques in the basement.

Officially Patched Bugs

 * Everything in the first floor kitchen will fall through the big and small table and onto the floor after leaving your home and reentering. (Fixed in Patch 1.3)
 * The weapons rack in the master bedroom on the third floor will not allow any weapons to be mounted on them at all. (Fixed in Patch 1.3)
 * Mannequins all work (after patch 1.4)
 * All the slots of the 5 slot weapons rack in the basement work.(after patch 1.4), But beware, the other two slots that didn't work earlier can only have two-handed weapons. If by any chance place any other weapons they cannot be retrieved and it keeps saying 'activate weaponrack' Although you can look towards the top of the weapon rack above the weapon and are still able to retrieve it. (tested it on). If you're on and this happens to you, you can use the console command 'tcl' to fly slightly behind the weapons rack to fetch your weapon. (or you can use the 'delete' command on the command console) but that wil make the weapon disappear.
 * You can also click on the item and then type  in console mode.