Movers & Shakers
Mansion in Los Angeles' Bel-Air comes on market for $85M
By Bob Goldsborough at 24 February, 2009, 12:11 pm
A 10-bedroom French-inspired “chateau” in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air area has come on the market for the cartoonish asking price of $85,000,000, vaulting it into the weird position of being the Los Angeles area’s second-highest-priced listing on the market at this time. It’s hard to know where to begin when it comes to this mansion, which [...]
Read More >>Don King lists his estate near Palm Beach, FL for $27.5M
By Bob Goldsborough at 7 February, 2009, 10:12 am
Wild-haired boxing promoter Don King has placed his oceanfront estate near Palm Beach, Fla. on the market for $27,500,000. The Wall Street Journal broke the news a while back of King’s listing of his longtime estate, which is in the community of either Manalapan, Lake Worth or Lantana (take your pick), but which everyone can [...]
Read More >>President Barack Obama's many dwellings over the years
By Bob Goldsborough at 4 February, 2009, 1:04 pm
Today we’re going to make a quick departure from our normal course of business and provide a rundown of the various properties that President Barack Obama has owned or inhabited over the years. Of course, we’re missing a few of his abodes in his life (there are some gaps that we really should fill in), [...]
Read More >>The skinny on Obama's five-bedroom oceanfront Hawaii rental
By Bob Goldsborough at 23 December, 2008, 10:06 am
We usually don’t write about rentals, but when the president-elect of the United States is staying in rented digs — as is the case right now in Hawaii — we are willing to make an exception. It might seem that there is little left to write about the spread where Barack Obama and family are [...]
Read More >>President George W. Bush buys 8,501-square-foot house in Dallas' Preston Hollow neighborhood
By Bob Goldsborough at 13 December, 2008, 9:16 am
President George W. Bush has purchased an 8,501-square-foot house in Dallas’ Preston Hollow neighborhood. We know this story was all over the news last week (in fact, it was so many places that we’re not even going to bother crediting anyone on this), but we wanted to weigh in on it (and provide a lot [...]
Read More >>Former Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady reportedly sells his mansion in Washington, DC to the Polish government for $9.55M
By Bob Goldsborough at 12 December, 2008, 10:01 am
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady reportedly has sold his brick Georgian mansion in Washington, D.C. to the Polish government for $9,550,000. The Wall Street Journal’s “Private Properties” column on Friday broke the story of Brady’s sale of his longtime D.C. house, which is at 3041 Whitehaven Street NW in Washington. Although the Journal didn’t [...]
Read More >>Former superagent Michael Ovitz lists his mansion in Los Angeles' Brentwood area for $14.95M
By Bob Goldsborough at 11 December, 2008, 4:41 pm
The Los Angeles Times’ Ann Brenoff deserves major props for breaking this story online yesterday; we also had seen this listing when it hit the market a few days back, but Ovitz’s listing agent cleverly had masked the house’s address, publishing only its street name. As a result, we had trouble figuring out the exact [...]
Read More >>Two of New York's biggest-money residential deals are contained in recent listing of $65M apartment in Manhattan's Time Warner Center
By Bob Goldsborough at 28 November, 2008, 1:28 pm
Several weeks ago, an 8,275-square-foot, 78th-floor penthouse in Manhattan’s Time Warner Center came on the market — and immediately earned itself the dubious distinction of being the highest-priced apartment listing in the city — for a whopping $65,000,000. And in a confluence that is just *too* New York to be believed, with this listing, the [...]
Read More >>24-room mansion in Los Angeles' Los Feliz area that once was owned by long-ago LA Times publisher Harry Chandler is on the market for $6.799M
By Bob Goldsborough at 26 November, 2008, 10:35 pm
An 8,891-square-foot mansion in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz area that once was owned by long-ago Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler is on the market for $6,799,000. We’re piggybacking on the fine work done way back in September by the good people over at Curbed LA, who penned a nice post on this listing at [...]
Read More >>$29.5M listing in Beverly Park area of Beverly Hills, CA; Robert Bisno's 11,894-square-foot mansion on the block
By Bob Goldsborough at 21 November, 2008, 4:58 pm
An 11,894-square-foot mansion in the Beverly Park area of Beverly Hills, Calif. has just hit the market for $29,500,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the listing of the five-bedroom mansion, which was built in 2002 and which sits on a 5.133-acre parcel at 66 Beverly Park. The mansion just came [...]
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