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Singer Deborah Gibson gets out from under her house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills, unloading it for $900K and thereby avoiding losing it to foreclosure
By Bob Goldsborough at 7 September, 2009, 10:07 am
With the threat of foreclosure aimed straight at her, singer Deborah Gibson has dodged a bullet by unloading her 1,733-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $900,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the sad ending to a tale that could have ended far more sadly, had Gibson been unable [...]
Read More >>Pop singer Natasha Bedingfield pays $2.3M to purchase a house in Los Angeles' Los Feliz area
By Bob Goldsborough at 7 September, 2009, 9:38 am
Pop singer Natasha Bedingfield has paid $2,300,000 to purchase a four-bedroom, contemporary-style house in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz area. This is a house that is long overdue for us to write about. The Los Angeles Times’ Lauren Beale broke the story of it way back on July 24, and then our friends over at the [...]
Read More >>Deal reportedly close for Bjork to purchase a co-op unit in Brooklyn that had been on the market for $4.25M
By Bob Goldsborough at 3 September, 2009, 11:52 am
Singer Bjork reportedly will close later this month for a four-bedroom, penthouse co-op unit in Brooklyn that last was listed for $4,250,000. Rumors about Bjork heading to Brooklyn have been all over the Internet for the last few weeks, and our friends over at the Real Estalker provided many of the details on Bjork’s process [...]
Read More >>Singer Lisa Loeb pays $1.125M for a four-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Valley Village area
By Bob Goldsborough at 21 August, 2009, 10:06 am
Singer Lisa Loeb has quietly paid $1,125,000 to purchase a four-bedroom, custom-built, Cape Cod-style house in Los Angeles’ Valley Village area. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Loeb’s purchase of the 3,229-square-foot house. Records show that the deal closed in June. Shortly after the purchase, Loeb transferred the property into a [...]
Read More >>Mansion in Beverly Hills, CA that Ricky Martin once owned is back on the market for $26.9M
By Bob Goldsborough at 21 August, 2009, 10:00 am
A six-bedroom mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif. (well, actually, in the Beverly Hills postal district, or the BH PO) that Ricky Martin owned from 2004 until 2006 has come back on the market, this time for $26,900,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the listing of the house at 1309 Davies [...]
Read More >>Rocker Michael Anthony has his 5,894-square-foot house in Glendora, CA on the market for $2.295M
By Bob Goldsborough at 13 August, 2009, 5:07 pm
Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony quietly has had his 5,894-square-foot house in Glendora, Calif. on the market since June for $2,295,000. Blockshopper.com appears to have broken the story on Monday of Anthony’s listing of the five-bedroom house in the Silent Ranch Estates area of Glendora, which has been on the market since June 11. [...]
Read More >>Five for Fighting's John Ondrasik sells his house in Los Angeles' Encino area for $1.095M
By Bob Goldsborough at 13 August, 2009, 10:19 am
Singer John Ondrasik has sold his 4,078-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Encino area for $1,095,000. As we continue to dig out from our absence and write about items that others have written about but not yet us, we wanted to highlight this item, which first was written about — we think — by Blockshopper.com. We, [...]
Read More >>Hip-hop record producer Suge Knight's former four-bedroom house in Las Vegas is on the market for $1.495M
By Bob Goldsborough at 13 August, 2009, 10:12 am
Hip-hop record producer Suge Knight’s former four-bedroom house in Las Vegas has been listed for $1,495,000. TMZ.com on Wednesday exclusively wrote about the listing of the house, which is at 6980 Monte Rosa Avenue in Las Vegas. Built in 1992, the house was owned by Knight from April 1996 (when he bought it for $1,625,000) [...]
Read More >>Legendary Chicago morning-radio host Spike O'Dell sells his house in Aurora, IL for $525K
By Bob Goldsborough at 3 August, 2009, 11:03 am
Check out Bob’s weekly column in the Chicago Tribune about legendary (and now-retired) WGN-AM morning-radio host Spike O’Dell, who recently sold his house in Aurora, Ill. (home of Wayne and Garth of Wayne’s World) for $525,000. Also featured: WMAQ-Ch. 5 reporter Charlie Wojciechowski and Chicago Bulls point guard Kirk Hinrich.
Read More >>Cher re-lists her 13,126-square-foot Italian Renaissance-style mansion in Malibu, CA, this time for $41M
By Bob Goldsborough at 25 July, 2009, 8:52 am
Cher has re-listed her 13,126-square-foot Italian Renaissance-style mansion in Malibu, Calif. for $41,000,000. Our friends over at the Real Estalker broke the story of this listing last week, and we wanted to weigh in on it as well before it gets too late. Indeed, the MLS shows that the mansion, which sits on a 1.72-acre [...]
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