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Where in the world is….? Celebrity #15: Tears for Fears frontman Roland Orzabal, who long has owned a 4,266-square-foot house in Nichols Canyon in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills
By Bob Goldsborough at 27 January, 2009, 8:41 am
Today’s installment of our “Where in the world is…?” feature involves Tears for Fears frontman Roland Orzabal, a native Brit whose assimilation to the U.S. truly became complete, we’d say, when federal election records showed that he donated money to 2004 presidential candidate Dick Gephardt. And Orzabal’s longtime ownership of a 4,266-square-foot house in Nichols [...]
Read More >>Singer Daniel Powter lists his 2,659-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Brentwood area for $2.295M
By Bob Goldsborough at 27 January, 2009, 8:37 am
Frequently hatted (see photo for proof; a knit cap or ballcap always adorns his head) recording artist Daniel Powter has placed his four-bedroom, 2,659-square-foot, contemporary-style house in Los Angeles’ Brentwood area on the market for $2,295,000. Kudos to the Los Angeles Times’ Ann Brenoff for breaking the story on January 21 of Powter’s listing of [...]
Read More >>Where in the world is….? Celebrity #14: Men at Work frontman Colin Hay, whose U.S. home is his longtime, two-bedroom 1,620-square-foot house in Topanga, CA
By Bob Goldsborough at 24 January, 2009, 3:57 pm
Today’s installment of our “Where in the world is…?” feature involves Colin Hay, the immensely entertaining, Scottish-Australian frontman of the 1980s pop music group Men at Work, who long has owned a 1,620-square-foot house in the unincorporated Topanga, Calif. region, which is north of Malibu. For whatever reason, the U.S. real estate owned by Hay, [...]
Read More >>Even more Los Angeles-area price-cutting; Encino mansion that singer Macy Gray once owned has been slashed to $8.495M (far below its original $11.7M asking price)
By Bob Goldsborough at 18 January, 2009, 7:59 pm
The mansion in Los Angeles’ Encino area that singer Macy Gray once owned — and that has since been extensively rehabbed — has undergone a significant price cut down to $8,495,000, far below its original $11,700,000 asking price. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the new listing price for the mansion [...]
Read More >>Romance novelist Leigh Court and her rock ‘n’ roll tour director-producer husband Timm Woolley re-list their house and 11.65-acre estate in Malibu, CA for $2.799M
By Bob Goldsborough at 12 January, 2009, 11:38 pm
Romance novelist Leigh Court and her husband, rock ‘n’ roll tour director-producer Timm Woolley, have re-listed their house and 11.9-acre estate in Malibu, Calif. for $2,799,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the couple’s re-listing of their property in Malibu. Back in December 2007, the Los Angeles Times’ Ruth Ryon reported [...]
Read More >>Singer Michelle Branch lists her four-bedroom house in Nashville for $1.285M — less than a year after purchasing it for $1.35M!
By Bob Goldsborough at 19 December, 2008, 2:32 pm
Singer Michelle Branch has placed her four-bedroom house in the Belle Meade area of Nashville on the market for $1,285,000 — less than a year after she purchased it for $1,350,000. Our friends over at the Real Estalker broke the story the other day of Branch’s surprise listing of her house in Nashville. Indeed, the [...]
Read More >>Music producer (and Roy's widow) Barbara Orbison lists her three-bedroom house in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $2.795M
By Bob Goldsborough at 15 December, 2008, 11:19 pm
Music producer Barbara Orbison, who is the widow of Roy Orbison, has placed her three-bedroom house in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills on the market for $2,795,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Orbison’s listing of the house, which hit the market on December 8. Built in [...]
Read More >>The latest from the land of foreclosures and controversial sales: Fantasia Barrino's house in NC, former Michael Vick dogfighting home in VA, and T-Boz's house in GA
By Bob Goldsborough at 14 December, 2008, 9:14 am
Today we’re going to write a “round-up” post, which is somewhat unusual for us but highly appropriate given that it’s about foreclosures and controversial properties, and given how much trouble bold-faced names (and buyers of bold-faced names’ properties) seem to be having paying for or selling their homes lately. The names and properties we’ll discuss [...]
Read More >>Producer Scott Humphrey lists his four-bedroom house — and recording studio — in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $2.695M
By Bob Goldsborough at 12 December, 2008, 9:55 am
Rock and roll producer Scott Humphrey has placed his house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills — complete with a recording studio — on the market for $2,695,000. Kudos to the Los Angeles Times’ Ann Brenoff who beat us to the punch on this one with her report on it the other day. In our own [...]
Read More >>Entertainment mogul Phil Maloof lists his house in Beverly Hills, CA for $16.995M
By Bob Goldsborough at 29 November, 2008, 7:01 pm
Entertainment mogul Phil Maloof has become the latest member of his large sports and entertainment family to place a Los Angeles-area house on the market, listing his 11,679-square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills for $16,995,000. Maloof listed the six-bedroom mansion, which is referred to in listing information as “Villa Bouganvilla” (sic), on the day before Halloween. [...]
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