Celebrity Real Estate
Cyclist Christian Vande Velde pays $775K to purchase a five-bedroom house on 4.75 acres in Lemont, IL; his town home in Lemont is on the market for $375K
By Bob Goldsborough at 5 April, 2010, 12:17 pm
Check out Bob’s story that ran in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune in which Bob broke the story of cyclist Christian Vande Velde paying $775,000 for a five-bedroom house on 4.75 acres in Lemont, Ill., a southwest suburb of Chicago. Bob also notes that a town home owned by Vande Velde, who has ridden with Lance Armstrong, [...]
Read More >>Detroit Pistons forward-center Ben Wallace sells his 6,983-square-foot house in Lake Forest, IL for just over $2M — fully $1M less than he paid for it in late 2006
By Bob Goldsborough at 1 April, 2010, 10:23 pm
Check out Bob’s story that was just uploaded in the last hour to the Chicago Tribune’s Chicago Breaking Business blog. Bob breaks the news of current Detroit Piston (and former Chicago Bull) Ben Wallace unloading his 6,983-square-foot house in Lake Forest, Ill. on Thursday, April 1 for $2,057,500 after paying $3,000,000 for it in late [...]
Read More >>Contemporary Mediterranean-style house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills area that actress Halle Berry once owned sells for $2.8M — $1.35M less than Halle sold it for in 2006!
By Bob Goldsborough at 1 April, 2010, 8:59 pm
A 4,315-square-foot, contemporary Mediterranean-style house in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills that actress Halle Berry once owned has sold for $2,800,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the sale of the three-bedroom house at 1368 Doheny Place. The sellers, who purchased the house in late 2005/early 2006 [...]
Read More >>San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito pays $2.155M for a house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills
By Bob Goldsborough at 31 March, 2010, 12:30 pm
San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito has paid $2,155,000 to purchase a 4,366-square-foot house in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Zito’s purchase of the four-bedroom house, which had been listed for $2.25 million and then for $2.15 million. Built in 1962, [...]
Read More >>Chicago Bears defensive tackle takes big loss on his house in Vernon Hills, IL, selling it for $480K
By Bob Goldsborough at 27 March, 2010, 9:20 am
Check out Bob’s weekly column in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune (available online now), where Bob breaks the story of Chicago Bears defensive tackle Israel Idonije selling his house in Vernon Hills, Ill. — at a big loss — for $480,000. Also featured: Bob breaks the news of Chicago Cubs president Crane Kenney paying $1.5 million for [...]
Read More >>Kourtney Kardashian lists home in Calabasas, CA for $795K
By Bob Goldsborough at 20 March, 2010, 9:27 pm
Celebutante Kourtney Kardashian has listed her three-bedroom house in Calabasas, Calif. for $795,000. Kardashian, 30, clearly expects to take a loss on the 2,245-square-foot house, which she purchased in 2006 for $829,000. TMZ.com, which is not only our favorite website but also our favorite television show, wrote today about the listing, which came on the [...]
Read More >>Chicago TV reporter Ben Bradley lowers the asking price of his 5BR, single-family house in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood to $1.299M
By Bob Goldsborough at 18 March, 2010, 2:26 pm
Check out Bob’s weekly column in this coming Sunday’s Chicago Tribune (available online now), in which he breaks the story of Chicago TV reporter Ben Bradley cutting the asking price of his five-bedroom, 2,898-square-foot house in Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood from $1,350,000 to $1,299,000. Also featured: Bob writes about former Oprah Winfrey attorney, agent and [...]
Read More >>House in Los Angeles' Bel-Air area that rocker Fred Durst once owned comes back on the market for $6.45 million
By Bob Goldsborough at 15 March, 2010, 1:12 am
A 6,624-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air neighborhood that rocker Fred Durst once owned has come back on the market for $6.45 million. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the listing of the house, which is at 461 Bellagio Terrace in Bel-Air. Durst owned the four-bedroom house from the time he [...]
Read More >>Conan O'Brien formally lists his duplex penthouse in The Majestic building in Manhattan for $29.5M
By Bob Goldsborough at 15 March, 2010, 12:49 am
Weeks after Conan O’Brien was reported to have been quietly listing his duplex penthouse in The Majestic building in Manhattan, the wan will o’ the wisp (as we once read him described) has officially listed the unit for $29,500,000. Props to Chloe Malle over at the New York Observer for reporting last week on O’Brien’s [...]
Read More >>Screenwriter, director and actor Mike Binder lists his house in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades area for $7.595M
By Bob Goldsborough at 11 March, 2010, 10:32 am
Screenwriter, director and sometime-actor Mike Binder — known for so many things, including writing and appearing in the movie The Upside of Anger and for co-writing and co-directing his own HBO series The Mind of the Married Man — has placed his five-bedroom mansion in Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood on the market for $7,595,000. [...]
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