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“Apprentice” Bill Rancic sells his mansion in Hinsdale, IL for $4.6 million
By Bob Goldsborough at 14 March, 2011, 6:06 pm
Check out Bob’s breaking-news blast today on the Chicago Tribune’s Chicago Breaking Business page, where Bob breaks the story of Bill Rancic, who won the first season of Donald Trump’s reality show “The Apprentice,” selling his five-bedroom, 12,000-square-foot mansion in Hinsdale, Ill. for $4,600,000. Rancic and his wife, Giuliana, who now star in the Style [...]
Read More >>Actor and comedian Jeff Garlin pays $591,700 to purchase a vintage condo unit on Chicago’s Gold Coast
By Bob Goldsborough at 18 February, 2011, 5:44 am
Check out Bob’s breaking-news alert at the Chicago Tribune’s Chicago Breaking Business website, where Bob recently broke the news of actor and comedian Jeff Garlin paying $591,700 to purchase a vintage condominium unit on Chicago’s Gold Coast. Garlin will continue to own a house in Los Angeles’ Sherman Oaks neighborhood, which he purchased in 2003 [...]
Read More >>Common puts Chicago condo unit up for rent, historic mansion in Glen Ellyn, IL available for $1.799M, vintage co-op on Chicago's Gold Coast that industrialist Brooks McCormick owned until his death sold by his estate for $4M
By Bob Goldsborough at 25 September, 2010, 11:10 pm
Check out Bob’s weekly real estate column in the Chicago Tribune from this past Sunday. The column is led by Bob’s exclusive — previously written about on this blog when the Tribune first published the item online item in the middle of the previous week — about rapper and actor Common placing a 1,248-square-foot condo [...]
Read More >>Hilary Duff pays $3.85M for a house in the Summit, high above Beverly Hills, CA
By Bob Goldsborough at 2 July, 2010, 4:40 pm
Young actress and singer Hilary Duff has paid $3,850,000 for a five-bedroom, 5,260-square-foot Georgian Colonial-style house in the once-and-again-celebrity-filled Summit neighborhood in Los Angeles County, high above Beverly Hills. As plenty of others have reported recently, the recently engaged Duff, 22, made the purchase several weeks ago through money manager Scott Feinstein and through her [...]
Read More >>Major-league pitcher Neal Cotts sells his condo in Chicago's River North area for $307K; former Tribune Co. chairman and CEO pays $2.625M for a penthouse condo on Chicago's Gold Coast; actor Vince Vaughn finds a renter for a Chicago town home at $7K/month
By Bob Goldsborough at 18 June, 2010, 10:52 am
Check out Bob’s Sunday real estate column in the Chicago Tribune (available online now), where he breaks the news of former Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs pitcher Neal Cotts taking a big loss on his condominium unit in Chicago’s River North neighborhood, which he just sold for $307,000 after paying $375,000 for it in [...]
Read More >>Former talk-show host Jenny Jones lists her cottage on in Barrington Hills, IL for $799K
By Bob Goldsborough at 22 April, 2010, 11:19 am
Check out Bob’s column from Sunday’s Chicago Tribune (available online now) in which Bob breaks the news of former talk-show host Jenny Jones listing her cottage on 9.3 acres in Barrington Hills, Ill. for $799,000. She’s also selling an adjoining, 6.2-acre parcel for $999,900. Jones now lives in Los Angeles. Also featured: a mansion once [...]
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 >>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. [...]
Read More >>Actor Vince Vaughn cuts the rental price for a Chicago town home he owns from $7,800 a month to $6,900
By Bob Goldsborough at 11 March, 2010, 10:03 am
Check out Bob’s weekly column in this Sunday’s Chicago Tribune (already available online), where he breaks the news of actor Vince Vaughn cutting the rental price on a Chicago town home that Vince owns from $7,800 a month to $6,900 a month. Vaughn’s main residence in Chicago continues to be his duplex penthouse in Chicago’s [...]
Read More >>Ashley Olsen lists her 2,332-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Hancock Park area for $1.399M
By Bob Goldsborough at 8 February, 2010, 6:02 pm
Actress/megabrand Ashley Olsen is expecting to take a loss on her 2,332-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park neighborhood, having just placed it on the market for $1,399,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Olsen’s listing of the three-bedroom house, which hit the market on Wednesday. Built in 1926, the house [...]
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