June 6, 2008
- Where in the world is…..? Celebrity #8: Hilary Duff, who owns two houses in Los Angeles’ Toluca Lake neighborhood, which she purchased for $3,500,000 in 2004 and $1,650,000 in 2006
Today’s installment of “Where in the world is….?” involves 20-year-old singer and actress Hilary Duff, who owns two houses that are just a few doors away from one another in Los Angeles’ Toluca Lake neighborhood.
We’ve written many times about L.A.’s celebrity-heavy Toluca Lake precinct, including in April 2007, when we provided a roll call of [...]
April 28, 2008
- Van Halen brothers’ sale price revealed; rocker brothers sold their late mother’s home in the Summit neighborhood in the Beverly Hills, CA postal area for $1.5M (even though it had been listed for $2.2M)
The sale price of the 2,917-square-foot house in the gated Summit neighborhood above Beverly Hills, Calif. that rocker brothers Eddie and Alex Van Halen recently sold has just cleared public records, which reveal that the Van Halens fetched just $1,500,000 for the house, even though it had been on the market for $2,200,000.
In a Big [...]
February 6, 2008
- Devo’s Gerald Casale pays $2M for a Richard Neutra-designed house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills
Musician and vocalist Gerald Casale, who co-founded the new wave band Devo, has paid $2,000,000 for a modernist, Richard Neutra-designed, single-family house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the purchase by Casale, who turns 60 this year. Records show that Casale purchased the 1,732-square-foot house, which [...]
September 28, 2007
- Sale of Paris Hilton’s house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills is recorded with no sale price available just yet (rumored to be $4.2M); as many had reported, the buyers are Texas lawyers
The sale of Paris Hilton’s house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills was recorded two weeks ago, and as many of our respected peers had reported, the buyers are two Texas lawyers.
Public records show that the sale of her house at 1467 N. Kings Road in the Hollywood Hills closed on Aug. 21 and was recorded [...]
September 17, 2007
- Madonna’s former house in Beverly Hills, CA on market for $17.495M
An eight-bedroom mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif. that once was owned by Madonna has just come on the market for $17,495,000.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the listing of the 6,458-square-foot Spanish-style house at 1015 N. Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills, which its current owners purchased in 2004 from Madonna’s Lot [...]
September 12, 2007
- Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman pays $516K for a newly converted condo unit in Los Angeles’ West Hollywood adjacent area
Joe Trohman, the lead guitarist for the extremely popular/MTV darling band Fall Out Boy, has paid $516,000 for a newly converted condominium unit in a trendy condominium complex in Los Angeles’ West Hollywood adjacent area.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the purchase by Trohman, 23, of his unit in the Rob [...]
September 4, 2007
- Jason Priestley’s sale price revealed; actor sold his Hollywood Hills home for $1.902M
Back on June 13, we wrote that former ‘90210′ hunk Jason Priestley had sold his house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for an undisclosed price.
Now, in a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can reveal that Los Angeles County records show that Priestley sold the four-bedroom, 3,550-square-foot house for $1,902,000. Built in 1928, the house [...]
August 28, 2007
- Buyer of Damon Wayans’ 5BR L.A. house flips it for $4.4M
Back on April 20, we wrote that the buyer of the gated, five-bedroom, Spanish-style house in the Toluca Lake area of Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley that comedian Damon Wayans had owned from 2001 to 2006 had listed the house for $4,495,000, just months after buying the home from Wayans for $3.3 million.
Now, in a [...]
August 18, 2007
- Steve Carell sells home in Los Angeles’ Studio City for $1.5M; now lives in Los Angeles’ Toluca Lake area in a 6,637-square-foot house he purchased in 2006 for an undisclosed amount
Funnyman Steve Carell has sold his longtime home in Los Angeles’ Studio City area for $1.5 million, and now owns a house in Los Angeles’ Toluca Lake area that he purchased last year for an undisclosed amount.
The Los Angeles Times’ Ruth Ryon tomorrow will break the story of Carell’s latest real-estate moves.
As Ryon correctly noted, [...]
August 17, 2007
- Posh and Becks purchase price of their Beverly Hills, CA mansion revealed; celebrity power couple paid $18.2M for the one-story mansion, and not the $22M amount that has been reported everywhere
Public records have cleared on the amount paid for the one-story, 13,149-square-foot mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif. that David Beckham and his wife Victoria/Posh Spice, purchased on April 21, and they reveal that the celebrity power couple paid $18,200,000 for the newly built home, and not the $22,000,000 amount that has been reported everywhere.
In a [...]
August 9, 2007
- Peter Gallagher of ‘The O.C.’ and his wife pay exactly $3M for 5,225-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Brentwood neighborhood
We’re a little late with this item, but actor Peter Gallagher and his wife, Paula Harwood, have paid exactly $3,000,000 for a 5,225-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Brentwood neighborhood.
Back on March 20, Gallagher, 51, and his wife purchased the house at 1130 N. Bundy Avenue, which was built in 1948, according to public records. [...]
- Kanye West purchase price revealed; rap star paid $7.15 million for home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Back in March, we wrote about rap star Kanye West purchasing a 3,299-square-foot house in the flats of Beverly Hills, Calif., shortly after the Los Angeles Times’ Ruth Ryon had reported that West had paid ‘close to $7.2 million’ for the house.
Now, in a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report that public records have [...]
July 23, 2007
- Actress Scarlett Johnansson pays a reported $8M for house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills
Actress Scarlett Johansson has paid a reported $8 million for a house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills.
Us magazine first reported on Johansson’s purchase, and the Real Estalker wrote a nice follow-up on the purchase as well. Public records show that Johansson’s Tupelo Honey Trust purchased the house at 7222 Senalda Drive on April 27 [...]
July 17, 2007
- Which celebrity’s house is this? House #6: 12120 Laurel Terrace Drive in Los Angeles’ Studio City neighborhood
Today’s installment of “Which celebrity’s house is this?” involves this three-bedroom, 1,643-square-foot house at 12120 Laurel Terrace in Los Angeles’ Studio City neighborhood. It sold on February 7 for $1,085,000 to something called the E P A R P Trust, leading us to wonder: is this a celebrity’s house?
The trust’s manager, Sean Maher, does [...]
July 16, 2007
- Actor Ed O’Neill sells his 3BR house in Beverly Hills, Calif. for $1.9M
Actor Ed O’Neill, best known for his role as Al Bundy on TV’s “Married… with Children,” has sold his three bedroom, 3,089-square-foot house in Beverly Hills, Calif. for $1,900,000.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report that on June 14, O’Neill and his wife, Catherine Rusoff O’Neill, sold the house at 9477 Gloaming Drive, [...]
- Former Lorenzo Lamas-owned mansion in the Oaks neighborhood in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz area is available for $4.5M
A historic, Mediterranean-style mansion in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz area is on the market for $4,500,000.
Built in 1922 and rumored to be the first house ever built in the Oaks, the 4,348-square-foot house at 2149 E. Live Oak Drive has another distinction: it was owned by actor Lorenzo Lamas from 1996 until 1999. Lamas [...]
July 10, 2007
- All-time U.S. listing record set in Beverly Hills, CA: massive estate listed for $165M
A 29-bedroom estate in Beverly Hills, Calif. that has four houses on 6.25 acres has just been listed for an all-time U.S. listing record of $165 million.
The staggering amount is for the “Beverly House Compound” at 1011 N. Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, which has been owned by hotel and real estate investor/financier Leonard M. [...]
July 9, 2007
- Which celebrity’s house is this? House #5: 2418 St. George Street in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz neighborhood
Today’s installment of “Which celebrity’s house is this?” involves this three-bedroom, 1,974-square-foot house at 2418 St. George Street in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz/Franklin Hills neighborhood, which sold on Mar. 22 for $915,000 to something called the Queen Street Trust, according to public records.
The Queen Street Trust’s manager, Bruce Weber, also manages the real-estate affairs of [...]
July 5, 2007
- Which celebrity’s house was this? House #2: 9400 Readcrest Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif., which had been listed for $3,499,000 and which sold on March 29 for an undisclosed amount
We’re continuing our occasional series of features on potential celebrity houses that have sold recently and that have been owned by the obscure kinds of trusts that celebrities tend to favor. This 3,948-square-foot house at 9400 Readcrest Drive in Beverly Hills has three bedrooms and a pool, according to public records. It was [...]
June 25, 2007
- We wouldn’t have minded a little attribution regarding Ashley Jensen. And Fred Durst. And Joely Fisher…..
Sunday’s Los Angeles Times contained a rare hat trick—no fewer than three items penned by celebrity real estate writer Ruth Ryon that had appeared previously on our blog (as well as elsewhere). Indeed, fully half of Ryon’s main “Hot Property” column was items that we had written about before here at Big Time Listings.
Ryon [...]
