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An ignominious ending? Ruth Ryon’s next-to-last column in the Los Angeles Times – on the reported $7M Nicole Kidman purchase of a home in Los Angeles’ Brentwood area – turns out to be a dud; actress never wound up buying the house and is still looking for a home
By Bob Goldsborough at 10 April, 2008, 6:44 am
Commenters have been all over us this week to provide details on the new home in Los Angeles’ Brentwood area that actress Nicole Kidman was reported by the Los Angeles Times’ soon-to-retire Ruth Ryon on Sunday to have been “settling” into after having purchased recently for $7 million. Trust us, dear readers – we would [...]
Read More >>Welcome aboard the celebrity real estate beat, Ann!
By Bob Goldsborough at 7 April, 2008, 6:53 am
As our friends over at the Real Estalker noted yesterday, the Los Angeles Times on Friday announced that Times veteran Ann Brenoff will take over the storied “Hot Property” column, replacing Ruth Ryon, who founded the column (and truly, created the niche). From us, a warm welcome to the beat to Brenoff, 58, who has [...]
Read More >>Actor/musician “Little Steven” Van Zandt pays $6M for a condo in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village area
By Bob Goldsborough at 13 March, 2008, 9:21 am
Guitarist and actor Steven Van Zandt has paid exactly $6,000,000 for a three-bedroom, penthouse condominium unit in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village area. The New York Observer’s “The Real Estate” column broke the story late yesterday of the recording of Little Steven’s purchase of the unit, which is in the eight-unit Novare development inside the converted Methodist [...]
Read More >>Ruth Ryon leaving the LA Times?
By Bob Goldsborough at 5 March, 2008, 9:28 am
We have just learned that the Los Angeles Times’ celebrity real estate columnist Ruth Ryon, who launched the “Hot Property” column in 1984 and who pioneered the celebrity real estate gossip format that all of the rest of us – which includes Big Time Listings, the Real Estalker, the New York Observer’s “Manhattan Transfers” column, [...]
Read More >>Forrest Sawyer pays $3.81M for Manhattan condo
By Bob Goldsborough at 4 March, 2008, 3:23 am
Former TV journalist Forrest Sawyer has paid $3,810,000 for a condominium unit on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The New York Post’s fine celebrity real estate journalist Braden Keil broke the story today of Sawyer’s recent purchase of the unit in the building at 230 Riverside Drive, which only was recorded on Tuesday. However, the contract [...]
Read More >>Extra, extra (not really); three of the five items in tomorrow's "Hot Property" column in the LA Times already have appeared here at Big Time Listings, including actor John O'Hurley listing his Beverly Hills, CA home, comedy director/creator James Burrows quietly selling his house in Los Angeles' Bel-Air ar
By Bob Goldsborough at 4 March, 2008, 3:18 am
Big Time Listings readers may be forgiven for feeling a sense of deja vu if they read today’s “Hot Property” column in the Los Angeles Times. No fewer than three of columnist Ruth Ryon’s five items in tomorrow’s column are items that previously have appeared here on our blog (her items of course appear without [...]
Read More >>The Malibu fires
By Bob Goldsborough at 3 March, 2008, 2:55 am
Like everyone else, we feel terrible about the fires in Malibu, Calif. that are ravaging the oceanfront community. Not all of the owners of the three homes that had been destroyed as of Sunday afternoon had yet been identified, although there’s little doubt that at least one homeowner will wind up being a celebrity. As [...]
Read More >>Mystery buyer at Trump World Tower at United Nations Plaza identified; private-equity guru Chinh Chu (of the Blackstone group) paid $34.3M for three-unit spread on the 89th and 90th floors
By Bob Goldsborough at 3 March, 2008, 2:48 am
The New York real-estate press has been atwitter over the last two days over the recent reported buyer of the final three units at Trump World Tower in New York, which paid $34,268,185 for the 34-room, 14,864-square-foot penthouse duplex. Indeed, it had appeared that all that was known was that the buyer was CCHP Holdings [...]
Read More >>Odds & Ends: a smattering of small items, bundled into one blog post (Scary Spice, Kate Walsh, Natalie Portman, Chris Webber)
By Bob Goldsborough at 3 March, 2008, 2:10 am
Today we’re providing our first-ever Odds & Ends post, which is a mishmash of small items that aren’t significant enough to stand on their own in Big Time Listings. We present this because in recent weeks, a number of celebrities’ home sale prices have become known, but haven’t been any different from the amounts what [...]
Read More >>Odds & Ends: a smattering of small items, bundled into one blog post (Natalie Maines, Nicole Murphy, Terry O'Quinn)
By Bob Goldsborough at 3 March, 2008, 2:06 am
We’re going to start off this Tuesday with another Odds & Ends post, which is a mishmash of small items that aren’t significant enough to be separate posts here at Big Time Listings: –Public records just cleared on the purchase price that Dixie Chick Natalie Maines paid through her Kimberly Lane Trust for her new, [...]
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