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Pop singer Natasha Bedingfield pays $2.3M to purchase a house in Los Angeles' Los Feliz area
By Bob Goldsborough at 7 September, 2009, 9:38 am
Pop singer Natasha Bedingfield has paid $2,300,000 to purchase a four-bedroom, contemporary-style house in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz area. This is a house that is long overdue for us to write about. The Los Angeles Times’ Lauren Beale broke the story of it way back on July 24, and then our friends over at the [...]
Read More >>Deal reportedly close for Bjork to purchase a co-op unit in Brooklyn that had been on the market for $4.25M
By Bob Goldsborough at 3 September, 2009, 11:52 am
Singer Bjork reportedly will close later this month for a four-bedroom, penthouse co-op unit in Brooklyn that last was listed for $4,250,000. Rumors about Bjork heading to Brooklyn have been all over the Internet for the last few weeks, and our friends over at the Real Estalker provided many of the details on Bjork’s process [...]
Read More >>Mark Ruffalo making a deal? Actor apparently has accepted an offer to sell his three-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills, which has been listed for $1.685M
By Bob Goldsborough at 3 September, 2009, 9:44 am
Actor Mark Ruffalo has accepted an offer to sell his has three-bedroom house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills, which has been on the market for $1,685,000. Again, we give major props to our friends over at the Real Estalker for sussing out who the celebrity is behind the trust that owns this property (the Piccolo [...]
Read More >>Actor Ben Stiller lists his compound in the Outpost Estates area of Los Angeles for $12.5M
By Bob Goldsborough at 3 September, 2009, 9:40 am
Actor Ben Stiller and his wife have placed their compound in the Outpost Estates area of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $12,500,000. Credit where credit is due, and we have to give a lot of credit lately to the Real Estalker, who has been at the absolute top of “her” game, with tons and tons [...]
Read More >>Bernie Madoff's four-bedroom, Long Island beach house to be put up on the market this week
By Bob Goldsborough at 1 September, 2009, 1:24 pm
Imprisoned and disgraced financier/Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff’s four-bedroom, 3,014-square-foot beach house on Long Island is set to be put up on the market this week by the U.S. Marshals service, which seized the property from Madoff on July 1. The news is all over the Internet today, so we know we’re not exactly sharing “new [...]
Read More >>Which celebrity's house is this? House #63: the 2,200-square-foot house at 4969 Ambrose Avenue in Los Angeles' Los Feliz neighborhood, which sold recently for $1.02M
By Bob Goldsborough at 1 September, 2009, 10:20 am
Today we give our readers a bonus — two different entries in our longstanding “Which celebrity’s house is this?” feature, in which we provide the details of a transaction that pretty clearly to us involved a celebrity buyer or seller, and we throw it out to our readers to help us suss out the identity [...]
Read More >>Which celebrity's house is this? House #62: the 934-square-foot town house at 2613 6th Street in Santa Monica, CA, which sold recently for $746K
By Bob Goldsborough at 1 September, 2009, 10:18 am
Today’s installment of our ever-popular “Which celebrity’s house is this?” feature involves the 934-square-foot town house at 2613 6th Street in Santa Monica, Calif., which recently sold for $746,000. The reason we believe that this town house is owned by a celebrity is because the buyer of this unit was shown in public records as [...]
Read More >>Actress Melissa Joan Hart sells her 4,911-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Sherman Oaks area for $2.475M
By Bob Goldsborough at 31 August, 2009, 10:55 pm
Actress Melissa Joan Hart has sold her five-bederoom, 4,911-square-foot, Spanish-style house in Los Angeles’ Sherman Oaks area for $2,475,000. The Los Angeles Times’ Lauren Beale wrote about this deal back on July 28, noting that the deal was for “close to $2.5 million.” At that time, we had not seen proof of the sale in [...]
Read More >>Producer Judd Apatow reportedly is the one who paid $18.25M to buy a mansion in Los Angeles' Brentwood area
By Bob Goldsborough at 31 August, 2009, 10:52 pm
Movie producer Judd Apatow reportedly is the person who paid $18,250,000 to purchase a 10,341-square-foot mansion in Los Angeles’ Brentwood neighborhood. The Wall Street Journal’s Sara Lin broke the story on Friday of Apatow’s purchase of the mansion from TV and film producer Marty Adelstein, although Lin reported that the deal closed for $18,800,000, including [...]
Read More >>Chicago TV anchor Judy Hsu lists her house in Hinsdale, IL for $619K; Obama advisor Austan Goolsbee sells house in Chicago for $849K
By Bob Goldsborough at 30 August, 2009, 9:17 pm
Check out Bob’s weekly column in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune about Chicago TV anchor Judy Hsu listing her house in Hinsdale, Ill. for $619,000. Also featured: Obama advisor Austan Goolsbee sells his house in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood for $849,000.
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