Post archive for February 2008

Feb. 29, 2008

Actor Dan Aykroyd lists his triplex penthouse in Manhattan for $7M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Rocker Slash (finally) sells his controversial mansion in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for an undisclosed price after it had been listed for just under $6M

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 29, 2008

Chicago Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich pays $4.4M for a house in Chicago's north suburbs; Chicago TV anchor Rob Elgas pays $324K for a penthouse condominium unit in Chicago

Feb. 29, 2008

Actor Justin Long pays about $1.4M for house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Deborah Harry, formerly of Blondie, pays $580K for an apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea area

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 29, 2008

R&B singer and guitarist Robert Cray sells his 2,205-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Los Feliz area for $3.35M; the buyer does indeed appear to be actor Jason Lee

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 29, 2008

The year of the $100M-plus sales; a quick review of the four nine-digit residential sales in 2007, plus the records they broke

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Feb. 29, 2008

Nicole Richie sells her condo in West Hollywood, CA for $2.25M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Actor Chris Parnell sells his condo in Manhattan's SoHo area for $1.8M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Where in the world is.....? Celebrity #2: Kiefer Sutherland, who owns a converted ironworks foundry/warehouse in Los Angeles' Silver Lake district that he now uses as a recording studio (downstairs)

Posted in Where Is?
Feb. 29, 2008

Kanye deal imminent? Hip-hop star's property in Beverly Hills, CA that had been on the market for $8.699M is "looking for backup," suggesting that a sale of the dilapidated house and 0.79-acre proper

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 29, 2008

Actor Marlon Wayans sells a condo unit in Los Angeles' Sherman Oaks area for $650K, and he also is the latest celebrity buyer in the Broadway Hollywood building in Los Angeles' Hollywood area, paying

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Which celebrity's house is this? House #22: 551 Toyopa Drive in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades area, which sold this past fall for an undisclosed amount but likely for close to $3M

Posted in Whose House?
Feb. 29, 2008

Los Angeles Lakers forward Luke Walton pays $2.75M for a new house in Manhattan Beach, CA, and sells his town house nearby for $1.235M

Feb. 29, 2008

The late Bobby Darin's former house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills sells for $2.9125M

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 29, 2008

Retired NFL star Jerry Rice lists his 23-room mansion in Atherton, CA for $22M

Feb. 29, 2008

Stylist Rachel Zoe lists her two-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $2.995M

Feb. 29, 2008

Supermodel and actress Kylie Bax asks $1.599M for her three-bedroom Mediterranean-style house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills -- which singer Michelle Branch previously had owned

Feb. 29, 2008

Purchase price revealed for comedian Jamie Kennedy's new house in Los Angeles' Los Feliz area; funnyman paid $2.15M for the 2,342-square-foot house

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Former Bette Davis estate in Palm Springs, CA sells for $4.8M

Posted in Famous Homes
Feb. 29, 2008

Actor Eddie Cibrian's 8,560-square-foot mansion in Los Angeles' Encino area goes into escrow after being listed for $4.395M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Tony Danza's 6,778-square-foot, Cape Cod-style house in Los Angeles' Sherman Oaks area is on the market for $6.15M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Singer Natalie Imbruglia sells her gated house on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip for $3.725M

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 29, 2008

Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx and his ex-wife, former "Baywatch" babe Donna D'Errico, sell their six-bedroom, 5,269-square-foot house in Agoura, CA for $1.9M

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 29, 2008

Singer David Draiman of Disturbed sells his house in Los Angeles' Northridge area for $2.58M

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 29, 2008

Marilyn Manson sells his house in Los Angeles' Chatsworth area for $1.025M

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 29, 2008

The correction finally appears; LA Times' readers' rep today issues a correction to Sunday's "Hot Property" column, acknowledging that -- as we had questioned over the weekend -- actor Mark Harmon wa

Posted in Other
Feb. 29, 2008

Designer Vera Wang reportedly selling her apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue for $30M-plus to billionaire Ira Rennert, who is buying it for his daughter

Feb. 29, 2008

Blink-182's Tom DeLonge lists his house in Rancho Santa Fe, CA for $6.25M or $6.295M, depending upon whom you ask

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 29, 2008

Jessica Alba pays a reported $4.05M for a 4,686-square-foot house in Beverly Hills, CA; status of her 2,286-square-foot house above Beverly Hills, CA, which she bought in 2002 for $1.1M, remains uncl

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Actor Frankie Muniz lists his five-bedroom house above Los Angeles' Sunset Strip for $3.875M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Comedian, actor and producer John Leguizamo pays $5.75M for a 109-year-old town house in Manhattan's Washington Square area; actor adds it to his stable of properties

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Where in the world is.....? Celebrity #1: Kim Kardashian, who paid $850K in late 2005 for her condo unit in an area of Los Angeles that is next to West Hollywood

Posted in Where Is?
Feb. 29, 2008

Actress Frances McDormand and her filmmaker husband Joel Coen list their three-bedroom house on 5 acres in Esopus, NY for $895K

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Actor and comedian Bryan Callen pays $1.3M for a house in Los Angeles' Silver Lake area and sells his house in Los Angeles' Venice area for $1.31M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Tobey Maguire finally buys some real estate; actor pays an undisclosed amount for a 0.93-acre vacant parcel in Los Angeles' Brentwood area, on which he'll presumably build a dream home

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Which celebrity's house is this? House #23: 1663 Summitridge Drive in Beverly Hills, CA, which sold in May for $4.1875M

Posted in Whose House?
Feb. 29, 2008

Actor/rocker/"America's Got Talent" judge David Hasselhoff expected to put his 6,148-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Encino area on the market, with a listing price, we're guessing, in the $4M-$5M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Tennis star Pete Sampras *again* lists his estate in Beverly Hills, CA, this time for $25M

Feb. 29, 2008

Where in the world is...? Celebrity #6: Mischa Barton, who paid $6.4M in 2005 for a 7,607-square-foot house in Beverly Hills, CA that she has said has "a heavy Moroccan vibe"

Posted in Where Is?
Feb. 29, 2008

Which celebrity's house is this? House #24: 15432 Albright Street in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades area, which sold in September for $4.199M

Posted in Whose House?
Feb. 29, 2008

Actor Daniel Radcliffe pays almost $4.29M for a condo unit in lower Manhattan

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Onetime London home of author J.M. Barrie -- where he wrote the story "Peter Pan" -- is on the market for about $13M

Feb. 29, 2008

Artist David Hockney sells 1,908-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills to his former lover and now working partner and friend Gregory Evans for $600K

Feb. 29, 2008

Wilmer Valderrama sells a five-bedroom, 4,822-square-foot house that he owns in Los Angeles' Tarzana area for $1.75M after it had been on the market for $2.25M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Actress, model and 'Top Chef' hostess Padma Lakshmi pays $1.65M for a full-floor loft in the Alphabet City area of Manhattan's East Village

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Which celebrity's house is this? House #25: 2152 Panorama Terrace in Los Angeles' Silver Lake area, which sold in October for $1.3M

Posted in Whose House?
Feb. 29, 2008

Actress and singer Abbe Lane and her husband list their house in Los Angeles' Holmby Hills area for $19.75M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Which celebrity's house was this? House #28: 534 20th St in Santa Monica, CA, which sold in December for $2.895M

Posted in Whose House?
Feb. 29, 2008

Howard Stern pays $15.1M for two apartments just below his penthouse unit in Manhattan's Millennium Tower

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

All I want for Christmas is....a scoop in the L.A. Times, or at the very least, some attribution for having come this way first; every single item in this coming Sunday's 'Hot Property' column in the

Posted in Other
Feb. 29, 2008

Dan Castellaneta sale price revealed; actor and voice-over master got $3.305M for his 3,891-square-foot house in Santa Monica, CA

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Julio Iglesias tears down his mansion in Miami's Indian Creek Village area after it was on the market for $32M and then was reduced to $23M or $24M or $25M (depending on whom you talk to); he's now r

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 29, 2008

TV financial guru Suze Orman and her partner buy a 12th-floor unit in the Plaza in Manhattan for more than $3.6M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Which celebrity's house was this? House #26: 1840 Camino Palmero Street in Los Angeles' Hollywood area, which sold in April for an undisclosed price

Posted in Whose House?
Feb. 29, 2008

Ashley Olsen pays $1.575M for house in Los Angeles' Hancock Park area, and Ashley and her twin sister Mary-Kate re-list their 5,725-square-foot penthouse in NYC's West Village for $11.995M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Bob Costas closes on his unit at Manhattan's 15 Central Park West development; public records show that Costas paid just over $11M

Feb. 29, 2008

'Dancing' co-host Samantha Harris pays $1.6M for Spanish-style house in an area just west of Los Angeles' Century City neighborhood

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Former Georgia Frontiere-owned mansion in Los Angeles' Bel-Air area sells for an undisclosed amount after having been listed for $29.975M; also, Nicolas Cage pulls his Bel-Air estate from the market

Feb. 29, 2008

Hilary Swank talks real estate; 33-year-old actress, who paid $5.8M earlier this year for a place in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades, explains to W Magazine why she didn't stay in NYC, but nonetheless

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 29, 2008

Actor Zach Braff finally closes on a unit in NYC's Union Square area; "Scrubs" actor pays $3.2M for a 2,500-square-foot apartment in the building at 840 Broadway

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Actor and comedian Mike Myers closes on his six-room penthouse in Manhattan's SoHo for $7.75M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

About that Heath Ledger/Mary-Kate rumor... (and, about Heath's other real estate as well)

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Stevie Nicks sells her house in Paradise Valley, AZ for exactly $3M

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 28, 2008

Rocker Donovan Leitch Jr. of the band Camp Freddy sells his 1,166-square-foot Spanish-style compound in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $1.05M

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 28, 2008

More on that loft unit in downtown Los Angeles that Johnny Depp bought...

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Where in the world is...? Celebrity #3: Janet Jackson, who owns a 2,094-square-foot unit in the Trump International Hotel & Tower in NYC that she purchased in 1998 for $2.8M and a 4,636-square-foot h

Posted in Where Is?
Feb. 28, 2008

Actor Tom Bosley sells his 3,772-square-foot house in Beverly Hills, CA for an undisclosed price after it had been on the market for $2.95M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Madonna's former house in Beverly Hills, CA sells for $15.68M

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 28, 2008

Rapper Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas pays $2.2M for a six-bedroom house in Los Angeles County's Altadena area

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 28, 2008

Actor John Goodman pays $4.6M for a house in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades area

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Nicolas Cage reportedly sells his mansion in Newport Beach, CA for $35M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Buyer of former Georgia Frontiere mansion in Los Angeles' Bel-Air area identified as Hilton Hotels CEO; purchase price also reported as "about $27.5M"

Feb. 28, 2008

Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred pays $1.75M for apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side

Feb. 28, 2008

Actress/entrepreneur Suzanne Somers and her husband list Palm Springs, CA estate for $35M; Somers also tells Larry King yesterday that the new house she plans to build in nearby Malibu will be firepr

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Co-op board of Manhattan's El Dorado building rejects buyer for singer/musician/songwriter Moby's apartment, and the unit is back on the market at $7.5M

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 28, 2008

More on that house in Los Angeles' Sherman Oaks area that Loni Anderson bought.....

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Prolific voice actress Kath Soucie ("Rugrats," "Winnie the Pooh," "Gargoyles") pays $2.3M for a 1,979-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades area

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Which celebrity's house is this? House #27: 200 Toyopa Drive in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades area, which sold in late December for $16M

Posted in Whose House?
Feb. 28, 2008

Tatiana Namath (yes, "Broadway Joe's" ex) lists her house in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades area for $6.9M

Feb. 28, 2008

Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein closes on his purchase in Manhattan's 15 Central Park West celebrity tower; honcho pays $26M for his unit

Feb. 28, 2008

Actor Mark Harmon apparently pays $9M for a 19-acre estate in Malibu, CA

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Conan O'Brien reportedly buying a New England traditional-style six-bedroom mansion in Los Angeles' Brentwood area that had been listed for $10.495M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Where in the world is....Celebrity (couple) #4: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, who own and inhabit a 3,843-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Brentwood area, which is just down the block from Conan

Posted in Where Is?
Feb. 28, 2008

Comedian Carlos Mencia purchases actor Eddie Cibrian's 8,560-square-foot mansion in Los Angeles' Encino area, after it had been on the market for $4.395M; Cibrian, meanwhile, pays $2.5M for a 6,610-s

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Former Burt Bacharach house in Beverly Hills, CA sale price revealed; composer's onetime house sold for $2.99M

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 28, 2008

Former Jane Leeves house in Los Angeles' Studio City area sells for an undisclosed price after being listed for $2.995M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban sell their four-bedroom house in Nashville for $2.36M and buy 36 acres on Old Hillsboro Road in Franklin, TN for $2.45M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

More on Howard Stern's newly purchased, $15.1M worth of space in NYC's Millennium Tower.....

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Joel McHale pays $1.88M to buy a 3,451-square-foot house in the Oaks area of Los Angeles' Los Feliz neighborhood, and lists his three-bedroom house in Glendale, Calif. for $815K

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Jack Black sells a 2,694-square-foot house in Los Angeles Beachwood Canyon area for $1.462M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 28, 2008

Burt Reynolds reduces the asking price of his mansion in Hobe Sound, FL to $10.5M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 26, 2008

Which celebrity’s house is this? House #31: 2180 Groveland Drive in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills, which sold in January for $1.565M

Posted in Whose House?
Feb. 26, 2008

Hedge-fund manager Daniel Loeb closes on his $45M penthouse in 15 Central Park West in Manhattan

Feb. 26, 2008

Guitarist, songwriter and Perfect Circle founder Billy Howerdel sells his four-bedroom house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $1.875M

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 25, 2008

Game over for Veronica Hearst; socialite’s 28,000-sq-ft Villa Venezia mansion in Manalapan, FL sells at an auction for $22M, eight years after she bought it for almost $30M

Feb. 24, 2008

Singer Frank Sinatra Jr. pays $4.1 million for a 7,213-square-foot house in the Beverly Hills, CA post office

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 22, 2008

Los Angeles designer-developer Xorin Balbes sells a 5,200-square-foot, significantly rehabbed house in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $5.725 million

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Feb. 22, 2008

Actress Teri Polo lists her 3,077-square-foot, Asian-inspired house in Manhattan Beach, CA for $2.599M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 21, 2008

Actor/director Harold Ramis' former Wallace Neff-designed house in Ojai, CA is on the market for $6.95M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 19, 2008

Actress Melissa McCarthy sells her 1,284-square-foot house in West Hollywood, CA for $1.325M; now lives with her husband in Los Angeles' Los Feliz Oaks area

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 19, 2008

About that Forbes article...

Posted in Other
Feb. 19, 2008

Former Farrah Fawcett house in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air area sells for $3.608M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 18, 2008

Actress Khandi Alexander lists her four-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $4.495M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 18, 2008

Dan Aykroyd's property sell-off continues, with him listing the final Los Angeles-area property that he owns for $2.595M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 17, 2008

Actor Dan Aykroyd sells his 4,828-square-foot New England-style house in Los Angeles Hollywood Hills for $3.8M to actress Beverly DeAngelo

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 17, 2008

We're Back!

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Feb. 17, 2008

Hey DJ! British DJ and record producer Paul Oakenfold lists his 4,573-square-foot house on a 1980s rocker-filled street overlooking the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $10M

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 17, 2008

After our involuntary three-day vacation.....

Posted in Other
Feb. 17, 2008

Actor Frank Langella pays $2.1M for co-op unit on Manhattan's Central Park West

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 17, 2008

Oprah sells 4,806-square-foot penthouse in Atlanta for $1.8M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 17, 2008

Reality TV star Lauren Conrad pays $2.36M for renovated Spanish-style house on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 11, 2008

Saxophonist Kenny G pays $2.85M for a four-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Studio City area; no word on his use for it, given his massive oceanfront Malibu compound

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 10, 2008

Los Angeles sale prices revealed: Slash's sale price for his Hollywood Hills mansion and the sale price of the former Georgia Frontiere mansion in Bel-Air

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Feb. 10, 2008

Which celebrity's house is this? House #30: 1037 N. Laurel Avenue #4 in West Hollywood, CA, which sold in November for $1.05M

Posted in Whose House?
Feb. 7, 2008

Apartment in Manhattan's SoHo area where Heath Ledger died now up for rental, reported for around $25K/month

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 7, 2008

Def Leppard's Rick Allen pays $1.66M for a 2,166-square-foot house in Calabasas, CA

Posted in Music Icons
Feb. 6, 2008

Actress Paz Vega pays $1.9M for a three-bedroom house in West Hollywood, CA and lists her 1,410-square-foot house in the nearby Hollywood section of Los Angeles for $1.149M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 5, 2008

Actor Rupert Everett lists his two-bedroom apartment in Miami for $1.15M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 4, 2008

Nicole Murphy unloads her 10-bedroom, 11,158-square-foot mansion in Granite Bay, CA for $6.1M, as first reported by the Real Estalker more than a month ago; the LA Times' report that Eddie Murphy als

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Feb. 4, 2008

More on Jessica Albas new house; In Touch Weekly publishes the "goods" (sort of) on the imminent redecoration of Alba's new, $4.05M house in Beverly Hills, CA

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 2, 2008

Rupert Murdoch cuts the asking price of his Long Island, N.Y. house from $14.8M to $12.8M

Feb. 2, 2008

Actor Grant Show lists his three-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $1.995M

Posted in Hollywood Stars
Feb. 2, 2008

Dido lists her three-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $4.6M

Posted in Music Icons