After nearly four long years on the market Grammy winning singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow re-listed her Tennessee Farm for $3.85 million, $3.65 million less than the original $7.5 million price tag.::::::::Leo DiCaprio had to come way down off his original $23 million asking price to sell his Malibu Colony adjacent compound. If finally sold this week for $17.35 million to an as yet unidentified buyer.::::::::Sir Paul McCartney and his third wife, Nancy Shevell, reportedly had a peep around a $12.9 million condo on New York City's Fifth Avenue.::::::::The...
Friday, 27 December 2013
Thursday, 26 December 2013
BUYER: Ryan KavanaughSELLER: Howie MandelLOCATION: Malibu, CAPRICE: $7,000,000SIZE: 5,865 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 7 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: In October 2009 venture capitalist turned prolific and highly successful movie producer Ryan Kavanaugh (Don Jon, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Little Fockers, Salt) paid class action attorney Thomas W. Girardi* $7,000,000 for an four bedroom and two bathroom ocean front house on Malibu's La Costa...
Wednesday, 25 December 2013
Tuesday, 24 December 2013
The celebrity gossip hounds at Page Six of the New York Post were the first to reveal that actor Rob Lowe and his wife, Sheryl Berkoff, have quietly reached an agreement to sell their Feng-Shui-ed, 20-room Georgian mansion in Montecito (CA) to an as yet unknown buyer for $42 million.Mister and Missus Lowe, who last year sold their beach front house in nearby Carpinteria for $5.9 million to insurance tycoon William Foley, II, custom...
As first reported by the property gossips at Zillow, Oscar-winning actor Keith Carradine and wife Sandra, have put their four-parcel property near downtown Telluride, CO, up for sale as an off-market listing with an $8 million asking price. The property previously belonged to legendary concert promoter Bill Graham.Listing details show the 6,000-ish square foot house—of limited architectural interest as far as this property gossip is concerned—has...
Monday, 23 December 2013
As we first learned from the long-legged blond at Trulia Luxe Living, internationally beloved bubble gum pop star Katy Perry has finally found a buyer for Park Hill, her real estate white elephant in West Hollywood (CA), also sometimes referred to as The DeWitt Mansion after the home's original property developer owner.Miz Perry purchased the centrally located estate with her ex-hubby, British comedian and giddy provocateur Russell...
SELLER: Reese WitherspoonLOCATION: Ojai, CAPRICE: $4,983,500SIZE: 7 bedrooms and 9 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: As we first heard from real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak—and then confirmed with property records—Oscar-winning and exceedingly well-compensated actress Reese Witherspoon has—at a substantial loss—sold her rustic-luxe and equine-accommodating Wallace Neff-designed mini-ranch getaway in Ojai, CA.Miz Witherspoon purchased the property in...
Friday, 20 December 2013
There's some new and—as far as this property gossip is concerned—unsubstantiated scuttlebutt starting to make its down the celebrity real estate gossip grapevine (via Hollyscoop) that teen aged pop music phenom Justin Bieber just might be on the move.Mister Bieber bought his current crib, a 9,200+ square for Spanish mansion in the double-gated Oaks development in suburban Calabasas, CA, in Aprl 2012 for $6.5 million. The six bedroom and...
High end real estate watchers will recall that in July, 2013, (mid-priced) shoe tycoon Vincent Camuto and his wife and business partner, Louise, heaved and ho-d Wooldon Manor—an historic and completely rehabbed ocean front estate in Southampton, NY—on the open market with a blistering $48,000,000 asking price.The folks at The Real Deal were the first to report, back in early October (2012), that the property had gone into contract with an unnamed...
We first heard from the long-legged blond property gossip gal at Trulia Luxe Living that three-time Grammy winning rapper and actor Ludacris is moving up in the glittery (cut-throat and competitive) Tinseltown real estate world.A week or so ago he sold one of his two (uncombined) duplex penthouse apartments on a heavily trafficked boulevard just west of Century City for $879,000. A quick peek at property records and a couple calculations on Your...
Seemingly undeterred by its failure to sell earlier this week at an auction of international réclame with a $13 million reserve, His Airness Michael Jordan jumped right back in the real estate game and, as first reported by the Chicago Tribune, audaciously re-listed his Highland Park mega-mansion with a nearly 25% higher $16 million price tag.*Probably some of you children fell right off your asses wondering, "What is the world is...
Thursday, 19 December 2013
BUYER: Jason Biggs and Jenny MollenLOCATION: Beverly Hills, CAPRICE: $3,905,000SIZE: 5 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms (total)YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Back in July, (comedy) actor Jason Biggs revealed on the delectably naughty Chelsea Handler Show that he and his witty wife, artist/actress/writer wife Jenny Mollen, were—and still are as far as we know—preggers with their first child. He was much more crass (and funny) about how it all came about but let's...
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Due to his well-documented homophobic slurs and much publicized violent assaults Your Mama knows that a some of y'all don't care to hear a thing about Grammy winning pop/R&B artist Chris Brown. We feel you, puppies, we really do. But we just can't help it just like we—like most people—can but help but look for tragedy when we pass a car accident Not among the interested? Well, we suggest that rather than whine like a six year or try to slay...
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
...that Legend Point, basketball legend Michael Jordan's deservedly but not so humbly dubbed seven-ish acre estate in the leafy, well-to-do Chicago suburb of Highland Park (IL), failed to sell at yesterday's globally publicized auction?Mister Jordan custom built the 56,000 square foot mega-mansion—it sort of looks to Your Mama like an upscale pharmaceutical research center—and put it on the open market in early 2012 with an asking price of $29 million. Nobody bought it. Almost a year later the price tag of Mister Jordan's nine bedroom and 19 toilet residential...
...From the always eerily well informed real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak that actor Breckin Meyer and his estranged wife, writer/director wife Deborah Kaplan, quietly sold their Beverly Hills Post Office area house in mid-August (2013) for $2,775,000 to vaunted British thespian Sir Ben Kingsley and his much younger fourth wife, Brazilian film and stage actress Daniela Lavender.In addition to the Academy Award, pair of BAFTAS, Grammy...
Monday, 16 December 2013
SELLER: Chris BrownLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $1,920,000SIZE: 3,000 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: The tooth-monster graffiti that so incensed his neighbors is all gone and— no doubt much to the delight of those angry and annoyed neighbors—always controversial R&B/pop entertainer Chris Brown, has put his high-contemporary Hollywood Hills house on the open market with an asking price of $1,920,000.Mister Brown,...
SELLERS: Vincent and Teresa ViolaLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $114,077,000SIZE: (approx.) 20,000 square feet, 4-7 bedrooms, 6 full and 3 half bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: As was first reported over the weekend by the fine folk at The New York Times, Brooklyn-born financier Vincent "Vinny" Viola and his wife, Teresa, have heaved their humongous, regally-minded, and liberally-gilded 40-foot wide townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on the...
Saturday, 14 December 2013
Once upon a time, way back in late 2006, Tommy Hilfiger co-founder Joel Horowitz wanted $100 million for Tranquility, a liberally bedazzled, heavily bespangled, and—well—garishly opulent compound on 210 drop dead heavenly and heavily forested acres near Lake Tahoe in tax-friendly Zephyr Cove, NV.After a seven year long real estate slog poor Mister Horowitz finally settled, we first heard from the kids at Curbed, for less...
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