Just in time for summer, Jennifer Lopez has snatched up a $ 10 million Hamptons manse, complete with 8,659 square feet of breezy interiors, a sauna, and a home theater. So, to recap, she’s still Jenny from the block, just a ritzy, beachfront block. Curbed National has pics. [Curbed National]
The celebrity real estate gods were smiling on sitcom star Kevin James who sold his sprawling mansion in Encino, CA for $ 55,000 more than asking in just 38 days. (Trulia Luxe Living)
listing photo: The Partners Trust
Ben Stiller wasn’t so lucky as he just sold his New York City duplex digs for a $ 8,995,000. That’s $ 605,000 less than his original asking price, $ 405,000 less than its last asking price of $ 9.3 million, and a smidgen more than a million clams less than the $ 10,000,000 he and his missus paid for the 4,000 square foot Hudson River view spread in August 2008. (Coop Sales via Curbed)
floor plan: Prudential Douglas Elliman
In other New York City celebrity real estate news, Charlotte (NC)-based NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon has pushed his very contemporary three bedroom spread at 15 Central Park West on the market with a $ 30,000,000 checkered flag. Mister Gorden picked up the 3,454 square foot park view apartment for $ 9,670,000 back in 2007 and even though he clearly spent a sizable wad doing the place up he’s still looking at a very good return on his money. (New York Times)
floor plan: Halstead
Million Dollar Listing star Fredrik Eklund—he’s the smarmy, lantern-jawed Swedish broker who has a gay porn past that’s he’s refreshingly unashamed of—has put is own sun-flooded 2,400 square foot loft-style condo in New York City’s Chelsea ‘hood on the market for $ 3.25 million.
Your Mama hears from a tattle tale we’ll call Jimmy Crackcorn that Mister Eklund and his husband—and their fiercely cute little dogs—have already decamped for “a better part of Chelsea,” specifically a rental apartment in a fairly new, full service luxury building where studio apartments cost upwards of $ 3,600 a month and a 1,200 and some square foot two bedroom and two bathroom apartment on a high floor runs $ 10,000 per month. (Curbed)
floor plan: Prudential Douglas Elliman
And, finally, back on the west coast, those crazy kids at Curbed produced a fascinating map of 15 of gazillionaire—and hardcore real estate baller—Larry Ellison’s various property holdings in Malibu that all together cost him well over $ 200,000,000.
And let’s not forget he also owns—for all intents and purposes—the entire Hawaiian island of Lanai, an historic mansion in Newport, RI, once owned by the Astor family, several multi-residence water front compounds on Lake Tahoe, a massive modern mansion in San Francisco’s posh Pacific Heights ‘hood, a vast compound in Woodside, CA, based on an Imperial Japanese royal palace or feudal village (or some such thing), and a 249-acre resort-style estate in Rancho Mirage, CA, with handfuls of guest houses and a private 18 hole golf course with clubhouse. And that’s not even the entirety of his personal property holdings. (Curbed)
photo: Curbed
The Real Estalker
The whole reason everyone moves to Los Angeles is was to live near celebrities, right? That’s why we’re all here, yes? Ok, then, we hope you like Miley Cyrus, because otherwise it’s gonna get pricey. Yep: famous people tend to live in fancy, expensive neighborhoods. If you’d like to know exactly how expensive, the lovely folks at rental site Lovely have crunched the numbers:
Ashton Kutcher: Near Lake Hollywood, where Kutcher has a glassy bachelor pad, one-bedrooms go for a median $ 1,691 per month. A room in a three-bedroom is $ 1,689.
Justin Timberlake/Jessica Biel: Over in their neck of the Hollywood Hills, one-bedrooms average $ 1,625 per month. A room in a two-bedroom is $ 1,266.
Ben Affleck/Jennifer Garner: Bennifer II paid $ 17.5 million in Pacific Palisades, but a one-bedroom rental will cost you just (“just”) $ 1,935 a month (that’s the median rent). Or if you just want to crash in a room in a two-bedroom, it’ll be $ 1,378.
Rihanna: After ditching Beverly Hills Post Office, Rihanna’s also moved out to the Palisades–a room in a two-bedroom nearby is $ 1,715. One-bedrooms nearby are $ 1,953 per month.
David and Victoria Beckham: Well, they’ve gone back to England now, but they were living in a $ 22 million mansion in Beverly Hills. You can get a room in a two-bedroom in the ‘hood for a low, low $ 1,822.
Kim Kardashian/Kanye West: They’re not yet living in their $ 10.75-million house in Bel Air Crest, but if you want to get in now (maybe you’re a paparazzo?), you can get a room in a two-bedroom nearby for $ 1,683 per month.
Jennifer Aniston/Justin Theroux: When the couple finally move into Jen’s A. Quincy Jones in Bel Air, camp out nearby in a two-bedroom for $ 1,827 per room. A one-bedroom would be $ 2,033.
Miley Cyrus: Miley keeps it real in Studio City (in a cute modern house, actually). A one-bedroom nearby is a fairly reasonable $ 1,418 per month.
Hugh Hefner: The Playboy Mansion sits in one of the best parts of one of the best neighborhoods in town (South Mapleton in Holmby Hills), and if you can somehow track down a one-bedroom nearby, it’ll cost you $ 2,112 per month. A room in a two-bedroom gets you down to $ 1,588.
· Celebrity Real Estate [Curbed LA]
[Photos via Architectural Digest]
Cher is holding a great SoCal sell-off for some unknown reason–she’s just unloaded a condo in West Hollywood’s Sierra Towers, relisted her spread in Malibu, and relisted a house in Venice. She listed the Sierra Towers unit just a couple months back, asking $ 5.5 million and, according to TMZ, has just sold it for $ 5.25 million. The 4,000-square-foot duplex has “Indian Fantasy” interiors by decorator Martyn Lawrence Bullard.
[Photos via Architectural Digest]
Meanwhile, out in Malibu, Cher has relisted her big compound for $ 41 million. She originally tried to sell it way back in 2008 for $ 45 million. The 1.7-acre Pacific Coast Highway property includes a six-bedroom Italian Renaissance mansion with gym, theater, pool, walled tennis court, subterranean garage, and guesthouse, according to an old post by the Real Estalker.
And finally out to Venice, where the singer’s trust is selling off a three-bedroom house on a walk street near the beach and Abbot Kinney. It has sliding glass walls; a roofdeck with built-in barbecue, sink, and fridge; and what the LA Times describes as “a Cher signature amenity — an outdoor shower.” However, Real Estalker seems to believe this house actually belongs to Cher’s son Elijah Blue. Asking price is $ 1.8995 million.
· CHER Unloads W. Hollywood Condo … For a FORTUNE [TMZ]
On Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld cocreator/gajillionaire Larry David is constantly having to move house, but in real life he’s obviously nothing like his character and probably never does stuff like lie on the couch and do crossword puzzles at Oscar parties–he’s had his place, on three blufftop parcels in Pacific Palisades, since the 1990s, according to Real Estalker (he bought it along with his ex-wife/environmental crusader Laurie David). Now the property has just hit the market asking $ 14.999 million. The property includes just short of an acre of land, and a seven-bedroom, ten-bathroom house with dining room and a kitchen with sitting area and fireplace, a guesthouse with fireplace, and a “Large grassy backyard with pool and spectacular ocean and canyon views.”
· Larry David Lists Pac Pal Compound [Real Estalker]
· 212 Vance Street [Official Site]
Celebrities often seem to have more trouble selling their houses than the regular old plebs do. Maybe it’s the rarefied price ranges they’re dealing in, maybe it’s that they can afford to let a house sit on the market, maybe it’s that people are afraid to buy a house that the Osbournes have lived in–whatever it is, celebrity houses tend to linger. Here are eight celebrities whose houses lingered all the way through 2012 and into 2013:
Celebrity: Christina Aguilera
Location: Beverly Hills
Date house was listed: March 11, 2011
Current asking price: $ 13.5 million
Original asking price: $ 13.5 million
Details: Aguilera’s Beverly Hills house (which once belonged to Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne) does indeed come with a gift-wrapping area, beauty salon, and guesthouse with recording studio.
BEVERLY HILLS: Celebrity hair haunt Neil George has a new name and a fresh pedigree. After stylist Neil Weisburg left to open his own salon, remaining partner Amanda George brought on star cutter Jonathan Antin and renamed the place Jonathan and George. The salon is just the start for the duo, who plan to open more locations and launch their own product line.
MID-WILSHIRE: When actress Kate Bosworth is in the mood for a good scrub-down, she likes to visit Korean Spa Beverly Hot Springs on Oxford Avenue. Sayeth Kate, “What I get is called the body scrub/body care combo. They scrub but then it’s also real yogurt on your body and then real honey all over your body and they shave cucumber.” Sounds delicious.
MELROSE PLACE: Coveted French designer Isabel Marant has opened her second US shop (after NYC) on Melrose Place. It sounds like she’s ready to move to LA as well. In an interview, Marant raved, “I think it wil be my favorite shop in the world. I would almost like to keep it as a house for myself.”
· Racked LA [Official Site]
