Actor/director/creep Vincent Gallo has just sold off his second crazy multi-level unit in the Arts District’s Biscuit Lofts (he offloaded a penthouse unit, which Nicolas Cage had previously rented, last April). The unit has three-levels and three bathrooms in 2,610 square feet, with a huge balcony, private and lobby entries, tigerwood floors, marble bathtubs, and on and on–Gallo listed it in February for $ 1.295 million. A sale has just closed and Neil McDermott of Hilton & Hyland, who repped the buyer, tells us it went to “a top FOX Film Exec and his wife” who are ditching the Eastern Columbia Lofts at the southern end of the Historic Core to move to the Arts District (yet more evidence that the AD is the bougie new hotness??). According to Redfin, the loft sold for $ 1.305 million and HOA dues are $ 696 per month.
· Vincent Gallo Selling 3-Level Unit at Biscuit Lofts For $ 1.3MM [Curbed LA]
Back in January, we started the year off right with news that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were prepping to buy a blech McMansion in gated Bel Air Crest. The sale has now hit the MLS (via Redfin) and the final price was $ 9 million (the house had been listed for $ 10.75 million with monthly HOAs of $ 933). The five-bedroom, seven-bathroom house was just built in 2010 but word was that the couple planned to gut the joint and replace it with a 14,000-square-foot “dream home” in the ever-popular “Italian-style villa” look. But now it seems like they might have way different plans: ever-reliable Real Estalker hears that “they are already in escrow to flip the pricey pad for about a million bucks more” than what they paid. Indeed, the day after the sale hit the books, the house appears to have gone “sale pending” again. Maybe it was all that publicity that scared them off. Hahahaha, kidding!
· Here’s the Bel Air House Kim and Kanye Are Gutting Right Now [Curbed LA]
Peter Reckell, the actor formerly behind the hog-riding Bo Brady character on the NBC soap Days of Our Lives, has just sold the 3,345-square-foot eco-friendly Brentwood mansion he built with his wife, former Exposé singer Kelly Moneymaker, the LA Times reports. The Dwell-ready abode went for $ 3.35 million–it was listed three years ago at nearly $ 5 million–and features three bedrooms, four baths, koi pond, temperature-controlled wine cave and recording studio, meditation fountain, solar panel system, recycled glass terrazzo floors with radiant heating, and recycled denim and cotton insulation. Reckell and Moneymaker bought the property a decade ago for only $ 1.14 million before tearing down the current house and shipping it to Mexico for Habitat for Humanity (not your typical flippers).
· Soap star Peter Reckell sells Brentwood eco-home for $ 3.35 million [LA Times]
The Robert Taylor Ranch in Mandeville Canyon, which comes with its own casino, has sold at auction for $ 12 million “to a buyer from Chicago,” reports the LA Times. The house was built in 1950 and designed by Robert Byrd; comes with 112 acres, seven bedrooms, 17 and a half bathrooms (!), a 10-car garage, stables, and a tennis court. It was the longtime home of actor Robert Taylor, who was married to Barbara Stanwyck and played in Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe, and The Law and Jake Wade (he also snitched to HUAC about alleged Communist activity in Hollywood). He died in 1969 and the property was purchased in the 1970s by KROQ founder Ken Roberts (he paid $ 900,000). Roberts tried to sell it several times over the years (we saw it in 2008 asking $ 65 million), the finally handed it over to a hedge fund to settle a court-ordered debt. Most recently, the new owners (a trust) were asking $ 18.9 million. The live auction last week attracted 12 bidders who “were wined and dined under a canopy on the lawn.”
· Robert Taylor Ranch sells for $ 12 million to Chicago buyer [LAT]
· Robert Byrd’s Robert Taylor Ranch Goes to Settle a Debt [Curbed LA]
This swank 1964 house in the Los Feliz Estates is already on its way out the door–sale pending–after only a week on the market, but we thought it had too many droolworthy details not to share (too bad that remodeled kitchen is playing the sad trombone). There’s not a lot of detail in the listing, but the house has two bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, a dining room, a fireplace, a sweet wetbar, and a bit patio. Asking price is $ 1.5 million.
· 5160 LOS ENCANTOS Way [Redfin]
Damn, Janie Bryant‘s got a magic touch–she designs the widely-beloved costumes for Mad Men (and has worked on Deadwood and a couple of early Noah Baumbach films we happen to be fond of) and now she’s just sold her Silver Lake compound for way over asking. The property includes a two-bedroom, one and three-quarter bath main house (“w/ a large, direct access room perched on top, that is all windows & views”) and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom with a deck (the city’s zoning website says they were built in 1923 and 1931, although we’re not sure which is which), plus a backyard with mature trees and a fountain. Bryant bought the property in 2002 from Princess Tatiana von Furstenberg (daughter of designer Diane) and we hear a rumor that it was originally built by pioneering/racist filmmaker DW Griffith as a vacation home. We also hear that the interest in the property (as it is for so many income properties in this area) was absolutely bananas. Listed in July at $ 699,000, escrow closed a couple weeks ago with a sale price of $ 775,000.
· 2430/2432 Hidalgo Ave [New School Agents]
