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Elon Musk Buys Gene Wilder’s Former House In Bel Air For $6.75 Million

You know you’re rich when you start buying neighboring homes to protect your view. At least, that’s the thinking behind billionaire techie Elon Musk’s latest real estate purchase: a 2,800 square-foot home located directly across the street from his palatial mansion in Bel Air, one of the ritziest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Calif. Real estate […]

Emerging Trends of Today’s Global Buyer

The world continues to grow smaller for today’s luxury buyer and as it does we can observe certain trends among the affluent of a given country. London, for instance, has become a hotbed for Russia’s elite, while buyers from Hong Kong are swooping up property in Sydney. The search for the foreign buyer has been […]

6 of LA’s Most Famous Streets, 100 Years Ago and Today

Last week, one of KCET’s fantastic historians (Nathan Masters) rounded up photos of some of Los Angeles’s most famous streets (PCH, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood Boulevard, Wilshire, Third Street in Santa Monica, Colorado in Pasadena, etc.) from the early twentieth century: “Horses once casually left droppings where shoppers stroll today along Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade. […]

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1970s Wallace Neff in Holmby Hills Asking Mindblowing $75MM

by Adrian Glick Kudler Wallace Neff is the Old Hollywood starchitect most famous for Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks’s great estate Pickfair, in Beverly Hills, as well as the King Gillette Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains and the Singer Mansion in Glendora, plus dozens of others. But he was also working at least as […]

Wolfgang Puck Buys Anthony Pritzker’s House in Beverly Crest

Monday, October 7, 2013, by Adrian Glick Kudler About two years back, Hyatt Hotels heir Anthony Pritzker moved his family intoa totally absurd megacompound on Angelo Drive in Beverly Crest–a 49,300-square-foot main house with a two-level basement, plus a detached rec room, guesthouse, pool, etc. etc. Shortly after, they listed their tiiiiny (12,289 square feet) […]

3 Biggest LA Home Sales Last Week Include Paul Williams Flip

Listed for: $8.995 million Listed on: September 17, 2013 Sold for: $9.05 million Size: 5,180-square-foot house with five bedrooms and six and a half bathrooms on .43 acres. Location: 815 North Roxbury Drive in the flats of Beverly Hills The Lowdown: This place was on and off the market for nearly two years, but when […]

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10 Most Expensive Homes For Sale

There are plenty of gorgeous, high-end homes on the market; homes with infinity pools and wine cellars or over 10,000 square feet of living space. But then there are a whole different category of homes: residences that have amenities more likely in European palaces or 5-star resorts. This year has been a strong year for […]

Throwback Thursday: 1960s riot site in Hollywood to be High-rise apartments are proposed at Sunset and Crescent Heights

By Roger Vincent A once-notorious intersection at the foot of Laurel Canyon in Hollywood is being targeted for a striking new development with high-rise apartments, street-level shops and an underground grocery store. At the southwest corner of Sunset Boulevard at Crescent Heights Boulevard, developers say they want to scrap a low-slung shopping center and replace […]

The Price of Real-Estate Experience: $25,000

Can you put a price on experience? In real estate, you can. It is about $25,000 for the average house. Veteran agents sell homes for an average of 12% more than their less experienced counterparts, says Bennie Waller, professor of finance and real estate at Longwood University in Farmville, Va. Veteran agents also tend to […]

Home asking prices rise in August; yearly gains top 20% in Southland

By Andrew Khouri September 5, 2013, 11:06 a.m. Sellers nationwide sought more for their home last month, but the rapid rise in prices appears to be slowing, according to a new report. Asking prices are up 1.2% from July and 11% from last year, real estate website Trulia said Thursday. Orange and Los Angeles counties, […]

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