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Kristen Wiig quietly grabs Pasadena’s Case Study House #10
Ever since she co-wrote and co-starred in 2011’s runaway hit comedy Bridesmaids, Yolanda has been a big fan of actress Kristen Wiig. And unsurprisingly, the SNL alum and Emmy- and Academy Award-nominee...
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Ellen DeGeneres drops $7.2 million in Montecito… right next door to Oprah
Yolanda loves LA as much as the next gal, but the most frequent question we get asked is why we don’t focus on other areas of this beautiful sphere we call Earth. And so we thought we’d take a break...
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Oscar-winning film director Gore Verbinski spends $7.2 million in Montecito, too
Earlier today, Yolanda discussed Ellen DeGeneres’s new $7.2 million Montecito ranch. And if y’all have been following this blog for some time, y’all should know that there are lots of unexpected...
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A quick peek at billionaire Riley Bechtel’s Montecito mansions
Some time ago our scholarly friend Barbara Bane from Santa Barbara wrote in and asked if Yolanda would look into a mysterious entity — something called “E V Marvista LLC” that was going around...
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Karen Lo assembles a $36 million compound on LA’s richest street
A few months back, as y’all may recall, Yolanda blabbed about a bananas $70 million (all cash!) sale in Malibu. At that time, it was the second-biggest transaction on record in the swanky coastal city...
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In-N-Out Burger heiress Lynsi Snyder slaps a $20 million pricetag on her...
Yolanda is well aware that this story has already been featured on just about every real estate gossip website, but we are determined to hop on the bandwagon because Ms. Snyder has long been one of...
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“Scrubs” creator Bill Lawrence hauls in $21 million on Malibu’s Cliffside Drive
Point Dume, the very recognizable Malibu promontory that juts way out into the Pacific Ocean, has long been the most star-studded area of the city. Folks like Matthew McConaughey, Sean Penn, Chris...
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Strip club owner Dr. Simon Stertzer picks up a $9.5 million Bel Air contemporary
As raging wildfires continue to pillage Southern California, it troubles Yolanda how media attention seems to be focused on celebrities and their (sometimes tenuous) connections to the destruction,...
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WME CEO Patrick Whitesell pays $4.8 million for the vacant lot next door
Though it is perhaps the most powerful talent agency in LA, William Morris Endeavor (WME) has been the subject of some rather undesirable press coverage in recent weeks. For those who may not know, WME...
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Kerry Washington quietly assembles a $10.5 million compound high above...
More than two years ago, in July 2015, a freshly renovated contemporary residence located in the Beverly Hills Post Office neighborhood sold for $5,470,000. The hidden property, which is situated at...
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Soccer star Nigel de Jong sells Encino mansion to a lady named Stephanie...
Once upon a time, kiddies, there lived a Dutch professional footballer (that’s soccer player to all us Yanks) named Nigel de Jong. And a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, Mr. de Jong signed a...
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Stephanie Anderson sells Studio City villa to comedian Patton Oswalt
Y’all may (or may not, depending on how much booze you’ve imbibed in the last 24 hours) recall that yesterday Yolanda discussed Stephanie Anderson, a low-profile gal who just paid $4,300,000 in what...
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Guns N’ Roses rocker Slash starts fresh in Encino with $6.25 million mansion buy
Ever since he sold his marital home in the guard-gated Mulholland Estates community for $8,700,000 to — as Yolanda first revealed — rapper Big Sean, Yolanda has wondered to where our ol’ rocker...
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Fashion mavens Tom & Ruth Chapman spend $24 million in Trousdale Estates
It was the folks at the Wall Street Journal who first revealed that British fashion entrepreneurs Tom & Ruth dropped a wild $24,000,000 on a Trousdale Estates mansion located on what is often...
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Billionaire heiress Adriana Cargill gets a $3 million Venice starter house
Six days later (and counting!) and Yolanda still has a nasty hangover from her New Years revelry. But we are valiantly getting back to work, regardless of the pain. And now that we’ve kicked all the...
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Scopely CEO Walter Driver coughs up $5.6 million in Venice bidding war
Local realtor Tracy Do says “be prepared for competition—be prepared for heartbreak” in regards to the unstoppable ascension of home prices in the greater LA area, a trend that Yolanda expects will...
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LA’s Biggest Sales of 2017
Although it feels like it was just yesterday that we were counting down 2016’s biggest hits, another year has slipped by us all, and Yolanda is that much closer to the grave. And although several of...
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Yolanda’s Top 10 most popular stories of 2017
It is time to officially close out 2017, a year that brought with it the answers to questions we didn’t even know we had asked (“‘The heck is a Cardi B?”) but also left others (“Has anyone unlocked the...
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Retired MLB star Jimmy Rollins slams down a record-destroying $10.65 million...
Has your 2018 gotten off to a rocky start? Too bad. But it could be worse — you could’ve been busted with 52 pounds of pot in the backseat of your car and be facing a minimum of 8 years in the pokey....
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Michelle Pfeiffer quietly lays down $8 million on the Pacific Palisades Riviera
Perhaps the most star-studded street in LA isn’t where you might expect it to be. It’s not in the 90210 or in the Hollywood Hills. Nor is it a road in Malibu. Actually, it’s Amalfi Drive in low-key...
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