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Coldplay’s Phil Harvey dumps $15 million in Brentwood Park
Family-friendly yet outrageously expensive Brentwood Park continues to prove itself as one of LA’s most coveted neighborhoods. Though the high-end market is soft at the moment, prices in that wee...
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Ellen DeGeneres takes a $27 million trip to Bali by way of Montecito
As we’ve previously discussed on several (many) occasions, Ellen DeGeneres has apparently made it her life’s mission to keep real estate agents in the black — and to own every fancy property from San...
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Douglas Elliman’s Q4 Market Report: sales down, inventory up
Over the past few months, Yolanda has noticed a sluggish trend in LA’s real estate market, particularly in the ultra high-end sector — homes worth $10 million and up. Inventory ain’t the problem....
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Elon Musk stealthily snags Bel Air house #6
When he’s not launching rockets or digging underground tunnels or “frivolously” gallivanting on his private jet or smoking green with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk is busy expanding his Bel Air real estate...
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Elon Musk lists mid-century modern above Brentwood’s Mandeville Canyon
Yolanda didn’t intend to embark on an Elon Musk storytime rampage today, but sometimes these things just happen. (P.S. — we’re also working to improve the gallery images/slideshow issue.) Mere hours...
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Jennifer Garner drops nearly $8 million on a Brentwood Park cottage
Late last year (2018), as was widely reported, Jennifer Garner and her (second) ex-husband Ben Affleck sold their longtime Pacific Palisades compound to Adam Levine for a fat $32 million. Mr. Affleck...
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Moritz Thiele lays out $10 million cash in the Birds
This story is by special request from a longtime reader. Let’s call him Mike because, well, that’s his name. If anyone here religiously follows high-end LA real estate listings, you’ve probably...
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Steven & Laura Dunn list two 90210 mega-estates
Over the past week, Yolanda has received no fewer than four curious reader inquiries about one or both of two giant LA compounds that have just popped up for sale with heavy-duty pricetags: one asking...
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WME super-agent Tom Wellington steals a Palisades new build
For decades, Pacific Palisades has been considered one of LA’s most desirable neighborhoods. The nature-filled Westside community features countless scenic hikes, ocean breezes, lavish estates and...
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Emilio Diez Barroso plunks down $11 million in prime Brentwood
The high-end real estate market is fairly quiet at the moment, so Yolanda rummaged around to find an older (but still interesting) transaction to discuss. As it happens, we have one that’s been...
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Alexandra Dwek gets $40 million from Ross Perot Jr.
Yesterday The Real Deal broke the news that major LA socialite Alexandra Dwek quietly sold her sumptuous East Gate Bel Air compound for $40 million — $39,865,000, to be precise — in a top-secret...
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Brian Stevens drops $9 million for some Palm Springs history
The gloomy winter weather currently plaguing LA has got Yolanda staring out our window, dreamily pining for a getaway to some sizzling locale. We don’t only want sun — we want hellfire-level heat,...
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Steven Cohen relists NYC penthouse at a discounted $45 million
Poor Steven A. Cohen. The near-mythic Wall Street tycoon — on whom the Showtime series Billions was loosely based — has lost many a tear over his palatial penthouse in Midtown Manhattan. What’s the...
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Billionaire beef baron Henry Davis forks out $21 million on Laguna’s Emerald Bay
Today we shall journey deep behind the Orange Curtain. Let’s discuss Laguna Beach’s perennially pricey Emerald Bay community. We’ve chatted about Emerald Bay on at least one prior occasion. But to...
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A-Rod and J.Lo quietly buy Jeremy Piven’s Malibu beach house
Certain celebrities gobble up so many homes that Yolanda has (nearly) given up trying to track them all down. We’re talking people like the Kardashians, Taylor Swift and Ellen DeGeneres — each of whom...
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Judith Soeryadjaya asks $26 million for lightly-used Beverly Hills Flats mansion
Over the past couple weeks, Yolanda has been flooded with curious enquiries about a big ol’ house located in prime Beverly Hills, smugly set on one of the best streets in the western Flats...
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Rails founder Jeff Abrams pays $10 million for Montecito’s Palmyra estate
With its near-perfect Mediterranean climate, rolling mountains and tranquil ocean vistas, you can always count on Montecito to serve up some lovely real estate listings. So today we journey up north...
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Jodie Foster asks $15.9 million for her longtime Beverly Hills home
As part of Yolanda’s daily morning routine, we awoke today and perused the latest LA real estate listings. Unfortunately for our poor MacBook keyboard, we spit out an entire mouthful of orange juice...
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Robert F. Smith drops $18 million on Malibu’s Carbon Beach
No other LA neighborhood is better-known for its concentration of billionaire homeowners than Malibu’s Carbon Beach — so much so that this strip of land between the PCH and the ocean is often simply...
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Linda Johnson Rice lists dramatic compound in Palm Springs’ Southridge
Since last week’s story about the huge $9 million Palm Springs transaction proved unexpectedly popular, Yolanda thought we’d make the trek back out to one of our favorite local vacation destinations...
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