Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté unloads in Beverly Hills (Post Office)
Today Yolanda is a bit pressed for time, so let’s have a quick peek at the just-sold LA home of the world’s wealthiest busker, a fella who made his fortune via the circus. He’s Guy Laliberté, the...
View ArticlePasadena’s record-breaking Arden Villa lists at a massive loss
The city of Pasadena, located in LA’s oft-overlooked San Gabriel Valley, is renowned for its old-world charm, the annual Tournament of Roses, and the area’s historic architecture — particularly that...
View ArticleGoogle’s Jen Fitzpatrick drops $10 million on Carpinteria’s Sand Point
It’s a sunny Friday — a perfect time to hit the beach. Let’s eschew the typical Malibu haunts and head over to Carpinteria’s Sand Point Road, way up in beautiful Santa Barbara County. For y’all...
View ArticleKris & Kylie Jenner show off their designer-done digs
Since it’s the weekend, the cat’s away and the mice (Yolanda) want to play. So how about something a wee bit offbeat? Don’t fret, our regularly scheduled programming will return shortly. We know many...
View ArticleSteve Wynn acquires the Bel Air home of Joe Francis
For over a decade, “Girls Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis and Las Vegas casino tycoon Steve Wynn have been locked in a bitter series of lawsuits involving a squadron of attorneys and many millions of...
View ArticleJames Franco’s former Chateau Marmont villa pops up for sale
Everyone in LA loves the Chateau Marmont hotel. The idiosyncratic Sunset Strip hotspot has been a favorite celeb hangout for decades — and the 1929 structure is listed as a Historic-Cultural Monument....
View ArticleSo Alba Di Angeli is…
Today Yolanda must apologize (in advance) for flooding your inbox. We already have another fun real estate story on deck, but first we’d like to quickly tie up some loose ends. Yesterday we gabbed...
View ArticleEntrepreneur Dwayne Clark drops $18 million in Carpinteria
Although far less flashy, Carpinteria’s Padaro Lane is to Santa Barbara essentially what Malibu’s Carbon Beach is to LA. At least in terms of residents. It’s an oceanfront stretch of sand where hordes...
View ArticleHere’s a $36.5 million listing in prime Beverly Hills
In this era of $500 million giga-mansions and $238 million penthouse apartments — not to mention $60 million lawsuits over Zillow makin’ a boo-boo — a $36 million house listing just doesn’t have the...
View ArticleJeff Wilson’s $15 million Hillsborough stunner
Today Yolanda is a wee bit busy, so forgive us if we’re more brusque than usual with this story. But we wanted to quickly check out a fun property outside our normal, er, “realm”, and found one in up...
View ArticleBruce Willis drops $10 million in Brentwood Park
Back in January, Yolanda heard rumblings that Bruce Willis was plotting a return to LA. Unfortunately, we were unable to lock down a specific address — possibly somewhere in Beverly Hills, we were...
View ArticleMr. Chow snags Katy Perry’s tasty Runyon Canyon compound
Yolanda first heard it nearly two months ago from an anonymous tipster and then we heard it again — just days ago — from a very reliable source: whispers say Katy Perry has quietly sold her Runyon...
View ArticleVivid Entertainment’s Bill Asher dumps $14.5 million in Montecito
The Montecito/Santa Barbara area has recently seen a spate of mega-dollar real estate closings — property transfers for well into the eight figures, the latest of which went down last week. A gorgeous...
View ArticleLA Rams star Aaron Donald goes glitzy in the Oaks Calabasas
For whatever reason, Yolanda always gets clicks up the wazoo whenever we write about Calabasas. So here’s a fun little ditty for all you ravenous, real estate-obsessed valley girls (and boys)....
View ArticleJames Perse requests $40 million for his Point Dume showplace
[EDIT (3/9/19): Yolanda’s original post misstated the architect of the James Perse house. The residence was designed by the firm Nicolas, Budd, Dutton, with architect Bill Nicholas as the...
View ArticleYouTube founder Chad Hurley quietly sells his giant Woodside estate
San Francisco’s hustle and Silicon Valley’s bustle have driven numerous Bay Area businesspeople to seek stress relief outside of work. Transcendental meditation is all the rage up there, as are...
View ArticleSugar Bear Hair CEO Nicole Nightly drops millions on the house next door
If you’re even semi-active on the Instagram contraption, chances are good you’ve seen an advertisement for a blue bottle of gummy bear vitamins. Typically, said bottles are being peddled by your...
View ArticleMichael Sugar nabs a stately Windsor Square colonial
It’s been many months since we’ve written about a house in the historic (and historically very beautiful) LA neighborhoods of Hancock Park and Windsor Square. So today we rectify that with this...
View ArticleKelly Wearstler’s dynamite Beverly Hills estate asks $350k/month
Although the property has never popped up on the open market — except for a short period back in 2012 — it’s long been an open secret that the lavish Beverly Hills estate of high-nosed society royals...
View ArticleEric Baker spends another $25 million cash in the Beverly Hills flats
A couple months ago, a large property set on one of the best (and least-trafficked) streets in the coveted Beverly Hills Flats neighborhood sold for exactly $25 million in an all-cash, off-market...
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