Elon Musk doles out $24 million for his fifth Bel Air property
When he’s not building rockets or planning a Mars colony or disrupting the auto industry or going on a Twitter rampage or catfighting with Mark Zuckerberg or getting married (again) or getting divorced...
View ArticleLouis Tomlinson pays $7 million for a new old Hollywood Hills house
There’s very little that scares Yolanda. We pride ourselves on being rather imperturbable, even in our elderly age. Sometimes we wake up in the morning and look in the mirror to find Predator staring...
View ArticleLA’s third quarter biggest sales update: bringing it home
Okay, Yolanda realizes this post is a bit late. We should have put this up at the end of September, right? But we’re running behind on a bunch of stuff. Can you tell? Ugh. Time to pull it together. We...
View Article$100 million worth of lightning strikes twice
“All it takes is one.” That’s what we said when we first discussed this house way back in April (2016). Yolanda thinks it’s ugly, we do. Do we think it’s worth $100 million? No, we do not. But as we...
View ArticleRobot guru Kyle Vogt drops $22 million to glam it up in San Francisco
Although Yolanda is based in Los Angeles and most of our stories thus come from the smoggy little bubble we orbit, we don’t want to give the impression that we’re region snobs. We love writing about...
View ArticleRent Shaun White’s chill Point Dume pad
Summer 2016 is long gone. With it went peak beach vacay season. RIP. But don’t despair. There are still plenty of ways for y’all to squander tens of thousands of bucks. There are several high-priced...
View ArticleNBA star Luol Deng rebounds with a $6 million Brentwood house
Before we get started with this little tale, take a look at the house above and try to block out the title of this post. Now, can you guess where in LA this structure is located? Let’s see: big...
View ArticleGerard Butler covertly acquires two “architectural masterpieces” on Malibu’s...
Though he’s a born-and-bred Scot, versatile actor and ultra-eligible bachelor Gerard Butler (300, Phantom of the Opera, P.S. I Love You, How to Train Your Dragon, Olympus Has Fallen) has — for the last...
View ArticleNBA star Roy Hibbert breaks the price record in Melrose Village
This next post is gonna be unusually short. But not because Yolanda feels like shutting up. Oh no. Never! It’s just that there’s only one measly pic of the house we are discussing today, so we ain’t...
View ArticleReinout & Danielle Oerlemans give it another go above the Sunset Strip
The real estate market may still be fiery hot in certain (many) areas of LA, but not everyone’s feelin’ the warmth. Folks are being left out in the cold — or even worse, getting burned. Take this...
View ArticleTom Gores: Profile of a Real Estate Baller
As has now been reported far and wide, last week (mid-October 2016) multi-billionaire Tom Gores paid an astounding $100,000,000 for a brand-new, 30,000-square-foot mega-mansion on exuberantly-expensive...
View ArticleHalloween special: Anthony Kiedis moves like (Georgia May) Jagger in the...
Sorry, y’all, but we don’t have any truly spooky stories to enthrall you with this Halloween. What we do have is a brief story about two celebrities engaging in a covert real estate deal on one of the...
View ArticleLA’s richest man drops $16 million on his third Laguna Beach house
What exactly is up with Los Angeles’s richest people? While many of us mere financial mortals moo and moan about China’s super-scary property bubble, the uber-elite are spending like, well, there’s no...
View Article“Transformers” producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura shells out $7 million in...
As is a frequent occurrence, our real estate-giddy Romanian friend Vlad the Revealer at Celebrity Address Aerial recently contacted Yolanda and demanded to know the new owner of an expensive Los...
View Article“The Late Late Show” producer Ben Winston buys dignified digs in Westwood
A fellow property gossip (a handsome young man from the north!) contacted Yolanda outta the great blue yonder last week. The dashing young fella — we’ll call him NoMo Snow — generously tipped us off...
View ArticleGala Asher & Ed Berman drop $22 million on a notorious mega-mansion
Fresh off their unbelievable $100 million Holmby Hills sale to multi-billionaire real estate whore Tom Gores, Dream Projects LA partners Gala Asher and Ed Berman have done something rather unexpected....
View ArticleA big sale goes (quietly) down in Bel Air
Think of this story as Yolanda’s attempt to provide an appetizing diversion from your current politically-themed meltdown (or celebration). We’re going to keep this semi-fun and relatively light and...
View ArticleThe sad sixteen bid adieu to their American real estate
Now listen up, y’all. Yolanda will be out of town both this weekend and the next, so if you don’t see many new posts from us, that’s the reason. We’ll be back to our regular schedule very soon, so do...
View ArticleAlex Soltani drops $22 million on a 1MDB scandal-linked Trousdale property
Color Yolanda shocked in regards to this next story. Thanks to our real estate insider pal Don Won/Wan/Juan, we have learned that a somewhat notorious vacant lot located up on what is probably the best...
View ArticleMakeup maven Kat Von D steals a Windsor Square Victorian for $6.5 million
When this house first came to market way back in April (2016), Yolanda saw it, liked it, and hoped it would sell to a preservation-minded individual. You know, someone who would caress the ol’ gurl and...
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