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Arcadia couple drops $26 million on a Beverly Park beast
Don’t quote Yolanda on this, but we are pretty damn sure that Southern California has more luxury residential gated communities than any other region of the United States. And maybe even more than any...
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5 Seconds of Summer’s Luke Hemmings goes ’80s Mod in Laurel Canyon
Put on your thunkin’ caps and you may or may not recall something important. Oh, and you may also recall that it was only about two weeks ago when Yolanda discussed the new Hollywood Hills house of...
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JoAnna Garcia & Nick Swisher splurge on an $8 million Windsor Square...
A lot of wealthy folks still seem to be under outdated, preconceived notions about the Hancock Park/Windsor Square neighborhoods of Los Angeles. They say there’s too much traffic, there’s too much...
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LA’s biggest sales of 2016
Can you tell that Yolanda is way, way behind? It’s just now, nearly a month late, that we’re getting around to cataloging the biggest LA County residential sales of 2016. So let’s get right through...
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Neil Diamond drops $7 million on one of Malibu’s “Blue Whale Estates”
Though he’s well into his 70s, bestselling singer/songwriter and national treasure Neil Diamond is still a spry guy. Only 120 million records sold later, he still bounces around LA and he got married...
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Casino heiress Kevyn Wynn upgrades to the Palisades
Although their fortune was built on the sinful Las Vegas Strip, everyone knows that the entire Wynn family resides primarily in Los Angeles these days. Well, casino kingpin Steve Wynn has so many homes...
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Tech bazillionaire Jim Payne plunks down $18 million in trendy Trousdale Estates
The best residential section of Beverly Hills — Trousdale Estates — was hotter and trendier than ever in 2016. Just count the three $30 million+ property sales, two of which were sold for land value...
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5 Seconds of Summer’s Ashton Irwin chooses Studio City
Within the past month alone, three of the four members of Australian boyband 5 Seconds of Summer have become first-time Los Angeles homeowners. Bass guitarist Calum Hood bought a house in the Hollywood...
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“The Profit” star Marcus Lemonis gets fancy in Montecito
Yolanda is very grateful that people from outside the silly little bubble of La La Land are beginning to follow our equally silly little blog. A handful of them even dare to write in to and ask...
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Jessica Alba ponies up $10 million in Beverly Hills (Post Office)… Honestly
Yolanda has said it before, and she’ll say it again. Celebrities loooove the Beverly Hills Post Office area in the hills above the city. The privacy, the views, the gated communities, the proximity to...
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The Landslide brings Demi Lovato’s $8 million house down
Yeah yeah, Yolanda is keenly aware that everyone else has already discussed this, but we just can’t resist putting our hard-earned two cents in on poor Demi Lovato’s unfortunate (and dirty!)...
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“Guardians of the Galaxy” director/screenwriter James Gunn gets a celebrity...
Some weeks ago, our longtime Romanian friend Vlad the Revealer at the Celebrity Address Aerial website queried Yolanda about the new owner of a gloriously secluded Malibu estate with a long history of...
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Donald “Drawbertson” Robertson flips out in Montecito
A friendly PR bunny hopped on by Yolanda’s email last week and let us know popular pop artist Donald Robertson (aka “Drawbertson”) was flipping his casually luxe home in the forever-posh seaside...
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Bill Gross’s son coughs up $9 million above the Sunset Strip
His father is one of the biggest, baddest real estate ballers around. In particular, daddy dearest is known for his love of exorbitantly-expensive contemporary residences with spectacular views. So...
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Duty Free heiress Alexandra von Furstenberg dishes out $16 million on...
On this blog Yolanda gabs about two types of people, generally speaking: rich folks and really rich folks. And airport stores heiress turned fashion designer Alexandra von Furstenberg most assuredly...
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Comedian Tony Cavalero buys Marlon Brando’s old Paul Williams haunt
One thing we love about the Hollywood Hills is the proliferation of unique and idiosyncratic homes everywhere. Go for a drive on Mulholland or down Laurel Canyon and on every wee side street there’s...
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Monday Delight: Photographs of Tom Ford’s $39 million Roland Coate in Holmby...
Yolanda was gonna write about a bunch of fun stuff this weekend, but it was so beautiful outside that we just couldn’t concentrate. Yep, we didn’t get a thing done and we don’t regret it one bit....
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An Indonesian billionaire sells his $24 million Sunset Strip showpiece to a...
Besides all the celebrity residents, the Hollywood Hills is perhaps best-known for its proliferation of expensive homes that are perched on often-extraordinarily stingy lots. The vast majority of...
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Evan Metropoulos pays $65 million for Gilbert Chagoury’s Trousdale teardown
We’re barely six weeks into 2017 and already there have been nigh on 10 Los Angeles residential deals of $20 million or more, which has gotta be a record of some sort. All signs point to this being a...
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Pro boxer Andre Berto scoops up a $6.6 million Beverly Hills pad
A gentle old soul like Yolanda knows precious little about sports — professional or otherwise — but even we know that the world of pro boxing can be a highly lucrative — ahem — “arena”. It’s almost...
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