August 25, 2020

This week's top real estate headlines

Although it's certainly no Winterfell, Emilia Clarke's former residence in Venice is perhaps best described as a fortress. The "Game of Thrones" star is currently seeking a tad under $5 million for her delightfully contemporary and posh compound. Meanwhile over in Malibu, Matthew Perry is also looking to offload some real estate. After spending part of his Covid-19 lockdown in the home, the "Friends" actor has hoisted his Malibu beach house up for sale with a $14.95 million price tag.

In other news, Kid Rock is bouncing out of Motor City, Grindr founder Joel Simkhai wants a tad under $10 million for his Hollywood Hills manse, producer Erika Olde bought a charming, rustic spread in Wyoming, Gordon Ramsay is looking to make bank on his Cornwall vacation getaway, HauteLook founder Adam Bernhard is flipping his Sunset Strip home, "The Simpsons" producer Max Warburton is asking a little under $2.5 million for his Beachwood Canyon residence, and "Grand Theft Auto" creator Dan Houser is sliding into a $16.5 million Brentwood estate.

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Emilia Clarke Lists Ultra-Modern Venice Fortress

While it’s no Winterfell — or Casterly Rock, for that matter — rest assured that the Clarke estate is every bit a modern fortress; sequestered behind towering walls, ringed by mature trees and watched over by state-of-the-art cameras and infrared technology, the high-style compound is virtually impenetrable and a welcome oasis in gritty L.A.

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Matthew Perry Lists Malibu Beach House

Boxy and unassuming from the street, the roughly 5,500-square-foot contemporary home sits on a dry stretch of sand along one of Malibu’s most prestigious streets, and listings held by “Million Dollar Listing” star Josh Flagg of Rodeo Realty and his fashion model turned real estate agent husband Bobby Boyd, also of Rodeo Realty, show the two-story house four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. READ MORE

Kid Rock Lists Motor City Mansion and Boathouse

Kid Rock has his Motor City manse, a grand river-front spread in a leafy neighborhood just a handful of miles west of downtown, up for sale with Tim Cook at Skyline Realty Group at $2.2 million. READ MORE

Hollywood Producer Erika Olde Buys Massive Wyoming Compound

Producer Erika Olde has set her sights on pristine Wyoming — records reveal the Cayman Islands native has purchased a 4.27-acre spread in a private community just outside of downtown Jackson Hole. READ MORE

Micah Schraft Picks Up Tinseltown-Tinged Echo Park Pad

Writer and producer Michah Schraft appears to have celebrated his upwardly mobile professional success with the not quite $1.8 million purchase of a boldly quirky, Tinseltown-tinged home in L.A.’s historic and hipster-fied Dodger Stadium-adjacent Echo Park neighborhood. READ MORE

HauteLook Founder Adam Bernhard Flips Fashionable Sunset Strip Home

The carefully tailored and fashionably dressed Sunset Strip home of Adam Bernhard, founder and former CEO of the members-only discount flash sale site HauteLook, has popped up on the market with a hang tag marked with the not-exactly-bargain-basement-price of $5.149 million. READ MORE

Art World Mecca Marfa Offers Imaginative Getaways

Those eager to flee the COVID-infested confines of crowded cities might consider the remote art-centric hipster’s paradise, Marfa, Texas, as a possible destination. Deep in the Chihuahuan high desert, Marfa was colonized in 1979 by minimalist sculptor Donald Judd, who purchased a compound of decommissioned military buildings and transformed them into austere exhibition spaces for art by him and his friends. READ MORE

Residences at the West Hollywood Edition Lure Youthful Billionaires

Forget this glassy Hollywood Hills mansion or that shiny new Bel Air palace, real estate marketers would have you believe that the hottest new Los Angeles mega-homes are “mansions in the sky,” condos in the swank residential skyscrapers popping up all over the city. READ MORE

Matt Warburton Selling in Beachwood Canyon

Matt Warburton, a staff writer and producer for “The Simpsons” before going on to pen and produce “The Mindy Project” and, currently, Mindy Kaling’s lauded semi-autobiographical Netflix series “Never Have I Ever,” looks to produce the sale of a custom-renovated home that has come up for sale at just under $2.45 million in L.A.’s historic and artsy (if no longer particularly affordable) Beachwood Canyon neighborhood. READ MORE

Gordon Ramsay Lists Scenic Cornwall Vacation Retreat

Acerbic British chef, restaurateur and TV personality Gordon Ramsay has cooked up a tasty residential treat in the form of his riverfront holiday getaway. Located in the scenic coastal town of Fowey, in southwest England’s famous Cornwall area, the spread is asking £2.75 million — or right about $3.6 million for those of us living stateside. READ MORE

Joel Simkhai Taps Out of Mansion in the Hills

Having bought another, more expensive and slightly larger house earlier this year, geosocial dating app entrepreneur Joel Simkhai, founder of the gay hookup app Grindr and the more broadly aimed (and less prurient) Blendr, has put a neo-Mediterranean mansion in L.A.’s star-favored Outpost Estates neighborhood on the market at a touch less than $10 million. READ MORE

‘Grand Theft Auto’ Mastermind Dan Houser Skids Into $16.5 Million L.A. Estate

An elegant mansion in a particularly celebrity-favored pocket of L.A.’s Brentwood neighborhood has sold for $16.5 million in an all-cash deal. Right next door to Petra Ecclestone’s home and directly across the street from the main residence of LeBron James, the sublimely located property’s new owners are one of the wealthiest couples in the global entertainment industry: English video game mogul Dan Houser and his longtime wife, Russian voice actress Krystyna Jakubiak. READ MORE

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