The week's biggest real estate stories: James Charles, Adam Brody, Logan Shroyer, Don Lemon and more.
| | | | This week's top real estate headlines For months, rumors have been swirling that Jeff Bezos and his new love interest Lauren Sanchez have been house hunting in Los Angeles. Well, the rumors have turned out to be true. This week, the Amazon founder laid down some seriously big Bezos bucks for some top-notch real estate and bought not just one, but two shockingly expensive properties in the 90210. He shelled out $165 million for David Geffen’s legendary Jack Warner estate and $90 million for Enchanted Hill, an estate last owned by the late Paul Allen. Those are some "Prime" properties!
In other news, beauty guru James Charles made a $7 million off-market deal for an Encino mansion, the founders of Quest Nutrition are putting their protein bar empire profits to work in the real estate market, the wine country spread of the late "L.A. Law" creator Steven Bochco is up for grabs at $8.5 million, lowkey Hong Kong billionaire Karen Lo is finally doing something with her Holmby Hills property, Don Lemon is looking to move on from his Harlem condominium, DeAndre Jordan listed his luxurious Malibu mansion at a loss, up-and-coming actor Logan Shroyer bought his first home in L.A., and married actors Adam Brody and Leighton Meester are so over their Topanga mountaintop retreat.
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What's it like being the wealthiest men in the world? Well, you can make the most expensive home purchase in California's history and exhaust only .19% of your total net worth. Bezo's purchase of the famed Jack Warner estate is also the second-biggest U.S. transaction ever notched, behind only Ken Griffin’s $238 million Manhattan penthouse splurge. By James McClain • READ MORE |
| | The nearly 10,000 sq. ft. house also offers six bedrooms, four of them on the uppermost level — all with ensuite bathrooms — one guest room on the basement level, and maid’s quarters on the main floor. READ MORE |
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| | This home has seen quite a few stars go past its doors. Ellen DeGeneres briefly owned the two-bed/two-bath hillside cabin and later sold it to late actor Heath Ledger in 2005 for $2.3 million — about $1 million more than she’d paid for it the previous year. READ MORE |
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| | Quest Bar's wildly wealthy founders, Ron and Shannan Penna, have been busy putting their newfound riches into high-end real estate. This time, they've bought a $10 million Hidden Valley estate complete with a 9-hole golf course. READ MORE |
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| | Somewhat surprisingly, Lo does not plan to build an ultra-contemporary mansion. Rather, she foresees an International-style manor with soaring white columns and a red tile roof, plus enormous walls of glass that drink in the SoCal sunshine. READ MORE |
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| | NBA star DeAndre Jordan, who played for the Los Angeles Clippers from 2008-18, has hoisted his lavish mansion in the ritzy foothills above Malibu’s picturesque Paradise Cove on the market at a pinch less than $10 million. READ MORE |
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| | Married actors Leighton Meester and Adam Brody have their supremely private mountaintop retreat in near tiny Topanga, Calif., high in the rugged mountains between Malibu and Calabasas, up for sale at a tetch under $3.3 million. READ MORE |
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| | Up-and-coming young actor Logan Shroyer, part of the ensemble cast of NBC’s spectacularly popular primetime dramedy “This Is Us,” has celebrated his rapidly rising stardom with the roughly $1.1 million purchase of a freshly renovated home in Valley Village. READ MORE |
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| | Veteran CNN anchor Don Lemon has hoisted his city-view condo in New York City’s historic Harlem neighborhood up for sale on the open market with a $1.75 million price tag. READ MORE |
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| | After first being offered as an off-market whisper listing, the achingly scenic, northern California wine country estate of late and vaunted television producer Steven Bochco has been listed on the open market by his wife, Dayna Bochco, at $8.5 million. READ MORE |
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| | Professional relationships have all the complexity of personal ones, and when the professional relationship involves the spending of millions of dollars and a place called home, the complexity ratchets up dramatically. READ MORE |
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