| | | | This week's top real estate headlines After months of house hunting, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have finally purchased a charming Mediterranean-style compound in celeb-packed Montecito. Meghan and Harry's new home is truly fit for a king with amenities like a tea house, a "children's cottage” and a grand total of 16 bathrooms. Meanwhile, over in Beverly Hills, English media mogul Simon Cowell sold his wildly lavish estate in a hush-hush, off-market deal for $25 million. Located on one of the best blocks in the Beverly Hills Flats neighborhood, the TV talent judge’s former residence features a multi-million dollar security system and even a wellness center.
In other news, Wendy Williams lost $600,000 on the sale of her New Jersey home, Formula One race car driver Jenson Button is zooming out of Bel Air, television titan John Wells listed Francis Ford Coppola's former Hancock Park residence for $10.25 million, "Pitch Perfect" star Brittany Snow is seeking a little more than $2.4 million for her Studio City abode, the Chesapeake Bay property of Tom Clancy finally sold much below its original asking price, the historic Van Griffith estate has a new owner, a rare Harry Gesner-designed boat house is asking $920,000, and Nextdoor.com founder Nirav Tolia is trying to offload his Pacific Heights mansion.
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Built in 2003, the Mediterranean-style main house includes a trove of beige and off-white decor, plus a library, gym, separate wet and dry saunas, an elevator, arcade, game room and home theater. There’s also a detached guesthouse with two bedrooms and bathrooms; altogether, the estate boasts nearly 19,000 square feet of living space with a total of 9 bedrooms and a whopping 16 bathrooms.
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| | Some of the .82-acre property’s numerous amenities include a solarium, movie theater, lap-lane swimming pool, pool cabana with a retractable roof, an at-home tanning salon, a state-of-the-art gym, two kitchens, and that wellness suite with spa and massage facilities, plus a steam room. READ MORE |
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| | After nearly a year on the market at declining prices, Wendy “How your doin’” Williams has sold her suburban home in Livingston, N.J., about 20 miles due west of Midtown Manhattan, for $1.475 million. READ MORE |
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| | About 15 months ago, veteran television titan John Wells, creator of the hit Showtime series “Shameless,” just one among many notable shows for which he’s hovered up six Emmys (and 19 more nominations), shelled out a small amount more than $7 million for a stately English Tudor residence in L.A.’s wealthy Hancock Park neighborhood that, after some quick gussy-ups, he’s flipped back on the market at $10.25 million. READ MORE |
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| | The sprawling, stone-clad Chesapeake Bay estate of Tom Clancy, the late, best-selling author of spy-thrillers like “Patriot Games,” “The Hunt For Red October” and “Clear And Present Danger,” recently sold for $4.9 million, much below its $6.2 million asking price. READ MORE |
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| | After almost a year on the market, Los Feliz’s historic Van Griffith estate has found a new owner. Software heiress-turned-filmmaker and producer Megan Ellison, founder of Annapurna Pictures, has officially handed over the keys of the pedigreed spread to venture capitalist Blake Bartlett. READ MORE |
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| | If you happened to live next door to the co-founder of Nextdoor — a hyper-local, Facebook-like app for your neighborhood, where locals trade babysitter and piano teacher referrals — you’d be living beside a pristine mansion with an asking price of $25 million. READ MORE |
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| | A two-story 1,136-square-foot structure with two bedrooms and one bath, the Boat House on offer comes with a $920,000 price tag. It has an open living space that showcases a vaulted cathedral ceiling with exposed wooden beams and more than a little resembles the belly of a boat. READ MORE |
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| | Looks like third time was the charm for Cheryl Tiegs. Having floated her photogenic Balinese-style home on the market three times over the last seven years, most recently last September with an in-the-rearview-mirror much-too-hopeful price tag of $18.5 million, the pop culture icon has finally sold the Bel Air estate at the steeply discounted price of $14.075 million. READ MORE |
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| | Media power couple Rich Bressler, President/COO/CFO of iHeartMedia, and Lisa Gersh, co-founder of the Oxygen network, have listed their designer-done three-bedroom and 3.5-bathroom high-rise condo in New York City’s historic and charming West Village at $7.95 million. READ MORE |
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| | “Pitch Perfect” star Brittany Snow’s home in L.A.’s Studio City clearly hit the right note when the singer purchased it in 2015. And, with the help of designer Megham Noyes, she made it sing a relaxed, boho-chic tune. Now, the entertainer has the five bedroom and six bathroom home listed for $2.749 million. READ MORE |
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| | Not even a year ago, dashing 38-year-old retired Formula One race car driver Jenson Button, engaged about two years ago to former Playboy model Brittny Ward, ponied up $8.7 million for a not-yet-completed mansion on leafy, little-known canyon cul-de-sac just north of L.A.’s fearsomely upper-crust Bel-Air Country Club. READ MORE |
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