Hot Property 2008
December 31, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Alan Ladd's Los Feliz property sells for $2.55 million
What could be more perfect on New Year's Eve than to be writing about -- what else? -- a bar. And not just any old bar -- a famous pub where Bette Davis, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Ginger Rogers and hundreds of others carved their names in the bar top. Now who wouldn't like to fall off the same stools where the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame once perched?
December 27, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Kardashian home in Hidden Hills for sale at $3,395,000
Is it even possible to keep up with the Kardashians, as the E! network show wants us to? Now those "krazy" Kardashians have listed their Hidden Hills home for sale at $3,395,000 -- the very house where the reality TV show is filmed.
December 20, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
CCH Pounder lists home in L.A.'s historic West Adams
On FX's "The Shield," CCH Pounder played the fictional LAPD Capt. Claudette Wyms -- the self-appointed voice of morality at "the Barn," as her division headquarters was affectionately called. Her frequent clashes with bad boy Det. Vic Mackey (played by Michael Chiklis) underscored her determination and strength -- qualities that just might come in handy as she tries to sell her West Adams home.
December 18, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Producer Donald De Line drops price of Hollywood Hills home to $4.35 million
"Body of Lies" and "Fool's Gold" producer Donald De Line just shaved $400,000 off the price of his Hollywood Hills home, now listed for $4.35 million.
December 17, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Beverly D'Angelo lists Beverly Hills home at $2,185,000
There is much to envy about actress Beverly D'Angelo: ageless beauty, a Hollywood career of lasting duration, the fact that the hunky Al Pacino parked his slippers at her front door for years and that she owns a 1920s Spanish-style gem of a house in Beverly Hills that just came on the market at $2,185,000.
December 16, 2008
Hot Property
Jeff Franklin's Sunset Strip-area home for sale for $6,495,000
Jeff Franklin, who produced such TV hits as "Full House," "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper" and "Malcolm & Eddie," hopes to score a hit on the sale of his Sunset Strip-area house, now listed at $6,495,000.
December 15, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Kardashian home in Hidden Hills for sale at $3,395,000
Is it even possible to keep up with the Kardashians, as the E! network show wants us to? Now those "krazy" Kardashians have listed their Hidden Hills home for sale at $3,395,000 -- the very house where the reality TV show is filmed.
December 15, 2008
Hot Property
Paula Redstone buys Beverly Hills home for $4.15 million
Paula Redstone, the 40-something soon-to-be ex-wife of octogenarian billionaire Sumner Redstone, just bought a Beverly Hills home, spending $4.15 million, according to the Multiple Listing Service. The house was originally listed at $4.45 million and then lowered to what it sold for. Time on the market: 38 days.
December 13, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Timothy Busfield lists Malibu home at $1,995,000
Timothy Busfield is one of those ensemble-cast actors whose characters stick in the public's consciousness long after the series ends.
December 12, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Sex advice writer Laura Corn lowers Malibu home price to $3,795,000
Even sex advice author Laura Corn may have to agree that sometimes, less is more. She just lowered the price of her Malibu home to $3,795,000 -- about a 16% reduction from its original listing price at $4.4 million in August.
December 12, 2008
Hot Property
Mohamed Hadid's Beverly Hills spec home price drops to $12.9 million
The price of high-end real estate mogul Mohamed Hadid's latest Beverly Hills offering just took a dip in the old infinity pool. Hadid lowered the price from $16.5 million to $12.9 million on a 12,000-square-foot spec home.
December 12, 2008
Hot Property
Michael Blakey's Beverly Hills home sale price drops to $2,995,000
And the beat goes on for London-born Michael Blakey, who was once described by Modern Drummer Magazine as one of the world's best. Blakey, a veteran music producer, has slashed the price of his Beverly Hills home by a tidy $1.7 million -- bringing it down to $2,995,000 from its original listing price in August of $4,695,000.
December 11, 2008
Hot Property
Fashion designer Randolph Duke lists Hollywood Hills home
Designer Randolph Duke has dressed so many Hollywood starlets that he actually alphabetizes them on his website, presumably to avoid showing favoritism. And while we have no way of knowing whether his designs are lucky charms come awards season, the fact is that Angelina Jolie, Hilary Swank and Marcia Gay Harden all rose to the podium in Duke's designs.
December 10, 2008
Hot Property
Michael Ovitz's Brentwood home for sale for $14.95 million
There was a time when Michael Ovitz walked the streets of Hollywood and the ground would shake. In that spirit, the tremor you might have just felt was Ovitz and his wife, Judy, listing their Brentwood home at $14.95 million.
December 9, 2008
Hot Property
Ninja Turtles creator Kevin Eastman drops price of his Beverly Hills view home to $3,495,000
First, there were John, Paul, George and Ringo. Then came Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello -- the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles created by Kevin Eastman. We can argue all day about which quartet will ultimately have the deepest impact on pop culture, but for now, Eastman has a house to sell.
December 9, 2008
Hot Property
Record producer Scott Humphrey lists Hollywood Hills compound for $2,695,000
The home belonging to longtime Rob Zombie producer Scott Humphrey has come on the market at $2,695,000. Without question, one could easily go to the grave without crossing paths with Zombie, so readers might want to envision a heavy metal musician with a horror-slasher film twist and a slice of the demonic -- and that's just his tattoos.
December 8, 2008
Hot Property
Christopher Masterson, Laura Prepon sell Los Feliz home for $2,280,000
Actor Christopher Masterson can exhale now. The ink just dried on the sale of his Los Feliz home. Masterson and co-owner actress Laura Prepon fetched $2,280,000 for their 1939 traditional-style house. It was originally listed in the spring at $2.99 million and subsequently reduced.
December 6, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Jennifer Lopez lists Bel-Air home at $8.5 million
Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez has listed her French farmhouse estate in Bel-Air at $8.5 million. J-Lo, her singer husband, Marc Anthony, and their 9-month-old fraternal twins have been the subject of ongoing sightings in the Long Island community of Brookville, fueling speculation that they have relocated to New York. And she thought the 405 was bad?
December 4, 2008
Hot Property
L.A. Auto Show's Andrew Fuzesi buys Westwood-area home for $2,401,000
Perhaps the key to true happiness is fast cars and fast sales? Andrew Fuzesi, general manager of the Los Angeles Auto Show, is the new owner of a Westwood-area home that was on the market for a mere 10 days and sold for above its listing price.
November 29, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Leonardo DiCaprio lists one of his Malibu properties for sale at $8,999,000
Leonardo DiCaprio, who in a sort of passing of the teen-idol baton sat courtside next to "High School Musical" star Zac Efron at a Lakers game last weekend, has listed one of his Malibu properties for sale at $8,999,000. What's next? Will the mini-me Efron buy the house of the man whose career he says he wants to emulate? Unlikely, but heck, they were even photographed folding their hands the same way.
November 25, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Jennifer Lopez's Bel-Air home for sale for $8.5 million
Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez has listed her French farmhouse estate in Bel-Air at $8.5 million. Speculation is that J-Lo and her husband, singer Marc Anthony, have relocated with their 9-month-old fraternal twins to the Long Island community of Brookville in New York. And she thought the 405 was bad?
November 15, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
UPDATED: Tim McGraw, Faith Hill list Beverly Park home at $14.8 million
Update: The listing price on Lee Holdridge's home has been reduced from $2,975,000 to $2,495,000 since this story ran in November 2008.
November 8, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Ving Rhames' mission possible: selling his Brentwood home
In an indelible award-show moment, best-actor winner Ving Rhames gave his Golden Globe to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon in 1998, saying: "I feel that being an artist is about giving, and I'd like to give this to you." There was nary a dry eye in the house, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. later made a duplicate award for Rhames. (Sorry, Sally. While we may really, really like you, this guy is a class act.)
November 1, 2008
Hot Property
Tori Spelling's Westwood home for sale for $2,395,000
If Hollywood had true royalty, Tori Spelling -- the daughter of Candy Spelling and the late Hollywood producer Aaron Spelling -- would be its reigning princess. And the princess is switching castles.
October 25, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Melissa Joan Hart, TV's Sabrina, lists Sherman Oaks home
There are certain roles in Hollywood that, once cast, simply stick like glue.
October 11, 2008
Hot Property
'High School Musical's' Vanessa Hudgens buys Studio City home for $2.75 million
OK, PULL up the blinds in your sleeping tween-ager's room and show her this column. I promise she will not shoot daggers your way. Vanessa Hudgens Vanessa Hudgens of "High School Musical" fame has bought her first house. It's in Studio City, it cost $2.75 million, and she isn't out of her teens yet.
October 4, 2008
Hot Property
Hot Property: Julianna Margulies' Santa Monica home for sale at $4.5 million
Whenever I walk into a hospital emergency room, I still look for Nurse Hathaway -- the one who goes the extra mile for her patients, even when someone who looks like George Clooney is distracting her at the moment.
September 27, 2008
Hot Property: Britney Spears lists her home for $7.9 million
GOOGLING "Britney Spears" just now yielded 98,600,000 hits; googling " President Bush," 44,600,000. Makes you wonder what's wrong with this planet, doesn't it?
September 8, 2008
Hot Property
Hot Property: Pickfair is for sale for $60 million
There are celebrities so well-known that they need to use only one name. The housing equivalent is Pickfair, the Beverly Hills Georgian manor whose name instantly summons images of old Hollywood and the days of glamour and opulence.
September 8, 2008
Hot Property
Hot Property: George Hamilton buys on Wilshire and makes cookies part of the deal
It would seem that actor George Hamilton hungers for more than just a perpetual tan. Hamilton, who recently bought along the Wilshire Corridor, wrote into the purchase offer that the seller -- who runs a popular bakery -- had to keep him in cookies for a year. Now why didn't I think of that?
August 30, 2008
Hot Property: Kelsey Grammer puts up Holmby Hills estate for a quick flip
Meet Kelsey the flipper.
August 19, 2008
Hot Property
Hot Property: Kelsey Grammer's Holmby Hills estate for sale at $19.9 million
Meet Kelsey the flipper.
August 16, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Hot Property: Denise Richards' Hidden Hills home on the market for $4.25 million
Maybe it's because neighbors didn't exactly roll out the welcome wagon when she began filming her new reality TV show at home, or maybe it's because, as she says, she wants to be closer to her kids' school. Whatever the reason, expect the moving van to pull up to Denise Richards' place in Hidden Hills soon. Yup, we likely won't have this Bond girl to kick around anymore.
August 2, 2008
Hot Property
Hot Property: Nicole Kidman takes Beverly Hills
GOODTHINGS also come in threes: Nicole Kidman has a beautiful new baby girl, a cool new place she bought in Beverly Hills, and a starring role in the big-screen version of Broadway's smash hit "Nine."
May 19, 2008
REAL ESTATE
Hot Property: Shannen Doherty lists her Malibu house for $4.4 million
First Shannen Doherty dumped the 90210 ZIP Code, and it would appear she is now ready to shed some 90265 skin. A star of the 1990s TV hit "Beverly Hills 90210," Doherty has listed her 3,410-square-foot home in Malibu at $4.4 million.
July 8, 2008
Hot Property
SA Martinez talks about leaving L.A.
SA Martinez of the alt-rock band 311, in an e-mail exchange with LATimes.com's Marcello Ambriz, explained his mixed emotions about putting his Los Angeles house up for sale.
May 13, 2007
HOT PROPERTY
Boxer exits the ring in Big Bear
Oscar De La Hoya, the people's champion who lost the World Boxing Council's super-welterweight belt last weekend in his match against Floyd Mayweather Jr., has sold his Big Bear Lake property for about $2.1 million.
April 22, 2007
REAL ESTATE
So, Bündchen can pretty up New York awhile
Gisele Bündchen, one of the world's most famous faces in modeling, has for the moment turned up her nose at living in Los Angeles.
March 2, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Their project, Conan O'Brien's leap of faith
TV and movie producer Michael Manheim and his wife, Janus Cercone -- who is writing the script for a musical adaptation of her 1992 movie, "Leap of Faith" -- designed and developed the Brentwood compound purchased in January by talk-show host Conan O'Brien, featured in the Hot Property column on Jan. 20.
March 2, 2008
HOT PROPERTY
Grant Show has listed his Hollywood Hills home for close to $2 million
Moving farther from Melrose?
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