Posts with tag beverly hills real estate

Leeza Gibbons, star of the baby boomer PBS hit "My Generation," has listed her gated 6,600-square-foot Beverly Hills estate for sale at $6,895,000. She bought the home in June 2010, paying $6.6 million, according to public records. Color her optimistic. The two-story Mediterranean, built in 2007, has six bedrooms, a... Continue Reading »

Phil McGraw -- a.k.a. "Dr. Phil" -- just listed a Beverly Hills home for $6,250,000. In April, McGraw sold another Beverly Hills house for $12 million that had been listed at $16.5 million. Just last summer, he and wife Robin bought a third Beverly Hills home for $29.5 million. We guess it doesn't get any realer than... Continue Reading »

Today's head-scratcher is that Ellen DeGeneres and Portia DeRossi have raised the asking price of their Beverly Hills home by almost 15 percent -- from $55 million to a cool $63 million. Did the sale of Jennifer Aniston's place in nearby Trousdale Estates get them thinking they should have asked more? Is the Beverly... Continue Reading »

The Beverly Hills estate of Armand Marciano, the co-founder of Guess? Inc., just came on the market at $63 million, which is a lot of jeans, no matter who's doing the zipping. The 30,000-square-foot Mediterranean estate has a total of 10 bedrooms and 22 bathrooms, according to the MLS. It sits on nearly 20 acres. This... Continue Reading »

Is America's most famous same-sex couple selling their lavish Beverly Hills estate? Our sister site, ShelterPop, seems to think so. Ellen and Portia bought the sprawling 12,000-square-foot property in 2007 for $29 million. They've since bought three adjacent homes to expand their massive private oasis -- so why sell so... Continue Reading »

A real estate practice that continues to cling to life support despite the recession -- and some say common sense -- is the pocket listing, which presumes that it's somehow a good idea to list your house for sale but keep it a secret. In a pocket listing, a homeowner tips off an agent -- or six -- that they would consider... Continue Reading »

Jodie Foster just listed for $9.975 million her gorgeous, but quaint Beverly Hills, Calif., home. Don't listen to those bloggers here and there who are calling this 7-bedroom, 8-bath home a teardown or a fixer-upper just because the listing description says, "Build your dream estate on this lush park like setting." See the... Continue Reading »

In one of the climactic closing scenes on Bravo's hit series, Million Dollar Listing, real estate agent Josh Altman , pictured in suit, accuses costar Josh Flagg, pictured far left, of squealing to Altman's girlfriend's boss that she was out job hunting. (Fellow MDL costar Madison Hildebrand is pictured in the middle).... Continue Reading »

Shortly after Dr. Phil cut the price of his Beverly Hills, Calif., home a buyer has stepped forward, according to listing realtor Billy Dolan with Hilton & Highland. The home was first listed at $16.5 million in July then eight months later dropped to $13.899 million. The sale is still pending, so Dolan couldn't... Continue Reading »

Christina Aguilera's latest real-estate saga is a good news-bad news story. On the upside, she no longer has to worry about not being able to unload her Midcentury Modern aerie in the Hollywood Hills, because she just moved back into it. The place has been on and off on the market since 2008, when she and then-hubby Jordan... Continue Reading »

Jennifer Aniston just listed her eco-friendly Beverly Hills, Calif., bachelorette pad for a whopping $42 million. The 10,000-square-foot home, with stunning 180-degree views of Los Angeles, was designed by mid-century architect Hal Levitt and last year featured in Architectural Digest after Aniston gave it an eco-friendly... Continue Reading »

The longtime Beverly Hills, Calif., home of the late comic legend Groucho Marx -- the one where he carved his initials into the wet cement on the driveway and again by the pool -- just sold for $5.8 million, according to the MLS. The 1927 Spanish-style estate on an acre had been listed in June at $6,995,000. Continue Reading »

Linda Evans, once a major TV icon in the 1980s primetime soap opera Dynasty, has listed her Beverly Hills, Calif., home for $3,295,000. The former actress, who played Krystle Carrington and was once married to photographer John Derek, started dating New Age musical noodler Yanni in 1989. In the early 1990s, Evans fled... Continue Reading »

Actress Jessica Alba is trying to lease out her 3,035-square-foot Beverly Hills home for $8,950 a month. The three-bedroom multi-level home owned by the Dark Angel is being offered fully furnished, which means you better have a thing for Balinese-style living. Any takers for this thing of beauty? The rental, we mean.... Continue Reading »

Actress Diane Keaton is having a good run. She recently sold two properties she has had on the market -- one to Glee's Ryan Murphy. Without question, Murphy gave Keaton something to sing about. The actress' Beverly Hills home -- a stunning remodeled Spanish Colonial Revival redone by Annie Hall herself -- finally sold for... Continue Reading »