Dec 19th 2011 @ 5:30PM
Last week, the landscapers were installing the vegetation necessary to keep our prying eyes from seeing Pierce Brosnan's new Malibu house. And today we noted in the MLS that his old house -- also on Malibu's Broad Beach -- had a status change to pending. If the MLS was Facebook, we'd say Brosnan is now engaged, with ... Continue Reading »
Dec 9th 2011 @ 1:00PM
Brad Pitt's house in Malibu, Calif., was withdrawn from the market, according to the MLS. In the world of celebrity real estate deals, this generally happens when the seller has reeled in a buyer and the ink on the deal is just about dry. So far, there's been no recorded sale, but since a moving company was spotted at ... Continue Reading »
Dec 8th 2011 @ 9:01AM
What do you get when you mix a Chicago Cubs exec with a Chicago Blackhawks player? A bidding war over a Lakeview house, if speculation is to be believed. And let's just say that bidding wars in today's real estate market are about as rare as the Cubbies heading for the World Series. Theo Epstein, the current Cubs savior, ... Continue Reading »
Dec 1st 2011 @ 5:00PM
Master-of-the-putdown comic David Spade just listed his Malibu beachfront home at $13.5 million, a bit closer to earthly realities than when he first tried to sell it in 2007 for $16 million. The razor-tongue Spade is perhaps learning the "Rules of Engagement" of the current housing downturn. He bought the ... Continue Reading »
Nov 30th 2011 @ 11:00AM
Is it possible that the housing crisis is really just a problem caused by our state of mind, not the state of the economy? Is the thing stopping people from buying houses nothing more than their perceptions? Apparently, to some extent, yes. We are having what, if economists talked like this, could be described as an ... Continue Reading »
