September 04, 2020

This week's top real estate headlines

Despite the fact that she owns three other homes (including two properties in New York and a sumptuous Portuguese spread), it looks like Madonna has decided to spend part of her Covid-19 quarantine in Beverly Hills. The pop diva is currently shelling out $120,000 a month for a luxurious 15,000-square-foot, celeb-pedigreed mansion that once housed stars like Betty Grable and Paul McCartney. Meanwhile, over in Malibu, Hollywood scion and budding musician Willow Smith has spread her real estate wings and bought her first starter home. Her new house cost her about $3.1 million and features mesmerizing views of the Pacific.

In other news, Mariah Carey moved her family and her "Covid-quarantine pod" into a mansion in Bedford Hills, Tommy Hilfiger is relisting his colorful Miami residence, producer Charles D. King is asking a tad less than $3.3 million for his Studio City home, Dana York purchased a $4.7 million Brentwood midcentury modern, Camilla Luddington is asking $1.45 million for her very modest Sherman Oaks bungalow, NuVet Labs owner Blake Kirschbaum was recently revealed to be the buyer of a $35 million Westlake Village compound and Priscilla Presley's Beverly Hills estate is on the market for the first time in 45 years.

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Madonna Sequesters in Splendor at Celeb-Pedigreed Beverly Hills Compound

Hidden behind a tall, precisely clipped hedge and imposing iron gates that swing open between stone pillars, the estate’s three structures, a relaxed, quintessentially Californian take on a classic Connecticut country house, provide plenty of room for the Instagram-obsessed material mother, her half dozen children and their retinue of staff in a combined 15,000 square feet of living space.

By Mark David • READ MORE

Willow Smith Buys in Malibu

The property wasn’t on the market at the time of Smith’s purchase, but prior listings show the very contemporary house was built in 2011 and designed to meet modern LEED energy efficiency standards, with high-tech appliances and a greywater recycling system. There’s also solar power and a two-car garage with Tesla charging capability. READ MORE

Dirt Digs In: Dustin Nicholas

Dustin Nicholas is the founder of Nicholas Property Group, a Los Angeles-based boutique brokerage specializing in the luxury market. READ MORE

Mariah Carey’s Rented Covid Quarantine Mansion

Like many urban dwellers with the freedom and resources to do so, Mariah Carey decamped her plush mansion-sized penthouse in lower Manhattan sometime in March to sequester in seclusion and high style at a grand Westchester County country estate. READ MORE

In the New ‘Perry Mason,’ Sister Alice Calls this Gorge Manse Home

One thing the HBO series has a major leg up on the original? The locations, all of which are striking – none more so than the sprawling Spanish estate belonging to flamboyant preacher Sister Alice McKeegan (Tatiana Maslany) and her overbearing mother, Birdy (Lili Taylor). So I set out to find it. READ MORE

Pioneering Producer Charles D. King Seeks Studio City Sale

Listings held by Ted Fleming at Rodeo Realty show the 5,200-square-foot home, a shingle- and clapboard-clad neo-traditional contemporary that’s almost invisible behind a towering hedgerow on a pancake flat corner parcel of just over a quarter acre, contains five bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms. READ MORE

Tom Petty’s Widow Buys Chicly Renovated Midcentury Modern

Built in 1965 and until recently a midcentury modern time capsule, the 3,800 sq. ft. structure was given a radical remodel last year by Jordan Bakva and the team at Studio Hus, with an emphasis on “wellness-driven design.” The result is a very snazzy and sophisticated fusion of organic materials, walls of glass, and soft-touch furnishings, with communal interior spaces centered around a glass atrium anchored by an olive tree. READ MORE

NuVet Labs Owner Blake Kirschbaum Bought the $35 Million Westlake Village Compound

Five-time Emmy-nominated sitcom writer/producer Bill Prady needs another house in L.A.’s low-key but high-cost Toluca Lake about as much as an octopus needs a helicopter, but tax records indicate he’s none-the-less splashed out $5 million for a fourth luxury property in the affluent star-approved neighborhood. READ MORE

Priscilla Presley Asks $16 Million for Longtime Beverly Hills Home

When Priscilla Presley’s posh Beverly Hills mansion was last officially listed on the market 45 years ago, her mega-famous ex-husband Elvis Presley was still alive and Gerald Ford had taken over the U.S. presidency from Richard Nixon. Time changes all things, however, and even the good times eventually stop rolling. READ MORE

‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Star Camilla Luddington Lists L.A. Bungalow

Less than four years after they bought the place, English-born “Tomb Raider” and “Grey’s Anatomy” actor Camilla Luddington and her husband Matthew Alan are checking out of their cozy suburban starter house. The leafy Sherman Oaks spread is asking $1.45 million, a nice chunk over the $1.21 million the couple paid in 2017 but in line with recent neighborhood comps. READ MORE

Tommy Hilfiger’s Eclectic Miami Retreat Seeks $24.5 Million

Looks like Tommy Hilfiger might be done with Miami. Now, the iconic American fashion designer and his wife Dee Ocleppo have re-listed their fabulously — and uniquely — appointed Miami-area mansion at $24.5 million. READ MORE

Look Inside Natalie Wood’s Childhood WeHo Bungalow

In Los Angeles, to come across a spot that has remained largely intact for decades is rare, to say the least. Such is the case with the West Hollywood bungalow Natalie Wood called home while on the cusp of early stardom. READ MORE

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