We wanted to cap off the week with a healthy dose of interesting architecture, so we rummaged through the vault and finally located a suitable subject in the form of this groovy Spanish hacienda. And yes, this transaction actually went down several months ago, but it doesn’t seem as though anyone else has discussed it. […]

Late last year, celebrity supernova Kim Kardashian and her hot-headed hubby Kanye West sold their “starter” LA mansion for a shocking $17,800,000 in cash to a Ukrainian woman named Marina Acton. The property is located in the guard-gated community of Bel Air Crest and was purchased solely by Ms. Kardashian for $9 million back in […]

Probably our favorite thing about high-end real estate transactions is seeing the widely divergent paths these folks take on their journeys to vast wealth. While a hefty number of buyers are indeed to-the-manor-born, many others used their entrepreneurial grit to elevate themselves above the middle-class (or out of abject poverty, in some cases). Today’s buyer […]

If you have many millions of dollars and you’re looking to invest in residential Los Angeles real estate, we highly recommend considering the Beverly Hills Flats neighborhood. Prices out there have been skyrocketing for the past eight years or so, and the rapid upward trajectory shows no signs of abatement. Though the once-fiery hot LA […]

The advent of YouTube as a cultural phenomenon — especially among Generation Z — means the kiddos of today use the site as a go-to for just about everything important to them: dating advice, beauty tips, product reviews and far more. It also means that many young “influencers” who create videos for the Tube of […]

The Eastside LA neighborhood of Los Feliz is chock-full of beautiful old homes, many of them Spanish Revival-style jewels. Some of those houses — most originally built in the 1920s and 1930s — have gradually decayed over the past decades. But soaring area real estate prices have recently enticed developers to buy these elderly ladies, […]

We decided to keep the Old Hollywood theme going today with this lovely 1935 Mediterranean Revival-style villa in the Flats of Beverly Hills, surely one of the wealthiest and most expensive neighborhood pockets in all of Los Angeles County. According to architecture enthusiast Michael Locke, the house was designed and built by contractors Rose & […]

EDIT (10/7/18): Pictures removed per the Strains’ request. We’ve recently been getting a small trickle of hate-mail from a couple of whiners. (You know who you are.) Seems they don’t care for most of the homes Yolanda has posted about recently — too “trashy” and “new money” for their delicate real estate sensibilities, apparently. Listen, […]

Teddy Roosevelt once said “He with the big stick wins, except when attacked by he with the bigger stick. So always carry the biggest stick.” (We paraphrase.) Nile Niami seems to have taken that bigger-is-always-better mantra to heart. For the uninformed, Mr. Niami is arguably LA’s most successful spec-builder of mega-mansions, the outrageous kind with […]

Yolanda is still recovering from that nasty bit of food poisoning last week, so don’t even mention lunch to us or we might smack you. Obviously, writing about a chef and his culinary creations is the last thing we’d like to do today. But duty calls and we give the people what they want. Apparently […]