This transaction actually went down a full six months ago, but Yolanda is only blabbing about it now because, well, it took us that long to figure out who bought the damn thing. It’s still worth discussing because 1) it’s a very cool house where we’d gladly reside and 2) there’s the whole celebrity factor, […]

Although it’s one of Southern California’s wealthiest communities, Bell Canyon is oft-overlooked by the press. Part of the blame lies with its rather remote location — though technically within the Ventura County boundaries, homes there must be accessed by driving through the LA County neighborhood of West Hills, making the area just a particularly far-flung […]

We don’t know anyone who moves more frequently than Ellen DeGeneres. The TV talk show hostess’s property portfolio is so constantly in flux that her business manager and realtors alike must have mansion-laced nightmares about the dozens of transactions she’s initiated over the past few years. (Still, the hefty fees they’ve reaped from her perpetual […]

Don’t call us jet setters — the truth is far, far from that — but we’ve done a small patch of traveling in our time. Despite the allure of more exotic locales, one of our favorite earthly destinations remains the quaint seaside town of Montecito (CA). For any geographically-challenged readers, Montecito is located immediately next […]

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, […]