Encino, located in the San Fernando Valley and long the red-headed stepchild in LA’s family of luxury real estate neighborhoods, has lately been coming in to its own. We’ve seen a big spat of expensive sales of new spec-mansions bought by an increasing number of wealthy celebrities who are gladly forgoing the Westside, drawn in […]

Though they come from wildly divergent walks of life, one common denominator unites just about all of Earth’s billionaires (in addition to the hefty bank accounts): they love themselves a luxury compound. Keeping this in mind, when we noticed that a large but dated mansion in prime Beverly Hills recently sold for a fat $16,200,000, […]

Oh Lawdy, she’s at it again. Perennially nomadic and Porsche-driving showbiz stalwart Ellen DeGeneres has just dropped the big bucks on yet another swanky new pad. Before we begin, we must give credit for this story to our longtime friend/tipster Barbara Bane, who is based in Santa Barbara. Ms. DeGeneres — arguably the most voracious […]

Two adjacent units in the super-luxe and appropriately-named The Century building in LA’s Century City neighborhood recently sold for a combined total of $14,162,000. The new owner, Yolanda was somewhat surprised to discover, is an LLC easily linked to a young lass named Nikita Kahn. Our Miss Kahn — if you didn’t already know — […]

It was The Hollywood Reporter who first revealed that billionaire software heiress/film producer Megan Ellison raked in more than $35 million in a not-so-secret off-market deal for her idiosyncratic (and very visible) home high above the Sunset Strip in the Mount Olympus neighborhood of Hollywood Hills. Records now reveal that the transaction went down for $35,350,000. […]

Few real estate-related happenings surprise us anymore, but Yolanda has to admit we were still a wee bit dumbfounded when our trusty pal Vlad the Revealer at Celebrity Address Aerial hit us up to cattily whisper that a very contemporary home in Malibu Colony was sold to Chrome Hearts founders Richard Stark and his business partner/wife Laurie Lynn […]

Kids, Yolanda just touched down in LA after our European vacay and now we feel rather bummed because we realize we’re hopelessly behind on everything. But we thought we’d get the week started off bright and early with a wee juicy morsel out of one of our favorite LA neighborhoods: the low-key and family-friendly yet […]

It took nearly six years, but at long last one of LA’s largest and most unabashedly hedonistic estates has sold. The transfer price, records show, was $24,380,000. That’s a huge number, to be certain, but it’s also a sanity defying $54,420,000 less than the $78.8 million ask that original owner/seller Donald Abbey slapped on his modern-day […]

You’ll recall that late last week, ol’ Yolanda blabbed about a secret (and record-busting) $41,082,000 transaction that went down on a wee dead-end street in the heart of Santa Monica. For a refresher, the house was sold by Modern Family‘s Steven Levitan and/or his ex-wife Krista Levitan (sorry, we aren’t sure who got what in the […]

This one is a long-distance dedication to a handsome, scholarly reader from Santa Barbara. We’ve mentioned him before on this blog — again, let’s call him Barbara Bane. Our Mr. Bane recently wrote in again and generously provided us with a number of juicy Montecito/Santa Barbara real estate tidbits. One of the several properties Mr. […]