Month: February 2017

This one here is gonna be short but sweet, as Yolanda unfortunately does not possess any pictures to share with y’all. Everyone knows that LA’s tiny Holmby Hills neighborhood pocket — Holmby lies between Beverly Hills and Bel Air and is essentially bisected by Sunset Boulevard — represents the ne plus ultra of SoCal residential […]

High-end real estate everywhere in LA is hotter than ever, but real estate in the once-gritty-but-now-gentrified-and-blazingly-expensive seaside community of Venice (CA) is particularly so. Yolanda has written about the area more than once — including our discussion of actress Emilia Clarke’s stunning new spread — but admittedly we don’t give the neighborhood as much attention […]

After a very long slog on the market, Bebe clothing founder Manny Mashouf finally managed to dump his sublimely-located Holmby Hills villa for $30,000,000 this month (February 2017). That’s a far cry from the arguably downright greedy $45 million he originally wanted but it’s still a monster haul, of course. Mr. Mashouf originally purchased the […]

Last April (2016) billionaire entertainment and pro sports magnate Ed Snider succumbed to cancer in his colossal Montecito estate (more on that place in a minute) at the ripe old age of 83. He left behind a colorful legacy of multiple successful businesses, millions of dollars donated to philanthropic causes, expensive homes across the country, and […]

A gentle old soul like Yolanda knows precious little about sports — professional or otherwise — but even we know that the world of pro boxing can be a highly lucrative — ahem — “arena”. It’s almost unfathomable to us how people like Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather have tens of millions from bashing other […]

We’re barely six weeks into 2017 and already there have been nigh on 10 Los Angeles residential deals of $20 million or more, which has gotta be a record of some sort. All signs point to this being a banner year for high-end real estate agents. Well, good for y’all! As everyone from coast to […]

Besides all the celebrity residents, the Hollywood Hills is perhaps best-known for its proliferation of expensive homes that are perched on often-extraordinarily stingy lots. The vast majority of residences sit right up on top of the street. Either that or they’re dangerously perched on top of cliffs, as Demi Lovato recently discovered. Space is very limited. […]

Yolanda was gonna write about a bunch of fun stuff this weekend, but it was so beautiful outside that we just couldn’t concentrate. Yep, we didn’t get a thing done and we don’t regret it one bit. Except the part where we’re now playing catch-up with all the other big real estate happenings going on. […]

One thing we love about the Hollywood Hills is the proliferation of unique and idiosyncratic homes everywhere. Go for a drive on Mulholland or down Laurel Canyon and on every wee side street there’s liable to be a random architectural gem hidden behind hedges and gates. So when our friend Vlad the Revealer at Celebrity Address […]

On this blog Yolanda gabs about two types of people, generally speaking: rich folks and really rich folks. And airport stores heiress turned fashion designer Alexandra von Furstenberg most assuredly falls into the latter category. Ms. von Furstenberg — born Alexandra Miller — famously married into royalty in 1995, when she hitched her wealthy wagon to […]