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For decades, Pacific Palisades has been considered one of LA’s most desirable neighborhoods. The nature-filled Westside community features countless scenic hikes, ocean breezes, lavish estates and beautiful Will Rogers State Park. And let’s not forget its close proximity to Malibu and Santa Monica. Many people hear “Palisades” and imagine the real estate is well beyond […]

Over the past week, Yolanda has received no fewer than four curious reader inquiries about one or both of two giant LA compounds that have just popped up for sale with heavy-duty pricetags: one asking $30 million and the other listed at a coma-inducing $72 million. Ouch! Both mega-estates are located in the Coldwater Canyon […]

This story is by special request from a longtime reader. Let’s call him Mike because, well, that’s his name. If anyone here religiously follows high-end LA real estate listings, you’ve probably stumbled across today’s uber-contemporary house at least a couple times. The property was for sale (off and on) for nearly seven years, beginning way […]

Late last year (2018), as was widely reported, Jennifer Garner and her (second) ex-husband Ben Affleck sold their longtime Pacific Palisades compound to Adam Levine for a fat $32 million. Mr. Affleck already has a new Palisades mansion — more on that in a minute — but Yolanda idly wondered where Ms. Garner might be […]

Yolanda didn’t intend to embark on an Elon Musk storytime rampage today, but sometimes these things just happen. (P.S. — we’re also working to improve the gallery images/slideshow issue.) Mere hours ago, we discussed Mr. Musk — the founder/co-founder of PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla and the Boring Company — and his latest ride on the residential […]

When he’s not launching rockets or digging underground tunnels or “frivolously” gallivanting on his private jet or smoking green with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk is busy expanding his Bel Air real estate empire. Yolanda has written about ol’ Musky’s property purchases on multiple prior occasions — the last time was more than two years ago, […]

Over the past few months, Yolanda has noticed a sluggish trend in LA’s real estate market, particularly in the ultra high-end sector — homes worth $10 million and up. Inventory ain’t the problem. Seems like there’s a new $50 million listing every other day! Still, it feels as though an invisible spigot has been corked […]

As we’ve previously discussed on several (many) occasions, Ellen DeGeneres has apparently made it her life’s mission to keep real estate agents in the black — and to own every fancy property from San Pedro to Santa Barbara. You see, our Ms. DeGeneres has an unrequited, well-documented, bonafide real estate obsession. It’s true. Yolanda knows […]

Family-friendly yet outrageously expensive Brentwood Park continues to prove itself as one of LA’s most coveted neighborhoods. Though the high-end market is soft at the moment, prices in that wee pocket are on an infinite upswing, or so it would seem. Take today’s home. Spec-built in 2010 by developer Paul Morrow and designed by accomplished […]

This Sunday was so beautiful that we had to spend it frolickin’ outdoors. But Yolanda, in her infinite wisdom and compassion, didn’t want our readers to feel neglected. So in lieu of a proper story, here’s a very quick peek at an ultra-contemporary Studio City mansion. And it just sold for $5,825,000, which is a […]