Month: January 2017

Yolanda has said it before, and she’ll say it again. Celebrities loooove the Beverly Hills Post Office area in the hills above the city. The privacy, the views, the gated communities, the proximity to other famous friends, it’s just a slam dunk on so many levels. So when a big house in an (in)famously celeb-choked […]

Yolanda is very grateful that people from outside the silly little bubble of La La Land are beginning to follow our equally silly little blog. A handful of them even dare to write in to and ask questions or chat about this or that! One of those is a handsome, scholarly fellow from Santa Barbara whom […]

Within the past month alone, three of the four members of Australian boyband 5 Seconds of Summer have become first-time Los Angeles homeowners. Bass guitarist Calum Hood bought a house in the Hollywood Hills. So did lead vocalist Luke Hemmings. Now it’s drummer Ashton Irwin’s turn. Just because Yolanda wouldn’t know a 5SOS song if it popped us in […]

The best residential section of Beverly Hills — Trousdale Estates — was hotter and trendier than ever in 2016. Just count the three $30 million+ property sales, two of which were sold for land value only. Ain’t it amazing that only 15 or so years ago, the area was still considered rather déclassé by members of LA’s snootier […]

Although their fortune was built on the sinful Las Vegas Strip, everyone knows that the entire Wynn family resides primarily in Los Angeles these days. Well, casino kingpin Steve Wynn has so many homes that he probably doesn’t even know which one is his primary residence. But his ex-wife and both his daughters and all […]

Though he’s well into his 70s, bestselling singer/songwriter and national treasure Neil Diamond is still a spry guy. Only 120 million records sold later, he still bounces around LA and he got married to his third wife, Katie McNeil, several years ago. And now he’s prepping for his 2017 “50th anniversary tour“. So it’s really […]

Can you tell that Yolanda is way, way behind? It’s just now, nearly a month late, that we’re getting around to cataloging the biggest LA County residential sales of 2016. So let’s get right through this and we can move on to more delightful 2017 things. First, a wee bit of analytics: the average sale […]

A lot of wealthy folks still seem to be under outdated, preconceived notions about the Hancock Park/Windsor Square neighborhoods of Los Angeles. They say there’s too much traffic, there’s too much crime, people there are too stodgy and blue-blooded and old money. Which is all a bit of a shame because the area is actually highly diverse — […]

Put on your thunkin’ caps and you may or may not recall something important. Oh, and you may also recall that it was only about two weeks ago when Yolanda discussed the new Hollywood Hills house of Calum Hood, a member of bubblegum boyband 5 Seconds of Summer.  A few days ago, as we were minding our own blog […]

Don’t quote Yolanda on this, but we are pretty damn sure that Southern California has more luxury residential gated communities than any other region of the United States. And maybe even more than any other region of the world, but that’s really a far too aggressive statement so we won’t go there. But there’s a lot of […]