Real estate porn
March 4, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off
As you struggle to pay your mortgage or break even on the sale of your home, does it help to take a gander at Big Time Listings? This blog by a Chicago-area real estate site focuses on the sales of celebrity homes. Considering the current state of the housing market for folks who don’t appear regularly on “Entertainment Tonight”, reveling in the purchase of a $35 million mansion by Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg might or might not be just the ticket. Or try this “exclusive”:
Brad and Angelina enlarge their Los Angeles compound further; long-goateed actor quietly pays $1.1M to buy a missing link for his estate in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz neighborhood — a two-bedroom, 3,232-square-foot house that his compound had bordered on three sides
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have increased the size of their compound in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz neighborhood, with Pitt quietly paying $1,100,000 to buy a missing link for his property in the form of a 3,232-square-foot house that his estate largely had surrounded.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Pitt’s latest purchase, which like some other property of his was made through his Mondo Bongo Trust. Records show that Pitt purchased the property on August 6 from the estate of the late Anne Tyler Sherman.
Built in 1920, the two-bedroom, former Sherman house — whose property is shaped like a key — sits on a 0.25-acre (10,759-square-foot) lot in the Oaks area of Los Feliz. It helps Pitt round out his compound and means that Brad now owns close to 2 full acres in the Oaks…
Features in the house include two baths, a stone fireplace, a huge main room, a bonus room, and “a bar area and a secret cave,” according to the MLS.
Secret cave? Well, they gotta keep all those kids somewhere…
Other celebrity real estate items of note:
- Artist David Hockney sells 1,908-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills to his former lover and now working partner and friend Gregory Evans for $600K
- Retired tennis stud Pete Sampras pays $5.6M for a six-bedroom, newly built house in Los Angeles’ Brentwood neighborhood
- Joan Rivers has her estate in New Milford, CT on the market for $6.5M
- All-time U.S. listing record set in Beverly Hills, CA: massive estate listed for $165M
- Heidi Klum sells her penthouse in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village for $5.35M
You know, when I was a kid, my best friend lived right down the block from that last listing, and I hung out there all the time. How grand it feels that Heidi Klum now trods the very ground where I used to play stoop ball, and where I couldn’t afford to live these days if I sold two of my most-functioning organs.
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