The star-studded affluent city of Malibu, in Los Angeles County, California, boasts the company of, among other residents (Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russel, Danny DeVito, Dustin Hoffman, Ray Romano, Jami Gertz or Pierce Brosnan are just a few of them), noted film director Steven Spielberg, three-time Academy Award winner who owns a little over one acre of prime land.
Golden Globe Award-winner and Academy Award-nominee Matthew McConaughey and his fiancee, Brazilian model Camila Alves have reportedly purchased an 8.75-acre property outside Austin. The couple must have been hunting for a home to suit the needs of their family with two tots, according to the listing, it is “within walking distance to the area’s finest and public schools.” This home was on and off the real estae market for five years and underwent several price cuts in the process, so for McConaughey the purchase might have been something of a bargain.
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart just managed to offload their secluded restored Los Feliz mansion, L.A. – fully furnished – and the happy buyer is none other thanThe Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons who, together with his partner and art director Todd Spiewak, who just shelled out $6.375 million. The estate used to belong in turns to celebrities like British actor Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), E.R. actor Noah Wylie, Academy Award-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson (JFK, Inglorious Bastards, Kill Bill) and basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The celeb comedienne and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and her partner Portia Rossi have just purchased a most luxurious residence set on 2.3 prime acres in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles, dubbed as The Brody House. The couple paid a staggering $39.888 million for this spectacular 13,511-square-foot mansion designed by noted architect A. Quincy Jones and completed in 1951.
World champion tennis player Venus Williams has recently listed her Hollywood Hills pied-a-terre at a $100,000 loss. Situated at in the heart of Nichols Canyon, the luxury residence was bought eight years ago for $1.9 million but now has an asking price of $1,799,000. Nichols Canyon, which is located in the Los Angeles County area of the Hollywood Hills, begins at Hollywood Boulevard and ends just below Mulholland Drive.
The former NY Giants defensive end, Michael Strahan, and his wife, model Nicole Mitchell (Eddie Murphy’s ex-wife) are reportedly in contract to shell out $16 million on a mega-mansion in Brenthood, Los Angeles.
Academy Award nominated actor Mark Wahlbers was the owner of every discerning buyer’s dream house in Beverly Hills. Back in 2009 the rapper turned actor paid $8 million for the six prime gated acres in Beverly Hills which he sold in the fall of 2013.
“The Voice” judge and immensely popular international pop singer Shakira sold her beachfrontNorth Bay Road manse facing the Julia Tuttle Causeway for $15 million in the summer of 2013. After 12 years of ownership, she decided to unload the luxury retreat and buy a 6,672 square foot mansion with 3 bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms for $3.38M on South Beach. It appears trippled the profit on the recently sold home, since she paid $3.38 million back in 2001.
Songstress Kate Perry has at last found a buyer for Hollywood manse. She got the 3-acre estate lying close to the famous Cateau Marmont following her divorce from actor Russel Brand after 14 years of marriage. The couple had bought the hree-story love nest in 2011 for $ 6.5 million and, despite attempts to ditch it for $ 8 million, with multiple price chops, she could only get $ 5,988,000 for it.
The popular rapper-actor-entrepreneur Christopher ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, has just bought this ultra-modern two-story manse for just shy of $5 million, as soon as he offloaded his L.A. penthouse apartment at a $151,000 loss (he paid $1.3 million for the condo back in 2007). Nonetheless, he donated $50,000 to the victims of typhoon Haiyan which hit the Philippines.
