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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 06/27/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping


From the LA Times Hot Properties:
"The X-Files" composer Mark Snow has listed his Venice, California home at $1.899 million. Snow bought in 2007 for $2.2 million. The Cape Cod-inspired house, shown above, is listed with Tina Stern of Ewing & Associates, Sotheby's International Realty.
--Actor David Boreanaz has sold his Hollywood Hills compound for $2.6 million. It was listed at $3.249 million when it was our estate of the day last year.

--The Santa Monica estate that the late film star and singer Kathryn Grayson called home for 65 years is listed for $8.995 million with Hilton & Hyland.
--Actress Alex Kingston and her husband, German writer Florian Haertel, have listed their Hollywood Hills home for $3.995 million. We first checked out this house in 2008 when it was listed for $4.75 million.The property website is here.

--The longtime family home of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" actor Morey Amsterdam has come on the market at $6.495 million. The listing for the Beverly Hills Midcentury modern is with Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker Beverly Hills South and Gloria Benveniste of Coldwell Banker's Marina del Rey office.
--Celebrity photographer Firooz Zahedi has sold his Hollywood Hills home for $1.53 million.
--A longtime home of film comic Groucho Marx is listed in Beverly Hills. The Spanish-style estate is on the market for $6.995 million.
--"Gossip Girl" writer and executive producer Josh Safran and his husband, producer Ted Alexandre, have purchased a Hancock Park area property for $2.75 million.

From Move Trends:
--Actress Charlize Theron is renting out her 2,095-square-foot Malibu beach house for $50,000 a month. The listing is here.
--An A. Quincy Jones designed home originally made for actor Gary Cooper and his wife is on the market for $18.9 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--The former chairman and chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment, Tommy Mottola has listed his 324-acre ranch near Aspen, Colorado for $27.5 million.
--Singer-songwriter Carole King has relisted her 128-acre ranch in Stanley, Idaho $16 million. The listing is here.
--TV producer and executive Douglas S. Cramer, whose credits include "Dynasty" and "The Love Boat," has bought a Miami Beach house for $7.4 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Patrick Dempsey has picked up a three-bedroom Malibu home for $7 million.
--Blythe Danner has listed her Santa Monica condo for $1.86 million. The listing is here.

Groucho Marx Estate, Estate of the Day

Filed under: Estates


In New York City, the most oft-dropped real estate name might be Rosario Candela. In Los Angeles its Wallace Neff. The archetypal Southern California architect died in 1982 but the legend lives on in a series of great homes which remain sought after. Brad Pitt and Diane Keaton are just two fans of Neff homes.

You might be a little hard-pressed to find the Neff in today's estate though. This Beverly Hills home was built by Neff for Groucho Marx but has been renovated so that, as the LA Times Hot Property column puts it, the footprint remains. The sprawling single floor home has city views and has been given a very thorough pepping up. It's still gorgeous and the decor is magazine-worthy. The five-bedroom home now has modern bathrooms complete with those currently popular glass box showers. Large rooms feature huge windows and doors that open out to a neat patch of perfectly manicured lawn surrounding a turquoise pool. A wood-shelved library offers a bit of a respite from all the bright and white. This home is listed at $12.9 million and I suspect that even at that price it will get picked up pretty quickly.

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