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Dennis Quaid Lists His Pacific Palisades Home

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Dennis Quaid is moving back to Texas. The LA Times reports that the handsome actor is leaving Los Angeles and has listed his equestrian estate in Pacific Palisades for $16.9 million. The home is on two acres with a lawn and a year-round creek. The estate is horse heaven with a barn, corral and a private trail to Will Rogers Park. The property also includes a full guest house and studio.

The eight-bedroom French Country style home is very well-decorated and has a luxurious master suite with his/her baths, fireplace and balcony. The large gourmet kitchen and family room area has a casual yet glamorous look with a fireplace skylights. Rustic wood-beamed ceilings help keep the elegant home from getting too formal. The home also has an office, wine cellar, covered loggia with fireplace overlooking the pool/spa. The maids quarters above the kitchen have been converted to a gym. The listing is with Kathrin Nicholson of Westside Estate Agency.

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Ashley Jensen Lists Her Los Angeles Home

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Actress Ashley Jensen, who was on "Ugly Betty" and her husband, actor Terence Beesley, have listed their three-bedroom home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles. Fans of 20th century modern design will enjoy this one which is located on a knoll behind gates and has great city views. The two-story mid-century modern home is entered through a tranquil Zen garden. It has been remodeled and the current owners added an infinity pool. The kitchen with stainless steel appliances flows into the dining room and the light-filled living room and master bedroom open up to the pool and patio. The gardens wind around the property. The couple bought the home in 2007 for $1.65 million and have listed it for $1.999 million. They are on the hunt for a more child-friendly home. The listing is with Jacqueline Gowers of Sotheby's International Realty, Los Feliz.

[via the LA Times]

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The Upton Sinclair House, Estate of the Day

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Today's home is a piece of literary history in Southern California. The Upton Sinclair House is located in the inland community of Monrovia. This home was built in 1923 and is on the National Register of Historic Places and is eligible for Mills Act property tax benefits. Sinclair is one of America's most famous novelists focusing on social criticism. His book "The Jungle" published in the early 1900s revealed the underside of the Chicago meatpacking industry and turned the stomach of a nation. He later wrote a series of 11 novels featuring a central character named Lanny Budd and won a Pulitzer Prize for one in the series, "Dragon's Teeth," in 1942.

His four-bedroom home is an example of the Spanish Colonial Revival style and has a facade of high arched windows. Other original features include Mission Revival parapet tops and an ornate arched and bracketed doorway. There is a living room with a fireplace and a formal dining room with French doors opening to a covered side patio. The kitchen has been remodeled but the fixtures throughout the home are original and both bathrooms are overlaid with highly prized Batchelder Tile. A grand staircase leads to a wide hallway and three bedrooms which all overlook the California -style landscaped yards below. There is also a small guest house in the backyard as well as a patio and fountain. This home is listed at $1.5 million.

[via the LA Times]

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Kaley Cuoco Lists Her Sherman Oaks Home

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Lovely blonde actress Kaley Cuoco has a hit on her hands with her role in "The Big Bang Theory." Perhaps that's why she's decided to move on and leave her home in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles behind. The LA Times reports that Cuoco has put her three-bedroom home on the market for $995,000 listed with Stephanie Vitacco of Coldwell Banker.

The gated Spanish-style house was built in 1937 and listing pictures show that Cuoco has already decamped. The home has distressed hardwood floors and recessed lights. French doors that open to a covered patio and the home has a separate dining room. The kitchen is updated with a breakfast area and stainless steel appliances. The master suite has a walk-in closet and a bathroom with an oversized shower. There is not pool but the listing describes the home's grounds as "parklike." Records on PropertyShark.com show that Cuoco bought the home in 2005 for $1.355 million.

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David Krumholtz Puts His Los Angeles Home On The Market

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Actor David Krumholtz, best known as math genius Charlie Eppes on the TV series "Numb3rs," has put his Hollywood Hills, California home on the market. The LA Times reports that Krumholtz owns a gated property called El Castillo.

He bought the Spanish style home in early 2010 for $2.025 million. It has more than 4,000 square feet of living space, an elevator, hand-carved living room ceilings, an eat-in kitchen, four bedrooms (two of which are master suites) and four bathrooms. It has some charming Moorish details incude a carved wood ceiling in the double-height living room and peaked arch windows. He has listed the home at $2.175 million with Allyson Carter of Rodeo Realty.

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John Schneider Lists His Agoura Hills Home

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Actor John Schneider is moving on. The actor, who first rose to prominence in the 1980s as Bo Duke on "The Dukes of Hazzard" has lived in his home in Agoura Hills, California since 1999 when he bought the home for $1.25 million. The six-bedroom home is an English-style house on 2.67 acres.

The LA Times reports that Schneider raised his kids on the property which has a pool, guesthouse, detached offices, a summer kitchen, fenced pasture and garages. The family home has a game room, bar and Schneider also set up a recording booth in the office and a studio for editing. The home is listed at $2.199 million. George Hutchison and Jeannette Hutchison of Coldwell Banker Westlake Village have the listing.

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Rent Elvis Presley's Beverly Hills Home

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You can't move into Graceland, but if you'd like to bunk where the King once did you can rent a Beverly Hills home once owned by Elvis and Priscilla Presley. The LA Times reports that the gated compound in the Trousdale Estates in Beverly Hills is listed for lease at $25,000 a month.

The French Regency-style estate was built in 1958 and has city-to-ocean views. The 5,367-square-foot home is on a 1.18-acre promontory. The home was recently remodeled with fresh paint and new flooring and has a new kitchen and laundry room as well as a resurfaced pool and spa. The large living room has floor-to-ceiling windows and walls of glass. Other spaces include a dining room, family room, office and media room. The master suite has a large master bath. The property also has an attached guesthouse and a four-car carport. You'll have to put up with a little graffiti, handwritten tributes to Elvis are scrawled across the property's front gate. The listing is with Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills.

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Oakshire Drive, Estate of the Day

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Today's sweet little Los Angeles home might be a slice of Old Hollywood. Rumor has it that this four-bedroom Spanish-style villa was once a guest house on the Whitley Heights estate of silent film era icon Rudolph Valentino. That home, later torn down to make way for the Hollywood Freeway, was only few miles away. The homes also share similar Spanish villa architecture, but then again, many beautiful Los Angeles homes from the 1920s have a similar look.

The four-bedroom home is walled and gated. It has a classic living room with vaulted ceilings, exposed and carved wooden beams, a leaded glass window and a raised fireplace. The master bedroom and music room open onto another patio which offers a peaceful retreat with a soaking tub. The charming country kitchen is just the right amount of retro. It opens to one of the outdoor patios that has dining and living spaces. and there is also a built-in barbecue on the patio for entertaining. It's on a double lot and the second lot has been nicely landscaped by designer John Greenlee for southern California's arid and warm climate with natural grasses, succulents and a vegetable garden. This home is currently on the market for $1,295,000. Carol and Jim Shogren and Rodeo Realty's Sunset Strip office are the listing agents. The property website is here.

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Dave Coulier Lists In Los Angeles

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Funnyman Dave Coulier is perhaps best known for his role as goofy and loveable Uncle Joey in "Full House." His Encino house indicates that he's got a serious side and he may even be able to create a little real estate magic, making a modest profit in a tough market.

The home was originally known as Lindley Farm was built in 1947. The listing refers to the home as being "sensitively expanded." The five-bedroom home is on a lot that includes a pool which is away from the house and has a nice shaded area. The home's spaces are open and clean including the delightful large living room with an exposed beamed and pitched roof. A central brick fireplace marks a division from the terraced dining room which is a sunroom-like space looking out onto the back patio. The home's kitchen has pine cabinetry which is very retro but oddly charming. The master suite includes a den, walk-in closets and a large bath. There is also an office with a separate entrance and upstairs space with surround sound. The home has a complete interior/exterior sound system. He bought the home for $990,000 and is it listed with Carol Huston of Deasy/Penner & Partners for $1.649 million.

[via the LA Times]

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Lenny Dykstra's Home Finally Sold

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At long last the saga of Lenny Dykstra's former mansion in Thousand Oaks, California is over. We've been following this once for what seems like eons. It all began back in 2007 when the former Mets player nicknamed "Nails" bought the luxurious home from Wayne Gretzky for $18.5 million. At this point, Dykstra was on top of the world. Om 2008, the New Yorker featured an article on his new luxury magazine, The Players Club, aimed at professional athletes. The magazine was created to show the pros not just how to spend the massive amounts of money they earn but also how to keep their wealth and make smart decisions so they don't join the ranks of players who earn millions and wind up in financial trouble just a few years later. Sadly, Dykstra's own fortunes soon quickly unravelled amid lawsuits and feuds as he was chased by creditors and writers alike. The magazine folded and Dykstra's home hit the market in June 2008 for $24.95 million.

From there it only got worse. The six-bedroom home didn't sell, Dykstra's Gulfstream II was impounded, and the home was scheduled for a foreclosure auction which Dykstra averted by filing Chapter 11. Later the case was change to a Chapter 7 liquidation after Dykstra's plans to reorganize and regroup fell through. Jeff Smith of Index Investors, the second lienholder, bought the country club estate out of foreclosure last fall and now he has finally sold the home. It had been most recently on the market for $10.5 million. According to CNBC, Jeff Smith's attorney has said he will be working with Chase, which held Dykstra's mortgage, to split the proceeds.

The neo-Georgian home in the Lake Sherwood area was designed by architect Richard Landry. The lavish property also has a guest house, carriage house, tennis courts, pool, spa and gym on 6.69 acres.

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Former Los Angeles Laker Chris Mihm Lists His Manhattan Beach Home

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In the latest case of sports star real estate, former Los Angeles Laker Chris Mihm is looking to unload his home in the professional-sports-star enclave Manhattan Beach, California. The LA Times reports that Mihm has listed at a loss. The home is for sale for $2.099 million but he bought in 2004 for $2.16 million. Mihm played for the Lakers from 2004 to 2009. He later went to the Memphis Grizzlies before being sidelined by an injury.

The home is a newer Mediterranean, custom built in 2002. It has a 25-foot-high entry which must have been great for the seven-foot-tall basketball player. The five-bedroom home has a large master suite with a separate reading area and a large bathroom with dual sink vanity, separate steam shower and Jacuzzi tub. The remaining four bedrooms upstairs each have full baths, and walk in closets as does downstairs bedroom.

Manhattan Beach is full of homes that are very close together. This one offers a little breathing room with a large lot and a pool and spa in the back yard. Other features include coved ceilings in the formal dining room, a game room and an eat-in kitchen, which opens to a family room. There is a two-car garage as well as a one-car garage, each with separate driveways. This property is listed with Chad Fahlbusch of Northwest Realty, Manhattan Beach.

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Jesse Metcalfe Lists His Beverly Hills Post Office Area Home

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Jesse Metcalfe is moving on. The former Desperate Housewives star bought his home in the Beverly Hills Post Office area in 2007. The Real Estalker reveals that Metcalfe paid $2.2 million for the three-bedroom home. The Mediterranean style property was built in 1999 and the listing terms it a sexy and hip home. The lot is of modest size but it does have a nice private backyard with water features and a stone hot tub perched high up a hill behind the house. The property also includes a full size guest cottage up the same hill.

The living room has a stone fireplace, French doors, hardwood floors and is currently outfitted with a Persian rug and a piano. Although only in his early 30s, Metcalfe has owned at least three houses in the Los Angeles area and made a modest profit on the two he sold in 2008 and 2006. That probably won't be the case here, his home is listed at $2.2 million, exactly what he paid for it.

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Santa Monica Penthouse Oceanview, Estate of the Day

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Santa Monica Penthouse Oceanview, Estate of the Day

There are certain landmark properties in the Los Angeles area that always cause tourists to lean far out the car window to snap a photo or two to show the folks back home. The building overhanging the Pacific Coast Highway just past Santa Monica's California Incline is one of them. Maybe it's the circular nose that hangs over the highway, or maybe it's the skinny little front legs it seems to perch on. But whatever the appeal, it's a magnet for lookie-loos. Even I find myself straining my neck upward to peek inside some of the units as I whiz by on the road.

And now the 4,000-square-foot penthouse unit has just come on the market at $4,925,000. While not as breath-taking a price-tag as faithful readers of Luxist's Estate of the Day have become accustomed to, it's a breath-taking unit in a eye-catching landmark. And for you faint-of-hearters, we have every reason to believe that the hillsides around it, despite their precarious look each time it rains, aren't going anywhere. Hey, this is L.A. Toughen up!

Billed somewhat immodestly as the most-sought after penthouse in Santa Monica, we are hard-pressed to disagree. It's the only two-story unit of its size in the building and has ocean views from every room, plus 180-degree jetliner views of the city lights. There are three large bedrooms and three bathrooms plus an over-sized master suite with two large walk-in closets, floor-to-ceiling windows, marble and hardwood floors and high ceilings. Amenities in the building include a gym, pool, spa and valet parking. There is around-the-clock security. With the main entrance on Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica restaurants and shops are a short walk away.

Next time I drive by, I hope you'll wave.

Josh and Matthew Altman of Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, Beverly Hills, have the listing.

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Tyler Perry Drops The Price On His Los Angeles Home

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The Real Estalker brings my attention to another celebrity willing to take a price cut in order to say farewell to a home. The multi-talented actor/writer/director Tyler Perry bought a home high above the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles for $9.6 million back in 2006. Perry, who raised eyebrows last year when he bought the Dean Gardens estate in Georgia with plans to tear it down and build a new mega mansion, had listed his chic four-bedroom contemporary for $13.25 million in June 2010. Flash forward to now and Perry seems to be in a selling state of mind, paring down the price to $11.595 million.

There is now also a property website for the home full of jaw-dropping images of the ultra-glam lair which includes movie-star touches like a mirrored alcove in the billiards room that is actually a window into the swimming pool and a glass floor of a catwalk that is also the ceiling of the wine cellar. The home also has a gym, screening room and fully-equipped nightclub.

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Shannan Click Lists Her Los Angeles Home

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Won't someone buy this beautiful woman's house? Model Shannan Click has been trying to sell her home in Los Angeles off and on since 2009 when it was listed at $2.146 million. The lovely lady, shown at right in the Victoria's Secret fashion show, bought the home in 2005 for $1.7 million as the LA Times mentioned last week.

The three-bedroom home is a short drive away from Sunset Boulevard but is high in the hills so that it has incredible views from the living room and master suite. The 2,058-square-foot contemporary was originally built in 1961 and has double steel front doors that open to loft-like living spaces with disappearing walls of glass that merge interior and exterior with two levels of expansive decks. Other features include hardwood floors, a formal dining room, living room eat-in chef's kitchen, stainless steel appliances and built-in audio system for entertaining. The master suite has a fireplace, marble bath, and walk-in closet. It is for sale for $1.995 million and Jon Shelton of Rodeo Realty in Beverly Hills is the listing agent.

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