Bev Hills Has the Most $10MM-Plus House Sales Outside NYC
Prices have blasted off in Bel Air, Brentwood, and especially Beverly Hills the last 2 years. People say the higher taxes and slow recovery will slow these deals but I see more of them and see prices go up faster then ever on homes over $4 Million range. 60% of the buys over $5 Million my agent told me in Beverly Hills is all cash. Who are these buyers?
The Luxe Homes of the Art Market's Biggest Power Players
Correction: Eli Broad’s primary home in Brentwood was designed by Frank Gehry, but Gehry left the project during construction after battling with Broad over construction materials, so it’s not an official part of the Gehry canon, but if you ever see it, you’ll notice it’s definitely a late-90’s Gehry. (Also, like Leon Black’s home shown above, it has a big Richard Serra sculpture in the yard.)
Jaw Dropping Amenities To Transform A Tired Luxury Pad
There was a big lawsuit about the Brentwood house’s garage bridge…a few neighbors up on Tigertail got really pissed off and were trying to get it removed. Seemed like a really stupid thing to complain about, but LA has not shortage of idiots. Hope the guy got to keep his amazing setup.
I lived in a house, similar to this one in the ’60’s. Whoever lives in L.A., please go look at it. It’s on Shetland Lane off Gretna Green off San Vicente; near Brentwood Elementary School. Only that house I lived in looked great back then. So many similarities inside; the bathroom floor, the way the living room arched. Amazing. It’s a beautiful house…
Wow, this house is truly amazing – I have been waiting for something like this to come on the market! Absolutely beautiful – and the fact that they give the option to purchase w/ or w/o the furniture is great. I would go w/ the furniture.
Listed w/ F. Ron Smith from Partners Trust Real Estate Brokerage in Brentwood. http://www.thepartnerstrust.com
Flat Lot With Pool in Brentwood Ready to Take a Hit
Pretty wild that it sold for almost 2mil back in 2006 yet still</> needed an "extensive remodel." I’d love to say it’s overpriced but a nice, flat, third an acre of Brentwood, with a turn-key 3200 sq ft of space, may indeed trade higher than list. To get anything beyond cute but tiny, sniffing the 405 or yardless, 1.5mil is the minimum buy in, at the 90049 table.
Finding the 5 Best LA Neighborhoods For Trick-or-Treating
It’s hard to imagine Brentwood, Bel Air or the Palisades as being good neighborhoods for trick-or-treating. For one thing, there are hills, and lots of areas without sidewalks. That is not conducive to trick-or-treating. The non-grid layout of many of those neighborhoods doesn’t help, either. And, with properties being so large, it takes a while to get from one house to another. Fewer doors = less candy.
Being in Santa Monica is nice. I understand why executives want to move their operations there, especially since it’s close to the nicer areas where they live (SM, Palisades, Brentwood, etc.). Unfortunately for the majority of their employees, housing they can afford tends to be east of the 405 or in the Valley making their worklife in SM okay, but their overall quality of life much lowered by the struggle to get in and out of Santa Monica each workday.
Neighbors Duking It Out Over Brentwood's Barry Building-Killer
I am not a resident of Brentwood but I go there very very often -
to shop at Vicente Foods, for example. I regret the loss of
Dutton’s; I would regret the loss of the coral trees. I would hate
to see the character of the little enclave changed; I would hate
the increased traffic. The proposed development marks another
bit of soulless "uglification" and eradification of any charm in this
city.