Singer Melanie Brown, also known as Scary Spice from her days with the Spice Girls, has purchased a gated home in the San Fernando Valley area for about $3.15 million.
Actress Meg Ryan, who will star opposite Timothy Hutton in the December comedy Serious Moonlight, seems to be getting serious about selling her Bel-Air home. She has put it back up for sale at $14.2 million -- a 27 percent price reduction from what she was asking in 2008.
A home at 34 Indian Creek Dr. off Miami Beach has sold for $6 million. At 3,684 square feet, that is $1,629 per square foot. The house, built in 1965, is Old Florida style and has three bedrooms, three full bathrooms and two half baths. Features include fireplace, two-car garage, heated pool and floor-to-ceiling glass doors.
Actress Jennifer Carpenter, who stars on Showtime's murder-centric Dexter with her husband, Michael C. Hall, has listed her Hollywood Hills bachelorette pad for $695,000.
A Mediterranean-style residence has sold for $9.5 million in the Sunset Islands area of Miami Beach at 1400 W. 28th St. Based on a building area of 9,933 square feet, the property cost $956 per square foot. The two-story home, built in 2003, has seven bedrooms and 7 1/2 bathrooms. A three-story rotunda tower serves as the estate's entry.
The longtime Beverly Hills home of singer, pianist and comic actor Jimmy Durante has been purchased for $3.2 million.
Model-turned-actress Natasha Henstridge, who starred as the alluring human-alien hybrid Sil and her clone Eve in the sci-fi horror Species films, has sold her Sherman Oaks home for $1.75 million.
Newlywed actress and model Milla Jovovich, the weapon-toting glammando from the Resident Evil films, has sold a Beverly Hills Post Office area home for $2.75 million.
A night at the Stiller compound? Comic actor Ben Stiller and his actress wife, Christine Taylor, have listed their Hollywood Hills property at $12.5 million.
Pop star Natasha Bedingfield, who launched her own British invasion of the U.S. airwaves with such often-played hits as Unwritten, has purchased a home in Los Angeles' Los Feliz area for $2.3 million.
Actor David Hasselhoff has listed his longtime family home in L.A.'s Encino neighborhood at $4,195,000. The 8,947-square-foot Southern Colonial, with five bedrooms and five bathrooms, sits on nearly 1 1/2 acres entered through double gates.
Actress and Playboy model Bridget Marquardt has become a first-time home buyer with the purchase of a contemporary Mediterranean in the suburban Sherman Oaks area for $1,725,000.
TV and film actor J.K. Simmons, of the police drama The Closer and the Spider-Man movies, and his actress wife, Michelle Schumacher, have put their Hollywood Hills-area contemporary on the market at $1,795,000.
Hugh Hefner and his wife, Kimberley, have sold their personal residence, just a hop away from the Playboy Mansion next door in the Holmby Hills section of L.A., for $18 million. The buyer is Daren Metropoulos, a 25-year-old entrepreneur who will be moving from Beverly Hills.
The L.A. home of Esa-Pekka Salonen, former music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has come on the market at $4.1 million.
NBA player and former L.A. Laker Kwame Brown has listed his super-sized house at $2,975,000. The contemporary in L.A.'s Playa del Rey section, with views of the ocean, city and marina area, has four bedrooms and five bathrooms in a roomy 6,329 square feet. The kitchen's large breakfast bar can seat a starting lineup or eight to 10 regular-sized people. The open floor-plan house was built in 1989.
Professional ballroom dancer Cheryl Burke of Dancing With the Stars has purchased a midcentury modern post-and-beam house in the Hollywood Hills for $1,295,000.
The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Ennis House in L.A.'s Los Feliz section has come on the Multiple Listing Service at $15 million. The Ennis House Foundation announced its intention to sell the 1924 landmark last month.
Hot Property: South Florida spotlights selected luxury home sales in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. A two-story house in Cocoplum has sold for $9,750,000. The multiple listing services described the house as chic and sophisticated, with a contemporary vision and design out of Architectural Digest. At 11,400 square feet of living area, the home went for $855 per square foot.
With a Grammy-nominated song, three TV series and multiple albums, it would seem that Jesse McCartney has been living on Dream Street, the name of the boy band that launched him to stardom in the early 2000s. But the singer-songwriter-actor actually resides in a Hollywood Hills home he recently listed at $1,199,000.
Actor Charlie Sheen of Two and a Half Men and his wife, Brooke, have listed their 1927 Mediterranean in L.A.'s Los Feliz section at $3,697,000.
British singer Leona Lewis, whose album Spirit premiered in North America at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last year, is making her U.S. base of operations in the Hollywood Hills. That's where she has leased a sleek contemporary listed for almost $9,000 a month.
Hot Property: South Florida spotlights selected luxury home sales in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. A three-story house that is described as the Hamptons on Old Cutler has sold for $12.9 million. The Gables Estates property recently underwent three years of renovation and, according to MLS, contains 8,405 square feet. However, it is listed as 11,949 square feet by the Miami-Dade County property appraiser's office. The price per square foot for the smaller size is $1,535, $1,080 per...
Tom Lennon, the pants-averse Lt. Jim Dangle on Comedy Central's Reno 911! (2003-09), and his actress wife, Jenny Robertson, have purchased a Hancock Park-area house for $2,175,000. The seller was ER actress Maura Tierney, who had owned the 1913 Craftsman west of downtown for nearly seven years.
One of the first houses built in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood, a 1920 Spanish-style hacienda owned by actor Dylan McDermott and actress Shiva Rose, has come back on the market at $6.9 million.
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