Carolwood Estates has launched its 2025 Annual Report shedding light on the firm’s incredible performance over the last calendar year. Carolwood was involved in five of the seven highest brokered residential sales in Los Angeles in 2025, handling 71% of all brokered transactions with a sales price above $50 million
Topping the list was a pair of $110 million deals. The first was a former tech CEO’s purchase of the former Spelling Manor in Holmby Hills. Carolwood’s CEO and Co-Founder Drew Fenton represented the seller while Linda May represented the buyer.
The second was Australian billionaire James Packer’s purchase of the fully re-imagined 630 Nimes Road in Bel Air (formerly known as Le Belvedere, the childhood home of models Gigi and Bella Hadid). Drew Fenton represented Packer on the buy-side, while the seller was represented by Stephen Resnick and Jonathan Nash, alongside David Parnes and James Harris
The pair of deals tied as the highest residential sales of the year in LA County and ranked as two of the ten highest sales of the year in the nation per the Wall Street Journal. The deals also topped the ten highest residential sales in Los Angeles of the year as compiled by The Real Deal, of which Carolwood represented six (60%) of them.
In 2025, Carolwood also represented the two highest sales in Beverly Hills and Holmby Hills, three of the five highest sales in Trousdale and Bel Air, two of the three highest sales in the Palisades, five of the ten highest on-market sales in Brentwood, and four of the five highest on-market sales in Los Feliz.
Carolwood’s agents represented the highest residential sales of the year in not just LA County, but in the neighborhoods of Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood Park , Hollywood Hills Los Feliz Silver Lake Outpost Estates Little Holmby Beverly Grove Mount Olympus, and Manhattan Beach
The firm’s unrivaled pool of diverse talent of some 200 elite agents has helped Carolwood to achieve a dominant 27% market share of the $20 million+ residential market and a leading 24% market share
of the $10 million+ market in the prime neighborhoods of Los Angeles, with a sales volume of $5 billion. Of that total, $1.5 billion (30%) was conducted off-market.
The $5 billion figure represents a massive 156% increase year-overyear for the firm. Since its inception in November 2022, Carolwood has closed over $10 billion in sales.
Carolwood’s associates closed 115 sides priced $10 million and above in 2025 over a third (34%) of those deals being conducted inhouse with fellow associates at the brokerage. Not exclusive to just luxury, the firm closed over $1 billion worth of transactions priced $4 million and below in 2025, a 54% increase year-over-year.
Carolwood maintains an estimated $3.5 billion in current inventory, $1.3 billion of which is held off-market. Carolwood announced its in-house pocket listing app available exclusively spring of last year.
The firm continued to bring iconic properties to the market in 2025 including a $135 million trophy property by developer Ardie Tavangarian, a $40 million Brentwood property by Getty Center designer Thomas Juul-Hansen, a pair of Calle Vista properties owned by media mogul Byron Allen, the Kallis-Sharlin Residence by beloved mid-century architect Rudolph Schindler, and Babyface’s famed Studio A at Brandon’s Way (where stars such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Ariana Grande, and more recorded hits).
Finally, Carolwood proudly became the new exclusive Los Angeles affiliate of Knight Frank this past January. Knight Frank is the leading independent global property consultancy, serving as their clients’ partners in property for 130 years. Headquartered in London, Knight Frank has more than 21,500 people operating from 600 offices across 50 territories. The group advises clients ranging from individual owners and buyers to major developers, investors and corporate tenants.
Carolwood adds the ability to attract prospective buyers globally to its inventory of Los Angeles-area luxury properties. Knight Frank, meanwhile, gains a fast-rising boutique brand as a U.S. partner.
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The Year of the $100 Million Home
For the first time ever, every luxury property on the list of 2025’s 10 biggest sales traded at nine figures or more
The U.S. housing market in 2025 was tepid at best. Ultraluxury real estate, on the other hand, was white-hot.
The top 10 residential deals were all above $100 million up from seven in 2024 and five in 2023, according to data compiled by appraiser Jonathan Miller and The Wall Street Journal. This milestone also topped the eight $100 millionplus deals in 2021, at the height of the pandemic’s frenzy.
Deals of this magnitude are no longer a fluke, said Miller, who said since the pandemic there have been an average of 40 sales a year for $50 million or more. “The separation between the haves and have-nots is expanding, and it is being reflected in real estate,” Miller said.
Affluent buyers are scooping up luxury real estate as a way to diversify their portfolios, store wealth or as a hedge against inflation. Los Angeles’ biggest trades involved local buyers looking to upgrade, said Drew Fenton of Carolwood Estates
Throughout the U.S., agents said domestic buyers are dominating the luxury market.
Savvy buyers are also cobbling together large assemblages. Such assemblages have investment value since they can be broken up, sold in chunks or rented down the line. But they are also wildly personal for those with the means.
In May, Australian billionaire James Packer purchased Le Belvedere, a château-style home on 2.2 acres in Bel-Air. Measuring more than 35,000 square feet, it at one point the mega-mansion had 10 bedrooms, a ballroom with seating for more than 200 and a Turkish hammam. The lavish mansion was once owned by real-estate developer Mohamed Hadid, the father of models Gigi and Bella Hadid, who sold the property for $50 million in 2010.
A former tech CEO and his wife expanded their extensive real-estate portfolio with their purchase of a storied Los Angeles mansion known as The Manor. Built around 1990 for television producer Aaron Spelling , the French chateau-style property is slightly larger than the White House and has a bowling alley, wine cellar and a beauty salon. It last sold for around $120 million in 2019, after a massive renovation.
A former tech CEO and his wife have paid $110 million for the Manor, a storied Los Angeles mansion.
Built around 1990 for television producer Aaron Spelling, the Manor has long been considered one of L.A.’s most impressive homes. The French chateau-style property is slightly larger than the White House and has a bowling alley, wine cellar and a beauty salon with massage and tanning rooms.
While the property will remain a single-family home, the couple—philanthropists who have homes around the world—purchased it primarily to host meetings and events for L.A. nonprofits and cultural institutions, according to a person familiar with the transaction.
The Holmby Hills property was listed for $137.5 million after several years on the market and multiple price cuts. It last sold in 2019 for about $120 million, when the seller was British heiress Petra Ecclestone
Ecclestone famously hired a team of roughly 500 workers to complete a massive renovation of the property.
The new owners are planning a significant remodel of the house to simplify the floor plan and maximize the energy efficiency of the property, according to the person familiar with the transaction. They plan to call the property simply “594,” a reference to its address on Mapleton Drive.
The new owners have an extensive portfolio of properties, including a mansion in London’s Holland Park and homes in New York City, Los Angeles, Montecito, Rhinebeck, Washington, D.C., Miami Beach, and Nantucket. Earlier this year, they paid $24 million for an apartment in a historic San Francisco co-op.
Carolwood Estates handled both sides of the deal. CEO Drew Fenton represented the seller while Linda May represented the buyer.
391 N Carolwood Dr, Holmby Hills | $86,000,000
942 N Alpine Dr, Beverly Hills | $51,750,000
Carolwood Estates Once Again Dominated the Year’s Priciest Trades
The Beverly Hills-based brokerage was involved in six of the nine priciest residential deals in LA County in 2025, continuing their high-end market dominance year-over-year.
It may sound like a broken record at this point, but a look at 2025’s nine priciest deals had Beverly Hills-based Carolwood Estates’ fingerprints all over them. Six of the nine transactions had Drew Fenton’s brokerage involved in representing at least one side. That comes off a 2024 where Carolwood was involved in half of the year’s 10 priciest deals.
In 2025, the brokerage can lay claim to being involved in the year’s record sales of The Manor in Holmby Hills and Le Belvedere in Bel-Air. Each of the properties fetched $110 million to make for LA County’s most expensive closings in 2025
The sale of the former Spelling Manor made for the year’s second trade for that price when it closed in July to tie for the year’s priciest residential sale in LA County
Carolwood Estates double-ended the deal with CEO and co-founder Drew Fenton representing the seller. Meanwhile, Carolwood’s Linda May represented a former tech CEO and his wife on their purchase.
Australian billionaire James Packer was so excited over his purchase of the Le Belvedere residence in Bel-Air that he let slip to a hometown media outlet news of the sale before it officially closed.
The former Crown Resorts chair snapped up the Nimes Road estate in May to make for a 2025 record in LA County, holding the top spot alone until The Manor traded for the same price a few months later.
Packer preceded his record purchase with a record sale about a month earlier with his sale of 1028 Ridgedale Drive. The April closing marked Beverly Hills’ priciest residential sale of the year
The property was once a rental for Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. Before that, comedian couple Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman owned the residence for about two decades before they sold it for $26.6 million in 2015.
Packer tapped Carolwood Estates’ Drew Fenton to represent himself on both deals.
A 1920’s Spanish Villa quietly made its way onto the market for the first time in more than 20 years before being sold in one of the year’s pricier transactions.
The sellers were Bradley Bell, executive producer and head writer for CBS soap “ The Bold and the Beautiful,” and his wife Colleen Bell, property records show. Colleen held several roles for “ The Bold and the Beautiful,” including director of special projects, and was later nominated in 2013 by President Obama to serve as ambassador to Hungary.
The couple sold the home in May to TV and film producer David Zander Carolwood Estates’ Drew Fenton brought the buyer.
Napa Valley in Beverly Hills. That’s what the late architect Howard Backen was going for with Villa Oliva, which nabbed a buyer to become one of the city’s more expensive 2025 trades.
The over 12,000-square-foot estate counts six beds and seven baths, sitting on nearly an acre.
Carolwood Estates’ Linda May held the listing on behalf of a trust tied to Stephen Paul and his wife Nancy Paul. Stephen’s family holds a minority stake in the Pittsburgh Steelers and also founded steel maker Ampco-Pittsburgh
The deal marked Beverly Hills’ most expensive trade before 1028 Ridgedale Drive sold later that same month.
When Milwaukee Brewers minority owner Robert Beyer sold his Brentwood home, nicknamed Ocho Manos, the purchase price was Brentwood’s highest since a $57 million sale in late 2021 at 13058 Rivers Road
Carolwood Estates’ Drew Fenton and Andrew Beyer, Beyer’s son also at Carolwood, were the listing agents.
O ur Highest Sales of 2025
THE MANOR, HOLMBY HILLS
$110,000,000 Represented the Buyer + Seller
630 NIMES RD, BEL AIR
$110,000,000 Represented the Buyer + Seller
$86,000,000 Represented the Buyer Second
391 N CAROLWOOD DR, HOLMBY HILLS
1028 RIDGEDALE DR, BEVERLY HILLS
$60,000,000 Represented the Seller
942 N ALPINE DR, BEVERLY HILLS
$51,750,000 Represented the Seller
11740 CRESCENDA ST, BRENTWOOD
$44,000,000 Represented the Seller
OFF-MARKET ROCKINGHAM ESTATE
$42,000,000* Represented the Buyer + Seller
OFF-MARKET LINDA FLORA ESTATE
$31,250,000 Represented the Seller
750 LAUSANNE RD, BEL AIR
$32,000,000 Represented the Seller
755 SARBONNE RD, BEL AIR
$28,500,000 Represented the Seller
OFF-MARKET MALIBU RD ESTATE
$28,500,000 Represented the Seller
218 STRADA CORTA RD, BEL AIR
$27,500,000 Represented the Seller
2650 BENEDICT CANYON DR, BHPO
$28,000,000
Represented the Seller
620 N BEVERLY DR, BEVERLY HILLS
$27,000,000 Represented the Seller
1124 NAPOLI DR, PACIFIC PALISADES
$25,750,000 Represented the Buyer + Seller
355 S MAPLETON DR, HOLMBY HILLS
$25,500,000* Represented the Seller
O ur Highest Sales of 2025 cont.
Highest Sale in Manhattan Beach OFF-MARKET 8TH ST ESTATE
$25,000,000
Represented the Seller
9050 ORIOLE WAY, BIRD STREETS
$24,999,000*
Represented the Buyer + Seller
127 S BURLINGAME AVE, BRENTWOOD
$23,000,000
Represented the Buyer
227 N TIGERTAIL RD, BRENTWOOD
$22,995,000* Represented the Buyer
1054 ANGELO DR, BEVERLY HILLS P.O.
$22,500,000*
Represented the Seller
141 N BENTLEY AVE, BEL AIR
$22,000,000 Represented the Seller
Highest Sale in Little Holmby
10301 STRATHMORE DR, LITTLE HOLMBY
$21,995,000*
Represented the Seller
545 CHALETTE DR, TROUSDALE
$20,630,000
Represented the Seller
14924 CAMAROSA DR, PACIFIC PALISADES
$25,000,000*
Represented the Seller
Highest Sale in Los Feliz
4533 COCKERHAM DR, LOS FELIZ
$24,995,000*
Represented the Seller
1174 N HILLCREST RD, BEVERLY HILLS
$23,000,000
Represented the Seller
702 N SIERRA DR, BEVERLY HILLS
$22,950,000*
Represented the Seller
327 DELFERN DR, HOLMBY HILLS
$22,500,000*
Represented the Seller
1701 WESTRIDGE RD, BRENTWOOD
$22,000,000
Represented the Buyer
1104 N TIGERTAIL RD, BRENTWOOD
$21,000,000
Represented the Seller
13961 AUBREY RD, BHPO
$20,000,000
Represented the Seller
THE TWO HIGHEST SALES OF 2025
BEVERLY HILLS
1028 RIDGEDALE DR HIGHEST SALE IN BEVERLY HILLS
$60,000,000
Represented the Seller 942 N ALPINE DR
$51,750,000 Represented the Seller
1174 N HILLCREST RD
$23,000,000 Represented the Seller
545 CHALETTE DR
$20,630,000
Represented
$16,500,000
Represented the Seller
A Beverly Hills, dubbed Villa Olifa, home has sold for $51.75 million in the city’s second most expensive deal since 2020.
Investor Stephen Paul, a steel-fortune heir whose family is a limited partner in the Pittsburgh Steelers football team, and his wife, Nancy Paul listed the house for $62 million in October 2024. Stephen, a descendant of the family that founded the Ampco-Pittsburgh steel company, is a managing principal of Laurel Crown Partners, a Los Angeles-based private-equity firm.
The identity of the buyer couldn’t be determined.
After buying the property for $8.55 million in 2006, the Pauls razed an older house on the site and tapped the late architect Howard Backen to design a new residence.
Backen, who died in 2024, is known for designing Napa Valley wineries and homes for high-profile clients including Jeffrey Katzenberg, who sold his Backen-designed house for $125 million in 2020.
The sale is coming amid an uptick in the luxury market. In 2024’s fourth quarter, the number of single-family home sales in Beverly Hills jumped 70.4% from the same period of the prior year, according to real-estate appraisal firm Miller Samuel. The median single-family home sale price rose 21.1% year over year during the same period.
Linda May of Carolwood Estates held the listing.
KISS Rocker Gene Simmons’ Former Beverly Hills Mansion Sells for $28 Million
The seller, a developer who bought the property from Simmons, expanded the home and gave it a modern farmhouse aesthetic
The former Beverly Hills home of KISS bassist Gene Simmons sold Monday for $28 million.
NOBEL Design and Architecture Studio helmed a complete makeover of the project, which included adding 3,000 square feet of living space and giving the mansion a modern farmhouse aesthetic. That meant decking it out in a dark gray color palette with floor-toceiling windows throughout.
At 16,390 square feet, the home features Italian marble flooring on the main level, custom oak paneling and brass accents, according to the listing. The light-filled entry has double-height ceilings and leads to the open living and dining area. The gourmet kitchen has a marble island, a breakfast nook, Poliform cabinetry and Gaggenau appliances.
The home has seven bedrooms, including a grand primary suite with a private balcony, two custom dressing rooms by Italian furniture company Rimadesio and a sitting room. There’s also a media room, a second primary suite overlooking the grounds, and furnishings from Minotti Henge and Baxter
Outside, the landscaped grounds include an outdoor dining area with room for 30, a pool, and a 10-car garage below the house.
Set behind double gates on nearly two acres in one of Beverly Hills’ most private enclaves, the newly reimagined estate flexes the epitome of intentional design and immersive luxury.
Simmons—a founding member of KISS, the instantly recognizable band with white-and-black makeup and known for hits like “ Rock and Roll All Nite,” “ I Was Made for Lovin’ You,” and “ Psycho Circus”— acquired the residence in 1984 for $1.35 million, according to property records. He sold it for $16 million in October 2021.
Representatives for Simmons, 75, did not immediately respond to requests for comment for this article.
The buyer has yet be determined. The seller, who redeveloped the property, was not immediately available for comment.
James Harris and Alexis Perry of Carolwood Estates represented the seller on the deal.
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden
The home was previously owned by the husband and wife team behind SIMO Design
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have sold their Parisian-inspired Beverly Hills home, according to reports.
The House of Harlow designer and the Good Charlotte guitarist, who share two children, bought the contemporary-style five-bedroom, sevenbathroom house back in May of 2021.
The previous owners of the 6,100-square-foot abode were creative couple Sam Gnatovich and Alexi Rennalls of SIMO Design, who completely overhauled the 1987 build. In 2020, the designers gave Architectural Digest a tour of the stylish pad, which opens to a grand two-story foyer centered around a dramatically curved staircase. The pair drew inspiration from a Chanel store in Paris.
“The boxy exterior of the house contrasts with this winding curvy stairway,” Rennalls told AD. “We eliminated the base molding that is in the rest of the house and kept a simple reveal. We wanted the eye to just focus on the curve of line from the railing.”
Richie and Madden appear to have kept most of the pair’s work intact, including some of the furniture and fixtures.
Their custom-made SIMO Design plaster-andlimestone table still graces the base of that showstopping staircase, and it appears as though the same vintage chandelier still lights the black soapstone mantel and surrounding built-in display shelves in the living room, which has been softened by the addition of a jute rug and sandy hued curtains.
Another highlight of the split-level home is the sleek black-and-white kitchen, which boasts swaths of bold Calacatta Corchia marble and sliding glass doors that open to a dining patio dotted with olive trees. The outdoor dining space converges with the backyard’s resort-like pool and spa, which offers plenty of sunny lounge space as well as some privacy; the perimeter of the property is lined with neat hedges.
Brett Lawyer of Carolwood Estates represented the seller, while Richard Ehrlich also of Carolwood Estates represented the buyer.
The Manor, Holmby Hills | $110,000,000 Tied
$110,000,000
Represented the Buyer + Seller
$32,000,000
Represented the Seller LINDA
$31,250,000
Represented
THE TWO HIGHEST SALES OF 2025
HOLMBY HILLS
$110,000,000
Represented
$86,000,000
Represented the Buyer
$20,283,800
Represented
Owners Sell Luxurious Bel Air Mansion for $28.5 Million
The Antoci couple have sold their Bel Air mansion for $28.5 million, making a profit of more than $6 million in just over a year
The couple behind L.A.’s cult-favorite (and famously expensive) Erewhon markets, Anthony and Josephine Antoci, have taken in $28.5 million on the sale of an ultra-modern mansion in Bel Air— more than $6 million above what they paid just over a year ago.
Records reveal the new owner as entrepreneur Dara Mir, better known to pop culture enthusiasts as the husband of attorney, businesswoman, and reality TV star Lily Ghalichi.
The Sarbonne Road residence, with six bedrooms and 10 bathrooms in about 15,000 square feet, is well known among highend property watchers in Los Angeles. An entity tied to Nigerian businessman Kola Aluko acquired the one-acre hillside property in 2012 for $24.5 million. Later, Thomas Flohr, founder of the private jet company VistaJet, became the new owner in an off-market deal.
The Antocis then came along in May of 2024, and scooped up the pad for $22.5 million from Flohr.
A gated driveway climbs to a circular motor court, where a curved stairway leads to the main entrance. A wooden door set in a corner of glass framed by towering walls of rough-cut limestone blocks opens to a triple-height entrance hall. Interior spaces are defined by soaring 16-foot ceilings, travertine floors, a sculptural staircase, and disappearing walls of glass. An elevator means moving between the home’s three floors takes no more effort than the push of a couple of buttons.
A formal living room with a wet bar and linear fireplace and a cityview formal dining room are accompanied by a spacious great room that opens to the pool and incorporates a casual lounge, a dining space, and a sleek family kitchen (and there’s a secondary chef’s kitchen for making a mess).
Other highlights include a wood-paneled study, a screening room with another wet bar, and a fitness/wellness center with a gym. A spa sits alongside a slender infinity-edge lap pool, while a huge terrace with panoramic views over L.A. is shaded by nine mature olive trees.
Kevin Booker, David Parnes, and James Harris of Carolwood Estates repped the sellers.
Tigertail Rd, Brentwood | $23,995,000
PACIFIC PALISADES BRENTWOOD PARK
Milwaukee Brewers minority owner Robert Beyer and wife sold the Westside’s priciest home in years.
Financier and Milwaukee Brewers minority owner Robert Beyer and his wife struck a deal to sell their Brentwood estate for $44 million. The purchase price equates to $2,200 per square foot.
When factoring in off-market deals, the trade is the largest in Brentwood since the December 2021 sale of 13058 Rivers Road, which went for $56.6 million.
Friday’s closing takes the home, named “Ocho Manos” after the couple’s four children, off the market after two years for sale.
Carolwood Estates’ Drew Fenton and Andrew Beyer, who is the Beyers’ son, were the listing agents. Fenton also brokered the aforementioned Rivers Road deal, granting him the two highest deals in the area in the past 5 years. Carolwood declined to comment on the deal.
Ocho Manos hit the market in 2023, with a $75 million asking price. The price was cut a few times, most recently in June, when the asking price went to $54.9 million.
Robert Beyer bought the first of three parcels comprising the estate in 2000, paying $438 per square foot or $8.8 million, according to listing sites. He reportedly went on to snap up three other sites and then took about five years across design and construction before the home was completed in 2005.
He told the Wall Street Journal in 2023 he and his wife “can’t possibly enjoy the extent” of the grounds with their four children grown and out of the house.
The Bob Ray Offenhauser-designed home, which sits on about 3.5 acres of flat land, was built by high-end homebuilder Peter McCoy Construction.
The residence spans 20,000 square feet with eight bedrooms and 14 bathrooms.
Imported stone, steel windows and doors, infinity edge pool and cabana, 1,200-bottle wine cellar, game room, gardens and tennis court are among the estate’s highlights.
The Monterey Revival-style home at 14924 Camarosa Drive is one of the Palisades’ most expensive deals this year, after closing for $22.1 million, or $2,635 per square foot.
Peter Zimble Shaun Alan-Lee and Nick Segal of Carolwood Estates represented the seller. Entities managed by Michael Cohen were the sellers of both properties.
The Parry Residence, named after Agnes S. Parry for whom it was commissioned, was built in 1929 by Beverly Hills Women’s Club architects George Elmore Gable and Stanley Wyant. The Camarosa Drive home was the second-ever to be built in the Palisades’ Huntington neighborhood. A year later it landed in the pages of Architectural Digest
The home’s history helped woo buyers, Alan-Lee said. “It checked a lot of boxes, and it drew a lot of attention,” said Alan-Lee, who described the tough task of showing clients the property when factoring in the need for passes to enter the Palisades and assistance navigating through the fire-burned areas.
The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and comes in at 7,355 square feet, sitting on a 25,000-square-foot double lot, with seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms. The pool house spans a little over 1,000 square feet.
Highlights include coffered ceilings, custom oak cabinetry, a Juliet balcony in the primary suite, screening room and 800-bottle wine cellar. Outdoors are olive trees, gardens, entertainment spaces and a 62-foot pool.
One street over and behind the Parry Residence is 14929 La Cumbre Drive, the second property sold. The mid-century home counts four bedrooms and three bathrooms. It was also listed in April with an ask of $8.5 million or $2,922 per square foot.
“We’ve seen an uptick in buyer activity, especially sub-$10 million. So, from lots to actual properties that are still standing, we’ve seen them trade,” Alan-Lee said, adding that much of the activity is in the Huntington and Riviera neighborhoods of the Palisades, which were mostly untouched by the fires.
“We, as a team, are really happy that we can help restore faith [with this deal] in the local marketplace,” Alan-Lee said.
The Hollywood actress and her husband, producer Andrew Form, lovingly crafted their Brentwood residence to tell many stories
It would not be outrageous to expect from a busy working actress and mom an abode that feels “done” to the point of being impersonal, styled just so by an outside force, with showpieces.
But not so with Jordana Brewster, best known as a star of one of Hollywood’s highest-grossing film franchises, The Fast and the Furious. Her choices in dwellings and decor—decisions shared with her husband, producer Andrew Form —gel with her chameleonic line of work.
There, in Brentwood’s Mandeville Canyon, the pair—with a significant assist from Chiara de Rege, Brewster’s friend since their school days and longtime interior design collaborator—sought out a look akin to a grand old East Coast house. Their plans fell into place when Form viewed this property and fell in love with the land, seeing the potential in the mazelike one-story house, untouched since the ’40s.
“We were grappling with whether to start from scratch or preserve it, even though it wasn’t a house of substantial architectural integrity—it was more a house of substantial charm.”
The former won out, resulting in a years-long project that Form ultimately relished. According to de Rege, he could clearly see how the home would be used; it’s very hard for some people to visualize things spatially, but he really got a sense of what it would be like.” Where Form focused his energy on the scale of things, his wife zeroed in on the aspects of the original home that she felt strongly about retaining and preserving.
Architect Gil Schafer’s traditional homes appeared on their mood boards along with Colonial-style homes from world architecture books. “For the molding details, I really went down a rabbit hole,” says de Rege. Adds Brewster, “I took for granted living in prewar New York apartments where you don’t think about moldings. Once you build a space with high ceilings, you wonder if really dramatic molding is necessary.”
Their goal was to build a new home that felt anything but. “Everyone says when they walk in that it feels like it’s been there forever,” says de Rege. “There’s a drive for that detail and feeling of history that I totally geeked out on and really enjoyed.”
Brewster and Form recently sold the estate this past summer for $13.3 million Susan and Sacha Smith of Carolwood Estates represented the buyer, while Jonah Wilson, also of Carolwood, represented the couple on their sale.
1844 Silverwood Ter
Highest Sale in Silver Lake
HOLLY WOOD HILLS OUTPOST ESTATES
Brad Pitt Buys Home From Killers Guitarist for $12 Million
David Keuning and his wife, interior designer Emilie Keuning, bought the Spanish-style home from Grindr founder Joel Simkhai for around $9.6 million in 2021
Hollywood star Brad Pitt has paid $12 million for a renovated Spanish-style house in Los Angeles, according to people familiar with the deal.
The sellers are Dave Keuning , best known as the lead guitarist for the rock band the Killers, and his wife, interior designer Emilie Keuning. The couple listed the property in June for $13.999 million, according to Zillow The Keunings bought the house for around $9.6 million in 2021 from Joel Simkhai, founder of the social-networking app Grindr, property records show.
The house is located in a prestigious Hollywood Hills community called Outpost Estates, which has drawn celebrities including Orlando Bloom and Ben Affleck
Originally built around 1989, the stucco house spans around 8,385 square feet with six bedrooms, according to the listing. It has views from downtown to the Pacific Ocean. There is a double-height foyer with wood-beam ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows. Arched corridors leading to the main entertaining spaces. In the living room, black steel French doors open to the outside, and there is a tin-panel ceiling with a sunflower motif. Off the living room is an office space with built-ins and a floral ceiling light.
Outside, there is a pool, tiered vegetable gardens and a barbecue area. A hand-laid brick motor court sits behind a gated entry.
An Oscar-winning actor, Pitt is known for movies like “ Fight Club,” “ The Big Short,” “Cool World,” Snatch,” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
He is an architecture enthusiast, with a home in Carmel Highlands that he bought for $40 million in 2022. In 2023, Pitt sold his longtime compound in L.A.’s Los Feliz neighborhood for $33 million, records show. That year, he paid $5.5 million for a mid-century house in Los Feliz.
David Parnes, Sam Collins and James Harris of Carolwood Estates held the listing for the Keuning house. Carolwood’s Marci Kays and Jonathan Mogharrabi represented Pitt
Rapper A$AP Rocky Sells His $4 Million LA Mansion Off-Market
The deal closed just days before Rihanna debuted her baby bump on the red carpet at the 2025 Met Gala
Rapper A$AP Rocky and his longtime partner, Rihanna, may well have concealed the news of their third pregnancy until May—but it appears the expectant father was busy making preparations for the baby girl’s arrival long before they went public with the news.
Days before Rihanna debuted her baby bump on the red carpet at the 2025 Met Gala in New York, Rocky quietly sold his Los Angeles home for $3.95 million. Rocky purchased the estate in 2015 for $3.05 million
The rapper decided to hold on to the property until his high-profile trial had come to an end—with records showing that he sold it in an off-market deal that closed on April 21st, two months after he was found innocent with all charges dropped against him.
The rapper then voiced his determination to move on with his life, noting that he had plenty of other positive things to focus his energy on, including his family and his music—and, it seems, the sale of his former home.
The cutting edge dwelling features superior designer finishes, while boasting a prime location between Beverly Grove and West Hollywood.
Spanning 4,300 square feet, the abode was newly built when Rocky snapped it up. At the time, it offered an Italian kitchen with designer appliances, a sunken conversation area, multiple balconies and multiple patios. Outside, the home boasted an entertainer’s backyard, complete with a zero edge pool and spa, as well as a covered dining area.
Among the home’s more impressive interior features are a stunningly executed chef’s kitchen, a private gym, a cocktail bar, a formal living room, and a more relaxed family room. The primary suite is equipped with its own private patio, as well as a spa-like bathroom that features an enormous soaking tub—and a huge glass wall that can be opened up to the outside seating area.
Outside, a sunken pool area features an elevated platform with enough room for several loungers, while another paved entertaining space could well serve as an outdoor dining area. A picturesque pool cabana was designed as a second living room—however, it could be transformed to serve as a guesthouse.
Rocky snapped up a stunning Beverly Hills mansion with Rihanna for $13.8 million in 2020, one year after they went public with their romance. Since then, the duo has welcomed three children together.
James Harris Chase Koplow and David Parnes of Carolwood Estates represented Rocky on the sale. Harris and Parnes also represented the buyer.
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Buyer
Million for Maria Sharapova’s Contemporary Manhattan Beach Mansion
KAA Design and interior designer Courtney Applebaum spent three years transforming the estate
A mystery buyer has dropped eight figures to add to his real estate portfolio. The buyer purchased Maria Sharapova’s customized Manhattan Beach mansion for $25 million. They closed on the offmarket sale at the end of August through a trust.
Sharapova briefly listed her custom-built abode in July, according to the Wall Street Journal
She purchased the estate for $4.1 million in 2012 and fashioned it to her specifications. The oceanview house is roughly 20 miles away from Los Angeles. She tapped architecture firm KAA Design and interior designer Courtney Applebaum to transform the house into a minimalist retreat— which took three years to complete, she revealed via AD Open Door in 2019.
Sharapova’s five-bedroom, eight-bathroom manse embodies a “less is more” mentality, inspired by Japanese architecture and minimalist aesthetics.
“I didn’t grow up with lots of stuff around. For me, uncluttered means healthy. If you don’t use something, you don’t need it,” she said of her personal interior style.
The entrance opens into a stately double-height foyer with a floating staircase. The five-time Grand Slam winner lined the walls with bare concrete panels and added black metal framing around the windows and glass doors.
The 8,000-square-foot property boasts extensive outdoor space, with an infinity swimming pool and a lounge area outfitted with a fireplace. Multiple balconies can be found throughout the property for optimal indoor-outdoor living, and a two-lane bowling alley is situated beside the basement media room.
Sharapova and her fiancé, British businessman Alexander Gilkes, are parting ways with their longtime home to spend more time in Europe and at their place in Florida, per the WSJ
Susân Perryman of Carolwood Estates repped Sharapova on the sale.
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Carolwood Estates Inks Partnership with Knight Frank
Beverly Hills-based Carolwood Estates has entered into a partnership with London property consultancy Knight Frank, expanding its reach into global markets.
Looks like Carolwood Estates found a way to go international minus the overhead of opening new offices. The Beverly Hills-based boutique struck a partnership with London property consultancy Knight Frank, further expanding the brand’s reach into the global markets.
Carolwood adds the ability to attract prospective buyers globally to its inventory of Los Angeles-area luxury properties. Knight Frank , meanwhile, gains a fast-rising boutique brand as a local partner.
Last year, Carolwood ranked fourth among Los Angeles County’s top brokerages, based on volume of on-market deals closed between July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2025. The brokerage notched $3.3 billion across 478 transactions, making a sizable jump after debuting on The Real Deal’s 2024 ranking at No. 8.
Per a joint press release, “Knight Frank is the leading independent global property consultancy, serving as their clients’ partners in property for 130 years. Headquartered in London, Knight Frank has more than 21,500 people operating from 600 offices across 50 territories. The group advises clients ranging from individual owners and buyers to major developers, investors and corporate tenants.”
Carolwood’s client base and inventory are the “perfect fit,” for Knight Frank business,” CEO and co-founder Drew Fenton said in a press release.
Fenton and the management team at Carolwood , which was founded in November 2022, have remained firm in a strategy of building a strong, local presence in LA’s high end rather than aim to build a national business.
Still, the brokerage found ways to expand without minimal operating costs.
In May, Carolwood made good on its desire to own the local high-end when it launched its private listings portal, called Carolwood Private Portal, in a bid to take advantage of its market share.
Per a joint press release, “Carolwood Estates is the preeminent boutique brokerage in Los Angeles focused on the highest segment of the market. Headquartered in Beverly Hills, Carolwood’s elite roster of 200 associates closed $5 billion in sales in 2025 nearly 30% of which was conducted off-market. The firm represented both sides of the two highest sales in Los Angeles of 2025, both closing at $110 million each respectively.”
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The Kallis-Sharlin Residence, Hollywood Hills | $6,995,000
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Where Architecture is Art: Inside the $135 Million Villa Siena
Are architects artists? Apologies if that sounds like a question lifted from an intro survey for first-year students, but sit with it and the answer grows more elusive.
On paper, architecture belongs to the realm of the practical. A painter doesn’t have to negotiate drainage. A poet isn’t expected to satisfy fire code. No one has ever asked a sculptor to revisit the piece because it needs more towel hooks. Architects, meanwhile, are handed gravity, budgets, zoning boards, clients with opinions and a non-negotiable desire for spacious countertops and a sauna with strong WiFi.
Los Angeles-based architect and developer Ardie Tavangarian founder of Arya Group, sits squarely in that tension. Browse his portfolio and you’ll see designs that lean hard into spectacle without forfeiting livability—equal parts form and function. His spec homes have chased (and occasionally set) the city’s louder numbers, including a 25,000-square-foot Bel Air mansion that sold for $75 million in 2019, plus a Pacific Palisades sale reported at $83 million in 2021.
His latest statement is Villa Siena in Bel Air, a roughly 35,000-squarefoot estate asking $135 million. The marketing calls it “architecture as sculpture” and this time the phrase earns its keep.
The house reads like a deliberately—and creatively—composed object. Teak and honed stone are arranged in hovering planes and glassy living spaces that feel almost unmoored until your eye catches the counterbalance of texture. A warm relief wall, then a brise-soleil of vertical fins that functions as both shade control and statement. Elsewhere, a sweeping concrete ribbon of a roof arcs overhead like a pulled bow, its perimeter traced in a fine fringe of lights.
It all plays out at monumental scale, in a house of unmistakable weight and presence. But Villa Siena’s real trick isn’t its size. It’s how fluidly and intimately it behaves at that size. Inside, the main spaces function as generous openings rather than sealed rooms, expanding and contracting with the day. Thirty-foot walls of glass slide away.
Pivot doors swing, converting the living room into a covered terrace in seconds. Exterior blinds drop to calibrate privacy and glare, then disappear again, as if the house is breathing them in.
That indoor-outdoor blur guided many of the design decisions, Tavangarian says. “The home really took shape during the pandemic. That period made us think about how a house could hold more of life, and how it could bring experiences from the world outside into it.”
Much of that “outside world” was nature itself. Greenery drapes walls and slips into unexpected pockets. Massive picture windows frame the outside not as scenery, but as theater. Interior water features suggest organic basins rather than ornamental fountains. The primary suite goes for a more literal effect with a retractable roof meant for stargazing.
That indoor-outdoor blur guided many of the design decisions, Tavangarian says. “The home really took shape during the pandemic. That period made us think about how a house could hold more of life, and how it could bring experiences from the world outside into it.”
Much of that “outside world” was nature itself. Greenery drapes walls and slips into unexpected pockets. Massive picture windows frame the outside not as scenery, but as theater. Interior water features suggest organic basins rather than ornamental fountains. The primary suite goes for a more literal effect with a retractable roof meant for stargazing.
Downstairs, the wellness center leans fully into the fantasy. Branches lace the ceiling like a canopy, while rain heads and misters cast the room in a soft haze around the hot and cold plunges and the steam room. It’s an immersive sequence, like a luxury spa dropped into a rainforest.
Above, the rooftop terrace becomes a second estate of nearly 12,000 square feet of outdoor programming, cast with fire, water, shade structures, screens and pockets of enclosure. Pools and wet edges appear again, canopies open to the sky and a restored glass structure has been repurposed into a retreat—part conservatory, part hideaway.
Connecting it all is a riveting centerpiece, a four-level spiral staircase that performs the kind of structural theater usually reserved for museums and luxury hotels. It’s a hanging brass sculpture with illumination stitched into the handrails and travertine treads, a vertical spine of movement designed to be seen from everywhere.
The amenity list covers the expected roll call of a contemporary trophy home—subterranean garage, 22-seat cinema room, putting green, wine cellar—then veers into the unexpected. There’s a Japanese tea room. A garage that can transform into a jazz bar. A planter that rises to reveal an enormous outdoor screen, complete with living plantings on top. Add multiple bars, seating zones and firepits, two kitchens, eight bedrooms, and 20 bathrooms, and the numbers start to sound almost impersonal.
Tavangarian insists the opposite is true. Each space is designed around interaction and the small decisions that shape a day. Where you pause. Where you gather. Where you retreat. And how easily the house can shift to meet the moment. Expanding, closing, revealing, concealing, always in conversation with the person moving through it.
“It’s my job to shape people’s emotions as they move through a space,” he says.
Sounds an awful lot like an artist.
Drew Fenton and Shana Tavangarian of Carolwood Estates hold the listing.
$40 Million Brentwood Estate Merges Danish Discipline with California Cool
Thomas Juul-Hansen’s monumental design recalls the nearby Getty Villa
Thomas Juul-Hansen, born in Copenhagen, and graduated in Miami, absorbed the American songbook of building in the ’90s and runs a studio today out of Manhattan. With all the integrity of his Danish forebears, resolutely brings discipline to the artifice of luxe.
Set back from a painted granite-cobbled entrance forum sits a massive rectangle of blonde travertine stone with a wide rectangular cut-out, behind which is a wall of glass some six meters square. You feel you’re walking towards not a house but a civic art gallery of the highest order.
Juul-Hansen himself worked directly on the design of the new Getty Center, which opened nearby in Brentwood in 1997. Twenty-seven years later, for the property he designed on 684 Firth Avenue, his choice was to source the same travertine from the same quarry in Italy that supplied the stone for the Getty
The stone was cut from the same Lippiello family quarry in Bagno di Tivoli, 20 kilometers east of Rome. Not only that, Signore Lippiello was delighted to continue the tradition and agreed to resume cutting from the same spot in the mountains where they’d finished cutting for the Getty.
The side entrance elevation, with 19-foot motorized sliding glass pocket doors, will lead you into spaces of mesmerizing scale. But to appreciate this property in all its fullness, first walk around to the main elevation. It seems to extend forever, another exercise in strict geometrics. The slide rule delivers a massive elongated letterbox in the same blonde stone.
The predominance of planes of glass as an architectural element is pure mid-century, when it enabled flexible indoor/outdoor living. Here the immense scale of these motorized panels seems to make a bolder statement about the commanding power of transparency—the grandeur.
The near two-acre private hilltop setting continues this sense of exclusivity. From the vast rooftop terrace to the wraparound balcony walkways, across the great distance beyond the infinity-edge swimming pool it seems less that you’re gazing out over L.A. than that the city is sprawling itself out before you below.
Confident low-profile seating lets the ceiling heights soar. Adding another dimension, the entirety has been anchored to Feng Shui principles by Master Jonathan Ng
The interior scheme modulates between monolithic walls of titanium travertine stone and vertical panels of slatted rift white oak stained a warm walnut—a natural palette that unifies the entire place from the vast living areas to the intimate rooms for sleep and wellbeing—trademark of a richly comforting Scandinavian lifestyle.
James Harris and Drew Fenton of Carolwood Estates hold the listing.
Byron Allen has long been a fixture in American entertainment, and now the comedian-turned-media mogul is making waves in the luxury real estate world. He reportedly got his start in comedy at just 14, pitching jokes to legends like Jay Leno and David Letterman.
By 18, he had become the youngest comedian ever to appear on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. Allen went on to host NBC’s Real People, star in the 1988 TV movie Case Closed, and helm his own talk show, The Byron Allen Show, before touring as a stand-up opener for Lionel Richie, Dolly Parton, and Sammy Davis Jr
In 1993, Allen launched CF Entertainment , a low-cost TV production company that would evolve into Allen Media Group. Today, his media empire owns 10 networks, including TheGrio and the Weather Channel, produces a wide array of shows, and continues to pursue high-profile acquisitions (including a $30 billion offer for Paramount). It was also rumored that Allen was personally making a bid for the NFL’s Denver Broncos
The 64-year-old Detroit native has been actively reshaping that portfolio recently, offloading some of his most notable residences. In Manhattan, he sold his full-floor apartment at 220 Central Park South for $82.5 million, one of the city’s priciest sales in 2025. Out west, he quietly parted with his Aspen ski retreat for $60 million, more than $30 million above his 2020 purchase price.
From Beverly Hills to Maui and Malibu, Allen continues to navigate the high-stakes world of luxury real estate with the same strategic eye that built his entertainment empire.
In Beverly Hills, Allen has built a sizable real estate footprint, owning multiple properties across the city. His 1.5-acre compound includes two neighboring homes he purchased from Canadian tech mogul and former eBay president Jeff Skoll in 2021: a sleek contemporary mansion for $22.5 million and a smaller Tudor-style house next door for $9.5 million, together spanning over 10,000 square feet. The modern estate offers 7,500 square feet, five bedrooms, and five-and-a-half bathrooms, while the Tudor adds additional space. Allen had been renovating both to create a custom mega-compound.
Allen also owns a third nearby estate, purchased for $17 million, with more than an acre of land and nearly 13,000 square feet of living space. The two-story home features a library, a dining room that seats 18, a bar, a den, seven bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, and retractable floor-to-ceiling glass doors that open to an infinity pool and terrace.
Additionally, he owns a fourth property on North Rodeo Drive, purchased in 2019 for $19.85 million, with eight bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, and 11,266 square feet of living space. Allen and his wife also own a fifth property, a one-bedroom, one-bath condo on Charleville Boulevard.
1118 Calle Vista Dr, Beverly Hills
$29,995,000
Museum modern on an exceptional Beverly Hills promontory. Panoramic views from ocean to DTLA. No roof-tops or obstructions. Exceptional scale with soaring ceilings. Walls of glass frame the jetliner views. Over 7,500 sf. primary suite is on par with world-class hotel standards with double baths and vast closets. Four additional bedrooms. Major infinity edge pool wraps a vast terrace for entertaining. One of a kind, in a most prime location. Represented by Drew Fenton of Carolwood Estates
1116 Calle Vista Dr, Beverly Hills
$9,995,000
Charming Tudor in the prestigious “Estate Section” of Beverly Hills. Over half an acre, north of Sunset. May be sold together with 1118 Calle Vista for a potential development opportunity. Represented by Drew Fenton of Carolwood Estates
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Blue Jay Way
High above Sunset Boulevard, a freshly renovated $22.5 million nest has settled into the hills of the Bird Streets, on a street celebrated for its Beatles heritage.
Leave it to an Englishman to write about one of the few foggy nights in Los Angeles. In August 1967, George Harrison rented a house at 1567 Blue Jay Way, high in the Bird Streets of the Hollywood Hills above the Sunset Strip. Jet-lagged after the flight from London, he started composing on a Hammond organ while waiting for his publicist to find the house along its narrow, winding roads. The murk outside became his muse: “There’s a fog upon L.A. / And my friends have lost their way.” By the time they arrived, “Blue Jay Way” was nearly finished.
Give the song a listen and you’ll hear something at odds with the real Bird Streets experience. Rock pilgrims who wind their way up the Hollywood Hills are unlikely to encounter the dreary, ominous fog the lyrics moan about. Instead, they step out onto a sun-struck ridge with wide-angle views of Los Angeles spilling to the horizon, the Pacific glinting in the distance.
Blue Jay Way sits in the heart of the Bird Streets, a collection of roads that run along the ridge north of Sunset Boulevard, with Trousdale Estates just over the hill in Beverly Hills. The neighborhood’s name is literal: Oriole Drive, Nightingale Drive, Thrasher Avenue … you see the pattern.
By the time Harrison wrote “ Blue Jay Way,” the Bird Streets were already a magnet for the famous, transformed a decade earlier from rugged slopes with scattered houses into terraced lots and modern builds. They rose in a postwar wave that favored open plans, glass walls and pool decks angled toward that downtown-to-ocean panorama.
The template stuck. Today, the enclave remains an epicenter of the Los Angeles “view-box” phenomenon—large, flat-roofed contemporary constructions with disappearing glass walls, infinity-edge pools and club-style amenities stacked along the ridge. The celebrity traffic here has only thickened.
The Bird Streets are prized as a discreet perch for industry players, home to a rotating cast of producers, agents and music people, along with marquee names like Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Aniston and Bad Bunny
Inventory is scarce and high-profile cachet has pushed prices into a steep climb. Over the past year, five sales have cleared $23 million, including a $26 million deal also on Blue Jay Way.
Continue up Blue Jay Way and you arrive at 1615, a private aerie reimagined by Dahmor Studio that checks all of the Bird Street boxes. Perched on a high branch of the hillside, it frames a distinctly Los Angeles tableau. A major spread of metropolis spilling over canyons and ridgelines until it finally meets the sea.
Spanning four levels along a bend in the slope, it looks down onto its own terraces. From the upper floors, the lower deck unfolds as a sequence of infinity pool, cabana and open-air dining, pushed out into the hillside rather than cut off by a sheer drop. Fortunately, an elevator links all four stories.
The home’s generous scale accommodates a rich suite of spaces, from three lounges and two bars to a library, screening room, gym, dining room, two kitchens, an office and a sunroom, all unfolding with ease. The interiors strike a careful balance between craft and contemporaneity. Warm, textured finishes and soft, tonal layers are punctuated by organic materials, creating a quiet tension between the sleek and the tactile.
A central atrium channels natural light deep into the home. Walls open to the Southern California light. On most days, it’s a sun catcher. On the rare foggy one… well, let’s hope you have a Hammond organ nearby.
Resnick & Nash at Carolwood Estates hold the listing.
$15 Million Pacific Palisades Home
Designed by Architect Russell Shubin
This multi-story assemblage of rusticated stone, afromosia wood and vast expanses of glass has a gym tucked underneath the swimming pool.
A multi-million dollar price tag does not alone make a home a masterpiece. But now and then, a residence with exceptional attention to detail comes to market, which makes it worthy of the designation.
Architect Russell Shubin of Donaldson + Partners is behind one California dwelling that certainly fits the bill. Built with the “highest quality materials,” according to the listing, the facade of the Pacific Palisades stunner prioritizes a fusion of natural materials like wood, stone, and steel that create a lasting first impression. Unique design features like staircases encompassed by slatted Afromosia wood, softly illuminated rusticated stone walls, and one fireplace built into a wood-paneled wall not only add warmth to the $14.995 million gem but also highlight its timeless design. Drew Fenton of Carolwood Estates holds the listing.
Located at 1716 San Remo Drive, the five-bedroom house with interiors by James Magni of Magni Kalman Design sits on a hillside with over 7,500 square feet of living space. Sculpted greenery softens the monumental—and windowless—street facade that’s comprised of buff-colored stone and glossy strips of Afromosia wood. A stone staircase leads to the foyer with a floating walnut staircase, which sits next to the formal living room with a gas fireplace set into a wood-paneled wall, ample wall space for coveted artworks and walls of floor-to-ceiling glass.
The abode’s use of wood continues into the kitchen and dining areas. Bone-colored stone flooring pops against the black base of the kitchen’s massive island with breakfast bar seating. A polished wooden ceiling panel hovers above the dining area and built-in wine cellar, while floor-to-ceiling sliding doors open to an alfresco dining area next to the pool.
Adjacent to the space is the great room with exposed stone walls and a slatted wooden wall feature. A broad bank of sliding glass doors opens onto a stone terrace next to the infinity pool. The unobstructed sunset views further enhance the home’s trophy status.
Other highlights include a second-floor primary bedroom and bathroom with rustic hillside views, a screening room with a full bar, a home office with a wall of built-in display shelves, and, daringly positioned underneath the swimming pool, a detached guest suite / gym that’s complete with a bathroom and kitchenette.
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Bob Newhart’s Century Woods Home Hits the Market for $9.875 Million
The late comedian’s townhouse is located in a star-studded gated community where celebrities like Don Rickles and Jane Fonda have owned homes
The comedians Bob Newhart and Don Rickles—along with their wives, Ginnie Newhart and Barbara Rickles—were close friends for decades. So when the Newharts wanted to downsize from their longtime home in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, they followed the Rickleses to Century City.
“They decided they were going to move down the street from their best friends,” said the Newharts’ daughter Courtney Newhart Albertini
In 2016, the Newharts paid $6.675 million for a newly built townhouse at The Enclave in Century Woods, the star-studded gated community where the Rickleses owned a home, property records show. There, the two families spent holidays together and took their dogs for walks.
But after Ginnie’s death in 2023 and Bob’s in 2024, the Newharts’ children are listing the home for $9.875 million
The townhouse has four bedrooms and an office. On the top floor, Bob’s office has expansive views of the Westside of L.A. The primary suite has his-and-hers bathrooms and closets; Ginnie always said the key to the Newharts’ 60-year marriage was “having two separate bathrooms,” Courtney recalled.
The open floor plan with a large kitchen was conducive to family gatherings, particularly at Christmas. “Mom always got a piano player and we sang Christmas carols—and Hanukkah carols for the Rickleses,” said the Newharts’ daughter Jennifer Newhart. “Dad would read ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.’ He’d make everyone crack up because he’d do some crazy voice.”
Previously, Ginnie and Bob had lived in homes designed by noted architects Gerard Colcord and Wallace Neff in other parts of Los Angeles, said Tim Newhart, a son. This was their first brand-new and modern home. Century Woods, which is home to celebrities including Jane Fonda, provided a close-knit community.
Bob was best known for his role as Dr. Robert Hartley in the popular 1970s show “ The Bob Newhart Show.” He also appeared in the 1980 movie “ First Family” and 2003 movie “ Elf.”
Drew Fenton and Max Lavine of Carolwood Estates hold the listing.
Rudolph Schindler Tucked into the Hollywood Hills Asks $7 Million
Known as The Kallis-Sharlin Residence, the home was lovingly restored by two architecture lovers
Kallis-Sharlin Residence, Hollywood Hills | $6,995,000
For journalist Susan Orlean and her husband, John Gillespie, a house has never been just a place to live. Fans of Modernist architecture, they spent one of their earliest dates visiting Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Pennsylvania.
When the pair moved to Los Angeles in 2007 so Orlean could research a book, they quickly fell in love with the work of Rudolph Schindler, an Austrian-born architect whose work helped define Modernism in the city.
By 2017, Orlean and Gillespie were buying their second Schindler house. One of the architect’s mostcited works, the Hollywood Hills house appears to spill down the hillside on a sloping lot overlooking the San Fernando Valley. But in the years leading up to their purchase, the property had fallen into disrepair.
The original woodwork had been painted over in battleship gray. The couple says a six-person crew lay on their backs for months, chemically peeling and scraping the interior to reveal the original mahogany, Douglas fir and marine plywood underneath.
The budget reflected the scope, ultimately outpacing the $2.1 million Orlean and Gillespie paid for the house. The couple say they spent roughly $3-$4 million on the restoration, which was completed around 2020.
Orlean, 70, is a longtime New Yorker staff writer and the author of “ The Orchid Thief.” The book was the subject of and partially adapted in the 2002 Spike Jonze film “Adaptation” starring Nicolas Cage, in which Meryl Streep portrayed Orlean. Gillespie, 72, is a retired investment banker and CFO.
It was Gillespie who brought her deeper into the world of modern architecture. “My mother dragged me to literally dozens of Frank Lloyd Wright houses around the country to visit them as a child,” he says.
The Kallis-Sharlin Residence, as the home is known, is a study in Schindler’s spatial experimentation, the couple says. “Most of the walls here are 15 degrees,” Gillespie says. “So it’s a puzzle piece in some ways.”
Orlean describes the interior as almost cinematic. “Schindler’s got this incredible sense of space being malleable,” she says. “The angles and the views are constantly changing depending on where you are in the house.”
Orlean said she will miss the home’s four fireplaces, each built of “distinctive, almost Brutalist stonework.”
Listing agent Hanna Ginsberg of Carolwood Estates said architecturally significant homes like Schindler’s tend to draw a “focused but committed buyer pool.” Ginsberg holds the listing with fellow Carolwood colleague Cooper Mount
Babyface Lists Studio where Hits for TLC, Usher, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and More were Recorded
Listed for just shy of $7 million – with an estimated $800,000 worth of top-of-the-line studio gear included
Legendary R&B producer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds is selling his Hollywood recording studio, where hundreds of Top 10 hits and Grammy-winning albums have been recorded.
The Studio A at Brandon’s Way recording facility – with an accompanying upstairs residence – is located at 751 N Highland Ave and is currently listed for just shy of $7 million.
Spread over 4,641 square feet of commercial space on a 5,662 square-foot lot, the site boasts three studios, a lounge and social areas, as well as a living space with kitchen facilities, machine room, tech shop, and a second floor with a bathroom.
The studio facility is sold with all its equipment: approximately $800,000 worth of “top-of-the-line” gear.
Under Babyface’s custodianship, the facility has seen a plethora of noteworthy albums and songs recorded there, including Whitney Houston’s My Love is Your Love Michael Jackson’s Invincible Janet Jackson’s Damita Jo, TLC’s Fanmail, Usher’s 8701 and Confessions, and Ariana Grande’s debut album Yours Truly
Other albums recorded at the premises include Luther Vandross’s self-titled album (2001), Jamie Foxx’s Unpredictable (2005), Barbara Streisand’s Partners (2014) and Backstreet Boys’ Black & Blue (2000), as well as singles by Mariah Carey and Phil Collins
Babyface has also put out a number of albums recorded at the studio: Face2Face (2001), Grown & Sexy (2005), and Return of the Tender Lover (2015).
All in, Studio A at Brandon’s Way has seen 125 Top 10 hits, 45 Number One R&B hits 16 Number One pop hits, and 13 Grammy winners, including three consecutive Producer of the Year awards for Babyface between 1995 and 1997.
“It might be easier to list who hasn’t recorded at this musical epicenter as the A-list names read like a who’s who of musical icons,” writes Kevin Booker of Carolwood, the Beverly Hills based realtor in charge of the sale. “The list is long, so make this your next creative enclave, Brandon’s Way clearly holds an unmatched provenance in LA’s music scene,” Booker said.
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Carolwood Estates closed over $1 billion worth of transactions priced $4 million and below in 2025
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Carolwood Estates closed over 1,063 transactions priced $4 million and below in 2025
$1B +54%
Carolwood saw a 54% increase in transactions $4 million and below in 2025, compared to $650 million in 2024
