Hot Property: Beck lists Hancock Park-area home at $9 million

How does such an idiosyncratic singer live in such an everyday mansion? Maybe that’s why Beck wants to sell the Hancock Park-area Mediterranean he’s owned since November. Some houses just aren’t a good fit.

Listing price: $9 million. Pretty optimistic for a place he bought less than a year ago for $6,750,000, although he has apparently done some remodeling, agents say. The 8,292-square-foot house – six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, two stories – was built in 1924, according to the MLS/CLAW. The house has all the bells and whistles you’d expect to find in an estate: mature trees, large-scale public rooms, a library. The grand-entry foyer has custom-designed Bill Blass floors, and the living room opens to a lanai for morning coffee. There is a professional recording studio and rehearsal room in the guesthouse and a grassy backyard with a 60-foot swimming pool with lanes.

But this is Beck – the alternative synthesized rocker who creates all those surreal, free-associative lyrics that are all generally kind of dark – in a Mediterranean. Let’s hope for a quick sale.

Beck, on a world tour, will be playing the Hollywood Bowl in September. His latest album, “Modern Guilt,” has just been released.

Richard Klug of Sotheby’s International Realty is the listing agent, according to the MLS.