Raiders Star Buys Palos Verdes House
L. A. Raiders star Lyle Alzado just bought a new house in Palos Verdes, four blocks from San Francisco ‘49ers quarterback Joe Montana.
“So now they can play football in the street,” Lee Saffir, whose firm--Wright Realty Better Homes & Gardens--listed Alzado’s new home, said with a laugh.
Montana moved to his 5-year-old home, overlooking the ocean near Lunada Bay, last March with his bride, actress Jennifer Wallace, but Alzado just got a divorce and took possession of his house as “an unmarried man,” Saffir said.
With his new house, the 36-year-old Alzado could be the catch of the season--and not just in football terms. His home was built on three-quarters of an acre by German craftsman Stefan Bittenbinder and his new partner, Irving Dell.
Bittenbinder has constructed several gorgeous houses on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
Alzado’s is no exception, from what Saffir says, and with 8,000 square feet under roof, it should be big enough even for the husky defensive end, who weighs in at 265 pounds. (The house is twice as large as Montana’s.)
Alzado’s house also has a tennis court, spa, swimming pool and what was described as a great view from every room.
Alzado moved from Manhattan Beach, where his 2-year-old house--priced at $450,000--was sold through Saffir’s company as listing agent. He bought the Palos Verdes house for nearly the asking amount of $1.85 million.
Word is that John McVie, who plays bass with Fleetwood Mac, just moved into a house in North Hollywood after storing furnishings from his Mulholland Drive home for a couple of years. Was he on the road? Maybe, but he is also supposed to have a home in the Caribbean.
Might sound like something from a Ray Bradbury novel, but developer Ken Weller is building 44 homes, each with an Apple IIc computer terminal and software capable of operating lights and appliances as well as providing security, fire and medical-emergency protection.
The computers and software are included in the home prices, which must be outrageous, right? Wrong. Weller’s homes range from $62,950 to $77,950.
Could be worth the drive. The houses are in Fontana in a project called (appropriately) Apple Pointe, believed to be one of the first, if not the first, residential tracts in the United States to use the computer as a standard feature.
Seems that “Knots Landing” star Donna Mills likes Benedict Canyon so much that she is planning to move from one house into another there in the next few days.
A 28.9-acre property that once played a significant role in the development of the California date industry is on the market in the Coachella Valley.
It is the former site of the U. S. Date Field Experiment Station, which opened in 1907 to foster the new, date industry and conduct research on diseases of the date palm.
The U. S. Department of Agriculture operated the station until 1982, when the site, declared government surplus property, was sold to a group of investors represented by Mohammed Adeli of Beverly Hills. Adeli and the other investors have just listed it through Century 21 Indio Realty Inc. for $812,000.
The property (which also has seven greenhouses, four lab buildings, acres and acres of citrus trees and its own well) is zoned R-1 (for single-family homes) but is master planned by the city of Indio and Riverside County for multiple-unit residential or planned-community development. It’s on Clinton Street just outside of Indio but is considered likely for annexation as the city expands to the west.
Anyone who has driven just north of Broad Beach in Malibu during the past few weeks had to notice the immense, free-form concrete structure being built on the west side of Pacific Coast Highway overlooking the ocean.
What is it? A restaurant? Hotel? Office building? Nope. It’s a house, but other than that, the project architect for a very well known architect who is designing the place would say nothing.
“We’re not authorized by the owner to give any information,” she said. However, she hinted that the house, which has been fenced in because of curious trespassers, may be completed by next summer.
