Less Racquet for Malibu
Tennis legend John McEnroe’s longtime Malibu Colony home is on the market at $5.45 million.
The Wimbledon champ, 39, has been a TV commentator and an art dealer since 1992, his last full season on the Assn. of Tennis Professionals tour. Earlier this month, he became a spokesman for Rogaine, a hair-growth product.
McEnroe has owned the Malibu Colony home since the late 1980s, when he was married to actress Tatum O’Neal. They were divorced in 1994. He married rock singer Patty Smyth in 1997.
After buying the Malibu Colony home, built in 1930, McEnroe remodeled and expanded it. Cape Cod in style, it has six bedrooms and seven baths in about 3,700 square feet. The three-story home has interior and beachfront patios, a cabana, guest facility and spa. There is also a pub room with a bar in the home.
McEnroe decided to sell the house because he’s in New York most of the time.
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The longtime home of the late Dorothy Buffum Chandler has been extensively renovated by designer Tim Corrigan, who bought the Hancock Park house with Kathleen Scheinfeld for about $2 million in 1997, the year Chandler died at 96.
She was the wife of the late Norman Chandler, third publisher of The Times, and the mother of Otis Chandler, the newspaper’s fourth publisher and a former chairman of Times Mirror Co.
The guiding force behind the Los Angeles Music Center, Dorothy Chandler moved to the house in the ‘50s and used her guest cottage there as the first office for the Music Center. Corrigan turned it back into a guest house. He expanded the kitchen and restored the music room, which was designed for Mozart and came from a German palace.
He also re-landscaped the 1 1/2-acre property, adding a 20-foot-long pool outside of the dining room, which seats 16 at one long table. And he planted 300 trees and a rose garden.
Built in 1913 as one of the first houses in the Windsor Square area of Hancock Park, the 10,000-square-foot house wound up costing Corrigan and Scheinfeld slightly more than $1 million to refurbish.
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Paul Marciano, president and chief operating officer of fashion giant Guess? Inc., has purchased one of the Sultan of Brunei’s two Beverly Hills homes, which were listed at $6.4 million each in October.
Marciano paid about $5.1 million for the home, furnished, say real estate sources who were not involved in the deal.
He also has his home in Beverly Park, overlooking Beverly Hills, on the market at just under $8 million. The gated home, on two acres, has eight bedrooms in about 10,000 square feet. The grounds have a children’s play yard, a pool and a tennis court.
Marciano had been looking for some time to move to the Beverly Hills flats, where the sultan’s house is situated, to be closer to his children, sources have said.
Valerie Fitzgerald of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co., Beverly Hills, has the Beverly Park listing.
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Former hockey player Sheldon Kannegiesser, who played for the L.A. Kings and the New York Rangers from the late 1960s until the late 1970s, has listed his Ojai property at $2.65 million. Kannegiesser, a motivational speaker and marketing entrepreneur, is moving to Lake Tahoe.
The Ojai home, which he has owned for about five years, has a four-bedroom main house plus a three-bedroom guest house, pool house, gym, media room, billiard room and tennis court. The 13,000-plus-square-foot home is on slightly more than three park-like acres, walled and gated.
Luzette Vidal of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co., Westlake Village, has the listing.
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The Christmas House of Rancho Cucamonga is on the market at $890,000.
A city historical landmark, the three-story redwood home, used since 1983 as a Victorian bed and breakfast, was built in 1904 by H.D. Cousins, a timber trader and shipbuilder.
Because Cousins and his family made lavish yuletide gatherings a tradition, their home became known early on as the Christmas House. The Whitson family, which bought the house in 1910, continued the lavish Christmas parties. The name of the house endured.
Renovated in 1985, the 4,500-square-foot house has five bedrooms and three baths plus a manager’s quarters with bath. The house, on nearly an acre, also has seven fireplaces, a basement, a circular porch and a two-story tower.
Geoff T. Hamill of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate in Claremont has the listing.
A 25,000-square-foot Beverly Hills-area house built in 1992 on two acres by antiques dealer Mark Slotkin has been listed at $9.9 million. The house, which also has a tennis court and city views, has been on and off the market for years. Before it was listed again this month, it was for sale at about $14 million.
The house went into foreclosure in the fall and is now bank-owned, said Myra Nourmand of Nourmand & Associates, Beverly Hills, who has the listing.
