Pop Artist Tunes Out of Canyon
Singer-songwriter Seal has put his home on 1.5 acres in a Beverly Hills-area canyon on the market at $2.3 million.
The British pop artist has long divided his time between London, Los Angeles and whatever mountain offers the best snowboarding.
The one-story ranch-style property includes a two-bedroom main house and a two-bedroom guest house.
Built in 1958, the nearly 4,500-square-foot compound with a center courtyard, also has a step-down living room with high ceilings, a fireplace and French doors opening to a deck and canyon, mountain and city views. The high ceilings were among the features that appealed to the 6-foot-4 Seal when he bought the house in 1999.
The estate also has a family room with a skylight and doors that lead to the courtyard, a dining room that opens to the pool, a recording studio/screening room, and an office with a fireplace.
The master suite has a fireplace and two bathrooms and closets.
The grounds at the gated home feature an outdoor kitchen and a spa. An adjacent 1.5-acre lot is also available for $1 million.
The multiple Grammy Award winner, 39, is known for his sweeping ballads and sensual dance tunes. He gained international fame with such hit songs as “Crazy,” from his debut album “Seal,” and “Kiss From a Rose,” from the “Batman Forever” (1995) movie soundtrack.
Judy Cycon and Joe Babajian have the listing at Prudential John Aaroe, Beverly Hills.
Actress Patricia Heaton, who plays wife and mother Debra Barone on the CBS sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond,” and her husband, British actor-producer David Hunt, have sold their Hancock Park home for about its $1.5-million asking price.
The couple, who have four children, bought a larger home in the same neighborhood last year. The family also has a home near Cambridge, England.
The house they sold has four bedrooms in slightly more than 4,000 square feet. The Mediterranean-style home, built in the ‘20s, also has a guest house and a pool.
Before co-starring on “Everybody Loves Raymond” starting in 1996, the Emmy-winning actress, 44, also appeared on the series “Party of Five” and “thirtysomething.” She was a stage actress in New York before moving to L.A. in the late ‘80s. She and Hunt were married in 1990.
Hunt, 47, also has appeared on “Everybody Loves Raymond,” and he played Tom Halstead in John Grisham’s TV series “The Client.”
Lisa Hutchins of Coldwell Banker, Hancock Park, had the listing.
Michael King, vice chairman and co-chief executive of King World Productions Inc., and his wife, Jenna, have closed escrow on the purchase of a Pacific Palisades home for about $11 million.
The TV syndication czar and his wife sold their Brentwood home in February for about its $10.5-million asking price.
Designed by architect Paul Williams and built for an oil baron in the 1940s, the house the Kings purchased has five bedrooms and nine bathrooms in 10,000 square feet.
The home, which has sweeping arches, also has a tennis court, a guest house, a pool and city views. The walled and gated home is on more than an acre.
The house that the Kings sold was on less than an acre and had six bedrooms in 8,000 square feet. It was built in 1996.
King World Productions, founded by Michael King’s father in the early ‘70s, produces such programs as “Wheel of Fortune,” “Jeopardy!” and “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
Producer Steve Bing, the heir of a New York real estate fortune who British model-actress Elizabeth Hurley has said is the father of her newborn son, has purchased a Westside home in the $5-million range.
Bing, 37, has publicly questioned Hurley’s assertion, issuing a statement that their relationship wasn’t “exclusive.” Before meeting Bing, Hurley, 36, was actor Hugh Grant’s companion for 13 years.
The house Bing bought is just one of several that he owns in the L.A. area, real estate sources said. This house has four bedrooms in about 5,000 square feet. It was built in the ‘50s.
Bing wrote for the sitcom “Married ... With Children,” and he was executive producer of the movie “Get Carter” (2000).
One of the largest of the Case Study houses, the Saul Bass Residence in Altadena, has come on the market at $575,000. The house was built in 1958 for Saul Bass, a movie-title designer and graphic artist, and his then-wife, Ruth Bass, a biochemist.
Designed by Buff, Straub & Hensman, the three-bedroom, nearly 2,400-square-foot house, which epitomizes the California indoor-outdoor lifestyle with poolside living, needs restoring but has been unaltered architecturally.
The house, which in probate, is referred to as Case Study House No. 20 in the new book “Case Study Houses, the Complete CSH Program 1945-1966” by Elizabeth A.T. Smith, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
The Case Study House Program, announced by Arts and Architecture magazine in 1945, was an attempt to help solve the postwar housing shortage by providing well-designed, inexpensive housing prototypes.
During the following 21 years, 36 projects were designed and 24 were completed by prominent designers who experimented with new materials and construction techniques developed during the war.
Crosby Doe of Mossler, Deasy & Doe, Beverly Hills, has the listing.
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