Newsletter: Hot Property: Filling up on eye candy
Some people keep their eye on the prize. We keep ours on the price, and the people involved in a home sale. But we’re also looking for that extra little detail we call the “wow” factor.
This week’s transactions include properties with such eye-catching features as a purple theater room, a chandelier-topped closet/dressing room and a 160-foot-long infinity pool with unobstructed views of the Pacific.
– Neal J. Leitereg and Lauren Beale
Cozy fireplaces, classy closets
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Pink and her husband, retired motorcycle racer Carey Hart, sold their home in a gated Malibu community for $12.5 million.
The more than one acre Balinese-inspired estate includes a main house, a guesthouse and a lawn-surrounded swimming pool and spa. A private pathway leads to the beach.
The koi pond entry with a floating-style walkway and the five-car garage create quite the first impression. Inside the 7,450-square-foot house, which has five bedrooms and seven bathrooms, are charming stone fireplaces, a giant master shower and massive closets.
Pink, 37, has released six studio albums including the 2003 record “Try This,” which won a Grammy for best female rock vocal performance.
Pink and Hart sold their estate on more than an acre in Malibu’s Point Dume for $12.5 million. (Redfin | Inset: Getty Images)
His plum place
Clippers guard Austin Rivers has picked up a home in Pacific Palisades for $6.1 million.
This is a very cool crib — sophisticated, yet sexy. The shingled traditional-style house was built this year and contains approximately 7,400 square feet of living space with six bedrooms and seven bathrooms.
Our jaws dropped when we saw the plum-colored home theater. Check it out.
Designed for indoor-outdoor entertaining, the multi-level home features glass pocket doors, a rooftop deck and balconies with city-to-ocean views.
Not bad for a 24-year-old. Rivers, the son of Clippers Coach Doc Rivers, signed a new three-year, $35.7-million deal with the team this summer.
Rivers paid $6.1 million for the newly built home in Pacific Palisades. (Blake Worthington | Los Angeles Times)
Views and a vision
Skrillex, the eight-time Grammy-winning electronic music artist and DJ, has spent $6 million on a residential site in a gated Malibu community.
The approximately 1.1-acre plot is in an 80-acre development where home prices often exceed $15 million.
Skrillex’s land is on a bluff with unobstructed views of the Pacific. The lot includes approved plans for a modern monolith of more than 12,000 square centered on a 160-foot-long infinity-edge swimming pool.
The lot with the completed house was recently priced at $18.9 million.
The 28-year-old Skrillex picked up Grammys for the extended-play records “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” and “Bangarang” as well as for his debut album as part of the DJ duo Jack Ü, with fellow artist Diplo.
Skrillex, left, paid $6 million for more than an acre of land in a luxury Malibu community. (Los Angeles Times)
Awesomely artistic driveway
Actor-producer Tobey Maguire of “Spider-Man” fame and his wife, jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer, have listed a compound in Santa Monica for sale at $2.995 million.
The couple, who recently announced they are separating, bought the house a year ago for $2.675 million.
The main house, originally a 1920s bungalow, was renovated and expanded to add vaulted ceilings and a second floor. A separate two-story studio and a third structure in use as a gym complete the compound.
Among features that wowed us are the artistic stonework in the driveway and the curved ceiling in the master bedroom.
Maguire, 41, has starred in such films as “The Great Gatsby” (2013) and “Seabiscuit” (2003). Among our personal favorites is “The Cider House Rules” (1999).
Maguire’s Santa Monica home has come on the market for $2.995 million. (Shawn Bishop | Los Angeles Times)
Star-worthy dressing room
Carrie Ann Inaba, a judge on the competition series “Dancing With the Stars,” has stepped away from her home in Valley Village for $1.15 million.
Tucked behind tall hedges and gates, the 1940s house is surrounded by lush landscaping and mature trees.
The 2,252 square feet of living space has been recently updated and includes hardwood floors, decorative-tile work and crown molding.
The master suite — one of three bedrooms and two bathrooms — includes a custom walk-in closet with a chandelier and dressing room.
The 48-year-old Inaba, a professional dancer and choreographer, has been on the dance contest show since 2005. She appeared on the series “In Living Color” from 1990 to 1992 as one of the “Fly Girls.”
Inaba sold her gated home in Valley Village for $1.15 million. (Redfin | Los Angeles Times)
Ambassador of song?
A Palm Spring compound owned by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel at the time of his death is on market at $1.995 million.
Gabriel, who died in August at 66, bought the property a year ago for $1.55 million. Prior to that, the 3,500 square feet of living space had been operated as a boutique hotel. That may explain why the listing photos show bicycles parked beside the swimming pool.
Another detail that caught our eye was the trio of flags at the front of the house — very embassy-esque.
A Palm Springs compound owned by late Mexican vocalist Juan Gabriel has come to market for about $2 million. (Keller Williams Realty | Getty Images)
From the archives
Ten years ago, then-L.A. Clippers forward Yaroslav Korolev bought a five-bedroom, Mediterranean-style home in Manhattan Beach for about $1.9 million. The Moscow-born, 6-foot-9 Korolev selected the house in part due to its high ceilings and tall windows.
Twenty years ago, action film star Jean-Claude Van Damme put a Beverly Hills lot on the market at $2 million. He had intended to build a house, but revised his plans to spend more time in Europe and live only part time in Los Angeles.
What we’re reading
— That $200 offer to help find you an apartment may be too good to be true, reports The Times’ Andrew Khouri. Though agencies with established track records do exist, authorities and consumer groups say a growing number of listing services are fly-by-night operations offering help that never materializes or is marginal at best.
— Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Motors and chairman of SolarCity, has unveiled a line of solar roof tiles that tie into an upgraded version of the Tesla wall-mounted battery. Talk about a hand-in-glove fit.
— Home buyers who don’t have the traditional 20% down payment in cash often turn to FHA loans as an alternative. Now some lenders are filling the gap with their own low-down-payment loan products including some requiring as little as 1% down.
— For every copy editor who has ever asked us what a barrel vaulted ceiling is, and for you others who may not know, Streeteasy.com has the answer. Beyond the aesthetics, there are structural reasons that sometimes call for this type of arched ceiling.
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