Luxury Market News

Mansion Global: With $250 Million Ask, a Storied Bel-Air Estate Becomes America’s Priciest Home

Billionaire Gary Winnick’s 40,000-square-foot Casa Encantada, built during the Depression, is vying with a New York penthouse for the U.S. record It is one of the most significant estates in Los Angeles. Built in the 1930s, the roughly 8.5...

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LABJ – LA500 2023: Kurt Rappaport

Rappaport co-founded Beverly Hills-based Westside Estate Agency with Stephen Shapiro in 1999. It’s now the largest privately held brokerage on the West Coast, boasting annual sales in excess of $3 billion. Over the years, his client list has ...

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RR: Inside Funke, the Massive Beverly Hills Pasta Palace by One of America’s Finest Sfoglinos

The centerpiece is a “pasta lab” where you can watch the team hard at work. On Friday, the lauded chef opened Funke, a namesake restaurant in Beverly Hills where he’s churning out stand-by faves from his other restaurants, Felix an...

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Mansion Global: Beverly Hills Megamansion Sells for $47.5M in One of 2023’s Biggest Deals to Date

The Home Offers a Slew of Amenities, from A Wet Bar with Rotating Shelves to A Sculpture Garden Dubbed the Summitridge Estate, the Beverly Hills estate was completed in 2020 by real estate developer and designer Troy Adams. Roughly 21,000 sq...

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TRD: Financier trades Beverly Hills Post Office mansion for $47M

One of Year’s Priciest Deals Closes in Time to Beat Measure Ula Transfer Tax The Summitridge Estate sold for $47 million on March 31. The mansion sale not only beat the April 1 deadline for L.A.’s new ULA tax – it may rank among the pr...

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Robb Report: A Former Warner Bros. Exec Just Listed His Sprawling Calabasas Ranch for $25 Million

Okay, so it’s not Montana. However, a majestic ranch 10 miles from Malibu just popped onto the market. Former Warner Bros. CEO Bob Daly and his wife, Carole Bayer Sager, have listed their sprawling, 19-acre estate in Calabasas for a cool $24...

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WSJ: Former Warner Bros. Co-CEO Lists California Ranch for $24.95 Million

Bob Daly keeps miniature horses, chickens and pigeons on the Calabasas property A California ranch owned by entertainment mogul Bob Daly and his wife, songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, is coming on the market for $24.95 million. Known as Oaktree...

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Fast Company: This Instagrammer Is Reinventing the Creative Art of Restaurant Reviews

The Unlikely Tale of Max Shapiro, an Elite Beverly Hills Real Estate Agent, and How His Funny, Constructively Critical Restaurant Reviews Signal a New Direction in Criticism: Serving the Diner. Imagine That. Last December, when the Michelin ...

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Mansion Global: ‘Get Out’ and ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Producer Is Buyer of $91 Million Malibu Home

Edward H. Hamm Jr. bought the Paradise Cove property from British videogame designer Jonathan Burton and his ex-wife, Helen Musk Edward H. Hamm Jr., a movie producer and heir to the Hamm’s Beer fortune, is the buyer of a $91 million mansion ...

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