Newsletter: Hot Property: Weekend update with Kevin Nealon
In case you missed it on the daily news feed, we’ve seen chicken coops, golf simulators and some pretty sweet spots to fire up the grill this week. Plus, it looks like L.A. house stagers continue to rake in the business.
– Neal J. Leitereg and Lauren Beale
A $17.55-million magic trick
What happens in Las Vegas doesn’t always stay there. Illusionist and magician David Copperfield has bought a home in nearby Summerlin for $17.55 million.
The modern steel-and-concrete compound includes a four-story main house, two separate guest houses and a mammoth subterranean garage for a total of 31,000 square feet.
The 18-foot front doors, weighing 2,000 pounds, will allow Copperfield to make a grand entrance. The glass-enclosed gym creates the illusion of exercise. And no doubt some sleight of hand will take place in the golf-simulation room.
For the “now you see it now you don’t” moment, pocket walls slide away to reveal an infinity swimming pool surrounded by tropical landscaping.
Copperfield paid a record $17.55 million for the 31,000-square-foot home in Las Vegas. (Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Nevada Properties | Inset: Getty Images)
His home on the range
Texas Ranger Josh Hamilton is changing bases again. Late last year when he was traded by the Anaheim Angels, he sold his ocean-view home in Newport Coast for $12.5 million. Now the pro baseball player put his home in Westlake, Texas, up for sale at slightly more than $3.43 million.
The two-story home, in a golf course community, has five bedrooms and eight bathrooms in about 9,800 square feet of living space. Lawn, mature trees and a swimming pool with a waterfall fill the acre-plus of grounds. (For scale, a Major League Baseball field covers about three acres.)
At the back of the home is a patio with an outdoor fireplace and a built-in barbecue — perfect for grilling up some hot dogs.
Not bad for a former MVP who is out for the rest of the season following knee surgery.
Hamilton put his home in Westlake, Texas, on the market for about $3.43 million. (Realtor.com | Getty Images)
SNL vet gets a move on
Looks like SNL vet Kevin Nealon is changing channels. He’s put his Pacific Palisades house up for sale at about $5.3 million.
The actor and comedian bought the house six years ago for $3.45 million.
The white-sided Traditional-style house has more than 5,200 square feet of neutral-tone interiors. The subdued-toned interiors have that staged Alice-doesn’t-live-here-anymore look.
We’re digging the gray bathrooms, though, as well as the kitchen with its 12-foot island. Tall privacy hedges say: There’s nothing to see here, folks. Move on.
Nealon put his home in Pacific Palisades up for sale. (Jessica Sazo | Getty Images)
Not his style?
We’ve always been huge Harry Styles fans here at HP — hands across the water and all that.
Try as the One Direction singer might to stay out of the real estate headlines, ye olde Multiple Listing Service shows that he has sold his renovated post-and-beam house in Beverly Crest for $3.175 million in an off-market deal. Styles bought the third-acre compound two years ago for $4 million, according to property records. Ouch.
Built in the late 1960s, the hedged and gated estate includes a main house with five bedrooms, a detached guest house, decks, a swimming pool and a sunken courtyard. A wooden bridge leads through mature trees.
Styles and One Direction have released five studio albums since they rose to fame in 2010 after performing on “The X Factor.” The most recent, “Made in the A.M.,” came out last year.
Styles sold his home in Beverly Crest at a loss. (Getty Images)
Flying the coop
Hidden Hills has no end of celebrity residents. Among the shakers and soon-to-be movers in the gated community are singer-songwriter Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys and his wife, actress Lauren Kitt Carter of “Kitt Fit” fame. They have put their house on the market for $4.25 million.
The Traditional-style home boasts 5,200 square feet of designer-perfect interiors with objects d’art and accessories that say staged to our experienced eyes. Outside, however, things loosen up. The 1.32 acres of pastoral grounds include a newly built guesthouse and a chicken coop made to resemble the main house. We’re guessing they like fresh eggs?
The listing is a quick turnaround for the Carters, who paid $3.65 million for the place a year ago.
When he’s not thinking about the move or his city chickens, Carter is working with the band on their ninth studio album, due out this year.
Carter and his wife put their home in Hidden Hills on the market for $4.25 million. (Keller Williams)
Giving up the beach
Forget the Kardashians. We have the darnedest time keeping up with those Wayans brothers.
Damon Wayans, who created the comedy “In Living Color” in 1990 with his brother Keenan, has listed his Santa Monica condominium for sale at $6.5 million. A decade ago he paid less than half that for the ocean-view spot.
And why is the comic actor trying to sell the 3,093-square-foot pied-à-terre? Perhaps because he recently bought a home in the Hancock Park area for $5.35 million. That Traditional-style compound includes a main house, a guesthouse, a swimming pool and a pool house on nearly half an acre.
Wayans bought the property in 2005 for $3 million. (Tom Hunter | Los Angeles Times)
Coming full circle
Matt Leinart, the Heisman-winning quarterback who rose from the glory days of USC football to become a pro, has picked off a home in Manhattan Beach for $2.245 million.
Leinart’s two-story home has about 3,600 square feet — quite a bit more room than the nearby 2,135-square-foot home he sold last year.
Off-gridiron features include a lighted basketball half-court, a tetherball pole, a swimming pool and a spa.
The former football player, who was with the Arizona Cardinals, Houston Texans and Oakland Raiders, is a studio analyst for Fox Sports’ college football coverage.
Leinart paid $2.245 million for the home in Manhattan Beach. (deMonica Photography | Getty Images)
Get out the dust rag
Twenty years ago, actor Larry Hagman was awaiting the airing of the “Dallas” reunion movie and the start of his new CBS series “Orleans.” So he took some time in the summer to list his Malibu home of 30 years at $6.25 million. The Emmy-winning actor and his wife, Swedish designer Maj, planned to consolidate their real estate holdings and focus more on travel, time with the grandchildren and careers. The Southwestern-style home, built in 1927, was redesigned by the couple to include a retractable glass roof, a projection room, a sun room and an indoor spa.
What we’re reading
— Are we even doing any summer reading? Between professional cycling and tennis, we’ve managed to squeeze in a bit. Check out this New Orleans crib. The onetime church and former dance studio has a Beyoncé and Jay Z connection.
— If you love a good before and after, you’ll want to play around with our cool slider to see the renovation that transformed a 1924 teardown into a sleekly modern home in Beverly Grove.
— Keeping an eye on the right coast, Newsday’s Valerie Kellogg informs us that Donald Trump’s boyhood home in Queens is for sale at $1.65 million. The Tudor, in the Jamaica Estates area, has 2,000 square feet of living space, six bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms. His folks lived there when he was born in 1946, according to Trump’s birth certificate.
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