Hunter Kerhart By far the most expensive condo currently available on the open market in Los Angeles, the full-floor spread on the 39th floor of the Robert A.M. Stern-designed Century tower in Century City is on target to obliterate the standing record for the highest amount ever paid for a condo...
Location: Los Angeles, Calif. Price: $13 million Size: 5,205 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms Televised talent show tycoon Nigel Lythgoe has slung his posh and pedigreed, circa-1930s residence in L.A.’s tony Bel Air neighborhood up for sale with an asking price of $13 million. Said to be briefly occupied...
There’s living high on the hog, and then there’s taking things to ridiculous new levels of luxury. Tradition-bucking, convenience-obsessed one-percenters are forgoing the purchase of sprawling Malibu estates and McMansions in gated communities. Instead they’re leasing swank apartments in towering, amenities-packed buildings. The current epicenter of the...
When Howard Gleicher, a resident of the Orange County suburbs, decided to buy a four bedroom condominium in The Century, it was with a long-term plan in mind. Sure, the investment manager needed an immediate crash pad in Los Angeles to manage the increasing amount...
Westfield Century City is getting an $800M transformation that will feature Nordstrom’s three-level Los Angeles flagship store featuring its latest design concepts, a completely remodeled three-level Bloomingdale’s, a brand-new two-level Macy’s, as well as the world-renowned Eataly. The new Century City experience will include 422,000...
Seven years ago when the housing bubble burst, it nearly took down Wall Street and the entire U.S. economy. This week, the concern was the reverse: That the prospect of an extended dive in the stock market, or even continued volatility, might spook buyers and sellers...
In many of the fancier neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles, median housing prices have been rising and reaching new highs. But in the last three months of 2015, there was one neighborhood that did a much more brisk luxury real estate business than the rest: Pacific...
When, as the holiday lyrics have it, “the weather outside is frightful,” that makes it a good time to start planning the coming year’s home improvement projects. If you wait for ideal weather conditions to begin laying out your plans, you’re likely to wind up...
SOURCE URL:www.wsj.com/articles/developers-sell-century-citys-glamorous-past-1508422128 Movie star Burt Lancaster had a condominium in Century City, as did Ruth and Elliot Handler, co-founders of the Mattel toy company. Ronald Reagan, while he was president, maintained his “Western White House” there. Today, celebrities including actor Matthew Perry and chef Nobu Matsuhisa...
Just as the stock market soared in 2017, rich and famous folk bought and sold residential properties coast to coast at dizzying, previously unheard of high prices. Indeed, Taylor Swift’s $18 million acquisition of a downtown New York City townhouse and Matthew Perry’s $20 million purchase of...