Real Estate

Landlords are praying that the launch of COVID-19 vaccines will finally send more employees back to their desks after the turn of the year. But there’s little movement so far, and some big tenants have hit the pause button on previously planned returns as they await the vaccines’ full-scale rollout. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently

Back in 2018, professional basketball superstar Candace Parker and her former husband Sheldon Williams sold their Encino marital home for $3.8 million, splitting the profits and going their separate real estate ways. But the WNBA baller has bounced back nicely; earlier this month, she shelled out $4 million for a larger, newer, and generally more impressive

The “High School Musical” star Zac Efron is graduating from his Los Angeles home. The actor is letting go of his Los Feliz residence, Variety reported. It’s available for $5.9 million. The California native purchased the midcentury modern property in 2013 for $4 million, and hopes to clear a little cash on his investment. Efron has spent the last few months living

Now that he’s well into his 40s and with family on the brain, Chris Pontius has sold his petite Hollywood Hills bachelor pad, trading it in for a far more spacious and relaxed property out in the San Fernando Valley foothills. The “Jackass” star and his wife Mae paid $1.6 million for the half-acre Tarzana

Never say never. Michael Jackson’s troubled Neverland Ranch has found a new owner. Billionaire Ron Burkle, co-founder of investment firm Yucaipa Companies and a former associate of Jackson, has purchased the Los Olivos, Calif., property for $22 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. Beyond snagging himself roughly 2,700 acres and a nearly 12,000-square-foot mansion —

She’s famously known for being all about that bass, but this holiday season Meghan Trainor is all about the bling. The Nantucket native has tossed out $6.6 million for a dizzyingly glitzy mansion in the upscale L.A. neighborhood of Encino, the same part of town where a host of other celebrity musicians — Gwen Stefani

As the world awaits Santa’s annual stopover (his sleigh isn’t subject to pandemic restrictions), all eyes are on the chimney. But for some New Yorkers, that fixation on the fireplace is a burning obsession, year-round. “Growing up, my family — my parents, grandparents — all their houses had [a fireplace],” said 49-year-old tech executive Valerie

After more than two decades in the wealthy far western suburbs of Los Angeles, it looks like writer-producer Kerry Ehrin might be headed to the more funky and trendy east side of town where she’s ponied up nearly $2.5 million for a Spanish Colonial Revival-style home in the relaxed and convenient hills between Los Feliz

The late photographer Pete Turner’s East End home is now in contract. It was last asking $3.19 million — down from its original $3.87 million asking price last October. The home, in Wainscott, is at 32 Westwood Road. The traditional shingle-style home, built in 1988, is 5,800 square feet and sits on 1.4 acres. Inside, it

Nancy Meyers gives good movie real estate – perhaps better than any other producer in the industry. Each home featured in her films is dreamier than the last, from the Banks house in “Father of the Bride,” to Iris’ (Kate Winslet) cottage in “The Holiday” to Jane Adler’s (Meryl Streep) Spanish bungalow in “It’s Complicated.”

The West Coast may not be the best coast, especially when it comes to getting bang for your buck for housing. A tweet showing side-by-side Zillow listings has gone viral over how far roughly $1.1 million can go in terms of buying a home in Los Angeles versus one in Fall River, Mass. — a

R&B chanteuse Ella Mai burst onto the international music scene about three years ago with “Boo’d Up,” her social media-propelled smash that went top five and 5x platinum stateside. Since then, the 26-year-old protégé of top hitmaker Mustard has scored a Grammy for Best R&B Song and three trophies at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards.

Latin pop star/actor Rubén Blades and his wife, Broadway/Latin pop star Luba Mason have finally completed the renovation of their historic Chelsea townhouse. The home, built in 1864 as a single-family mansion at 407 W. 21st St. became the Guardian Angel Convent in the 1950s. Blades — who has won 18 Grammys and is currently

Retired actor and dyed-in-the-wool Tinseltown scion Bridget Fonda and New Wave musician turned four-time Oscar nominated film composer Danny Elfman (“Milk,” “Good Will Hunting”) have sold one of their two mansions in L.A.’s fancy-schmancy Hancock Park-adjacent (and somewhat under-the-radar) Fremont Place enclave for $8.75 million, a small bit below the $8.8 million asking price. Though

Alo Yoga, say “alo” to your new landlord — a mysterious Qatari sheikh whose charitable foundation has allegedly been flagged by his country’s Mideast rivals for suspected ties to terrorism. Qatari Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah bin Thani al-Thani closed on the $40 million purchase last week of 164 Fifth Ave., a handsome, 1918 vintage, six-story

There was a time when news anchors simply reported on the news. These days they are the news. With cable TV enjoying a voracious viewership, especially around the election, increasingly hip hosts have seen their salaries ascend skywards with additional revenue avalanching in from book deals, speaking engagements and more. Nowadays, it’s not unusual to

The asking price for The Weeknd’s California mansion has been slashed by $3 million. The “Blinding Lights” singer originally listed his 12,500-square-foot Hidden Hills estate at nearly $25 million in June, but hasn’t had any luck closing the deal. Now, the Canadian singer’s luxurious home is up for sale at just under $22 million, still

As a Golden Age Hollywood star in search of a grand, stylish new home, there’s a very good chance one would’ve sought out the services of brilliant, prolific Black architect Paul Revere Williams. Called “The Architect of Hollywood,” Williams designed more than 2,000 buildings, mostly in Southern California, starting in the 1920s all the way

After three years and multiple price cuts, “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Melissa Gorga and her husband, Joe, have finally sold their custom-built home for $2.5 million. “Our family home for the last 12 years is officially sold,” Gorga posted to her Instagram account. “We’ve made so many memories in this home. We were blessed to be able

Two weeks ago, Michael Angarano sold his attractive Silver Lake treehouse for nearly $1.5 million. The veteran actor (“This Is Us,” “The Forbidden Kingdom,” “Sun Dogs”) and his actress fiancée Maya Erskine (“PEN15,” “Man Seeking Woman”) have quickly switched neighborhood gears, upgrading to a stylish Spanish villa in Beachwood Canyon sold by another showbiz vet:

Philanthropist and former ad exec Marcia Riklis is planning to take a hit on the sale of her Upper East Side home. The posh ninth-floor co-op, at 980 Fifth Ave., is on the market for $6.35 million. That’s more than $2 million less than the $8.4 million she paid for it back in 2012. But

It took some patience — six long months of patience — but Paul “PG-13” George has finally managed to unload his mammoth mansion out in guard-gated Hidden Hills, deep within L.A.’s San Fernando Valley. The 1.35-acre property went for $8.4 million, a cut under the $9.5 million asking price but still significantly more than the

There was nothing complicated about this decision for Avril Lavigne. The “Complicated” singer traded up to a $7.8 million beachfront property in Malibu this October after ditching her $5 million Sherman Oaks home, which she previously owned with her ex-husband, Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger.  On a half-acre in Trancas Canyon near Lady Gaga’s home, the

Actor Busy Philipps and gloriously bushy-bearded filmmaker Marc Silverstein have sold their longtime home in the historic Whitley Heights neighborhood in the foothills above Hollywood in a clandestine off-market deal valued at $3.95 million. The low-key showbiz pair, she best known for her roles on “Cougar Town” and “Vice Principals” and he the co-writer and/or

A newly pregnant Pippa Middleton may be planning to buy a popular deer park and glamping site — yes, “glam camping” — in Berkshire, England. Middleton and her husband James Matthews are rumored to be interested in Bucklebury Farm at Reading RG7 6RR in Berkshire, two hours west of London for £1.5 million, or about

Just in time for the holidays (and COVID vaccinations!), Nick and Vanessa Lachey have sold their showbiz pedigreed Encino, Calif., estate for not quite $6.7 million and at the same time made an off-market deal valued at just over $5 million for a smaller manse in one of the more sought after foothill neighborhoods in

A mystery buyer couldn’t help falling in love with Elvis Presley’s honeymoon hideaway — and has agreed to purchase the saucer-shaped Palm Springs, California, home for more than its $2.5 million listing price. Elvis and Priscilla rented the five-bedroom, five-bathroom hideaway in Palm Springs for their honeymoon in 1967. The futuristic home is made of

Hollywood mandarin Candice Bergen and Manhattan real estate magnate Marshall Rose have hung an $18 million price tag on their home in the Hamptons. Set on 1.8 carefully groomed acres along one of the most posh streets in über-swank East Hampton, the cedar-shingled cottage was designed by Jaque T. Robertson of Cooper Robertson Partners and

More from: Amid intensifying calls to convert some older Manhattan office buildings to residential — including by the influential Real Estate Board of New York — comes even more grim news about the pandemic-battered market. It’s scary to think about, but Manhattan’s office-leasing picture is worsening by the month. The large, spirits-lifting deals signed in

Less than eight months after he dropped $19.1 million on an all-new Westside Los Angeles property, Blake Griffin is already plotting to expand that home court. Records reveal the Detroit Pistons’ $171 million man has stealthily acquired an adjacent mansion, a remodeled two-story affair for which he paid nearly $5.9 million. Griffin’s new two-house compound