Exterior Listed with KURT RAPPAPORT (310) 995-3214 of westside estate agency inc. LOCATION: 1261 Angelo Drive, Beverly Hills, California SQUARE FOOTAGE: 50,000 BEDROOMS & BATHROOMS: 16 bedrooms & 27 bathrooms PRICE: $195,000,000 This modern mega home is owned by Anthony Pritzker, a member of the Pritzker family and an heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune. He […] More
A 26,000-square-foot live-work warehouse building in downtown Los Angeles, owned for almost 25 years by bon vivant former fashion designer and inveterate car collector Magnus Walker—one of the largest collectors of Porsches in the world—has zoomed onto the market with an asking price of around $20 million.
Walker initially housed his Serious Clothing company in the building—the brand was popular in the L.A. music scene and worn by everyone from Gwen Stefani to Alice Cooper and Madonna—but later converted it to a live-work space through an adaptive reuse program. It wasn’t long after acquiring the property that Walker fell into the film location business, and Walker told Robb Report that “Filming was a happy accident. We saw the opportunity to build something into a pretty lucrative film location business for the next 10-12 years.” Since then, the building has been the site of numerous films, commercials and videos for Kevin Costner, Mary J. Blige and The Eagles.
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The two-story brick building, which dates to 1903, occupies three parcels over two lots with multiple street frontages and a heavy-duty gate that opens to a courtyard parking area with room for up to a dozen cars. Indeed, Walker has filled the courtyard with a gleaming selection of his vast collection, including a vintage Rolls Royce and a couple of ‘70s-era Corvettes.
Part of the building serves as a workshop and showroom for Magnus Walker’s classic car collection.
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Raw and industrial, the cavernous and rambling interior spaces have exposed brick walls, patinated wood floors, a functioning freight elevator, soaring ceilings punctuated by skylights, and enormous south-facing casement windows that fill the upper level with sunlight.
A massive roll-up door allows cars to be driven right into the building. In one section of the ground floor, a brilliant blue Pininfarina Battista is on display, while another area serves as a garage and workshop where Walker, famous for never selling a Porsche once it comes into his possession, keeps more than a dozen collectible versions of his favorite automotive brand.
Making for an easy commute to his workshop and studio on the ground floor, the 11,200-square-foot upper level served as Walker’s bohemian residence, which he described as “a mini Hearst Castle/English stately home mixed with midcentury modernism and 60/70s furniture pieces.”
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Huge casement windows on the upper-level living area frame city views.
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In addition to an enclosed courtyard garden enveloped in lush greenery, flaming bougainvillea and fragrant night-blooming jasmine, the building’s prairie-sized rooftop offers 360-degree vistas over the city, including an up-close view of the downtown skyline.
The number of bedrooms and bathrooms found throughout the massive structure is available by request via Tori Horowitz and Rinat Greenberg of Canyonhaus at Compass as well as through Geoff Anenberg at Normal Properties.
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They already own a $20 million condo in downtown Miami’s ultra-luxe One Thousand Museum tower. Now word on the street has it that A-list couple David and Victoria Beckham are spreading their real estate wings over to the South Florida coast, having doled out $80 million for an all-new modern mansion overlooking Biscayne Bay on Miami Beach’s exclusive North Bay Road.
As first reported by The Real Deal, the Beckhams—he a retired soccer star-turned-co-owner of the MLS team Inter Miami, and she a fashion and beauty mogul who first gained popularity in the 1990s as a member of the pop group Spice Girls—are currently under contract to purchase the Choeff Levy Fischman-designed digs. The seller is Hamptons-based spec developer Niklas de la Motte, who picked up the property in 2018 for $10 million from the trust of the late Sir Edward Porter and his wife Lady Anna Lee, co-founders of Miami International Fine Arts College (now Miami International University of Art and Design). The listing is held by Dora Puig of Luxe Living Realty.
Lighted steps lead to the front door, which opens into 12,500 square feet of open-concept living space.
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Nestled amid a gated parcel spanning over a half-acre, the Bart Reines-built abode that currently stands in the stead of a former 1920s Mediterranean-style house offers nine bedrooms and 13 baths in a little more than 12,500 square feet of living space on two levels. Stylish interiors by Antrobus Design Collective are adorned throughout with Ipe wood, Perlato marble, metal accents, and doors and windows framed in dark bronze, while posh amenities include an office, a movie theater, a gym and spa, and a rooftop deck providing bay and city skyline views, as well as a three-car garage with lifts and a private dock resting along 124 feet of waterfront footage.
Among the other standout features is a dramatic entryway boasting a pair of reflecting pools and a cascading waterfall, plus a central courtyard donning yet another reflecting pool complemented by a two-story living green wall. There’s also a spacious living room sporting a linear fireplace and floor-to-ceiling pocketing glass doors spilling outside, along with a formal dining room, a sleek gourmet kitchen with a trio of islands and a commercial-grade walk-in refrigerator, and an opulent primary suite decked out with a luxe bath flaunting dual vanities and a soaking tub.
Sitting out front are a duo of glassy reflecting pools and an attached three-car garage with lifts.
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Rounding it all out are the palm-laced grounds, which host a lengthy infinity-edge pool abutting a marble-clad terrace spotlighted by a covered al fresco entertaining area with an outdoor kitchen.
In addition to their new Miami Beach home and their $20 million condo at downtown Miami’s Zaha Hadid-designed One Thousand Museum residential high-rise, the Beckhams also lay claim to a $40 million townhouse in London and a $15 million country estate in the Cotswolds. More
Around a year and a half after it first hit the market with an impressive $15 million price tag, a sprawling lakefront estate on the outskirts of Atlanta has popped up for sale again with a discounted ask. But you’ll still need a considerable sum of cash to pick up the keys to the modern mansion, which is now listed for exactly $10 million.
Hidden away beyond a lengthy gated driveway in the suburban enclave of Sandy Springs, amid a nearly four-acre parcel bordered by a lake and a 30-acre nature preserve, the limestone-clad structure was custom-built by Cablik Enterprises and the architecture firm Dencity. Records show the current owners are Florida-based couple Mike Kohlsdorf, president of Francisco Partners, and Shelly Justice, founder and chair of Senegal Software, who paid $562,000 for the property back in 2003.
And if you’re thinking this particular abode looks a tad familiar, that might be due to its starring role in The Accountant, a 2016 action/thriller film starring Ben Affleck. On screen, the glitzy spread portrayed the residence of principal villain Lamar Blackburn played by John Lithgow. It also was a recipient of the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association’s OBIE Award for “Best New Home” in 2012.
The main living area’s two-way fireplace opens on the other side to a cantilevered deck.
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Per the listing held by Katie McGuirk and Kelley Day of Ansley Real Estate Christie’s International, the property features a main home and a recently added guesthouse with its own family room and kitchen—for a total of five bedrooms and nine baths in a little more than 12,200 square feet of tri-level living space, all of it inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.
A walkway spanning a water feature leads to the glassy front doors, which flow to an open-concept great room featuring a living area accented by a two-way fireplace and walls of glass spilling out to a cantilevered deck. There’s also a formal dining room adorned with glossy black tiled walls and a Swarovski crystal chandelier that sits adjacent to a gourmet kitchen outfitted with a bespoke glass backsplash, lighted quartz countertops, and top-tier appliances. A posh primary suite has a fireside seating area, a private terrace, a showroom-style closet, and a luxe bath sporting a soaking tub and a steam shower.
An infinity-edge pool with a Baja shelf and spa overlooks the lake.
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Elsewhere is a glass elevator, an office, a climate-controlled wine cellar, a wet bar-equipped golf simulator room, a media room with a full kitchen, a gym, a shooting range/safe room, and garage space for up to five vehicles. Rounding it all out are the fully fenced and landscaped grounds, which host an infinity-edge pool with a Baja shelf and spa, two built-in grilling stations, and a fire pit lounge, along with a dock, a boathouse, and even a teak boat.
This is not Kohlsdorf and Justice’s only home. Back in summer 2022, the couple paid an entity tied to New York hedge funder Mendy Haas $14.5 million for a 4,500-square-foot waterfront property in the Bay Point neighborhood of Miami.
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As Argo Real Estate and Bsafal’s highly anticipated mixed-use development in New York City’s nears the finish line, it’s already snagged a hot new resident. As first reported by The Real Deal, Fredrik Eklund has officially picked up a luxe condo at 64 University Place, adding to a property portfolio that includes homes in Connecticut and Miami, as well as a recently purchased penthouse in Austin, Texas.
Records show the real estate broker and reality TV celeb doled out $3.35 million for a two-bedroom, three-bath unit resting on the fourth floor of the 11-story, KPF-designed structure, which boasts a throwback red brick exterior clad in ivy. According to TRD, the transaction included a $2.25 million mortgage and works out at around $2,400 per square foot.
Open-concept great rooms sport living and dining areas flanked by oversized arched windows.
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Per marketing materials, the roughly 1,400-square-foot home includes SPACE Copenhagen interiors adorned throughout with hand-laid white oak floors, 10-foot ceilings, oversized arched windows and doors, and Juliette balconies.
Additional highlights include a spacious great room holding a combined living and dining area nestled alongside a sleek kitchen outfitted with Poliform cabinetry, marble countertops, Dornbracht fixtures, and top-tier Miele appliances. There’s also a grand primary suite offering a walk-in closet, as well as a spa-inspired bath equipped with dual vanities and a soaking tub.
Eklund and his family also will be privy to plenty of amenities, including a 24-hour doorman, a landscaped courtyard flaunting a cascading waterfall, a fitness center, a lounge, a rooftop terrace with an outdoor kitchen, and ground-floor retail space.
The building’s communal rooftop terrace comes with an outdoor kitchen.
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“This building is very special as I signed the very first contract after having worked on it in pre-development for years with the team,” Eklund said in a post on Instagram. “I just knew how beautiful it would turn out. Then what happened is nothing short of a miracle if you believe there are miracles in real estate: the building sold out all 28 residences in a few weeks, completely off-market … what Kohn Pedersen Fox designed with the warm brick and arches is just so stunning and fits in perfectly with the history of Greenwich Village. And the soothing interiors by SPACE Copenhagen are perfect too.”
Construction on the project began in 2021, with completion estimated for the second half of this year. Sales and marketing duties were handled exclusively by Eklund and his business partner John Gomes, who also bought his own two-bedroom unit at the building.
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With his successful run as paraplegic show choir member Artie Abrams on the FOX musical/drama series Glee wrapping in 2015, Kevin McHale has since moved on to other endeavors. Not only has he launched the YouTube series The AlphaBeatZ centered around five animated singing and dancing teddy bears, but he also appeared on a season of RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race and even released his debut EP titled Boy. Most recently, he snagged a co-starring role as middle-schooler William Barfée in the Kennedy Center’s Broadway Center Stage production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
On the real estate front, the actor and singer has now decided to hand over the keys to his longtime Los Angeles residence, putting his midcentury-modern home in Hollywood Hills up for sale at a speck under $2 million, which is around $970,000 more than he paid for the place back in spring 2012.
A super-sized primary suite is decked out with a bookshelf-lined lounge area.
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Described in the listing as a “serene haven,” the gray stucco and glass structure was built in 1956 and is sidled up against the street on a compact cul-de-sac parcel. Inside, three bedrooms and a couple of baths can be found in a little more than 2,000 square feet of two-level living space, which boasts updated interiors containing a mix of oak and stone floors, high wood-beam ceilings, and floor-to-ceiling walls of glass framing city lights and canyon views.
Main-level highlights include a soaring entryway lined with clerestory windows that flows to an open-concept great room featuring a living area, a dining nook with built-in seating, and a kitchen outfitted with a breakfast bar and stainless appliances. Tucked away on the lower level is an expansive primary suite, which comes with a bookshelf-clad lounge area, sliding glass doors spilling out onto a wood deck flanked by a flat grassy lawn, plenty of closet space, and a glass-block bath spotlighted by a soaking tub. Elsewhere is a bedroom that’s been converted into an office space and an enclosed patio that currently serves as an outdoor gym, as well as an attached two-car garage out front.
A fire pit-equipped deck overlooks picturesque vistas.
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The Texas-born performer, 36, got his acting start when he convinced his talent agent sister to let him audition for a local commercial and subsequently joined the four-member boy band NLT (“Not Like Them”) as one of two lead singers. He went on to snag his breakout role as Artie on Glee in 2009, earning Grammy, Screen Actors Guild, and Teen Choice nods during the show’s six seasons. McHale has also been in True Blood and Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, and he co-hosts the And That’s What You Really Missed podcast on iHeartRadio with fellow Glee alum Jenna Ushkowitz.
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