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Otis’ House From ‘Sex Education’ Lists for $1.8M

Netflix’s Sex Education might be in its fourth and final season, but now fans can own a piece of the show’s history. For £1.5 million (or roughly $1.8 million), that is.   The real-life home used as the residence for teenage sex therapist Otis Milburn (played by Asa Butterfield) and his sex therapist mother, Jean Milburn (Gillian Anderson), has […]

Kygo’s Manager, Myles Shear, Buys $8.6M Waterfront Miami Beach House (Exclusive)

Myles Shear, music manager to Norwegian DJ and record producer Kygo, has just closed on a new waterfront home in Miami Beach, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The price: $8.6 million. According to public records, Shear has acquired a 5,000-square-foot, five-bedroom house sited on a waterway not far from Miami Beach’s main strip of hotels […]

Nancy Sinatra’s Mod Midcentury Former Home in Beverly Hills Lists for $2.95M (Exclusive)

The former Beverly Hills home of singer Nancy Sinatra — where she was once photographed with some of her iconic made-for-walkin’ boots — is hitting the market for $2.95 million. Much of the midcentury property remains the way it was when Sinatra owned the home in the 1960s. “It’s been my family home for 50 […]

Inside the New $38M L.A. Mansion Inspired by ‘Thunderball’ and ‘Ex Machina’

The spirit of James Bond has found an L.A. home. Perched above the Sunset Strip in Hollywood Hills West, The Californication House (previously known as Stanley 2) is the latest spec mansion developed, designed and curated by the team of Jason Somers and Branden and Rayni Williams, founders of Disco Volante. This lush modern mid-century […]

Kevin Smith Selling L.A. Home, Bought from Ben Affleck, for $5.995M

Kevin Smith has listed a Los Angeles home for $5.995 million that he first saw in 2001 when his friend Ben Affleck owned it. The Clerks, Clerks III, Chasing Amy and Mall Rats director and his wife, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, were invited to a Fourth of July barbecue at Affleck’s house that year. Smith told […]

Inside The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Broker Awards Hosted by Mauricio Umansky

“You’ve transformed a room full of enemies into a room full of friends,” Aaron Kirman, of AKG | Christie’s International, quipped. He was surveying the scene at The Hollywood Reporter’s third annual L.A. Power Broker Awards, presented by The Society Group and hosted by The Agency’s Mauricio Umansky. This fairy-tale feeling of camaraderie hung in […]

L.A.’s Home Market Stalls Amid Hollywood Labor Disruption

After the WGA and then SAG-AFTRA went on strike, Los Angeles real estate agent Michelle Schwartz quickly felt the impact. “I was working with a producer who was relocating from England,” she explains. “It was a good all-cash $6 million purchase. Then the strike happened, and the deal was off. She says, ‘I’ve got to go […]

The 35 Go-To L.A. Real Estate Brokers for Beyoncé, J. Lo and Other Hollywood Heavyweights

“We had a 13-year run of a robust market and are experiencing a necessary cycle change,” says Rayni Williams of The Beverly Hills Estates, reflecting on the 36 percent drop in luxury home sales that hit L.A. in the second quarter. Meanwhile, the median price of a home in Los Angeles hovered at $963,000, down 1 percent […]

Mauricio Umansky to Host The Hollywood Reporter’s L.A. Power Broker Awards at Madonna’s Former Home

Mauricio Umansky, the co-founder of real-estate brokerage The Agency — who also stars on Netflix’s Buying Beverly Hills and is a contestant on the new season of Dancing with the Stars premiering on Tuesday — is set to follow up his dancing debut by hosting The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual L.A. Power Broker Awards. The evening will […]

Why Mark Wahlberg and the ‘CSI’ Creator Are Buying Into Vegas’ Luxury Real Estate Boom

“We are thankful for the Californians because you are helping our market,” says real estate agent Trish Nash, of Douglas Elliman. “What started all this was COVID. We started to see people make lifestyle changes and really take a look at what their living situation was. And we started to see this influx of buyers […]

‘Million Dollar Listing’ Star Josh Flagg Launches Media Company Spotlighting Real Estate Content Creators

Josh Flagg, one of real estate’s most recognizable personalities thanks to his long-running presence on Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, has announced that he’s started a media business. The new Estate Media — launched with former Amazon Prime Video and Roku content-acquisition exec Griff O’Brien and Andrew Shanfeld, co-founder of real estate private equity […]

Meet Maya, an AI Real Estate Expert Launched by Celebrity Agent Fredrik Eklund

Real estate agents are already using ChatGPT to help write listing descriptions, while prop tech, short for property technology, is one of the hottest areas of development in the real estate world, from artificial intelligence-powered interior design generator ReImagine Home (which can be used by potential buyers to quickly envisage how a home could be […]

Meet the Nepo Babies Who Are Buying $3 Million L.A. “Starter Homes”

Early homeownership long has been part of the American dream. But in Los Angeles, Hollywood nepo babies are often buying more than a modest one-story ranch. “Think of them as a starter home,” says Paul Lester, a partner at The Agency. “But a starter home in some other community somewhere in the States is a […]

Finding the Next Big Stars in Real Estate

When mega-selling agents Oren and Tal Alexander of The Alexander Team left Douglas Elliman last June to co-found a new brokerage, they vowed they would do things differently. Now their new firm Official — which focuses on residential real estate deals for ultra high net worth clients, including Hollywood names — is rolling out what they […]

‘Kung Fu Panda’ Producer Melissa Cobb Lists 1920s Spanish Colonial in Los Feliz

After barely four years of ownership, Melissa Cobb has decided to hoist her elegant residence in a prime Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles onto the market. And, according to the listing held by Marci Kays and Jonathan Mogharrabi of Carolwood Estates, the glam Spanish-style mansion “truly embodies Hollywood’s golden era.” The veteran entertainment industry executive — probably best known […]

Meet New York City’s Rising Real Estate Stars of 2023 Including ‘Real Housewives’ Star Erin Lichy

The current real estate market is tough. But despite obvious challenges like high interest rates, these standout New York City next-gen real estate agents — Eric Brown of Compass, Maggie Chong of Serhant, the Corcoran Group duo of Marko Arsic and Jason Lau, Douglas Elliman’s Erin Lichy (a star of the new season of The […]