Built for Sunset Magazine Publisher, This Portola Valley Ranch Is Picture Perfect
realtor.com Any original home built by Cliff May—the father of the California ranch house—is noteworthy. However, we spotted a Bay Area ranch that ups the ante in a major way. This May design was built specifically for the owners of Sunset magazine, the publication long known as “The Magazine of Western Living.” It was devoted…
Media Exec Shari Redstone Selling $2.25M Massachusetts Mansion
Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images; realtor.com For the past couple of decades, when media exec Shari Redstone came home, she’d relax in a sprawling mansion in Westwood, MA. She’s now ready to close that chapter—her longtime home is now on the market for $2,250,000. Redstone is at home in the boardroom, but this 2-acre property is a place…
The Lisa Henson House — My Favorite Design Style
I’m frequently asked about my favorite architectural/design style. Daughter of California that I am, you’ll see how the Lisa Henson house embodies all I hold dear. As much as I love clean modern lines and appreciate the virtues of the traditional 1930’s home where I currently live, it’s the classic California Spanish Revival style that…
TV Personality Tracey Edmonds Selling or Renting Out Her Sherman Oaks Home
Harmony Gerber/Getty Images TV personality Tracey Edmonds is working on a new production—a real estate story. She’s just listed her contemporary home in L.A.’s Sherman Oaks neighborhood for sale at $1,795,000 or rent at $11,000 a month. If you can afford the 20% down payment ($359,000), then the $9,390 monthly payment would appear to be the better use of your…
Music Maestro Glen Ballard Changes Tune on Price of Malibu Cottage
realtor.com; Michael Tran/FilmMagic Pop music producer and songwriter Glen Ballard has yet to strike a chord with the perfect buyer for his whimsical waterfront cottage in Malibu, CA. So he’s singing a different tune—reducing the price on the place from $7,995,000 to $7,250,000. The two-bedroom, two-bath beach house with a storybook turret has served as…
Can a Showgirl Help Sell This Home? Listing Pics You Have to See to Believe
realtor.com To sell a home these days, you’ve got to put on a show—add a little razzle dazzle. And what better way to accomplish that than by sneaking a Las Vegas–style showgirl into your real estate listing pics? That, at least, is the logic behind an eye-catching new series of listing photos for a two-bedroom…
A DOG’S JOURNEY Review — Resistance is Futile. Scratch Its Belly.
A Dog’s Journey Review — Best of the three “A Dog’s…” movies, you’d better bring tissues. Let’s get this out of the way right up front: If you’ve ever loved a dog, owned a dog, petted a dog, seen a dog or even ‘liked’ a dog photo on Facebook, you WILL cry. It might not…
TV Host Michael Strahan Selling His Chic Beverly Hills Condo for $4.4M
Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Former NFL great and current morning TV personalityMichael Strahan spends most of his week in New York City chatting it up with co-host Sara Haines on “Strahan and Sara.” However, when his NFL on Fox duties have taken him to the West Coast, he’s spent time at a posh pied-à-terre…
Inside the Shockingly Modest Apartment of Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes
Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images; realtor.com Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former CEO of blood-testing company Theranos, is leaving behind her apartment on Lombard Street, the famous San Francisco road with as many twists and turns as the scandal surrounding her defunct Silicon Valley startup. While the actual apartment is not located on the block with the iconic…
Celebrity Chef Graham Kerr to Gallop Away From His Washington Home
Vince Talotta/Toronto Star via Getty Images Back before celebrity chefs sliced and diced their way into perpetual Food Network employment, Graham Kerr was pioneering home cooking TV for the masses. Now 85, the veteran chef known as the “Galloping Gourmet,” is still cooking up a storm in Mount Vernon, WA. The latest dish he’s plated up…
