Celebrity Cribs

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are shacking up, US Weekly reports.

According to the magazine, the expectant couple purchased a 10,000-square-foot Bel Air, Calif., home for $11 million. Some of their new neighbors include Jennifer Aniston and Sarah Michelle Gellar. (more…)

With her signature determination, Ivanka Trump turns to designer Kelly Behun to transform an apartment in an Upper East Side tower into the first home for her young family. (more…)

Mister Perry is an accomplished music producer of the highest magnitude with more than a dozen gold records and a slew of A-grade credits with superstars like Rod Stewart, Carly Simon, Diana Ross, the divine Martha Reeves, Babs herself, Percy Faith, the Pointer Sisters, Leo Sayer, Donna Summer, Neil Diamond and Andy Williams, to name just a handful or two. Miz Fonda is, natch, the Jane Fonda, the snappy, smart and sassy two-time Oscar winning actress/activist/aerobics instructor once, best and still known in many circles as the campy but preposterously sexy Barbarella and/or the political lightening rod Hanoi Jane. (more…)

Jonathon Ive, the Apple industrial design whiz responsible for the iconic look of blockbuster products such as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, has purchased a home on San Francisco’s uber-exclusive Gold Coast, according to the WSJ.

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We’ve come a long way since the days of the Commodore, Amiga and even the Atari. It’s all about iPhone 5s and Nexus 7s and quad core processors and other digit-derived power tech devices and platforms these days, but there are many who still have fond memories of the Commodore 64, the 8-bit home computer system that helped to usher in the era of the personal computer. With that in mind, you’ll understand when I say that I felt a moderate burst of nostalgia this week after coming across the recently listed mansion of one Jack Tramiel. (more…)

Prep ‘Meaty’ and ‘Mini Horse’ for takeoff, because the former stomping ground of Rob Dyrdek and Christopher “Big Black” Boykin has hit the Los Angeles, CA market. (more…)

JK Rowling has thrilled millions of children around the world with her Harry Potter books, but now the multi-millionaire is treating her own kids to two magical tree-top turrets custom-built by treehouse designer extraordinaire Blue Forest. Rumored to cost around £250,000, the treehouses are so big—each one 40ft in height—that the author has had to seek planning permission from Edinburgh Council. (more…)

In our mid-week celeb round up, we’re bringing you the deets on two completely unrelated celebrities and their equally divided real estate activities of the week. Socialite and designer Nicky Hilton and Canadian ‘recording artist’ Drake have both been busy in the Southern California market, trading up and trading out on some big-ticket digs. While Hilton is getting rid of her monochrome West Hollywood box, Drake shelled out the cash for an outsized estate in Hidden Hills. (more…)

Spacious and grand as it may appear, yet Casa Casuarina brings back memories of a dreaded day. On July 15, 1997, it was on the steps on this very Miami mansion that Andrew Cunanan assassinated Gianni Versace.

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Bay Area real estate gossips are all atwitter these days over the (as yet unconfirmed) scuttlebutt about Twitter (and Square) co-creator Jack Dorsey dropping nearly ten million clams on an mid-century modern-minded residence alarmingly cantilevered over a nearly sheer and rocky bluff in San Francisco’s quietly swanky (and often socked in with fog) Seacliff neighborhood. (more…)