Kim and Kanye House Hunt

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Alexander


Kimye, Kandashian, Wardashian, whatever you want to refer to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West as, they’re now in the housing market. The pregnant boyfriend and girlfriend (Kim might still be married for all we know) have recently been throwing their considerable combined fortune into the real estate game, and we’ve got the story so far.

A few months back, the two were spotted out in Miami looking for a place to raise their eventual troop of immensely talented, giant butted, and astronomically ego’d children. Reports had it that the couple were down to three options, but it seems that they didn’t move on any of them. Even more recently, the two vacationed in Brazil; prompting reports that they were looking to move south of the border to avoid public attention and possibly to learn Juijitsu and eat at unending meat menu restaurants. These suspicions were furthered when Kim recently went through with the quiet sale of her 3,800 square foot, five bedroom, five bathroom Beverly Hills Post Office mini-mansion.

No one knows what she got for it, but we can all safely bet that she did alright for herself in the sale, especially since rumor has it that it was purchased by a big time sports agent. So we had ourselves a couple that was looking at homes, and one of them was homeless; that’s a recipe for real estate! Well the ingredients boiled over in early 2013, when the couple dropped over ten million on a nine thousand square foot mansion in Bel Aire (of “Fresh Prince” fame). Initial reports on the purchase had them planning to expand the five bedroom, six and a half bathroom crib…but then they sold it.

Yes folks, you guessed it, the power couple flipped the house for a nice little profit almost as soon as they signed the closing papers. So now we figure they’re back on the market. This means that the Miami properties might be back in the mix, but it also means that all bets are off on where the West clan will hang theirs hats and slotted sunglasses. We’re going to guess that they pick the west coast to stay near Kim’s family.

This makes even more sense when you consider the turmoil her home unit is currently in. So be on the lookout Los Angeles readers, because before you know, they could be your neighbors…unless you live in a poor neighborhood, they wouldn’t even use your bathroom then.

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K-Pop King PSYched for New Beverley Hills Pad

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Alexander

Does anyone else think it’s ironic that Korean rap sensation, and the first man to ever get one billion hits on Youtube, Psy wrote the song “Gangnam Style” as a jab at high society…and now he just bought a penthouse in Bevery Hills, California? We’re not saying that the guy shouldn’t spend his money on what he wants, we just think that if you’re going to write songs to take pretentious rich folks down a notch, maybe you shouldn’t live in the most pretentious rich folk neighborhood in the world. So unless Psy is going to start parking a giraffe in front on Blair House (the building his new pad is located in) and throw cocktail parties for hobos in the common lounge, he’s bordering on hypocrite status.

So anyhow, Psy’s new apartment features 2, 776 square feet of living space, two bedrooms, two and half bathrooms; it cost him a strangely reasonable $1.25 million, which he paid in cash wired directly from South Korea. Imagine being a real estate agent and someone hands you a suitcase filled with that much money? That’s got to be a crazy feeling, it’d only be more nuts if the money was in a sack with a dollar sign on it and it was being handed to you by a senior citizen duck in a top hat.

The paid in full pad also has floor to ceiling windows the give him a nice view of the Los Angeles skyline, a walk-in closet with its own bathroom, a gas fireplace, a dine-in kitchen, marble flooring, and a full sized washer and dryer.

The Blair House itself also has some sweet amenities; including valet parking (for the aforementioned giraffe), a banquet area (for the aforementioned hobo party), a gym, a salt water pool and spa, and a private tennis court.

So now that Psy is living stateside, he can be closer to his career as a Korean rap star…yeah, that makes sense. We’re pretty sure that he actually got the place to be closer to Hollywood, as we can only assume that his new-found stardom will lead to him having plenty of producing and hosting opportunities  We have a wierd feeling that it’s only a matter of months before he’s hosting his own reality game show where contestants get chased by giant squids while trying to navigate a waterfall maze or something. Or maybe he can be the host of a dunk tank style show and call it “Psy-ch Out!”, just spit-balling as to why he’d move to the USA.

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Madonna’s Mega NY Pad

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Alexander

We’re not going to lie folks, Madonna annoys each and everyone one of us here at the old housing department; just everything about her is ridiculous to us. We’re trying to get our mud-slinging out of the way so we can at least be at least a little objective when we talk about her New York apartment.

So let’s ramble it off in no particular order: she’s too in your face about her religion (which we’re not sure she even has a full understanding of), she does too many biceps curls, she speaks with fake English accent, she’s overrated as an artist, she doesn’t actually do all the charitable stuff that she says she does, and we’re pretty sure she kicks babies. We can’t prove that last part, but regarldess, we don’t dig her…but she’s got a pretty insane apartment up for sale.

The apartment sits in a building called Harperly Hall, built in 1907 and overlooking Central Park, and is currently on the market for $23.5 million. It is spread across the fifth and sixth floors of the building, and has a pretty cozy 6,000 square feet of living space. It features a lavish interior, with four seperate bedroom wings that contain seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and five fire places….okay that’s a bit much, why would anyone need five fireplaces in this day and age?

Where the heck is she even chopping the wood for all those fires? Wait! Maybe that’s where she gets all those arm veins from! Sorry, got carried away, anyways, the master suite features a marble bathroom with big fancy arches, a steam shower, a claw foot tub, and a whole bunch of expensive skin care products (we’re assuming).

Overall, the home contain fifteen rooms; in addition to the bedrooms, it has a formal dining room, a windowed library/dining room, and a chef’s kitchen. She originally purchased an apartment in the building in the mid eighties when she was married to Sean Penn, and has since added two more units and done a ton of renovations and redesigns with the help of her interior designer brother Christopher. Now with ten foot ceilings and oak floors, the home is ultra-modern and ultra-expensive. We’re not exactly sure if $23.5 million is a good asking price, but we have to assume that she added a couple of million to the tag because she lived there. Personally, we’d want money taken off to cover the cost of de-pretentious-old-ladying it.

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Celebrity Jingle Farts

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Alexander

A hilarious fart filled performace by an all star celebrity trio! This rendition of Jingle Bells should get you right into the Holiday spirit and bring a smile to your face.

Happy Holidays From CelebrityHouseGossip.com

Click Here to Watch it, Hear it and Smell it!

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Jerry Rice Selling His “Hall of Fame”

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Alexander

Jerry Rice may be a Hall of Famer when it comes to his work on the football field, but he’s a complete amateur when it comes to the real estate market…at least that’s what his recent attempted sale of his home has shown. Possible the greatest receiver to ever put pads on in a National Football League (NFL) game, the former San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl star is currently listing his home for the fourth time! In reality, the inability of the home to be sold is more the result of a terrible housing market and an unavoidably high base price than anything Rice or his agent have been doing. However, the home remains unsold nonetheless, so let’s take a look at it.

Originally thought to be sold last year for $11 million (the deal fell through), the Bay Area (San Franciso, California) is now on the market for $10.5 million. Thee 17,000 square foot mansion features six bedrooms and eleven bathrooms (that’s a lot of toilets…just saying, maybe Jerry Rice goes number two a lot). It’s also a custom built “smart home”, meaning that Rice has control of all the homes security and technology from anywhere in the world via satellite link. Basically, if Jerry doesn’t want his kids watching the real world, he can change the channel…from Thailand. On top of the cool tech, which includes a den that has seven televisions in it, the home has a theater room, a gym, and a gifting wrapping room. Yes folks, it has a room dedicated to wrapping presents, and it looks just like the gift wrapping room at Macy’s. We’re actually kind of disappointed that he didn’t go ultra literal and crazy with all his room choices. Imagine if he had a theater room that came fully stocked with drama school drop outs ready to perform Fame whenever he wanted? Or if his gym came complete with an annoying personal trainer named “Thad” who always yelled about engaging your core, an old grizzled war vet who specializes in power lifting, and a bunch of middle aged yuppies who are always wearing make-up and/or hair gel and still think neon is a viable clothing choice? That’d be a custom house! Oh yeah, it also has the obligatory pool, huge pool house, and insanely huge backyard.


We’re unsure how the Dancing With The Stars star’s current sale is going, but we’re pretty sure that he’s going to have to sit on the place until the market recovers or drop his price into the $8 million range if he hopes to get rid of it. Good luck with the sale Jerry!

 

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Tour the New Rustic “Allen Ranch”

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Alexander

The home may not need any improvement  but it’s a solid buy for Tim Allen anyway. Yes folks, Tim Allen, the former star of Home Improvement (the obnoxious, but somehow entertaining, nineties sitcom on which he played Tim “The Toolman” Taylor) has purchased himself a new home. However, unlike most of his contemporaries, the price of the new property that the voice of Buzz Lightyear purchased didn’t have a price that reached infinity and beyond. The home, located just off the famed Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, California, cost Allen a “mere” $1.4 million.

Tim’s new pad, which he will occupy with his second wife and his two daughters, sits in the lovely Hollywood Hills region of L.A., and features three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms. It has over 2,600 square feet of living space, that covers an open floor plan featuring a connected kitchen, dining room, and living room. The kitchen also features a large stone island with counter space large enough for ten people, and a fireplace.

Allen splurged on custom Vermont Pine doors and French patio doors that open onto a big deck that features a fire pit, an outdoor shower, and amazing views of the canyons. The home has a very rustic look to it, with a lot of carved wood furniture, and a ton of old west and Native American inspired decor. It’s actually very cool, and has a very vacationy feel to it. It looks like your rich uncle’s house at the lake, except it’s not, it’s the “Aroogha!” guy’s house (that was our attempt to put the sound that he used to make on Home Improvement into words).

Allen most recently has found himself the star of the somehow still on the air Last Man Standing, so he’s still making big money. This makes it pretty impressive that he didn’t drop a zillion dollars on his new home. Like we inferred before, $1.4 million isn’t cheap by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s much less expensive than what we’re used to seeing celebrities spend on their homes.

Instead of wasting his fortune on his pad, he got a more than ample amount of space for his family, and still has millions in his bank account. Look for Allen to remain in his new place for years to come, but he will most likely redecorate the place at some point in the future, as he’s bound to get tired of the rustic design. For now though, he’s got a great vacation spot to live in.

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