Actress and Playboy model Bridget Marquardt has become a first-time home buyer with the purchase of a contemporary Mediterranean in Sherman Oaks for $1,725,000.

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Comic actor Ben Stiller and his actress wife, Christine Taylor, have listed their Hollywood Hills property at $12.5 million. The site includes two houses and a one-bedroom guesthouse for a total of 10 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms on nearly an acre. A gated 1929 Spanish-style house of 5,334 square feet has been restored and updated. [...]

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Cover via Amazon Producer buys Ruth Buzzi‘s home Veteran actress and comedian Ruth Buzzi sold her longtime Hollywood Hills home for $1,021,000 to film producer Daniel Dubiecki. The 1937 Spanish-style house, with canyon and mountain views, sits on a cul-de-sac. It has three bedrooms and three bathrooms in 2,893 square feet. There are fireplaces in [...]

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A family teamed up to develop and design the home, whose crowning glory is the rooftop panoramic view stretching from downtown L.A. to the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Pacific Ocean on a clear day.

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Raising taxes is one way to make the banking vampires go away by bleeding us all white.

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Image via Wikipedia People with the means to do so move up the housing ladder, trading in smaller, less expensive places for larger, better-equipped ones that are perhaps even in a better neighborhood. So why shouldn’t people who no longer can afford the house they live in be able to move back down the ladder [...]

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Photography is the central component of home marketing. It increases the effectiveness of web marketing. It increases the effectiveness of print media. It makes the agent look good because it reduces market time* and increases net sales price*. It will help you compete for more listings. Few real estate agents have the equipment, and or [...]

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