Although a traditional-style estate may not seem to blend with Adam Levine's pop rock persona, the Maroon 5 frontman and coach on The Voice has bought one in the Beverly Crest area for $4.83 million.
The single-level ranch house, white with long black shutters and built in 1940, is set on a secluded 3.6 acres at the end of a long brick driveway in a gated community. The main home and guesthouse have a combined six bedrooms, seven bathrooms and 6,539 square feet of living space. There is a swimming pool and a tennis court.
Levine, 33, is the lead singer and guitarist for the Grammy-winning band.
MICHAEL JACKSON'S LAST RESIDENCE SELLS
The Holmby Hills mansion where Michael Jackson lived at the time of his death in 2009 has sold for $18.1 million. The estate, recently priced at $23.9 million, had been for sale for as much as $38.5 million before the pop star took up residency.
Although purchased in the name of a trust, the buyer has been reported by several media outlets to be Steven Mayer, a senior managing director for Cerberus Capital Management.
The French chateau, designed by Richard Landry and built in 2002, features a theatre, a wine cellar with a tasting room, an elevator and a gym with a spa. There is a guesthouse with stained-glass doors near the swimming pool for a total of seven bedrooms, 13 bathrooms and nearly 17,200 square feet of living space.
FORMER DISNEY ESTATE COMES TO A CROSSING
Investor and pro soccer team owner Gabriel Brener has put his estate in Holmby Hills up for sale at $90 million.
The 35,000-square-foot mansion, built in 2001, sits on a 3.6-acre site that once contained motion picture giant Walt Disney's personal residence.
The three-level mansion features a two-storey oval foyer, statuary, a wine cellar, a movie room, three bars, a library, a gym, eight bedrooms, 17 bathrooms and two safe rooms. Staff quarters are accessible from a service entrance at the garage. There is a swimming pool with a pool house, a tennis court and a putting green.
Brener, who owns the Houston Dynamos, heads Azteca Acquisition Corp.
COMPOUND COMES WITH MUSE QUARTERS
The former live-work compound of artist Sam Francis is on the market in Santa Monica at $18.75 million.
The reinvented property features two houses, waterfalls, a bridge, glass walkways over stream beds and Japanese gardens on nearly half an acre. There are eight bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a bar, a media room, an office, a wine cellar and a sauna in an 8,000-square-foot main house and a 4,400-squarefoot secondary home.
Francis died in 1994 at 71.
