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December’s Top 10 Celebrity Real Estate News

Robert Redford, Sean Hannity & Sylvester Stallone made real estate news in December. Top 10 Celebrity Real Estate News is featured at TopTenRealEstateDeals.com.

December’s Top 10 Celebrity Real Estate News

Paul Newman’s New York Penthouse
The longtime home of Paul Newman and Joann Woodward has hit the market for $9.95 million. The very popular 1950s-to-’80s couple used the 3,000-square-foot apartment with views of Central Park as their romantic New York pied-à-terre. Newman died in 2008; Woodward is still alive and living in Connecticut.

Jim Carrey Sells Magical Sanctuary
The LA home Jim Carrey called his “magical sanctuary” has sold after almost two years on the market. The home has five bedrooms, six full baths, a home theater, and even an art gallery space where Jim displayed his own impressive creations. The home was most recently listed at $19.75 million.



Sean Hannity Moves Closer To President Donald Trump
Sean Hannity has moved closer to President Donald Trump, spending $23.5 million on a 12,378-square-foot home in Manalapan, Florida. The eight-bedroom, 10.5-bath mansion is located on both the Intracoastal and the Atlantic Ocean, about 30 minutes from Mar-a-Lago. Hannity sold his New York mansion in early 2024 for $12.7 million, telling his radio listeners that he was “done” with the Empire State and would be moving to the “free state” of Florida.   

Lower Price On Rob Lowe’s House
Rob Lowe has knocked another chunk off the asking price of his LA home. Originally listed in July at $6.575 million, Rob has now cut the price twice for a total discount of more than $1 million. The new asking price is  $5.49 million for the four-bedroom 2,940-square-foot home in Beverly Hills’ Franklin Canyon neighborhood.  

Robert Redford’s Serene Seaside Cottage
Robert Redford has listed his Tiburon, California home for $4.15 million. Listed as “A Serene Seaside Cottage,” Redford bought the home with views of the San Francisco Bay in 2020 for $3.1 million.

Sylvester Stallone Buys Mansion For His Lucky Daughters
Sylvester Stallone is a giving person, donating to several charities for children and military veterans. He is also very generous to his family, having just purchased an 11,644-square-foot home in the Hamptons for his three daughters to use. Now living in Palm Beach, Florida, Sylvester bought the eight-bedroom home in East Hampton sight unseen for about $25 million. The home came fully furnished, located about one mile from the ocean.  

Michael Jordan’s Mansion Buyer
The buyer of retired NBA star Michael Jordan’s 56,000-square-foot Chicagoland mansion is John Cooper, a longtime Jordan fan and real estate investor. On the market for over 12 years, the nine-bedroom home on eight acres is loaded with amenities, including an indoor regulation-sized basketball court. The home was originally listed at $29 million, before a long series of price cuts, until Cooper picked it up for about $9.5 million.

Jennifer Lopez Moving On, But Staying Put
Jennifer Lopez may be finished with Ben Affleck, but she is staying put in the Beverly Hills mansion she shared with Ben. After their 2022 marriage, Jennifer and Ben spent months searching for their perfect blended-family home in LA before they settled on a $60.8 million, 12-bedroom home in Beverly Hills. With the divorce action, Ben and Jennifer listed the home for $68 million. That home has been on the market since July and is costing the ex-couple almost $300,000 a month in expenses. Ben moved out of the home several months ago.  



Historic Key West Property – Ernest Hemingway Stayed There
Located just a block from Duval Street, a unique Key West property is for sale at $6.9 million. Originally a hotel with a Ford dealership on the ground floor, it was where Ernest Hemingway stayed for a month while awaiting delivery of a car in 1928.

Mary Tyler Moore’s Connecticut Home
The Mary Tyler Moore Show was one of television’s most popular programs from the 1970s, starring Mary as an associate producer on Minneapolis’s low-rated WJM-TV. The show aired on CBS and won numerous awards, including 29 Emmy Awards. Mary’s longtime home in Greenwich, Connecticut is for sale at a reduced price of $16.9 million.

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Top 10 Celebrity Real Estate News: Jennifer Lopez, Kanye West & Rob Lowe

Jennifer & Ben’s Home Hits Zillow

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Looking to reach more potential buyers, the 38,000-square-foot home of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck has hit the Zillow listings at $68 million. The 12-bedroom, 24-bath home with a 12-car garage had been on the market for over a month before the Zillow posting. Jennifer & Ben spent months looking for the perfect family home before they pulled the trigger and paid $61 million for the Beverly Hills home in 2023. Jennifer recently filed for divorce, ending their two-year marriage.

Burt Reynolds’ Mountain Home Sold

A North Carolina home in the Blue Ridge Mountains that was once owned by Burt Reynolds just sold for $2.9 million. The North Carolina home includes four bedrooms, five baths and a stone bathroom built by his then-wife, Loni Anderson, for Burt. According to the listing agent, Burt fell in love with the area while filming Deliverance and subsequently purchased the home. He said that it was his favorite home.


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Goodbye Wave House—It Sold for $29.5 Million

Supermodel Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner, brother of Jared Kushner, have purchased one of Malibu’s most famous homes. Designed by surfer-architect Harry Gesner in the early 1960s, the Wave House was designed to complement the ocean’s waves.

Tom Petty’s Malibu Home

The Mediterranean-style home that Tom Petty bought in Malibu in 1998 is on the market at $19 million. The property includes a 10,000-square-foot main home, a guest home, a recording studio, seven bedrooms, a pool and 2.6 acres. Petty died in 2017.

Ellen Does Another Real Estate Flip

Ellen DeGeneres
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When Ellen DeGeneres was growing up, her parents always rented and never were able to own their own home. But they often looked at homes for sale, and Ellen dreamed about how it would be to have her own room in one of them. When she became financially successful, Ellen started buying homes and flipping them, over and over, for large profits. She just did it again, selling neighboring properties consisting of a five-bedroom home on 3.44 acres and its next-door 6.58-acre lot in Carpinteria, California for $96 million. She bought the properties for $70 million in 2022.

Kanye Unloads His Malibu Gut Job

In 2021, Kanye West paid $57.3 million for a Malibu oceanfront home designed by architect-to-the-stars Tadao Ando but tore just about everything out of the home, leaving just a bare shell. He listed the home earlier this year for $53 million and quickly reduced the price to $39 million. The home just sold for $21 million.

US VP Candidate Tim Walz Is Homeless

Democratic VP candidate Tim Walz has not owned a home since he sold his home in Mankato, Minnesota in 2019 for $315,000, following his election as the state’s governor. He has no real estate, stocks or bonds, but he is currently living in the historic Minnesota Governor’s Mansion.


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Clint Eastwood’s Longtime Seaside Home

A Carmel, California home where Clint Eastwood lived when he was the mayor of the town is for sale at $21 million. Eastwood bought the Spanish Renaissance-style home a few years before he was elected mayor and sold it in 1996. The four-bedroom home was built about a hundred years ago with ocean views, 4,400 square feet, an interior courtyard, and a walkway to the beach. Eastwood was the mayor of Carmel from 1986 to ‘88, getting over 72% of the vote.

NBA MVP Lists All-Star Penthouse

One of Boston’s best penthouses, currently owned by the NBA Boston Celtics MVP, Jaylen Brown, is for sale. An apartment with all the bells and whistles you might expect in the home of a three-time NBA All-Star who signed a five-year, $304 million contract in 2023.

Rob Lowe Home For Sale

Rob Lowe 2012 Shankbone
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The Beverly Hills home that Rob Lowe bought in 2020, about the same time he sold his longtime Montecito home for $45.5 million, is for sale at $6.575 million. The three-bedroom home includes 2,940 square feet, a gym, den and pool.

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