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$32M Mauricio Umansky has the listing on 1302 Collingwood Place.

HOLLYWOOD’S TOP 25 REAL ESTATE AGENTS Shaky foreign markets haven’t rocked L.A.’s residential home prices (yet), as the town’s most sought-after brokers continue to log record-breaking sales in markets from ‘blue chip’ Beverly Hills to Hancock Park, and the ‘chief of the Venice tribe’ rides the Silicon Beach boom to $2 billion in sales By Jacquelyn Ryan 1

OS ANGELES’ WHITE-HOT LUXURY HOME moved to the U.S. short- 2 market shows no signs of cooling. The aver- term to learn English age luxury home sales price in the city grew but decided to stay when 10.5 percent — to $7.4 million — during the he found his calling second quarter of 2015, while the average num- in real estate, was part Lber of days on the market fell 11 percent (to 88 days), of the team that sold $85M according to Douglas Elliman. Witness record-setting sales Holmby author-screenwriter in some of the hottest markets — with many buyers pay- Hills Victoria Foyt and director ing all-cash. “It’s a healthy market, and there’s no better Henry Jaglom’s Santa place to invest,” says John Aaroe Group’s Aaron Kirman, Monica home at 609 E. one of THR’s top 25 agents, in alphabetical order, selected Channel Road — used for their client rosters and killer deals. in Beverly Hills Cop — in July for $23 million, JOSH AND MATT › the purchase of her 5-acre 3 one of the top sales to ALTMAN vineyard estate in Hidden date in Santa Monica. Douglas Elliman Hills ($5 million). “I’m definitely having The Million Dollar Brothers Matt, a the best year of my Listing stars moved former talent agent, career by far,” says Arana. their business to and Josh, who is $19.8M He also represented Lower Bel Air Douglas Elliman in J. Altman writing a book about the buyer of Michael February after nearly a selling property, hold Strahan’s $21.5 million decade­ with Hilton & the listing for Denise Brentwood home Hyland. During the Richards’ nearly and sold Dan Romanelli’s past 12 months, $8 million Hidden Malibu estate to

they have represented Arana Hills home. Lady Gaga for $23 million. the unnamed buyer of 1 When his Richard Landry-designed spec house above the Sunset Strip hit the market, Full House creator Jeff Franklin extolled its “sexy little jewel box” Reba McEntire’s Beverly ›SANTIAGO ARANA master suite: “If you can’t get laid in that bedroom, there’s something wrong with you.” ›JOE BABAJIAN Park home ($22.25 mil- The Agency 2 Max Azria’s 30,000-square-foot home, Maison du Soleil, sits on 3 acres. Rodeo Realty 3 Babajian’s listing for this 11,500-square-foot French Normandy-style home on Copa

lion) and Miley Cyrus in The Bolivia native, who de Oro Road, built in 1934, cites its proximity to UCLA Medical Center. The hottest type of home COLLINGWOOD: ERHARD PFEIFFER/COURTESY OF THE AGENCY. INTERIOR: COURTESY OF THE AGENCY. COPA: COURTESY OF RODEO REALTY. ALTMAN: TOBY CANHAM/COURTESY OF SUBJECT. ARANA: MARC & TIFFANY ANGELES/COURTESY OF SUBJECT.

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$19.5M Babajian and Flagg co-sold this Carla Ridge estate in July.

1 $8.2M Hollywood right now is a one-story Hills Tower Lane that he sold communities. “I think house on a flat lot with a 2 for $6 million — then there’s been a huge promontory view over sold again a month later trend by celebrity buyers the pool, says Babajian. for a million dollars because of the privacy “You would think it more. Flagg, who remem- factor and the lifestyle fac- would be common, but bers starting his career tor,” he says. “Their it’s not,” he notes. “That’s by putting together kids can ride their bikes in been the formula for multimillion-dollar deals the street without being getting the top dollar.” in his high school harassed by paparazzi.” 1 This 6,380-square-foot Trousdale home features a glass wine cellar. This year, he has sold 2 Oppenheim sold this Haslam Terrace seven-bedroom property in August. math class, also is pre- Fridman recently handled such a house in Trousdale 3 This home on the former estate of Max Whittier, a founder of Beverly Hills paring to list Andrew the $20 million sale of a — listed by Rey, Mills and two others — has a ballroom and a 16-car garage. Estates (a co-sale with Getty’s 8-acre estate in Hidden Hills home to Kim Rodeo’s Josh Flagg) for business,” says Carswell of owned by Patrick Dempsey the Hollywood Hills. Kardashian and Kanye West $3,000 a square foot — a the current real estate for $15 million in June, and represented Justin top price per square cycle. “This is a mountain and he’s listing David and ›TOMER FRIDMAN Bieber in his $7.2 million foot on the Westside. He of cash, not loans.” He is Yolanda Foster’s Carbon Sotheby’s Calabasas sale to West’s has a piece of land in representing Katy Perry Beach residence for Fridman, who has a sister-in-law Khloe. Beverly Hills with an ask- in her high-profile $23.5 million. law degree from Loyola ing price of $49 million attempt to acquire a Law School, says much ›JAMES HARRIS in escrow, and he’s list- former Los Feliz ›DREW FENTON of his business has AND DAVID PARNES ing Cheryl Tiegs’ Bel Air convent for $14.5 mil- Carswell Hilton & Hyland revolved around gated The Agency home for $15 million. lion. He also has Fenton, who has rep- begun working with resented such clients ›ERNIE CARSWELL a developer on Della as Christina Aguilera Teles Properties Reese’s former Bel and the Osbournes, Where to Spend $5M (or $50M) “What I’m seeing built Air home, which she Flagg sold Calvin Klein a Top agents’ top recommendations for top dollar back up is a very differ- sold for $7.5 million in 9,350-square-foot view ent mountain than I’ve November. home in the Hollywood $5 MILLION $25 MILLION $50 MILLION seen in my 30 years of Hills for $25 million this “I would invest in “I’d buy an exclusive “I’d buy myself a CHRIS CORTAZZO › summer. He also repre- Venice. You can view property in compounded 3 Coldwell Banker sented Nile Niami in his still get something Trousdale Estates or estate with com- The Malibu dynamo, $9.5 million acquisition of that is very good the Bird Streets.” plete privacy whose first client was Scooter Braun’s Hollywood quality and will be MYRA NOURMAND on 4 or 5 acres and Richard Gere, sold Hills home, and he’s list- more valuable as never leave my time progresses.” “Land with views in estate, probably Gere’s former $60 mil- ing Simon Fuller’s Beverly ERNIE CARSWELL Bel Air or Beverly in Holmby Hills.” $72M lion Paradise Cove Hills house for nearly Hills. But you’d have JAMES HARRIS Beverly Hills bluffshome to Jimmy $19 million. “Pacific Palisades. to spend a significant Iovine in January. “That’s Get properties additional amount “Beverly Hills, Bel Air a great way to start ›JOSH FLAGG that are close to to build a house.” or bluff properties the Village and that TOMER FRIDMAN with land in Malibu.” the year,” jokes Cortazzo, Rodeo Realty are walkable.” STEPHEN SHAPIRO adding that Malibu is The Million Dollar Listing SALLY FORSTER JONES “Beverly Hills or only getting better: star says he has sold more Malibu or Bel Air. You “Beverly Hills is “Malibu is not at its peak, than 20 homes at more “Can you still pay a premium, the blue chip. There’s and I think there’s room than $5 million each this buy anything but I don’t think the no ceiling to what for $5 million?” values will stop going you can get pricewise to grow.” He sold a Frank year. Among them is a BARRY PEELE up.” JONAH WILSON there.” BILLY ROSE

Gehry-designed home Beverly Hills house on CARLA: ERHARD PFEIFFER/COURTESY OF RODEO REALTY. HASLAM: UNLIMITED STYLE REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHY/COURTESYSTAIRS: NICK SPRINGETT/COURTESY OF THE OPPENHEIM GROUP. OF ROGERS & COWAN. CARSWELL: COURTESY OF SUBJECT. FLAGG: MELISSA VALLADARES/COURTESY OF SUBJECT.

96 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 09.25.15 STYLE “I moved here in REAL ESTATE 1995 and fell in love,” says Pardee of Venice. “I met my husband at the Circle Bar.” Harris and Parnes closed sales this year and has an more than $200 million estimated $600 million in sales during the past in listings. He’s listing the year, including a prom- Danny Thomas residence ontory view property with 360-degree views in Beverly Hills to Kris atop Hillcrest in Trousdale Humphries for $6.2 mil- Estates for a rumored lion. The pair, now $135 million. He also is co- regulars on Million Dollar listing Malibu developer Listing, became friends and Sportsmen’s Lodge in their native England owner Richard Weintraub’s before moving to the $60 million Malibu estate, U.S.; they got their start La Villa Contenta. in real estate by cold- knocking on doors nearly ›JADE MILLS four years ago. Coldwell Banker Mills, whose clients have ›MADISON ranged from Lionel HILDEBRAND Richie to Jennifer Partners Trust Aniston, sold an The Malibu special- off-market Spanish ist closed a deal for Kirman Mediterranean $10.3 million in seven home in Bel Air for days last year in $38 million in March. the “most extraordi- “We’ve had quite nary moment of my a few sales in the life.” He’s listing two Mills $10 million range,” Edward Fickett-designed says the former cock- homes on Malibu tail waitress, who ‘She’s the Chief of the Venice Tribe’ Road for $11.5 mil- has sold more than Tami Pardee’s dominance of the nabe’s residential market, driven ever higher by the tech company influx, comes with a hint of remorse: ‘It used to be more bohemian’ lion and $8 million. $3 billion worth of

“He was the archi- Nourmand real estate during her tect to the stars,” says career — starting ARK BOAL HAD BEEN SEARCHING FOR — continuing a steady rise since Google Hildebrand, whose clients with a $42,000 house in a home in Venice for ages. The Oscar- arrived in 2011, leading a wave of tech companies have included Tori Van Nuys. Mwinning writer of The Hurt Locker hired (and their high-paid employees). “Venice has a Spelling, Cuba Gooding Jr. high-priced Hollywood lawyers and successful soul to it,” says Pardee, whose firm has donated and Andre Carter. ›MYRA NOURMAND Beverly Hills-based brokers but kept missing out nearly $750,000 to local charities since 2009. “It Nourmand & Associates on the houses he wanted — often to clients of used to be more bohemian. With prices rising ›SALLY FORSTER The housewife turned Tami Pardee. “I finally just switched horses and so much, it’s not affordable to everybody. It’s sad.” JONES real estate powerhouse has asked her to represent me; within a couple Pardee’s career began in 1995, John Aaroe Group run her brokerage for months, I had a house I loved,” says Boal. “The when the Boston University In her second year as more than three decades. way business is done in Venice, it’s very local $6.5M president of the luxury This year, she represented and very tribal — and she’s the chief of the tribe.” Vienna Way properties division at the buyer of Foyt and With more than $2 billion in career sales, the John Aaroe Group, Jones Jaglom’s 609 E. Channel 44-year-old founder of Pardee Properties is one represented Minecraft cre- Road home in Santa of the nation’s top agents. In 2014, she closed ator Markus Persson in his Monica for $23 million 152 deals with a total value of nearly $261 mil- acquisition of a $70 million and Gianni Nunnari’s lion. She sold Anjelica Huston’s compound home on Hillcrest Road Bel Air home for nearly for $11.5 million and has worked with Rosario in Trousdale Estates (edg- $16.6 million. In October, Dawson, Matthew Modine and nearly every ing out rumored bidders she sold Sheryl Crow’s other Hollywood name who calls the trendy com- Beyonce and Jay Z). She is Hollywood Hills com- munity home. Still, she’s not like most of L.A.’s listing an $18.5 mil- pound for $11.1 million. power agents: This mother of four (Taylor, grad took a job as Sharon Stone’s personal assis- lion property once owned 11; Bailey, 8; and twins Jack and Tanner, 4) with tant and ended up overseeing a remodel of the by Oscar De La Hoya “that ›DAVID OFFER husband Michael, owner of Venice-based star’s Brentwood home. “She said, ‘Never say no still has quite a bit of Berkshire Hathaway special effects studio The Mission, drives a gray to me — I don’t believe in the word no,’ ” recalls Oscar memorabilia, like Offer has been the unof- Toyota Sienna minivan. “I could drive a Ferrari, the Portland, Ore., native. “I literally got her foyer boxing gloves” through- ficial king of Brentwood but I wouldn’t waste money on it,” she says. “I’d painted in the middle of the night once.” out the house. for decades. This year, he buy real estate.” She’s currently building a five- In 2001, Pardee’s life took a turn with a multiple handled the sale of Reese bedroom Old World modern-style home on sclerosis diagnosis. “It makes you live your life on ›AARON KIRMAN Witherspoon’s estate for a 10,000-square-foot lot in south Venice. purpose because you don’t know if you are going John Aaroe Group $10.5 million. He also has Pardee finds herself even more in demand as to wake up and not be able to walk,” she says. President of interna- gotten into development her turf’s residential market explodes. Sale Her career success is insurance should she begin tional estates at his on his own. Using his mas- prices jumped 19 percent year-over-year in July to show symptoms. “Now I can be taken care of. firm,Kirman has closed ter’s in architecture, to a median of $1.7 million, according to Redfin That is my motivator.” — J.R.

about $300 million in Offer is working on his PARDEE: LAURA DOSS/COURTESY OF MALLOY & CO. VIENNA: BRANDON MICHAEL ARANT/COURTESY OF MALLOY & CO. MILLS: COURTESY OF SUBJECT. NOURMAND: JOSHUA BLANCHARD/GETTY IMAGES FOR HAUTE LIVING. KIRMAN: SHEENON OLSON/COURTESY OF SUBJECT.

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$22M Bel Air ›JOYCE REY AND co-founder and partner of This husband-and-wife STACY GOTTULA Westside Estate Agency team remains among Coldwell Banker says this year has been one the top brokers in Beverly This year, the eight-year of his best. In June, he Hills. The pair sold the partners closed a lease for sold Lori Loughlin and Hillcrest Road property Helen Mirren and Taylor Mossimo Giannulli a Bel to Persson for $70 mil- Hackford’s Hollywood Air house that once lion, the highest-ever sale Hills home and hold belonged to Charles price in Beverly Hills. the $39 million list- Bronson for $14 mil- They also sold the Beverly

ing for the Goldwyn Romito Williams lion. His “one-on-one Crest home of former estate in Beverly Hills. formula” is the key, Sumner Redstone girl- Gottula and Rey, Shapiro says. “I don’t friend Sydney Holland to whose rookie deal operate like the Jennifer Lawrence for was Sonny and Cher’s other brokers, where $8.2 million and Jeremy

$4.2 million man- Williams I take dozens of list- Renner and Kristoffer sion in 1978, also are ings. I just work with Winters’ Hollywood flip listing a 25-acre Beverly the clients I’ve had for for $4.3 million. The Hills vineyard estate for years and their referrals.” parents of a 1-year-old $149 million. girl also represented Kirman holds the listing on MAURICIO UMANSKY the buyers of Jonathan this newly built eight- › bedroom with guesthouse. ›BILLY ROSE The Agency Frakes and Genie Francis’ The Agency Umansky, who’s married Beverly Hills home for third Brentwood spec Peele sold a The president and co- to The Real Housewives $12 million. home, which he plans Mediterranean home on founder of brokerage of Beverly Hills’ Kyle to list for $12 million to the Bel-Air Country Club The Agency has worked Richards, does a huge vol- ›JONAH WILSON $13 million. The homes golf course for $25 million with such clients as ume of transactions in Hilton & Hyland have been modern this year before selling Kim Delaney and UTA Beverly Park. He is listing Wilson represented the with a European twist, a Paul Williams-designed chairman Jim Berkus Max Azria’s $85 million buyer of Antonio he says: “It’s been property in Beverly Hills this year. He sold Ryan Holmby Hills estate, Jeff Banderas and Melanie really fulfilling finan- for $12 million. The agent, Phillippe’s 8,200-square- Franklin’s Richard Landry- Griffith’s Hancock cially and personally.” who often can be found foot former home on designed spec home Park home (reportedly working and vacationing Rising Glen Road above the Sunset Strip Netflix chief content ›JASON OPPENHEIM in the South of France, for $15 million, a record- for $32 million and officerT ed Sarandos) for The Oppenheim Group has been Madonna’s realtor breaking price per Michael Jordan’s personal nearly $16 million, a For the past five years, for ages and even pho- square foot for the Sunset residence in suburban high for the neighbor- the former trial lawyer tographed her tour and Park neighborhood. Chicago for $14.9 million. hood. Says the 25-year has been president of landed the cover shot industry veteran, “It’s Oppenheim Group — a on her 2006 CD/DVD I’m ›STEPHEN SHAPIRO ›BRANDEN WILLIAMS nice to be able to sell continuation of a five- Going to Tell You a Secret. Westside Estate Agency AND RAYNI ROMITO homes that you love generations-old family One of the nation’s top WILLIAMS and that are beautiful business. “This is ›KURT agents since the 1980s, the Hilton & Hyland and special.” what I’ll do for the RAPPAPORT rest of my life,” Westside Estate he says. This year, he Peele Agency represented Humphries After selling the land- in his $6.2 million mark Fleur de Lys The Future of NYC’s Wild, Wild West Beverly Hills acquisi- for $102 million in EW YORK’S FIRST SUBWAY STATION IN Trade Center site, where Conde Nast and Time tion, represented Taye 2014, Rappaport 26 years opened Sept. 13, linking a once- Inc. have led a media bum rush: The subway Diggs in a West continued to close barren stretch of midtown to Grand expansion brings the Far West Side within easy Umansky N Hollywood lease this some of L.A.’s most Central and Queens via the 7 train. The station, reach of commuters streaming into Grand summer and helped Major notable deals this year. He at 34th Street near 11th Avenue, is the latest Central Terminal from affluent northern suburbs, League Baseball star brokered the deal that high-profile evolution at Hudson Yards, the city- and the mixed-use behemoth also benefits from Evan Longoria find his allowed Steve Wynn to buy within-a-city rising near Pennsylvania Station. being by the northern terminus of the High Line, $2 million home in West Guess jeans co-founder Could the $20 billion, 17 million-square-foot which links it to Chelsea and the Meatpacking Hollywood. He repre- Maurice Marciano’s nearly project lure media tenants from their traditional District. It’s closer to existing media infrastructure sented Diggs and Idina 3-acre Beverly Hills confines between 42nd and 59th streets? — TV studios, newsrooms and publishing houses Menzel in the sale of estate for an estimated Retail corporations Coach and also favored canteens their $2.6 million Studio $48 million. He also sold and L’Oreal will lease in the com- Rendering of 10 and — than Lower Manhattan, until 30 Hudson Yards City home in November. Bea Arthur’s Brentwood plex’s first tower next year. looking northeast. recently a dining and night- estate to Frank Marshall and But the only media power- life wasteland. Of course, these ›TAMI PARDEE Kathleen Kennedy for house to announce a move to strengths boost rents: Lower Pardee Properties nearly $15 million in the area (in 2018) is Time Manhattan comes at a dis- (See sidebar, page 98.) August and represented Warner (Discovery also report- count (sometimes bolstered by former L.A. Mayor edly is eyeing the site). tax incentives) that struggling ›BARRY PEELE Antonio Villaraigosa in his Hudson Yards has several media companies may not be

Sotheby’s Hollywood Hills purchase. advantages over the World able to pass up. — BILLY GRAY ESTATE: BERLYN PHOTOGRAPHY/COURTESY OF JOHN AAROE GROUP. R. & B. WILLIAMS: COURTESY OF SUBJECT. UMANSKY: FREDERICK M. BROWN/GETTY IMAGES. PEELE: ANDREAS BRANCH/PATRICKMCMULLAN.COM. HUDSON: COURTESY OF RELATED-OXFORD.

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