Galaxy superstar Landon Donovan listed his compound in Manhattan Beach for $4.295 million and in two weeks had an offer in hand.
Built in 2007 and 2008, the compound is made up of two houses with a swimming pool. The main house features 3.35-metre ceilings, antique terra-cotta floor tiles, wide plank wood floors, custom wrought ironwork and coffered and vaulted ceilings. There are five bedrooms, seven bathrooms and 5,715 square feet of living space. The smaller house includes a gym, sauna, home theatre and 300-bottle wine cellar.
Donovan, 30, has played with the Galaxy since 2005. He has been named U.S. soccer athlete of the year four consecutive times by the United States Soccer Federation.
The property was listed briefly two years ago at $4.75 million, according to the Multiple Listing Service.
DESIGNER BUYS A PLACE WITH FLAIR
Interior designer Waldo Fernandez has bought a home in the Hollywood Hills West area for $2.4 million.
Designed in 1940 by architect F. Pierpont Davis and later redone by Hollywood Regencystyle proponent John Woolf, the Italian villa was named "one of the 100 most desirable homes to own" by Architectural Digest.
The living room is adorned with four-metre-high, handcarved ceilings from a European cathedral and an oversized limestone fireplace. A domed ceiling caps the dining room, where French doors open to a terrace overlooking the swimming pool and gardens. The master suite features a five-metre ceiling, a skylight and a fireplace. The house has three bedrooms and four bathrooms.
Fernandez, who started as a set designer on the 1960s films Doctor Dolittle and Planet of the Apes, worked on the facelift of the Beverly Hills Hotel for Merv Griffin in the late 1980s. His celebrity clients have included Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Taylor and Goldie Hawn.
Property records show the house was last sold in 1984 for $267,500.
DANNY THOMAS'S OLD ESTATE SELLS
The former Danny Thomas estate in Beverly Hills has been sold for $5.764 million. It had been listed at $5.895 million.
Built in 1924, the two-storey traditional-style house sits on a corner lot of nearly half an acre with a swimming pool, a guest unit, a sports court, a cabana, lawns and a detached four-car garage. The master bedroom suite features a fireplace, two walk-in closets and dual bathrooms for a total of five bedrooms and 5 1 bathrooms. /2
Thomas gained a following as the star of The Danny Thomas Show, originally called Make Room for Daddy, from 1953 to 1965. He continued to work in television until his death in 1991 at 79.
Public records show the property previously was sold in 1998 for $2.4 million.
INSPECTOR GADGET CREATOR EYES MOVE
Inspector Gadget creator Andy Heyward and his wife, Amy, have listed their house in the Hollywood Hills West area at $7.85 million.
Set on more than half an acre with a swimming pool in the celebrity-populated Bird Streets neighbourhood, the traditional style house was designed by architect Paul Williams and built in 1966. The 3,560 square feet of living space includes a library/study, a screening room, an office, a gym, three bedrooms and 3 1 bathrooms. /2
Public records show the property was purchased two years ago for $4.75 million.
WHERE COMIC WROTE HIS MATERIAL
The longtime Beverly Hills home of the Morey Amsterdam family has been sold for $4.9 million.
The 5,854-square-foot house, built in 1958, has walls of glass that open to the backyard, a living room with a fireplace and a step-down bar, a breakfast room, a den with a fireplace, four bedrooms and 4 1 bathrooms. /2
The family made some additions to the house, adding a "playroom" with large picture windows, a television, a card table and a desk, where the comic wrote material.
Morey Amsterdam, who died in 1996 at age 87, played office worker Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66) and was in show business for more than seven decades.
