NBA star Curry passes a Bay Area home
Menlo Park property sells for more than the asking price, in less than two weeks.
Warriors star Stephen Curry has pulled off a midseason pass, selling his Bay Area home in Menlo Park for $1.4 million.
The deal couldn’t have gone much better for the three-time NBA champion and two-time MVP. He hauled in $51,000 more than he was asking and $200,000 more than he paid for it two years ago, finding a buyer in less than two weeks.
Probably used as a guesthouse or investment property, the single-story turnkey abode spans a humble 1,240 square feet — a far cry from his three-story mansion a few miles away in Atherton, on which he spent $31 million in 2019.
The three-bedroom house has its charms with a fenced turf yard that approaches a blue exterior and bright yellow front door. Inside, beamed ceilings and wide-plank hardwood floors sandwich a galley-style kitchen and open-concept living room lined with sliding farmhouse doors.
Three bedrooms and a bathroom complete the floor plan. Out back, a dining pergola under string lights leads to a separate studio currently used as an office. Trees, turf and gardens spruce up the space.
Curry, 33, has spent his entire NBA career with the Warriors, leading the team to three NBA championships and becoming a seven-time all-star and twotime MVP along the way. In 2017, he inked a five-year supermax contract with the Warriors worth $201 million.
Billy McNair of Compass held the listing. Omar Galindo of Century 21 Real Estate Alliance represented the buyer.
Tom Cruise lists mountaintop retreat
Among the tree-laden hills and snow-capped peaks of Colorado, Tom Cruise has listed his scenic mountain retreat for $39.5 million.
The estate spans 320 acres in the mountain town of Telluride, a popular skiing and hiking destination that has become a hot spot for second homes during the pandemic. Cruise, star of “Top Gun” and the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, has owned the property since the early 1990s.
A milelong driveway leads to the home, a 10,000square-foot stunner made of bleached cedar timbers and native stone.
The home has seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms. A great room has a dramatic floor-to-ceiling fireplace; there’s also a library, billiards room, gym and media room. The kitchen has a massive center island.
In addition, there’s a three-bedroom guest lodge tucked among aspen groves. Hiking trails snake through the forested grounds; other high-octane highlights include a sports court, snowmobile track and dirt bike course.
Eric Lavey and Dan Dockray of LIV Sotheby’s International Realty hold the listing.
An absolute stunner from ‘Stone Cold’
Wrestling legend “Stone Cold” Steve Austin is offering up one of his two neighboring homes in the coastal community of Marina del Rey for sale at $3.595 million.
At roughly 2,700 square feet, the single-story spot is the larger of the pair. Records show he bought it for nearly $2 million in 2007 and picked up the house next door, a cozy three-bedroom with just over 1,000 square feet, for $1.49 million a decade later.
The 19-time champion, who rose to stardom in the Attitude Era of WWF (now WWE) for his beer-drinking and signature “stunner” wrestling move, remodeled the place entirely in 2017. Walled and gated, the property features a landscaped yard in front and a swimming pool and spa in back.
Sliding iron-and-glass doors navigate living spaces complete with wide-plank floors and sleek, modern fixtures. A dual-sided fireplace anchors the living room, and the kitchen adds heaps of Caesarstone and quartzite.
Four bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms complete the home, which sits just off Abbot Kinney Boulevard about a mile from the beach.
Austin, 56, wrestled from the late 1980s until 2003 and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009. One of the sport’s most iconic figures, he recently turned to television, hosting “Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge” for five seasons and “Straight Up Steve Austin,” which recently aired its second season on USA Network.
Denise Fast of RE/Max Estate Properties holds the listing.
NFL vet Bennett sheds his home turf
Martellus Bennett, the veteran tight end who won a Super Bowl with the Patriots during his time in the NFL, has hauled in $3.375 million for his sleek, box-like abode in Hollywood Hills.
That’s $175,000 more than the former Pro Bowler paid for it in 2018, a year after retiring.
It’s perched on a hill in Whitley Heights, a historic neighborhood above Franklin Avenue known as a hot spot for Old Hollywood stars such as Charlie Chaplin, Bette Davis, Harold Lloyd and Rudolph Valentino. Bennett’s place is a bit more modern; it features three stories of polished slab floors and walls of glass.
The futuristic floor plan is nearly monochromatic, save for a handful of wood accents that break up the whitewashed living spaces. There’s a living room with double-height ceilings, a kitchen with a massive center island, a movie theater with tiered seating and a glass-encased wine cellar.
Throughout the five-bedroom, six-bathroom home, large gallery walls boast murals and space for art. Decks on the two upper levels overlook the city below, as well as a backyard with a swimming pool and deck.
Bennett spent a decade in the NFL including stints with the Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers and New England Patriots. He helped New England win a Super Bowl in 2017 and retired a year later to focus on his storytelling company the Imagination Agency.
Neyshia Go of Sotheby’s International Realty held the listing. Alexis Valentin Ramos of Sotheby’s International Realty represented the buyer.
One home, three star architects
Most of L.A.’s iconic properties are tied to one notable architect. This one’s tied to three. The Hancock Park mansion — a collaboration among Roland Coate, Reginald Davis Johnson and Gordon Kaufmann — surfaced for sale at $9.2 million.
The famed trio joined forces in the early 1920s and worked together on a few Pasadena landmarks, including the All Saints Episcopal Church and Hale Solar Laboratory, before successful solo careers; Johnson went on to design Baldwin Hills Village, and Kaufmann worked on the Hoover Dam and the former Los Angeles Times building in downtown L.A.
They built the Hancock Park project in 1924, and it still maintains its dramatic style 97 years later. Set on half an acre, the English Tudor Revival-style house features a brick-and-stone exterior and heaps of teak paneling inside.
The living room boasts 24-foot ceilings and a choir loft, and the stone-clad family room is built to resemble an English pub. Bright splashes of color fill many of the formal spaces, including a crimson dining room, a teal breakfast nook and a pink lounge.
An architectural staircase ascends to the primary wing, where a secret door in the study leads to a bedroom suite under coved ceilings. It’s one of four bedrooms and six bathrooms in 8,100 square feet.
Gardens and koi ponds dot the backyard, where a dining pavilion adjoins a lagoon-style pool and spa. Above the three-car garage, there’s a guesthouse.
Markus Canter and Cristie St. James of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties hold the listing with Sue Carr and Janet Loveland of Coldwell Banker Realty.