Buy the (Mini) Farm From Rainn Wilson
THOUGH RAINN WILSON IS best known as paper salesman and beet farmer Dwight Schrute on “The Office,” there are no beets to be harvested at his charming mini farm in suburban Los Angeles that’s come up for sale at close to $1.7 million. The thrice-emmy-nominated actor purchased the property with his longtime wife, fiction writer Holiday Reinhorn, in late 2005 for a smidgen less than $1.2 million.
Listed with Traci Eiler and Gary Ruebsamen at Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices California Properties, the almost two-thirds-of-an-acre spread is nestled into rolling, oak-dotted hills in an affluent, semirural area of Agoura Hills, about 35 heavily trafficked miles west of downtown Los Angeles. The main house, a not-quite3,300-square-foot farmhouse with three bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, is obscured from the street behind a carefully clipped hedge and a verdant wall of mature trees.
The living room stretches to more than 31 feet in length, with a built-in window seat next to an old-timey wood stove. The adjoining dining area is open to the up-todate country kitchen with a restored vintage range set against a multicolored Arts and Crafts-inspired tile backsplash. The master bedroom offers French doors to a private balcony with a view of the surrounding trees. In the back of the house, a long flight of steps leads down a treeshaded hillside to the mini farm’s livestock facilities, including a trio of a small barns.
Steve Harvey Sells in Suburban Dallas
About two years ago, actor, comedian and game show host Steve Harvey and his wife, Marjorie, hung an almost $1.25 million price tag on a large house on a small cul-de-sac in Little Elm, Texas, in the Lewisville Lake area, about 25 miles north of downtown Dallas. The suburban spread came up for rent in 2019 — first at $3,500 per month and later at $4,500 per month — and over time the asking price for a sale slowly slid to just under $1.1 million before it was recently sold at an as-yet-unrecorded price.
The nearly 3.75-acre estate is anchored by an almost 6,600-square-foot stone manor house of no architectural pedigree — listings describe it as an “executive home” with five bedrooms and six full and two half bathrooms. Notable features include a double-height foyer with twin staircases, an oak-paneled study and a four-car garage topped by guest or staff quarters. Outside, a negative-edge swimming pool is surrounded by piles of boulders, and a giant circular gazebo with a fire pit overlooks a semi-private pond. Harvey also owns a vacant neighboring parcel of more than 8 acres, but it’s not clear if that was included in the sale. The deal was handled for Harvey by David Vanderlaan and Allyson Coe at Keller Williams Realty, Denton, while the buyer worked with Antoinette Baransi at Robert Elliott and Associates.
Buyer Snaps Up Robin Leach’s Vegas Villa
The Las Vegas home of British bon vivant Robin Leach, late and famously flamboyant chronicler of the rich and famous, whose late 1980s and early 1990s TV show “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” showcased the homes of celebrities, has been sold for $718,000. Leach, who died almost two years ago at the age of 76, purchased the slightly more than 3,500-square-foot, three-bedroom and three-bath home in 2002 for $564,000 from sports and tech entrepreneur Gavin Maloof.
While the home is an ordinary, vaguely Mediterranean suburban tract house that backs up to an evergreen golf course in the exclusive guard-gated Spanish Trail development, about seven miles due west of the Strip, rather than a lavish mansion befitting an opulent lifestyle of the rich and/or famous, there are nonetheless a variety of eye-catching examples of the extravagance over which Leach was always oohing and aahing. Faux-gilded spiral columns frame the doorway from the foyer to the formal living room, where a massive carved-stone fireplace with fluted pilasters dominates the double-height space. Just off the cleanlined contemporary kitchen that was designed by Leach, an informal dining area has two full-height wine fridges.
Pocket doors close off a custom smoking room, and the upstairs owner’s suite incorporates a sitting area with asymmetrically modern fireplace, a couple of fitted walk-in closets and a roomy bathroom with heated floors, steam shower and dry sauna. Out back, sun-baked flagstone terracing runs alongside a geometric swimming pool and spa with tiled fountains and open views over the golf course. The listing was held by Michael Fahey at Las Vegas Pro Realty; the buyer was repped by Jason Abrams at exp Realty.