On Rodeo Drive, a double feature with comedy cachet
Adjacent properties once owned by the late Carl Reiner are sold for $16.8 million.
Construction is probably coming to Beverly Hills, where two adjacent homes owned by late comedy legend Carl Reiner just sold for a combined $16.8 million.
The side-by-side properties are currently divided, but the package deal allows for the rare opportunity to redevelop the lot into a luxury compound on nearly an acre on Rodeo Drive.
Reiner — a writer, actor and director who created “The Dick Van Dyke Show” — died last year at 98, and the two properties were listed for sale at $10 million each in July.
The larger of the two, a 1930s traditional-style home with a guesthouse, sold for $8 million. The smaller, a 1920s Spanish-style residence of stucco and clay tile, sold for $8.8 million, records show.
Reiner owned the traditional for nearly half a century, and he picked up the Spanish-style home five years ago for $4.25 million.
Each covers more than a third of an acre and features grassy yards in front and swimming pools out back.
Lined with shutters, the stately traditional holds seven bedrooms and five bathrooms across 5,500 square feet, extending to second-story terraces on both sides.
The Spanish-style home stays true to its roots with arched doorways and hardwood floors across 3,300 square feet. It fits five bedrooms and three bathrooms into two stories.
Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency handled both ends of the deal.
A winner of 11 Emmys, one Grammy and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Reiner was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1999. He created the “2000 Year Old Man” sketch with Mel Brooks, and he also directed “The Jerk” and starred in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” and “Ocean’s 11.”
Sportswear CEO gets a fitting offer
Beverly Park, one of Southern California’s most affluent neighborhoods, has a new resident after Jem Sportswear Chief Executive Jeff Marine sold his Mediterranean mansion for $29 million in an off-market deal.
Records show it was bought by a limited liability company based in Hong Kong.
Spanning 17,000 square feet, the estate holds its own in the star-studded neighborhood, whose residents include Eddie Murphy, Rod Stewart, Denzel Washington and Sylvester Stallone, who offered up his 3.5-acre retreat there earlier this year for $110 million.
“It’s on one of the best lots in Beverly Park, which is one of the best neighborhoods in Beverly Hills,” said Drew Meyers of Westside Estate Agency. “There’s nothing like Beverly Park,” said Meyers, who represented the buyer.
Marine’s place covers 2.5 acres and includes an 11,000square-foot main house, guesthouse, motor court and spacious backyard with a swimming pool surrounded by sprawling lawns and covered patios. A second-story deck takes in the scene from above.
Every space is palatial inside, including the twostory foyer lined with columns and the billiards room under dramatic beams.
Elsewhere are eight bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a formal dining room, oversize kitchen, bonus room, office, movie theater and gym.
Ben Bacal of Revel Real Estate held the listing.