Cher Takes Loss on Beverly Hills Post Office Retreat

A secluded Tudor cottage tucked up into the mansion-sprinkled mountains above Coldwater Canyon in Beverly Hills was sold at a small loss by international superstar Cher for close to $2.1 million. Not counting carrying costs, improvement expenses and real estate fees, the septuagenarian showbiz legend sacrificed a smidgen more than $70,000 on the property she picked up in 2013 for a skosh more than $2.1 million. Behind gates at the end of a semiprivate lane and sequestered amid a rustic idyll at the bottom of a precipitous, extensively engineered hillside, the faux-timbered and brick-accented residence has four bedrooms, one of them outfitted as a den/office with wet bar, and three bathrooms in not quite 3,100 square feet of eclectically decorated interior space.

Combined living and dining spaces share a carved-wood fireplace and feature wide-plank wood floorboards, exposed wood beams across the ceiling and glass sliders to a wraparound terrace. The not especially spacious but expensively