Harry Styles Still Seeking Sale of Sunset Strip Villa

British pop music phenom Harry Styles has his modern villa above L.A.’S Sunset Strip listed at a minor chord less than $7 million, after more than 2½ years on and off the market with an original asking price of nearly $8.5 million. The heavily tatted 25-year- old former boy bander may be faced with a loss on the property, which he bought just over three years ago for $6.87 million, once carrying costs, improvement expenses and real estate fees are calculated. Secured behind forbidding gates, protected by a state- of-the-art security system and invisible behind a towering wall of trees and shrubbery, the sunlight-filled city-view villa offers four bedrooms and six bathrooms in just over 4,400 square feet.

There are pristine white floors in the combination living and dining space that spills out through a telescopic bank of floor-to- ceiling glass panels to a glass-railed terrace with panoramic, over-the-treetops views across the Los Angeles Basin to the Pacific Ocean. The kitchen is a sleek and orderly apparatus for cooking and entertaining, with a humongous island with integrated snack bar and top- end designer appliances. A small but decadent home theater features tiered seating on plush, eggplant- colored velvet sofas; the penthouse-level master suite opens to a slender balcony with glittery city-lights view; a curtained loggia tucked up under the house includes an outdoor shower area alongside a kidney-shaped swimming pool and spa hemmed by a semicircular wall of bamboo.