SELLERS: Heidi Klum and Seal
Area: Beverly Hills, CA
Price: $ 6,900,000
SIZE: 6,794 square feet, six bedrooms, 9 complete and 2 half bathrooms
In December 2010 German supermodel turned reality tee-vee titan Heidi Klum (Project Runway) and Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Seal paid $ 14,200,000 for a 12,300 square foot Mediterranean mansion in the gated Brentwood Nation Estates enclave in the Mandeville Canyon place of Los Angeles, so it was only a matter of time prior to they manufactured an work to unload their secluded Beverly Hills, CA estate.
The couple’s Bev Hills mansion, described in listing details as a “21st century Loire Valley Chateau,” arrived on the open industry this week with an asking value of $ six,900,000. That’s a vast sum of funds by any regular but, according to property records and Your Mama’s bejeweled abacus, it really is also a considerable $ 700,000 less than the $ 7,600,000 they paid for the four.05 acre estate in December 2005.
A long gated driveway rises to a sloping motor court that butts correct up on the front façade of the six,794 square foot residence, nestled into the hillside and constructed in 1988 with 3 fireplaces, front and rear staircases and–regrettably–a front-facing three-bay garage. There are six bedrooms and 9 full and 2 half bathrooms which includes staff quarters and a substantial second-floor master suite with sitting room, two-sided fireplace, dual bathrooms and walk-in closets and access to a prolonged terrace that runs along the back of the Euro-stylish mansion.
Primary rooms in the center-hall mansion, according to listing data, consist of a sunken living space, dining space with glass-enclosed wine vault, library, media/music area, gourmet kitchen, family members room, art studio and fitness room.
Several of the mansion’s principal level rooms open to a wide and extended loggia that frames views of a flat grassy yard that wraps about the property in which a vine-draped pavilion sits adjacent to a gigantic rectangular swimming pool with connected raised spa. Tucked up into the hillside above the house a lighted north/south tennis court partially disguised behind high hedges
Miz Klum and Seal’s new estate in the Brentwood Country Estates, which they purchased out of foreclosure, sits on more than 8.5 acres and contains eight bedrooms, 9.five bathrooms, a cigar space with separate filtration system, wine vault and tasting space with antique floors and a domed library with a fireplace the moment installed in Napoleon’s farmhouse. Some of the couple’s new neighbors include Arnold Schwarzenegger. Maria Shriver has done moved out amid revelations that her husband sired an illegitimate child with a extended-time household employee ten years ago. Ahead of extended Miz Klum will not the only foreign-born catwalk queen living up in the Brentwood Country Estates Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen and skilled pigskin passer Tom Brady are in the last stages of the erection of a 22,000-ish square foot mansion.
Miz Klum and Mister Seal are definitely no stranger to the celebrity true estate gossip columns. In June of 2008 Miz Klum sold a little penthouse apartment in the West Village for $ five,350,000 and a couple years earlier, in February of 2006, the sold a really privately situated modern crib in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for $ five,000,000 to boy bander Nick Lachey who presently has the property listed off-industry with an asking cost of $ six,800,000.
listing photographs: Coldwell Banker / Beverly Hills South