UPDATE: Jennifer Aniston

It's such a lovely day Your Mama thought the children might enjoy a little afternoon picture pretty in the form of newly released listing photos of the Beverly Hills, CA mansion that sitcom and romcom actress Jennifer Aniston has on the market for a mouth-drying $42,000,000.The new photos show previously unseen areas of the house such as both of the master bathrooms plus a dressing/sitting room and...

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Waterfont Townhome with BoatSlip | For Sale or Rent

3 BD/3.5 BA/2 CG/Boatslip$325,000  MLS: T2465135$2,000 per month   MLS: T2460929This week we wanted to present a beautiful property for you to view. This is a luxury waterfront townhome that is currently listed for sale and for rent. This beautiful home has three stories with three bedroom and three and a half bathrooms. You will be dazzled by the great attention to detail. It features...

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Ed O'Neill Is A Thoroughly Modern Man

BUYER: Ed O'NeillLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $3,050,000SIZE: 2 bedrooms, 2 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Since the early 1990s and until 2004 or 2005 actor Ed O'Neill (Modern Family, Married With Children) owned a house on the canals in Venice, CA. At that point he and the family swapped the gritty urban density of Venice for peaceful Sullivan Canyon, a decidedly rustic but none-the-less uppity area...

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Your Mama Hears...

...that another big real estate deal has just gone down in Los Angeles that makes the $23,000,000 sale of tech entrepreneur turned art collector and philanthropist David Bohnett's sprawling mansion in the flats of Beverly Hills, CA look like child's play.According to both Our Fairy Godmother in Bel Air and another well-placed Platinum Triangle property yenta we know–let's call her Bernice Belairresident–Your...

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'House' Actress Olivia Wilde Sells House

SELLERS: Olivia Wilde and Tao RuspoliLOCATION: Venice, CAPRICE: $3,095,000SIZE: 3,011 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: In early February it was revealed in the tabs, blogs and gossip glossies that increasingly in-demand actress Olivia Wilde and her hubby Tao Ruspoli called off their marriage of nearly 10 years. By mid-March they'd listed their gated and recently renovated residence...

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March Apartment Update

Got the management report and the March financials for the Houston apartment complex yesterday. Things continue to look good. Occupancy remained steady at 93% and revenue stayed about the same as February. Expenses due to marketing, turnover, utilities, and property taxes dropped. The property had a positive cashflow of about $7,500 for the month - a nice change after running in the red for so long. The property is also in the black to the tune of $17,000 for the year.The positive cash flow will...

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Scott Baio is Forty-Something and Buys New House

BUYER: Scott BaioLOCATION: Woodland Hills, CAPRICE: $1,850,000SIZE: 6,312 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 4.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Thanks to a communique the other day from The Bizzy Boys at Celebrity Address Aerial and later confirmed with property records, Your Mama has learned that former teen idol turned reality tee-vee denizen Scott Baio and his Missus Renee Sloan recently put their toddler daughter...

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A Simple Explanation Of The Federal Reserve Statement (April 27, 2011 Edition)

Earlier today, the Federal Open Market Committee voted to leave the Fed Funds Rate unchanged within its current target range of 0.000-0.250 percent. The vote was 10-0 -- the third straight meeting after which the FOMC vote was unanimous. In its press release, the FOMC noted that since its March 2011 meeting, the economic recovery is proceeding "at a moderate pace" and that labor markets conditions...

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New Home Supply Falls To 16-Year Low

After posting an all-time low in February, New Home Sales rebounded strongly last month. Based on joint research from the Census Bureau and HUD, 300,000 new, single-family homes were sold on a seasonally-adjusted, annualized basis in March. It's an 11 percent improvement from February, and right in-line with the 6-month average. The supply of available new homes improved, too, in March, falling by...

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Whoopi Goldberg Getting Out of Vermont

SELLER: Whoopi GoldbergLOCATION: Marlboro, VTPRICE: $2,300,000SIZE: 6,100 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3 full and 2 half bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: The smock-wearing, always outspoken and passionately opinionated comedienne and chat show hostess Whoopi Goldberg has been much in the news the last few weeks for taking publicity-seeking possible presidential candidate Donald Trump to task on The View for...

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Your Mama Keeps Hearing...

...from well-placed peeps in the Platinum Triangle real estate scene that dancing chat show hostess Ellen Degeneres and her actress wife Portia de Rossi (Arrested Development, Nip/Tuck, Better Off Ted) have their secluded Beverly Hills, CA compound quietly on the market with a mind-bending price tag.Your Mama first discussed this celebrity real estate rumor way back in mid-February but it seems to be bubbling back up to the surface and, indeed, twice yesterday we heard about this again from a couple...

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Mortgage Rates -- And Home Affordability -- At The Whim Of The Federal Reserve

The Federal Open Market Committee starts a two-day meeting today, the third of its 8 scheduled meetings this year. The FOMC is a special, 12-person committee within the Federal Reserve. It's led by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and the group is responsible for voting on our nation's monetary policy. This includes setting the Fed Funds Rate, the rate at which banks borrow money from each other overnight....

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Your Mama Hears...

...from a little birdie we'll call Tawny Tweettweeter that a (reasonably) big residential deal recently went down in a plush residential pocket tucked into the sweeping curve of Sunset Boulevard just north of the Los Angeles Country Club where Beverly Hills turns into the arguably even more hoity-toity Holmby Hills.Last year tech tycoon turned philanthropist David Bohnett–he founded then sold GeoCities...

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Celebrity Chef Curtis Stone Gets a New Kitchen

BUYER: Curtis StoneLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $3,100,000SIZE: 4,257 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Australian celebrity chef Curtis Stone made his initial marks on the culinary world in the kitchens of some of London's better eateries and in the far reaches of northern California's ocean side community of Eureka where he's the executive chef of the highly regarded Restaurant...

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