Nip/Tuck's Dylan Walsh Divorces and Lists Former Family Home in Hollywood

SELLERS: Dylan Walsh and Joanna GoingLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $1,425,000SIZE: 2,480 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Back in December 2010 all the gossip glossies and celebrity-obsessed blogs reported that Nip/Tuck hunk Dylan Walsh filed for divorce from his actress-wife of 7 years Joanna Going. Less than a year later Mister Walsh revealed to the people at People that...

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International Real Estate Investors Look to Florida for Property Purchases

Once again, the Tampa Bay real estate market is seeing a significant increase in international real estate interest. A report published by Point2homes, cited by HousingWire, says that Florida home sale listings are viewed and clicked on more often than any other state. Florida remains first. These figures are being helped by our national neighbors, Canada and Mexico. Being that these are drive markets,...

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Supply Of New Homes At 6.1 Months Nationwide

New Home Sales slowed into the New Year but the market for newly-built homes remains strong. For home buyers in WA and nationwide, December's New Home Sales report is yet one more signal that the housing market recovery may be underway. According to the Census Bureau, the number of new homes sold in December 2011 slipped 2 percent to 307,000 units on a seasonally-adjusted, annualized basis nationwide....

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Divorced Duo Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson List Former Love Nest in Los Angeles

SELLERS: Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett JohanssonLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $3,650,000SIZE: 2,835 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 3 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: In August 2010, just over two years after their hush-hush wagon hitching ceremony in some tiny town in British Columbia (Canada), comely movie stars Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds acquired The Wong House, a single story 1969 wood and glass contemporary...

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Super Producer Brian Grazer Buys Big Digs

BUYER: Brian GrazerLOCATION: Santa Monica, CAPRICE: $12,500,000SIZE: 10,285 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 8 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Not too long ago we heard from Our Fairy Godmother (O.F.G.I.S.M.) in Santa Monica who snitched with some shock and awe that Oscar-winning and spikey-haired super-producer Brian Grazer had, in early December 2011, dropped $12,500,000 on a sprawling, many-winged (and lobster-shaped)...

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5 Simple Ways To Declutter Your Home

When a home is listed for sale, its "clutter" can be the difference between a rapid sale and no sale at all. Clutter, in its strictest sense, is defined as anything untidy; or in a disorderly state. In real estate, the term is broadened to include unnecessary furniture pieces; unwieldy artwork or collections; stacks of papers and/or magazines; and anything that otherwise restricts the open flow of...

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Actress, Style Maven and New Momma Selma Blair's Hollywood House Up For Grabs

SELLER: Selma BlairLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $1,780,000SIZE: 2,918 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Anyone who knows any thing at all about real estate knows there are four main reasons a person—specifically a person of substantial financial means—sells a house and/or buys a new one: death, divorce, debt and diapers, otherwise known in the property bidness as The Four Ds.Given...

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Denise Rich Lists Epic Fifth Avenue Penthouse

SELLER: Denise RichLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $65,000,000SIZE: 12,000 square feet (approx.), 7 bedrooms, 9 full and 2 half bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Perhaps emboldened by the recent record breaking (and bone chilling) $88,000,000 sale of Sandy Weill's Mica Ertugun-decorated penthouse at 15 Central Park West to a twenty-something year old heiress to a Russian fertilizer fortune, or maybe, as...

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Pending Home Sales Index Posts Second Best Month Since April 2010

After 3 consecutive months of growth, the housing market appears to have eased a bit in December. According to the National Association of REALTORS®, December's Pending Home Sales Index slipped 4 percent from the month prior. The index measures the number of homes under contract to sell nationwide, but not yet sold. Despite falling below its benchmark "100 value", December's Pending Home Sales Index...

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N.Y. State of Mind Two: Thierry Mugler

SELLER: Thierry MuglerLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $7,995,000SIZE: 4,100 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: In 2003, amid crushing financial losses and with much boo-hooing by the stiletto-clad fashion elite, gleefully unconventional French couturier Thierry Mugler closed his eponymous label and all but disappeared from the public eye. More accurately, the Clarins company,...

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N.Y. State of Mind One: Naomi Watts and Liev Schriber Buy

BUYER: Naomi Watts and Liev SchrieberLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $3,950,000SIZE: 4,315 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: After several years kicking the real estate tires of a scads of six-and-a-half and fifteen million dollar downtown townhouses, much in demand Oscar-nominated actress Naomi Watts (21 Grams, J. Edgar, King Kong, I ♥ Huckabees) and always working movie actor/Tony...

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Investors push Southern California home sales higher

Investors push Southern California home sales hig...

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Cramer's Plays on a Potential Housing Rebound Bullish comments reinforced by Jack Welch who thinks the housing market is looking up. http://www.cnbc.com/id/46056...

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Jorge Posada Retires and Shakes Up Real Estate Portfolio

SELLER: Jorge PosadaLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $11,500,000SIZE: 5,400 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 5.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Much to our own chagrin, Your Mama woke up much later than usual this morning, hung over like a wet blanket from all the gin, candy and late night Australian Open watching. When we finally managed to pour ourselves a cup of coffee and check out the incoming emails and...

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