The crisis also means large mansions, even the most dazzling of Beverly Hills. For example, the one that came out yesterday in the Los Angeles market, a palace acquired in its day by media mogul William Randoph Hearst - the man who inspired the story of 'Citizen Kane' - that after having reached the 165 million dollars three years ago in the lists of real estate agents, is now available for 95 million. Drop by the Real Estate Agent Beverly Hills Ca Market Watch to learn more.

It is still an astronomical figure but with a discount of 57% , a sign of the critical times that run in the housing sector, whatever the house in question.And that it has all the attractions to attract foreign collectors and capricious millionaires, a house built in the Hollywood of the 20s, with all kinds of luxuries, and located in the heart of Beverly Hills.

Hearst, famous for building a newspaper empire that was once the most powerful in the world, bought the mansion from banker Milton Getz, the man who hired Gordon Kaufmann to create a Mediterranean-style H-shaped palace with influences. Spanish, Italian and French architectural

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The house underwent modifications over the years but kept its splendor, its 5,000 square meters built on a land of 1.5 hectares of land and even a separate house for servitude , with four rooms and two floors. Beverly Hills Real Estate Agents Twitter Moment.

Located just above the Beverly Hills hotel -known as the Pink Palace-, it has been the setting for films like 'The Godfather', including the famous scene of the dead horse in bed, or 'The Bodyguard', with Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston protagonists. In addition, it was the scene of a honeymoon between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline.

Now, all that splendor is back on sale after its current owner, the fourth in the history of the mansion known as the 'Beverly House', declared bankruptcy last Wednesday. Leonard Ross, a 67-year-old lawyer and investor, will stop living in the house he acquired some 30 years ago and in which he has carried out numerous renovations, including an extension of the living space in more than 2,000 square meters.

Experts say that it will be a foreign buyer who stays with the legendary residence, at a time when the crisis continues to take its toll even in the wealthiest neighborhoods. Luxury is maintained, but with much more modest figures. Here is the Real Estate Agents Beverly Hills Ca Google My Business Profile.

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world, but ostentation is the exception and luxury is reserved for the stained glass windows of the exclusive stores of Rodeo Drive (if we do not count on the pseudo-European stores of Rodeo Two, of course).

This street is the symbol of luxury that surrounds the stars of today's show, though it only spans three blocks, from 200th Street to 400th Street (between Wilshire Blvd. and Santa Monica Blvd.).

The mentioned Rodeo Two, is of recent addition and recreates -in the corner of Rodeo and Wilshire- the illusion of two small parallel streets of old European style.

Rodeo Collection, on the other hand, is at the other end of this shopping area, considered the most expensive in the world.

Parallel to Rodeo Drive are Beverly and Canon Drives, longer and less expensive stores but also exclusive to this area.

If we start the tour by car, it is best to start on Santa Monica Boulevard between Doheny Drive and Wilshire Boulevard. Going on Santa Monica Boulevard and North Crescent Driive we will find the Beverly HiIIs City Hall, a baroque Spanish style building that contrasts with the adjacent and modern Beverly HiIIs Civic Center.

The Museum of Television and Radio (Wed.-Sun, 12-17 h; $ 6) explains 60 years of television history (from lols United States), while the trolleybus Beverly Hills (summer, every day; of the year only on Saturdays, $ 5 for a ticket, 1 for children under 12) offers tourists a 40-minute visit to the highlights, and leaves every hour from the corner of Dayton Way with Rodeo Drive.

The houses of the famous are hidden behind doors guarded by jealous guards on the green hills on Sunset Boulevard.

Benedict Canyon Drive runs through many of them, starting with the most famous: the luxurious PickFair mansion, at 1143 Summit Drive, built for Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in 1919 and demolished by Pia Zadora in the 1980s.

Higher up, Harold Lloyd's Green Acres (1740 Green Acres Drive), with its secret passageways and its large projection room, remains intact, although the gardens, which contained a waterfall and a nine-hole golf course, have been divided into smaller parts.

Another of the famous houses in the area is Spadena House, at 516 Walden Drive, reminiscent of the cabin of Hansel and Gretel's story. The house of Virginia Robinson, at 1008 Elden Way, is the oldest in Beverly Hills and was built in 1911. You can visit by telephone at (213) 276 53 67.

A spectacular home is the Greystone Park Mansion, at 905 Loma Vista Drive and built in 1920 in Tudor style, with fifty-five rooms. The gardens are beautiful, with beautiful pools and fountains.

Although only the gardens are open to the public, it is worth the visit to see this haunted mansion, scene of the unresolved crime of the heir of an oil fortune Ned Doheny ... and of the films Ghostbusters II and The Witches

In the 1930s, movie artists made street Roxburry Drive fashionable. The house that was owned by Mariene Dietrich is located at number 822 and is an Art Deco mansion.

In the number 918 is the house of James Stewart and in the 1000 lived Lucille Ball, right next to Jack Benny, in the number 1002.

Rodolfo Valentino, on the other hand, lived in 1436 Bella Drive. But if we want to relive gossip from the past, the Beverly Hills Hotel is unmissable at 9641 Sunset Boulevard.

In the private cabins they stayed famous personages like Clark Gable, Howard Hugghes, Sophia Loren, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, among others (between those others is Marilyn Monroe and John Kennedy ... according to they say).

As for more current stars (but not so much), we can mention the house where Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio lived, at 508 North Palm Drive.

If we continue to 720 North Maple Drive we can see the residence of George Burns and Gracie Allen. At 1330 Schuyler Road Elizabeth Taylor lived her romance with film producer Mike Todd.

And the stars of today? Some of them have their houses in the area, but those are precisely those that it is almost impossible to get close enough to see something interesting ...

Westwood Village

Just west of Beverly Hills, on the north side of Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood Village is one of the most attractive neighborhoods in LA, consisting of a group of low-rise brick buildings that were built in the late 1920s around downtown Broxton Avenue, along with the nearby campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

This area is full of restaurants, bars, cinemas, galleries and shops of all kinds.