The retired tennis superstar, Pete Sampras, and his wife Bridgette Wilson bought a six-bedroom, newly built house in Los Angeles’ Brentwood neighborhood for paid $5,600,000.

Sampras purchased the brand-new house that sits on a gated, 0.55-acre flag-shaped lot at the end of a street. Records showed that Sampras’ Golden Gate Trust purchased the house on December 16, with the deal being recorded on December 23.

The house features two master suites with room-size closets, five and a half baths, bathrooms with heated floors, a library, a media room, floor-to-ceiling windows, a large gourmet kitchen, a family room and a wine cellar, according to listing information.

Whilst, the outdoor features sunny lawns and streams,…

The former Dutch soap star who founded the Eyeworks television production, Reinout Oerlemans, has listed his Beverly Hills contemporary home for $14.9 million.

The newly built house has an 80-foot lap pool with panoramic views encompassing downtown L.A., Century City, the Wilshire Corridor and the ocean. The home was designed as a showplace for an art collector or an owner who likes to entertain. Sliding walls of glass push back in all the principal rooms to bring the outdoors in.

Padded cashmere walls and custom treated oak floors are among interior details. The indoor kitchen has a fireplace, and the outdoor kitchen is sited to catch the sunset. The single-story house, on…

Celebrity homes in Los Angeles like that of in Beverly Hills and in Hollywood are talked most of the time. This time, Silver Lake will be the focus of the talk.

Silver Lake is full of interesting modern homes hovering in the hills around the reservoir and one of these is inhabited by the Better Than Ezra band singer, Kevin Griffin.

Griffin and his wife bought the home in 2006 for $1.595 million, moving to Los Angeles after hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The Silver Lake home is a 1950s post and a beam house that went through a major renovation and turned it into a 2,900 square foot home. The home…

The renovated Normandy-style 1920s home of the screenwriter, Tedi Sarafian, in the Hollywood Hills was listed for $1,749,000.

The ivy-covered two-story home has three bedrooms, 2 ½ bathrooms, a formal dining room, a den with a fireplace, beamed ceilings and dark hardwood floors. French doors open to a side terrace and a covered back porch designed for al fresco dining and entertaining. There are mature trees, gardens and a swimming pool adjacent to a guesthouse that doubles as a music studio.

Sarafian bought the house in 2004 for $1,195,000, according to public records.

The listing agent is Penelope P. Alexitch of Keller Williams Realty’s Sunset office.

Sarafian was told by the former owner that…

Kurt Rappaport – co-founder of Beverly Hills-based Westside Estate Agency – acquired a combination of cash and a house in the flats of Beverly Hills. The highest residential sales price in the city of Beverly Hills is so far this year; it is the city’s largest since he sold his previous home to Tom Cruise in 2007 for $30.5 million.

A completely rebuilt estate on a prime residential street near the Beverly Hills Hotel has sold for about $24 million.

The estate, near the Beverly Hills Hotel, has eight bedrooms, 9 1/2 bathrooms, a theater, wine cellar and a gym. Waldo Fernandez designed the traditional-style house Rappaport just sold, which sits on…

The legendary actress and activist Maxine Cooper Gomberg’s longtime Brentwood’s Sullivan Canyon home was sold for $4.4 million.

Maxine Cooper Gomberg lived in the ranch-style house for 46 years that features five bedrooms and four bathrooms.

The property was located at the end of a cul-de-sac. The ranch-style house was built in 1941 and centered on a courtyard and measures 3,587 square feet. A home office overlooks one of the many patios and the backyard. The flat lot of more than half an acre contains a circular drive way, a swimming pool and gardens planted with magnolia and fruit trees.

Cooper, who died last year at 84, was the wife of producer and…