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Bob Goldsborough
at 18 February, 2011, 5:21 am
Check out Bob’s breaking-news alert on the Chicago Tribune’s Chicago Breaking Business website, where Bob broke the news of R&B star R. Kelly’s former mansion in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood getting a price reduction from $3,890,000 to $3,500,000. Kelly owned the house, which is at 1010 W. George Street in Chicago, from 1994 until 2002.
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Bob Goldsborough
at 25 September, 2010, 11:10 pm
Check out Bob’s weekly real estate column in the Chicago Tribune from this past Sunday. The column is led by Bob’s exclusive — previously written about on this blog when the Tribune first published the item online item in the middle of the previous week — about rapper and actor Common placing a 1,248-square-foot condo [...]
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Bob Goldsborough
at 2 July, 2010, 4:40 pm
Young actress and singer Hilary Duff has paid $3,850,000 for a five-bedroom, 5,260-square-foot Georgian Colonial-style house in the once-and-again-celebrity-filled Summit neighborhood in Los Angeles County, high above Beverly Hills. As plenty of others have reported recently, the recently engaged Duff, 22, made the purchase several weeks ago through money manager Scott Feinstein and through her [...]
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Bob Goldsborough
at 15 March, 2010, 1:12 am
A 6,624-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air neighborhood that rocker Fred Durst once owned has come back on the market for $6.45 million. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the listing of the house, which is at 461 Bellagio Terrace in Bel-Air. Durst owned the four-bedroom house from the time he [...]
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Bob Goldsborough
at 10 March, 2010, 3:44 pm
Singer Josh Groban has listed his four-bedroom, Tuscan villa-style house in Malibu, Calif. for $6,100,000. We can’t at all call this an exclusive, particularly when the listing of the house has been written about on several Josh Groban fan boards. And, it’s really not all *that* surprising of a listing, given his recent interest in [...]
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Bob Goldsborough
at 26 February, 2010, 2:27 pm
Check out Bob’s weekly column in this coming Sunday’s Chicago Tribune (available online now), where Bob breaks the news about former Chicago TV reporter Andy Shaw having his mansion in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood — which also doubles as a bed-and-breakfast inn — on the market for $3,000,000. Also featured: Bob breaks the news of [...]
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Bob Goldsborough
at 7 December, 2009, 11:30 am
Rocker Jakob Dylan has unloaded his seven-bedroom, 5,065-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Brentwood area for $8,225,000, after previously listing it for $11,000,000 and later for $8,995,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Dylan’s sale of the house at 127 N. Cliffwood Avenue in Brentwood, which closed on July 7 and was [...]
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Bob Goldsborough
at 23 September, 2009, 9:46 am
A five-bedroom, 5,676-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills that child actor and radio host Danny Bonaduce once owned has sold for $1,381,000 after once having been listed for $2,599,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the sale of the house at 2651 La Cuesta Drive, which is off Nichols Canyon. [...]
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Bob Goldsborough
at 19 September, 2009, 4:52 pm
Check out Bob’s weekly column from tomorrow’s Chicago Tribune about rocker David Draiman of the band Disturbed selling his house in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood for $695,000. Also featured: Tim McIlrath of the band Rise Against buying a house in Arlington Heights, Ill.
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Bob Goldsborough
at 13 September, 2009, 3:02 pm
Rocker Matthew Followill, who is the lead guitarist in the band the Kings of Leon, has paid $800,000 to buy a two-bedroom condominium unit in West Hollywood, Calif. Blockshopper.com broke the story a few weeks back of Followill’s purchase, which we’re just now getting around to reporting on. Built in 1986, Followill’s 1,470-square-foot unit has [...]
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