Category: Mortage

Trevor Noah will spend 2021 in style. The day before New Year’s Eve, the host of “The Daily Show” shelled out $27.5 million for a contemporary mansion in Bel-Air.

The comedian must have a thing for architectural showplaces. In 2019, he dropped $20.5 million on a similarly dramatic mansion also found in Bel-Air, but ended up selling it last summer for $21.7 million.

Noah bought this one from Mark Rios, an L.A. architect who built the 11,000-square-foot home for himself. Inspired by Japanese aesthetics, he told Architectural Digest that he went through 50 plans before settling on the final design and employed dark timbers based on a room he saw in Kyoto and extra-thick walls to protect against the noise of the city below.

From the street, the home appears as a series of cubes stacked together. Aerial photos from the back reveal that the estate sprawls across its hillside

Overlooking the verdant fairways of the Bel-Air Country Club, this modern mansion uses its 14,000 square feet to fit a healthy mix of voluminous rooms and high-end amenities. Every space is marked by clean lines and towering ceilings including the skylit gallery, indoor-outdoor great room and indoor lap pool lined with booth seating. Outside, flat lawns and a second swimming pool cap off the 1.25-acre estate.

The details

Location: 670 Perugia Way, Los Angeles, 90077

Asking price: $38.5 million

Year built: 2015

Living area: 14,282 square feet with seven bedrooms and 8.5 bathrooms on a 1.25-acre lot

Features: Cul-de-sac lot; open living spaces; custom floor-to-ceiling fireplace; modern chandeliers; primary bedroom with dual closets; silk carpets; office with bathroom; indoor lap pool; gym; landscaped lawns; outdoor cabana; city and golf course views

About the area: In the 90077 ZIP Code, based on 12 sales, the median price for single-family homes in

The real estate jettison continues for Russell Simmons, the embattled Def Jam co-founder who stepped down from the label following accusations of sexual misconduct across multiple decades. After finding no takers at $9.925 million, he just relisted his New York penthouse for $5.5 million.

It’s the second home Simmons has tried to sell since the allegations surfaced. In 2018, he unloaded a Spanish-style hideaway above the Sunset Strip for $8.125 million.

Records show he bought this one for $2.32 million in 2007. It’s found in Manhattan’s Financial District and offers 7,175 square feet of interiors and 3,500 square feet of landscaped terraces.