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Eva Gabor’s Former Los Angeles Home in Holmby Hills sells for $11 million to buyers who wanted to tear down the 1938 house on Delfern Drive.


What is a contingency sale? A contingency sale is where a buyer will make their purchase offer contingent on selling their home.

Poised along the coastline, overlooking a green golf course and with epic ocean views—it’s hard to imagine a Southern California vacation home more enticing. Add cuisine, a world-class spa and collection of pools within a short distance by foot, and Terranea’s Villas are unlike anything else in our midst.


“I have a very casual way about me,” says Dan O’Connor. “I think it has a lot to do with growing up in a family where real estate was the lifestyle.”

This unrivaled ranch now available on Santa Barbara’s Gaviota Coast for $110 million has quite a history. A rare offering, El Rancho Tajiguas is situated on land once inhabited by the Chumash Indians, later claimed by Spain’s King Carlos III, and now linked to Mansour Ojjeh of TAG and its McLaren Formula 1 team.

Designer Maya Lin is of a different nature. At just 21 years old, while still a Yale undergrad, she entered the winning design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, one of 27,000 submissions.

From a decades-old VW van, aspiring actor Spencer Falls pulled up curbside on Abbott Kinney to sell a few flowers. More impulse than business at the time, “The whole idea was a bit of a laugh, really,” he says, confessing no real intention to start a brand.

Spread over 2,500 square feet, the presidential suite occupies the top floor of Kimpton The Rowan Palm Springs, offering an exceptional panorama. The hotel also features several areas for events, meetings and weddings.

Always striving to create spaces with soul that feel collected over time, Jay Jeffers and his team worked hard to help the owners of this Portola Valley, California, dwelling to make their dream home.