Meryl Streep seeks to sell L.A. house for 50% more than she paid a year ago
When actress Meryl Streep bought this tasteful midcentury modern home above Los Angeles' Sunset Plaza in February 2013, she paid $4.5 million. That was a pretty good bargain: The house was originally listed at $6 million a few months earlier.
Now a little more than a year has passed, and she's looking to sell the place, our friends at Curbed blog have confirmed.
For $6.75 million. Fifty percent more than she paid for it last year. "The actress is banking on the hot Southern California real estate market to turn a quick profit," Zillow Blog says.
The photos in the slideshow above, from the current listing, show only the subtlest of variations from pictures posted with last year's listing: The privacy hedges look taller and shaggier, and grasses along the entry steps have been supplanted with succulents; a couple of soft furnishings have been swapped out (a bedspread here, a rug there); and the staging overall is considerably barer. Oh, and "Gone With the Wind" is playing on the TVs instead of James Bond.
The vital statistics haven't changed either. The home is still listed as 4 bedrooms and 4 baths in 3,500 square feet of living space -- in fact, last year's listing said it was about 3,700 square feet, so the house definitely hasn't expanded -- on about 15,000 square feet of land.
Nor does the current listing mention any other updates to the home. That wouldn't really be surprising. Not only has Streep's ownership been brief, but the 1954 house had recently been overhauled when she bought it. ("Rebuilt in 2010 for the owner's personal enjoyment, no expense was spared," the 2013 listing said.) The new listing does tout the home's high-end details, but so did the 2013 listing: a smartphone-operated security system, a garage with special ventilation, Miele and Gaggenau kitchen appliances (misspelled "Gaganeau" in the current listing) and "massive walls of glass" (the phrase appears in both listings).
In fact, the only surprising aspect of the listing is the 50 percent markup. (The agent declined to comment when Yahoo Homes reached him.)
Click here or on a photo to go to a slideshow of the home.
