Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Your Mama Hears...

...From a gal we like to call Nelly Knowsitall that hi-tech tycoon Halsey Minor recently leased (with an option to buy) the seven-plus acre Singleton estate on Delfern Drive that was listed for sale in 2008 with a mind melting asking price of $85,000,000.

Your Mama wondered why that listing disappeared from the MLS.

Listing information from early 2008 shows the Wallace Neff designed house in the hoity toity Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles measures 15,520 square feet with 10 bedrooms, 12.5 bathrooms, rolling lawns, tennis court, swimming pool and massive motor court.

Miss Knowsitall also whispered in Your Mama's big ear that she hears the Minors have hired a much in the news Los Angeles based interior decorator to do up and do over the dated day-core.

If the children will put on their thinking caps they'll recall that Mister Minor has been trying to unload (at a loss) a troubled white elephant of a mansion on swanky Sarbonne Road in Bel Air that's currently on the market for $11,400,000.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

snazzy!

Anonymous said...

For how much and how long?!?!?!?!?!

Anonymous said...

He can't pay for what he's got now. Looks like more grandstanding. Trump Jr. with a lot less money.

Anonymous said...

who's the dee-ziner ?

Anonymous said...

1:06 - There's a difference between not being able to unload a house at a loss and not being able to "pay for what he's got now".

Anonymous said...

Look up Halsey with regards to his forever tire-kicking of horse race tracks. A lot of talk, a lot of press, a lot of would-be fans, but zero action. His most recent flavor of the week now is trying to seek a gaming license in Maryland to 'save horse racing' there. Before that it was Hialeah Park in FL.

Oddly enough while Colonial Downs, a profitable track and the only thoroughbred track in his home state of Virginia, was for sale he said they wanted too much for it. No more however then it would cost to buy out and revive Hialeah.

So why does he owe money to Sotheby's (sorry I mean a lawysuit with counter claims), the Landmark hotel project in Charlottesville, and reneged on a UVA pledge, etc? For a wealthy guy he has a long trail of money issues.