Bryan Cranston and his California beach house (Getty, Realtor)
Actor Bryan Cranston has listed the eco-friendly Ventura County, California home he built during the final season of “Breaking Bad.”
Cranston and his wife Robin Dearden bought the property the home sits on in 2007 for around $2.5 million, and completed the 2,450-square-foot house in 2013. It’s listed for just under $5 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The actor who told the publication that he’s an architecture “nerd” helped design the three-bedroom home, and brought in a team of designers to make it as eco-friendly as possible. The listing for the property calls it “a true net-zero build” that produces as much electricity as it consumes.
Trophy homes sold like hotcakes to close out 2020, but Southern California’s luxury market was a bit quieter in the new year. January saw some surprising sales in unexpected places, with a home in Corona del Mar selling for more than any property in the Platinum Triangle of Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills and Bel-Air.
Here’s a closer look at the priciest deals that went down last month in Southern California.
$25.37 million Santa Barbara
For the second straight month, Santa Barbara County had Southern California’s most expensive home sale. This one belonged to Mark Mitchell, a managing partner of Lorient Capital, who found a buyer after the home was on the market for nearly a year.
Inside Chris Tawil’s Former Malibu Beach House
By Mae Hamilton of The Dirt |
Cosmetics baron Chris Tawil is an expert at making huge sums of money very quickly. Back in 2008, he and his business partner sister Linda Tawil were middle-class San Fernando Valley residents; that year, they founded Morphe Brushes, which began with a tiny retail shop in Burbank. In 2013, the pair launched Morphe’s cosmetics arm, which quickly became YouTube-famous for its many lucrative collabs with top influencers most famously Jeffree Star, Jaclyn Hill, and James Charles. By 2017, the brother-and-sister duo had sold a majority stake in Morphe for hundreds of millions to a San Francisco private equity firm; 2019 brought a growth investment from General Atlantic that reportedly valued Morphe at north of $2 billion. And the Bugatti-driving Tawils are now two of the wealthiest entrepreneurs in the greater L.A. area.