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In the Market for A Home in LA?
Friday, March 31st, 2006Los Angeles Home Purchased By Tom Jones Is Up for Sale
By Troy McMullen/From The Wall Street Journal Online/January 20, 2006
What: Four bedrooms, seven full baths in 4,600 square feet on 2.5 acres.
Where: Los Angeles
Amenities: Pool, guest suite with sauna, parking for 10 cars, wine cellar, two fireplaces, library, wet bar in master bedroom. Each room in the house has views of downtown Los Angeles or Stone Canyon.
Asking Price: $4.95 million
Opening Bid*: $4.5 million
Listing Agents: Sotheby’s International Realty and Previews Coldwell Banker
Due Diligence: Singer Tom Jones, who was recently given a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for services to music, bought this two-story house for his parents in 1980, shortly after his father retired from his coal-mining job in Wales. Mr. Jones’s sister, Sheila, now lives in the midcentury house and says she and her brother decided to sell the property after their mother, Freda, died two years ago. (Thomas Jones Sr. died in 1981.) The house, just west of downtown Los Angeles in the city’s Bel Air district, was originally designed in 1962 for TV director Jack Denove. Besides the wet bar, the second-floor master-bedroom suite has a fireplace and deck. Neighbors include Lindsey Buckingham, of the band Fleetwood Mac and, in nearby Stone Canyon, Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek. Local brokers say the home is priced about right for the area.
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(Note: not sure if the house is still on the market)
(Thanks to Andre)
