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Lauren Beale is the Hot Property columnist for The Los Angeles Times.

In addition to covering the celebrity real estate beat for the newspaper, she writes and edits for the Sunday Business section, she blogs at Money & Co. and handles web production duties for The Times’ Real Estate page.

A 30-year veteran of The Times, Beale’s stint has included reporting, copy editing, page design and line editing in sections including Business, Real Estate, Travel, Book Review, Food, the Sunday magazine, entertainment and lifestyle. She was Real Estate Editor from 2000 until the section closed in 2008.

Lauren is also current President of the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE).

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Ellen De Generes Buys Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Malibu Home

Ellen De Generes Buys Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's Malibu Home

(LOS ANGELES, CA) -- In one of the more talked-about transactions in town, actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have sold their Malibu beach house to daytime host and comedian Ellen De Generes for $12 million. Read More

 
Actor Pierce Brosnan Sells Malibu Beach Retreat for $2.6 Million

Actor Pierce Brosnan Sells Malibu Beach Retreat for $2.6 Million

(LOS ANGELES, CA) -- Pierce Brosnan and his wife, environmental activist and former broadcast journalist Keely Shaye Smith, put the property on the market at $3.9 million in 2010 while building another house nearby. Read More

 
Actress Jodie Foster Sells Gated Beverly Hills Estate for $8.3 Million

Actress Jodie Foster Sells Gated Beverly Hills Estate for $8.3 Million

Climbing roses and red brick accents give Jodie Foster's seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom compound an East Coast vibe. The listing described the style as Cape Cod and Connecticut. On nearly an acre, the compound contains the 1949 main house, ... Read More

 
Tori Spelling, Dean McDermott's New Reality

Tori Spelling, Dean McDermott's New Reality

(LOS ANGELES, CA) - From all appearances, Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have had a hectic year, juggling multiple television shows and real estate transactions. Most recently, they sold their Encino home for $2.5 million. Read More

 
Dennis Quaid Sells Pacific Palisades Estate for $9.5 Million

Dennis Quaid Sells Pacific Palisades Estate for $9.5 Million

(LOS ANGELES, CA) - Actor Dennis Quaid has sold his equestrian estate in Pacific Palisades. The French country-style main house, built in 2004, sits on two acres with a second house, a studio, a barn, a corral and a year-round creek. Read More

 
Actor David Spade Lists Malibu Beach Home

Actor David Spade Lists Malibu Beach Home

David Spade recently listed his Malibu beach home for $13.5 million. It joins more than three dozen other houses for sale in the coastal city priced at $10 million and up. Read More

 
'Twilight' Stars Home Goes on the Market

'Twilight' Stars Home Goes on the Market

A Westside compound that "Twilight" stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart had been leasing for the last several months is up for sale at $5.995 million. Read More

 
Actor David Schwimmer Lists Hancock Park Home for $10.7 Million

Actor David Schwimmer Lists Hancock Park Home for $10.7 Million

It has been a busy real estate year for former "Friends" cast mates. Actors Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry have both sold places. Now actor-director David Schwimmer has put his home in Hancock Park on the market at $10.7 million. Read More

 
Charlie Sheen's Ex Sells Los Feliz Home

Charlie Sheen's Ex Sells Los Feliz Home

Television personality Brooke Mueller has sold the gated Los Feliz home she once shared with her ex-husband, Charlie Sheen, for an undisclosed amount. Read More

 
Rihanna Puts Beverly Hills Area Fixer-Upper Home on the Market

Rihanna Puts Beverly Hills Area Fixer-Upper Home on the Market

Pop star Rihanna has listed a Beverly Hills Post Office-area home at $4.5 million, substantially less than the $6.9 million she paid two years ago. Read More

 
Buyer jumps at Flea's new place

Buyer jumps at Flea's new place

The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, whose given name is Michael Balzary, has sold his newly built Malibu house for $3.15 million. The two-story contemporary had come on the market in June at $4,795,000. Read More

 
Trump Sells Rancho Palos Verdes Mansion

Trump Sells Rancho Palos Verdes Mansion

Master brander Donald Trump has sold his custom estate in Rancho Palos Verdes for $7.15 million. Read More

 
Ben Stiller, Wife Sell Their Hollywood Hills Home for $7.3 Million

Ben Stiller, Wife Sell Their Hollywood Hills Home for $7.3 Million

Comic actor Ben Stiller and his actress wife, Christine Taylor, have sold part of their compound in the Hollywood Hills for $7,325,000, public records show. The entire property, listed at $12.5 million two years ago, included two houses and a one-bedroom guesthouse for a total of 10 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms on nearly an acre. Read More

 
Sharon Stone Lists Beverly Hills Home for $8.9 Million

Sharon Stone Lists Beverly Hills Home for $8.9 Million

Actress Sharon Stone recently listed her Beverly Hills area compound for sale at $8,995,000. Read More

 
Matthew Perry Trading Homes

Matthew Perry Trading Homes

Actor Matthew Perry has recently purchased a newly built custom house in the Sunset Strip area for $8.65 million. That might explain why he put his West Hollywood condo up for sale recently for $2,995,000.At his new home, walls of... Read More

 
Christina Aguilera Sells Sunset Strip Home for $4.65 Million

Christina Aguilera Sells Sunset Strip Home for $4.65 Million

The Midcentury Modern, built in 1960, is in the celebrity-populated "bird streets." The 6,500-square-foot post-and-beam house has a recording studio, a screening room and walls of glass opening to a pool, a 12-person spa and a fireplace. There are four bedrooms and seven bathrooms. Read More

 
Brad Pitt Lists His Malibu Home for $13.75 Million

Brad Pitt Lists His Malibu Home for $13.75 Million

Mega movie star Brad Pitt has listed his gated Malibu beach house for $13.75 million. Read More

 
Lord of the Rings Elijah Wood Lists His Santa Monica Home

Lord of the Rings Elijah Wood Lists His Santa Monica Home

(LOS ANGELES, CA) -- "The Lord of the Rings" star Elijah Wood's latest quest is to find a buyer for the Santa Monica house he recently put up for sale at $1.85 million. Read More

 
Orson Welles' Former Home Up For Grabs

Orson Welles' Former Home Up For Grabs

Former home of legendary director Orson Welles Summer is traditionally a slow season in real estate, but you wouldn't know it based on two super-quick deals of note.One sale in the works involves the former Sunset Strip-area home of legendary... Read More

 
Walt Disney's Former Home Goes on the Market

Walt Disney's Former Home Goes on the Market

(LOS ANGELES) -- The onetime Los Feliz residence of Walt Disney, where his daughters grew up, has come on the market at $3.65 million. Read More

 
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