It’s never too late to “say sorry,” as Justin Bieber might believe, but it’s too far gone for the 26-year-old Canadian crooner to take a profit on his Beverly Hills home. The bespoke contemporary-traditional residential fusion, which originally popped up on the market last March asking $9 million, recently sold for just under $8 million — over $500,000 less than Bieber paid for the place just three short years ago. TMZ first reported the transfer.
The lucky new owners had been looking for a new home for more than two years, victims of a challenging market, but “immediately fell in love with the property,” according to their realtor Steven Schaefer, and they even scored all of Bieber’s furniture in the deal. (Property records indicate the discount buyers are not Hollywood celebrities but rather businessman Alex Cohen, CEO of loan juggernaut Liberty SBF, and his wife Leah Weiss.)
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Image Credit: Redfin Set on a prime cul-de-sac in the 90210’s Benedict Canyon area, walking distance to the Beverly Hills Hotel and right next door to a $10 million home owned by Jeff Bezos, the former Bieber estate includes a 6,100-square-foot structure originally built in 1932. Initially a nondescript traditional, the place was underwent a dramatic expansion and renovation in 2018 that rendered it completely unrecognizable.
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Image Credit: Redfin Walled and gated for security, the camera-watched estate includes a private front courtyard with olive trees shading crunchy pea gravel. Inside, wide-plank hardwood floors flow throughout the main floor, which includes a living room with a marble fireplace and glassy French doors opening to the courtyard.
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Image Credit: Redfin The step-down living room lies just off the gourmet kitchen, stylishly appointed with bespoke rift oak cabinetry, SubZero and Wolf appliances, and a marble-topped island. Custom Steelcase windows in both rooms open to various parts of the gardens; the formal dining room sports more traditional casement windows with tree views.
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Image Credit: Redfin Somewhere in the house are a movie theater and a library sheathed in what appears to be a textured gray-green wallpaper, but the most visually interesting room is probably the wine cellar, with its Art Deco-inspired golden bar and backlit shelving. There are also five bedrooms and seven full bathrooms, per the listing, including a master suite with a fireplace, soaking tub, and an extra-large walk-in closet.
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Image Credit: Redfin Though it’s not particularly spacious, the .2-acre property also includes a well-landscaped backyard with a sparkling pool, outdoor cabana with fireplace, lush banana plants, and a wee patch of lawn for Fido to attend to his business.
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Image Credit: Redfin Don’t shed any tears for Bieber; despite the big financial loss, he and wife Hailey Baldwin are still living large. The couple recently upgraded to a $25.8 million estate in the guard-gated Beverly Park community, high in the mountains above Beverly Hills. (Other famous residents in that same enclave include Magic Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson, Rod Stewart, and Denzel Washington.)
Josh Altman of the Altman Brothers team at Douglas Elliman shared the listing with Dalton Gomez of the Aaron Kirman team at Compass; Steven Schaefer and Jay Luchs of Schaefer and Luchs repped the buyers.