Pink Seeks Small Profit on Sale of Barry Manilow’s Former Malibu Home

Pink and Carey Hart were so keen to acquire an oceanfront home in Malibu last year that they coughed up $200,000 more than the $13.5 million asking price for a freshly renovated contemporary home once owned by Barry Manilow. (The “Copacabana” singer sold the house back in in 2012 for almost $5.5 million.)

Just four months after they bought it, and with few obvious improvements, the three-time Grammy winning “Trouble” singer and the motocross-racer-turned-off-road-truck-racer returned the showbiz pedigreed property to the market with an in-hindsight pie-in-the-sky price tag of $15 million. The listing disappeared from the open market just three months later, only to return this week with a giant price reduction.

Described in marketing materials as “iconic,” and newly re-listed with Lily Harfouche of Compass at a whisper under $14 million, the home’s 4,300 square feet are divided between a boxy, split-level main house and, across a central courtyard atop the two-car garage, a self-contained ocean-view one-bedroom and one-bath apartment for guests or staff.

Staged for the selling process with inoffensive neutral furnishings, the light and bright living room boasts a soaring ceiling and towering walls of floor-to-ceiling windows that slide open to a wrap-around terrace. A private set of steps leads down to the beach. The dining room overlooks the living room, and a wallpapered den spills out to the serene and private central courtyard, with its built-in barbecue and spa tub, while the sleek eat-in kitchen is crisply rendered in creams and whites and jazzed up with brass-inlaid marble backsplashes.

The main house’s four bedrooms include a spacious ocean-facing homeowner’s retreat that’s complete with an ocean-view bathroom and a pair of fitted walk-in closets. A glass-railed balcony offers unobstructed views from the Palos Verde Peninsula to Point Dume.

The mega-selling pop-rock veteran, who consistently ranks among highest earning women in entertainment – Forbes estimated she hauled in a staggering $57 million in 2019, and her thrill-seeking husband previously owned another home in Malibu, which they sold in 2016 for $12.5 million. They also owned an undeveloped neighboring parcel that tax records show was sold about a year ago for $7.5 million to a couple of corporate entities linked to Equinox health clubs founder Donato Errico. However, for the last eight or ten years, Pink and Hart have made their family’s primary home a sprawling organic vineyard in Santa Ynez, Calif., where the oenophile recording artist is the founder and official winemaker for the Two Wolves label.