Who says super high-end homes aren’t selling?

In last week’s Los Angeles Times’ Hot Property column, real estate editor Lauren Beale revealed that Hugh Hefner and his Playboy Bunny Wife Kim sold their house next door to the Playboy Mansion for a cool $18 million.

That sounds like a lot of cash, but Hugh and Kim Hefner took more than a bit of a hit from the March 2009 $27,995,000 list price - a 35 percent decline in the sales price.

According to Beale, the house is a 7,300 Tudor-style home built in 1929, with 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms on 2.3 acres backing up to the Los Angeles Country Club. Celebrity site TMZ offered up this photo which shows that perhaps Mr. and Mrs. Hefner took the whole “next door neighbor’s thing” to a whole new level.

Like many empty-nester families, the Hefners are supposedly selling because their sons are heading to college. Will they downsize into one house (presumably the Playboy mansion) instead of two?

CLICK HERE to read the full article at my CBS MoneyWatch Blog.

 
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7 Comments on Would You Pay $18 Million To Live Next Door To Hugh Hefner And The Playboy Mansion?

AUG
05
2009

I am curious to find out which male celebrity or athlete bought a house next to the bunnies.
11:07am • #1
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What a great post! That is funny, my wife loves that new Kendra show...
11:14am • #2

Years ago, I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion, and based on that experience OH YEAH, I would spend 18 million to live next door!!!! Of course my medical insurance isn't probably good enough anymore, if you know what I mean!!!
11:16am • #3
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It's hard to imagine Hefner as an empty nester!  It seems like there are a lot of young birds flying around him wherever he goes.
11:22am • #4
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Ilyce,

What a great story.  If I had that kind of money I guess I would not mide living next door to Hef.

Thanks for sharing.
11:32am • #5
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Pretty funny - wonder where Kimberly is going?
11:46am • #6
AUG
06
2009
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I am thinking it could be a noisey neighbor. With all those wild Playboy parties it might be distracting or hard to live by??
8:53am • #7


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