Venture Capitalist Alan Salzman Buys $18 Million Montecito Estate, Lists Beverly Hills Mansion

James McClain Veteran Silicon Valley investor Mitch Lasky and his wife Cecilia Barajas have a well-documented affinity for big residential compounds, and now they’ve taken their love out to Malibu’s posh Broad Beach.

Mark David So the tongue-wagging Platinum Triangle real estate scuttlebutt goes, billionaire real estate developer Randall Van Wolfswinkel has over the last year or so peeped and poked around just about every trophy home for sale in Beverly Hills with a price tag under $100 million.

TMZ reported on Monday.The host, 45, put his 9,000-square-foot home on the market after buying it from Ellen DeGeneres for $39 million in 2012.

James McClain More than three years after it first hit the market, one of the Los Angeles market’s most notorious spec-mansions — the real estate white elephant formerly known as Opus — has finally found a buyer.

James McClain For moneyed homebuyers seeking maximum view wattage, it’s tough to beat L.A.’s Bird Streets neighborhood. Set at the far western end of the Hollywood Hills, high above the Sunset Strip, many Birds lots have views that are just as incredible during the night — when the glittering lights of the entire city are spread below one’s feet — as they are during the day, when the downtown L.A.

James McClain Though it has a reputation as a quaint, postcard-perfect beach getaway, the San Diego County town of Del Mar has also long been aggressively expensive, and it’s got mansions every bit as lavish as those in Malibu or Newport Beach.