Real Estate Advice
When you’re buying or selling a home, it helps you understand not only the local real estate market, but some of the national trends that may effect your home selling or buying journey.
Our experienced team of real estate agents bring decades of collective experience to the table and regularly use this section of the website to offer their best tips and advice for sellers and buyers.
We hope you enjoy the advice we offer here! For an analysis of your home’s value or for help finding the right property in the Philly area, speak with one of our talented real estate agents or directly contact the CenterCityTeam office: 215.440.2093
December 11, 2014
In the not-to-distant past, celebrities were able to maintain a semblance of privacy in their own homes. When famous folk buy houses, it’s usually through a trust (to keep their names off public record). Add in some privacy fences or hedges, and it used to be the case that things were pretty secure. The digital age has changed all that. […]
December 10, 2014
Girls creator and star Lena Dunham is keeping it local with her newest real estate acquisition: a pretty $4.8 million Brooklyn condo. Dunham just sealed the deal on her new digs, which are located within the same neighborhood in Brooklyn Heights as her current home – a $500,000 apartment that she purchased back in 2012. In case the price didn’t […]
December 9, 2014
American royalty Beyonce and Jay-Z are just like us. They found a home that they love, and now they are in the tough position of having to strike down other comers bidding on the same property. The only difference between this and a normal real estate bidding war? Average Joes aren’t flinging around tens of millions of dollars to get […]
December 8, 2014
Someone bust out the housewarming gifts: Justin Bieber has moved into a new home. The Beverly Hills abode is locally known as the “Salad Spinner” for its iconic glass-and-steel rotunda design. It’s almost all windows. Bieber will pay a whopping $59,000 per month to rent the home, in what TMZ says will be a short-term lease. Renowned architect Ed Niles […]
December 5, 2014
It’s December, which can mean only one thing – it’s time for a veritable avalanche of year-end lists and roundups. One of the first on the scene (and perhaps the only one relevant to this blog!) is Realtor.com’s list of “The 10 Most Stunning Celebrity Homes of 2014.” Packed with droolworthy pics of lavish nests, this tribute to the year’s […]
December 4, 2014
Electronic musician Moby just sold his home, a replica castle called Wolf’s Lair that overlooked the Hollywood Reservoir. Now the artist has found himself a new place to hang his hat: a 1920s-vintage Tudor in Los Feliz, in the star-packed The Oaks nabe. The house was listed over the summer for $3.295 million, but Moby picked it up for a […]
December 3, 2014
Two of Hollywood’s most beautiful people, Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel, broke the hearts of Hollywood stargazers last year when they announced their separation. The duo, who met on stage playing Benny and Maureen in the original Broadway cast of the hit musical “Rent,” had been married for over ten years, and, as prominent members of the theater (and then […]
December 2, 2014
I’ve said it before, but celebrities are really just like us when it comes to real estate. When faced with a home that just won’t sell, they take the same tactic as us commoners – chop, chop, chop the price. Of course, the price cuts are quite a bit more dramatic! Just take mega-watt couple Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew […]
December 1, 2014
Smokey Robinson, Motown songwriter and singer, has listed his home in Chatsworth, California. The 74-year-old put the house on the market just six days ago. Located in the prestigious Indian Springs gated community, this is the kind of abode that was clearly meant for a celebrity. The six bedroom, six bath home is spread over a spectacular 9,075 square feet […]