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
November 11, 2014
Twilight star Robert Pattinson makes all the ladies swoon and sigh over his morose vampire character. Now, the British heartthrob has a new place to hang his hat when he’s finished a long day of dazzling females. Pattinson’s had something of a tumultuous real estate history in the last couple years. The actor, who famously dated his costar Kristin Stewart, […]
November 10, 2014
Rapper Iggy Azalea and her NBA player boyfriend Nick “Swaggy P” Young have snapped up a former Disney princess’s fairytale-pretty farmhouse. The live-in lovers paid $3.45 million for the home, which was listed initially at $3.495 million by actress-turned-pop-star Selena Gomez. It’s located in the Tarzana neighborhood of The Valley in Los Angeles. The home, which sports over 6,000 square […]
November 7, 2014
The world lost a piece of Hollywood history when silver screen legend Lauren Bacall passed away. Now, says Curbed New York, the actress’s estate is about to hit the market. Making the story even more interesting than the usual Tinseltown real estate fare? The home is valued at $26 million… and it’s apparently haunted to the hilt. The Dakota building […]
November 6, 2014
Arrested Development star Jason Bateman just listed his ultra-pretty midcentury Hollywood home. Bateman and his wife, Amanda, have owned the Laurel Canyon home for the last ten+ years. They bought it in 2002 for $885,000 and put it on the market for $2.25 million. Even the name of the street it’s on evokes dreaminess: Wonderland Park Avenue. The midcentury look […]
November 5, 2014
Movie star, former Mr. Katie Holmes, and noted Scientologist Tom Cruise recently put his home in Telluride, Colorado up for sale. The property is twelve short minutes from downtown Telluride (site of a world-famous ski resort and film festival), and sits on a whopping 298 acres. Sporting four bedrooms and six bathrooms, the main home is about 10,000 square feet. […]
November 3, 2014
There might soon be a gorgeous new boutique hotel in Center City. Per a proposal submitted by Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, the 300-room Hudson Hotel could rise at the corner of 17th Street and Chancellor. It would replace Little Pete’s, the iconic diner known as a local late-night hangout, as well as a run-down eyesore of a parking garage. It would […]
October 30, 2014
Crooner John Legend and his model wife, Chrissy Teigan, have listed the Hollywood Hills home. A masterpiece of ’60s mid-century modern architecture, the home exudes both class and cool in equal quantities. It has three bedrooms, one of which Legend has had outfitted as a studio. (In fact, he recorded tracks from his most recent album there!) It’s wide-open floor […]
October 29, 2014
Michael Douglas and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones recently pulled off a real estate switcharoo in Bedford, New York. The couple, both of whom are Oscar winners, moved three miles down the road to a home that’s almost double the size of their previous nest. Obviously they are fans of life in Westchester County! Both homes are traditional in style and feature […]
October 28, 2014
Die Hard star and sexy bald dude Bruce Willis is on a real estate roll as of late. The ink just dried on the actor’s latest purchase, a gorgeous getaway in Bedford, New York. The home is altogether enviable, with shingled siding and a vast parcel of land overlooking the Croton Reservoir. It has 5 bedrooms and 6 baths, a […]