Comedian Ellen DeGeneres has thrown herself back into the U.S. housing market with gusto, snapping up a stunning Montecito mansion for $27.4 million in an off-market deal that closed at the end... Read more »
Two years ago, sheriff’s deputies found 96-year-old Violet Evelyn Alberts strangled inside her hillside home in Montecito. Last week, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department announced the arrest of three people charged... Read more »
Billionaire mining mogul Robert Friedland has bagged a second Santa Barbara-area estate, for $32 million. Five months after the founder of Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines paid $46.9 million for a 2-acre bluffside estate... Read more »
The verdict is in! Katy Perry’s legal battle over that $15-million Montecito mansion has concluded. The “Teenage Dream” hitmaker purchased the mansion for herself and fiancé Orlando Bloom in July 2020 from... Read more »
Actress Zoe Saldana has been identified as the mystery buyer of a 4.8-acre historic estate in Montecito for $17.5 million. The star of the “Avatar” and “Avengers” series bought the 94-year-old Spanish... Read more »