...That actress and "singer" Scarlett
Johansson's real estate saga is finally over. That's right puppies, Your Mama was just informed by an informant we'll call Chateau
Briand that
ScarJo has indeed and finally unloaded her real estate white elephant located in the Outpost Estates neighborhood in Los Angeles.
If the children put on their thinking caps they will recall that
Miz Johansson paid $7,000,000 for a 4 bedroom and 5.5
pooper Spanish style
casa in May of 2007. This would have been the apex of the now dramatically burst real estate bubble and long before she married her husband Ryan Reynolds whose abdominal muscles
ripple like the wash board Your Mama's granny Rayna used to
warsh her clothes.
By April of 2009
whispers and rumors started to slip down the real estate gossip grapevine and into Your Mama's bulging inbox that the chesty Miss
Johansson–who had by then become Missus Reynolds–wanted to sell the house even though she'd spent a pretty penny or two on renovations and, according to our snitches, had spent very little time actually living up in the Spanish style
casa.
Ten months later, in early February of 2010, the 4,352 square foot residence was, not exactly surprisingly, hoisted on the open market with an asking price of
$4,995,000, more than two million smackers less than she paid for the place. By February of 2010 the asking price had slipped all the way down to $4,500,000.
Property records Your Mama accessed–as well as information provided by Miss
Briand–shows that the new owner is tee-
vee writer Matt
Tarses and his wife Kathleen who actually closed on the property in mid June, 2010. What records do not show is the sale price. However, word on the celebrity real estate street is that the deal went down for somewhere in the neighborhood of $4,300,000.
If that rumored sale price is accurate, a few quick flicks of the well worn beads of our bejeweled abacus then shows that
Miz Johansson-Reynolds took an astonishing financial bath on the transaction amounting to $2,700,000 not counting renovation costs and the fat real estate fees that could have easily cost her another two hundred ground.
Poor
Miz Johansson-Reynolds is quickly developing bad habit of losing money on her real estate impulses. In January of 2006 she paid $1,950,000 for a 1,300 square foot loft style apartment at 66 Leonard street in New York City's
TriBeCa neighborhood that she sold in April of 2008 for, according to records, $1,898,000. According to The Easter Bunny,
Miz Johansson-Reynolds and her hunky
huzband have hightailed it to New York City where in April of 2008 she splashed out
$2,100,000 for a 2 bedroom and 2
pooper penthouse apartment on East 53rd Street.
Although Your Mama knows
nuthin' more than the whispers and rumbles we've read
online and in the tabs, the comely couple are said to have recently picked up a
farmette in the oil ravaged state of Louisiana that they're doing over with some
eco-friendly this and
thats including solar heating. Well, good for them if it's true.
