Deon Cole Sells Suburban Mid-Century Home in L.A.’s Woodland Hills
By Mark David
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – A mid-century contemporary in the affluent, largely under-the-radar L.A. suburb of Woodland Hills, Calif., which marketing materials proudly pronounce an “Ultra-private celebrity home owned by ‘Black-ish’ star Deon Cole,” has been sold after just two months on the market for $1.565 million. The sale price is a bit under its just shy of $1.6 million asking price. Acquired by the comedian, comedy writer and Old Spice spokesman a bit more than three years ago for $1.23 million, the low-slung 1960s sprawler contains four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms in almost 3,800 square feet.
Locked wooden gates shield and protect a courtyard entry minimally landscaped with little more than a slender strip of lawn and a potted plant set into a deep niche. Just inside the front door, a tile-floored entrance gallery steps down to a wood-floored living room with a built-in surround sound system. A free-standing, double-sided fireplace sheathed in white marble-clad is shared with the dining room ad huge picture windows and glass sliders easily integrate the rooms to outdoor living and entertaining spaces. A den comfortably accommodates a pool table; the kitchen is updated in a fairly generic manner with gleaming, average-quality stainless steel appliances; and a separate breakfast room spills out to the backyard through glass sliders.
Three guest bedrooms, one of them en suite, and a family room are clustered together on one side of the house, while the master suite privately occupies a wing of its with a private sitting room/office, fireplace and glass sliders to a semi-private patio. Outside, in the walled and tree privatized backyard, there are several sunny and shaded patios, a swimming pool and, behind a very tall and practical if not especially attractive chain link fence, a lighted basketball court.
Cole was represented in the deal by Shawn Donohoe and Nicolas Donohoe of Keller Williams in Brentwood , while the buyers were repped by Shawn Regnier of the Encino-Sherman Oaks office of .
Cole, who also appears on the “Black-ish” spin off “Grown-ish,” and will appear on the silver screen in the upcoming heist film “Action #1” as well as the Ben Stiller produced comedy “ Friendsgiving ,” recently upgraded his residential circumstances with the slightly more than $2.5 million purchase of a nearly 6,000-square-foot home in the convenient and increasingly fashionable foothills above Studio City .
