Harry Styles Takes Huge Hit on Sale of Sunset Strip Home
By Mark David
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Harry Styles was so ready to get rid of his sleekly appointed pied-à-terre above Los Angeles’s perennially chic Sunset Strip, he’s taken a huge loss on the property, selling the multi-level contemporary after more than two years on the market for $6 million. That’s a pearl-clutching $870,000 less than the English pop star paid three and a half years ago.
The One Direction megastar — the astronomically popular boy band has been on indefinite hiatus for the last few years — picked up the property in early 2016 and flipped the just over 4,400 sq. ft. home back on the market the following year with an in-hindsight too high asking price of nearly $8.5 million . The price of the four-bedroom and six-bedroom city-view pad, which marketing materials describe as a “modern showplace located behind gates in the most prime section above the Sunset Strip,” eventually fell to $6.295 million.
A gated drive sweeps up to the front of the house and a huge bank of floor-to-ceiling glass panels in the white-floored combination living and dining room vanish into the walls to unite the light-filled space with a sun-splashed terrace that offers a panoramic, over-the-treetops view across a vast swathe of Los Angeles. The black-and-white kitchen is arranged around a huge island with an integrated snack bar and there’s also a small fitness/yoga room and a sumptuous, professional-grade home theater. A roof terrace offers a fire pit and city view and, tucked discreetly under the terrace outside the living/dining room, a curtained loggia with outdoor shower area overlooks a wall of bamboo that forms a curvaceous privacy barrier behind a classic, kidney-shaped swimming pool and raised circular spa. The property was listed with Kurt Rappaport and Carl Gambino , both with Westside Estate Agency , while the buyer was represented by Redfin agent Alec Traug .
This is not the first time Styles, who manages a small international portfolio of residences, has lost a ton of money on the sale of a Los Angeles property. In early 2014, Styles splashed out $4 million for an organic-modern home along a private, celeb-lined Beverly Hills street that he dumped less than two years later for not quite $3.2 million, another staggering $800,000+ loss. The boy band phenom, who made his acting debut in the 2017 war film “Dunkirk” and is reportedly in “ early negotiations ” to portray Prince Eric in the upcoming animated feature “Little Mermaid,” has also maintained a residence in New York City since at least 2016, when he shelled out a bit more than $8.7 million for a luxury condo in a celeb-packed complex in the West Village. And, he reportedly upgraded his residential circumstances in North London earlier this year with the roughly $11 million purchase of a five-bedroom Georgian manor house described in the media as being decorated in a “faux Regency style” with “ornate cornicing and curtain swags at the windows” and a “screening room and games room in the basement.”
