Bel-Air Manse Asking $35M Tops LA Signed Contracts

A Bel-Air estate owned by a trust tied to local philanthropists served as last week’s top home that went into contract, with a $34.8 million asking price.

That’s according to a report from Douglas Elliman’s Eklund Gomes team, which compiles a roundup of Los Angeles County signed contracts based on the listing price. The Eklund Weekly Luxury Report Los Angeles counts single-family homes and condominiums listed for $4 million or more in the Multiple Listing Service.

Records in PropertyShark indicate the seller of the Mediterranean-inspired mansion at 642 Siena Way is a trust tied to the late Brindell Roberts Gottlieb, a former teacher at Beverly Hills High School. Roberts Gottlieb’s husband was the late real estate developer Milton Gottlieb, who developed office towers, apartments and residential properties in the Los Angeles area. The Gottliebs were local philanthropists, donating to the Center Theatre Group and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Westside Estate Agency’s Kurt Rappaport holds the listing.

The five-bedroom, seven-bathroom home is 11,000 square feet on an over 2-acre lot. Highlights include a motor court, two-story foyer, library, tennis court and swimming pool.

The home originally hit the market last January for $45 million and came off the market less than two months later. It was relisted last month at the current asking price.

Last week’s second-largest home under contract, based on listing price, was in Beverly Hills at 617 North Alpine Drive.

The six-bed, eight-bath home is asking just under $14 million for an over 8,300-square-foot English Tudor estate.

It hit the market in January for nearly $14.5 million before seeing a price cut to its current ask in March.

Nicholas Property Group’s Dustin Nicholas has the listing.

Property and state records show the home is owned by GenThree Alpine Inc., which is tied to Indonesian politician and businessman Sihar Sitorus and his wife Patricia Sitorus.

The home has formal living and dining rooms, several en suite bedrooms and a pool on over a third of an acre.

Across Los Angeles County, 24 properties went into contract last week, according to the Eklund Weekly Luxury Report Los Angeles. Last week’s contracts amounted to $178.3 million in asking dollar volume.

The totals are up from the 18 contracts totaling $114.8 million in asking dollar volume notched in the prior week ended May 4.