McKillen purchased the site for $15 million in 2013, when it was still occupied by a 9,400-square-foot Colonial Revival residence built in 1928. It took developr Tyrone McKillen - who is also the listing broker on the property under Hilton & Hyland’s banner - and his firm McKillen Developments about four years to complete the house, Hyland said. “It’s open and airy with indoor-outdoor living where you push a button and all the huge, heavy doors fall into the walls seamlessly, as if they were never there, opening up to the gardens and the pools,” broker Dolly Lenz told earlier this week. “It’s got beautiful scale, beautiful volume,” said Hyland, who recently toured the behemoth site. The six-structure compound totals 30,000 square feet with eight bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, four pools, a basketball court, a recording studio, a spa, staff quarters and limestone floors. The eight-bedroom, 11-bathroom spread was designed by Irish architect Paul McClean, who designed at least three of the 10 priciest homes sold in L.A. The apparently Beyoncé-worthy property at hand, located in Bel Air’s prestigious East Gate area, is a spectacle in and of itself. On the Westside alone, he said, there have been 19 homes sold for prices over $20 million in the first quarter of 2017 - that’s up 380 percent compared to this time last year. luxury housing market following those deals, Coldwell Banker agent Christophe Choo told The Real Deal. The latter property on Carolwood Drive, several brokers say, serves as a point of comparison for Bey and Jay’s prospective new home.Ī $120 million price tag might seem steep, but it accurately reflects the continued strength of the L.A. Hardly two months after Daren Metropoulos became the first buyer to break the nine-digit threshold with his $100 million purchase of the Playboy Mansion, billionaire Tom Gores matched the price point with a two-acre Holmby Hills spec house. “From now on, every time there’s a major high-end sale, it will break the existing record,” Hyland said. But few in the residential real estate industry would be fazed, it seems. If the golden couple of music closes on the property, they’d shatter the record for the most expensive home ever purchased in L.A. In fact, the home at 454 Cuesta Way, which was listed at $135 million, has not yet been completed, said Jeff Hyland of Hilton & Hyland, the brokerage that holds the listing. Jay explained what happened to the people at iHeartRadio.Either way, don’t hold your breath: Beyoncé and Jay Z may have made a $120 million offer on a spec home in Bel Air - their third reported offer on a Los Angeles home since 2014 - but the deal is far from sealed. The title track, which lasts exactly four minutes and 44 seconds, got its name for a serendipitous reason. It’s unclear if Jay and Bey’s attraction to the number is based on superstition, or if it’s simply sentimental.Īs for the number's relationship to the album 4:44, that goes to the very heart of the project. Some consider the number to be unlucky as it represents work, while others believe it represents focus and determination to reach goals. The significance of the number four varies from culture to culture. "There’s something spiritual to me about it being my 44th birthday and the serendipity behind the number of days in this challenge 22 (2+2=4) coupled with the fact that the challenge ends on Christmas day…It just feels right!" And we should also remember that Jay once took the number four to linguistic extremes with his track "44 Fours," a latter-day sequel to his 1996 track "22 Two's." "Why now?" he wrote on his blog, Life + Times. The duration of the diet seemed somewhat random however, the rapper explained that the number four played a huge part in deciding the time span. of 2013, just one day before he turned 44, Jay revealed he and Bey would go vegan for 22 days.