March 17th, 2008

Hot Properties – Movie Producer Gilbert Adler and Rocker Richie Sambora

By: Chris Brubaker

Celebrity Homes

This isn’t the longest list we’ve ever had but none the less it’s Monday and it’s time for some celeb real estate news, enjoy this week’s Hot Properties.

 

Gilbert Adler

You may not have heard of Glibert Alder specifically but I’m sure you’ve seen his work. Alder has produced a great deal of Hollywood hits spanning his career, noting more recent films such as Superman Returns, Constantine, Starsky and Hutch, House on Haunted Hill, and even producing some TV shows such as HBO’s Tales from the Crypt. Gilbert is making the Hot Properties list this week for putting his Beverly Hills home on the market.

 

The home features around 6,000 sq. ft. with five bedrooms and six bathrooms. The property sits on 1.59 acres of land with ocean views and a private sun deck. The home is located within a private gated community where such celebrates as John Stamos and Mischa Barton also reside.

Gilber Adler’s Home For Sale

 

Richie Sambora

Bon Jovi’s lead guitarist, co-songwriter, Richie Sambora has been making some notable real estate purchases within the past few months. Back in December of 2007 Sambora bought a 5,500 sq. ft. home from fellow rock star Slash in the San Fernando Valley area, more recently Sambora has purchased another new home in Calabasas from baseball star Randy Wolf (San Diego Padres).

 

Sambora’s most recent home features seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a ballroom style entrance with double oak stairs, a media room and of course a game room. The large mansion though sits on less than 1 acre of land.

Richie Sambora’s New Home

Richie Sambora’s other recent purchase

 

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March 14th, 2008

Happy Hour – 281,000,000,000 Gigabytes

By: Chris Brubaker

Have you ever wondered how much information is on the WWW?
Well a study by IDC tried to answer that question, using a complex formula they put together an estimation as to how much information is on the Internet. What they came up with is that in 2007 there were 281 Billion gigabytes […]

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March 13th, 2008

Texting Messaging Gone Wrong: Spam

By: Chris Brubaker

 
In this two part series, I’m going to talk about two key problems in the SMS (text messaging) industry affecting growth and innovation; spam and shady business practices.

 

Spam
Let’s first start out with some numbers. In 2006, 800 million spam text messages were sent, in 2007 that number increased to 1.1 […]

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March 11th, 2008

Hot Properties – Celebrity Shack, Sean Hayes, Frank Sinatra Jr, and Teir Polo

By: Chris Brubaker

Charlie Sheen, Katey Sagal, Kristie Alley’s Home for Sale
No, they aren’t all living under one roof but it’s almost like they were, with all three of these celebrities at one point owning this mansion. Kristie Alley lived in the home in 1997 when she sold it to Katey Sagal, who then proceeded to […]

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February 28th, 2008

MoonFront Closer to Reality

By: Chris Brubaker

Back in September 2007, HouseFront announced an initiative to become the real estate industries first moon property search and valuation tool, changing our name to MoonFront (name change still pending). We also announced a competition that is set to run through 2025, where the first person to search a property on the […]

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February 25th, 2008

Search Real Estate Smarter/Faster via Your Browser

By: Chris Brubaker
Searching the Internet, we all do it every day. Whether you’re looking for real estate or a Betty Crocker cookie recipe, the best (only) way to find things on the Internet is to search… Who wants to type in www anyways? I use Firefox as my default browser, and love using […]

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