Tasteful Friends, Pierce Brosnan seeks $100 million for dramatic Malibu compound

Nice, but not $100 million nice.

Why are celebs so greedy?

There's not even a decent beach in front.

The lot looks quite cramped, too.

So many home squished together in such a small space.

One hundred million? Pfft.

OPs makes me wonder if the price is for the house or the actor? Why list the current owner's movie credentials? Is that really worth the price of the actual house?

He was pretty but not $100 million pretty.

Nouveau riche look big movie star house!

For 100M, I'd need acres.

The lot is basically a shoe box with your neighbors watching your every move and shag in the swimming pool.

What is that weird addition to the left, in R1's photo?

There's this brown house in the middle, with a very specific style.

And then there's this white monstrosity connected to it, like some sort of growth.

Who in the hell designed this crap?

Or is that the neighbor's house, literally RIGHT UP NEXT to Pierce's house?

Let me just organise another loan through my Private Banker.

Even for Malibu standards this is ridiculous.

The pool is nice.

It sort of looks like a Thai resort.

What an odd looking family.

$100 million and one big Malibu fire and whooosh.

The view is quite nice.

OMG I've always wanted to see this!!!! The first thing I notice is the elevation, it's perfect. With a lot of the houses on this street you can't really see the water on the first floor. I love the width of the lot and the fact that it has one of the few if only backyard pools on the street. The kitchen seems a little cramped, but that's just from what can be seen.

I think part of it was rebuilt after a fire a few years back.

What exactly about this house, makes it worth $100 million?

So now everyone else on that stretch of beach is going to ask for $80-$120 million now?

The greed of these already wealthy people is just astounding.

I don't deny anyone to live the life they want, but it's pretty tacky to sell something that's ridiculously overpriced given the lives of people who are trying to survive right now.

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Looks to me like he's expecting to make the sale from the money laundering segment of the real estate market.

I agree, R19, and the fact that he’s described as an activist just makes it more galling. You cannot be an activist of anything if you’re living in or selling your multimillion dollar homes. All these fucking celebs and their performative environmentalist and humanitarian bullshit.

[quote]I hope that the new buyer enjoys being THISCLOSE to their neighbor.

You could see their brown starfish winking at you.

Forget fire. You can rebuild. There used to be a beach in front of that house. How long before the ocean is up to the highway? Oceanfront property is quite a gamble. No place for serious money.

R14 what is that giant on the left!?

Pierce is a bit of a brand ambassador whore. It was his Bond that introduced product placements in the movies.

[quote] Omega jumped at the opportunity with James Bond that Rolex apparently did not, and Pierce Bronsnan seemed to also get it. As you can see in the two photos below, Pierce also modeled watches for Omega that had nothing to do with James Bond like the Omega Constellation.

R25 Didn't you know that Pierce is actually a 'little person' or what we'd call a leprechaun back in the old country. His movies are all CGI, editing, clever camera work and shoe lifts like they do with Tom Cruise.

[quote]What exactly about this house, makes it worth $100 million?

It's worth $100 million if someone decides they're willing to pay that much for it. I doubt they'll get any takers.

“James Bond” star Pierce Brosnan is shooting for nine figures...”

I’m looking for some double 0, double 0, double 0, double 0 heaven.

R22 They are for sure going to be making an enormous profit, considering how long ago they bought the lot. I am curious to see what they do with the money. For all we know, the Brosnans will be donating a huge portion of the sale of the home to charities. We don't know.

They'll also be "donating" a huge amount to the US Treasury.

The value is in the land and the price is a pipe dream. This house is on the same amount of land, for $42 million. Carrol O'Connor's house is also on the same size lot, and its a teardown at $28 million.

You could bulldoze the $42 million house from 2004 and rebuild whatever you'd like and still come out at $60 million.

These are all on the same little street***

Whenever I'm in LA and I'm zipping around Malibu, I'm always stunned by how unappealing and busy PCH seems like it would be to live on. Everything is all crammed together, and you are on a literal highway. I could never.

The lot he has is pretty big for malibu. Also, you have a huge private beach. Most people have poured cement over the sand. It is a lot of money, but he knows his compound is better.

People are selling. I think the high end market is going to drop.

The price is just vulgar when everybody knows for how much he bought it years ago. I think he'd have better chances with a more reasonable asking price that still allows the buyer to haggle a bit. But then I can imagine someone buying it for 75 million and thinking that he haggled with James Bond and got the price lowered for quite a bit and see it as some personal victory.

The beach is set to be restored, in due time. It's been in the works over a decade. I love this saga. It's always about to happen.

[quote]It’s been a decade-long haul for the 123 property owners on Malibu’s Broad Beach Road, as they have struggled to save their houses from the ocean. When the once broad beach (giving the street its name) dwindled to almost nothing, an emergency rock revetment, or wall, was put up in front of 78 of the homes back in 2010 to save them from destructive wave action during storms. Shortly after, a neighborhood Geological Hazard Abatement District (GHAD) was formed with the power to assess properties and collect funds to fix the problem. The goal was to bring in tons of sand from somewhere else to restore the beach and serve as a protective barrier.

[quote]Unfortunately, no one realized that what sounded like a simple, straightforward project at the time would end up costing about $25 million (and counting) before any sand ever made it to the beach.

[quote]“It’s a stunning mess,” said one property owner who asked to remain anonymous. “The millions they’ve spent doing everything but putting sand on the beach ... If you own 50 feet of beachfront, you’re paying an assessment of about $70,000 per year. Some owners have 150 feet of beachfront. Some people have had to sell their homes because they couldn’t afford the assessments.

[quote]“The assessment went from $440/foot of beachfront to $1,600/foot of beachfront over five years,” Scapa said. “The GHAD has spent $11 million in legal fees and $8 million in engineering fees so far.”

Not bad for a boy from Drogheda. $100M is clearly not going to happen, I would think this ask was a very successful tactic to get the property into the LA Times, WSJ, Mansion Global, and hence exposed internationally. Very smart marketing move.

R35 - it is NOT a private beach. There are no private beaches in California - it's all public property DESPITE what owners try to do to scare people off.

There are a lot of unauthorized signs in Malibu re: parking and beach access to deter people from going there. All illegal.

Holy shit. 100 Mill AND the beach front drama at r37? Hard pass (not that it was ever an option).

That is some major mismanagement and fuck-upery at R37.

What kind of idiots are in charge of that project?

As for Pierce's house, I find it tacky. Any house with a "theme" is just tacky.

he is delusional. the pacific is filled with radiation from Japan.

And he doesn't realize that future owners will not need 90M to feed whale-wife Keeley.

The place looks like an upscale hotel, with a restaurant overlooking the ocean and the most expensive suites above it. A very nice, tasteful, comfortable, extremely expensive hotel, to be sure, but the generic decor sure as hell doesnt look like a home.

Am very familiar with that area.

The beach is eroding as we speak. PCH is close by and FULL of traffic.

Not in a 100 million years would I ever consider that worth $100 mill.

He’s out of his mind.

It sickens me. Overpaid and ostentatious . He and his fat wife can fuck off and die

I need to see more pics of the interior. It does have a bit of an enchanted tiki room vibe.

The interior and gardens at R32's post are . . . something else.

r43 Nailed it.

It looks like a resort - one squeezed in among others. I have never understood why people with large homes decorate in the style of hotels, it is beyond tacky. Especially if it has a theme - like Italian villa or something equally hideous.

The land is everything. To have an acre on land on the beach in prime Malibu is worth a lot. If someone is willing to pay it, then that's what the house is worth. Agree, for 100M, that would not be what I would spend it on. I'm guessing around 60-75M which will still be a record breaker.

I'd like to see what you are living in, Marie @ R48

Just a regular home, nothing special - not an Italian palazzo, a Spanish mission, a dacha nor a South Pacific hut.

These tacky people are ruining LA.

Disgusting greed.

I guess the floors have been reinforced for that wife.

[quote]Forget fire. You can rebuild.

Well smell you.

Maybe some social climbing daughter of a billionaire will fork out something like the asking price. Isnt that how the Spelling monstrosity finally sold?

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How many good storms is it away from being worth $100,000?

How can I book a room at this hotel?