When the Playboy mansion traded hands in 2016 to 33 year Darren Metropoulos the infamous 7 acre estate blew the doors off of all previous Los Angeles home sales records.  Here we are a few years later and there has been six recent sales over $100M in Los Angeles including Jeff Bezos $165M purchase of David Geffen's house, the original Jack Warner estate.  It appears generational estate homes with acreage and provenance are striking a nerve with billionaire home buyers from around theglobe who want to have a flag in the ground in Los Angeles.  Lachlan Murdoch set the Los Angeles record in December when he bought the 25,000 square foot Chartwell estate which was eclipsed by Mr. Amazon last week.  Other recent $100M sales include Ron Meyer's Malibu Paradise Cove (yes the same one that Ovitz blew a gasket over years ago when Ron beat him to the punch), the Spelling Manor aka Petra's Crib, Bruce Makowsky's Bel-Air spec with the helipad and the Enchanted Hill, a large piece of land with views for days owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.  Mr. Bezos acquired the land last week in a separate sale for $90M.  Let's not forget Gary Winnick's glorious 40,000 Square foot Casa Encantada is on the market for over $225M, the historic Owlwood Estate is on the market for what now seems like a modest at $115,000,000 and uber luxury developer Nile Niami's piece de resistance "The One", a 100,000 square foot modern masterpiece with a Monaco style casino and night club, is quietly being shown off market for an incomprehensible $500,000,000.

Tommy Beadel is the CEO of Thomas James Homes, the largest urban single lot homebuilder in the United States. This means he has about 200 custom homes being built throughout the Westside of Los Angeles at any given time in neighborhoods such as Brentwood, Palisades, Santa Monica, Westwood, Cheviot Hills, Beverlywood, Beverly Hills Post Office, Mar Vista and Culver City. These properties are generally selling for $2M to $7M which is a phenomenal value for a new home on the Westside of Los Angeles.

The scale and efficiency of Thomas James Homes is unprecedented in the residential development industry. Their extraordinary success led them to partner with powerhouse Oaktree Capital who acquired Thomas James Homes in 2018. This allows TJH to accelerate their expansion plans into Silicon Valley, Seattle and other booming single family markets. From their humble beginnings, the ethos of this company has been to put the brokers first and always reward them by paying them a full fee and giving them the listing on any deals they bring to the table. This respect and loyalty towards brokers has allowed Thomas James Homes to scale into the unique custom home building juggernaut they are today.

After getting his PHD in statistics from Stanford Fred has gone on to start and exit 9 successful companies in the technology space including iwin, Tagworld, trafficmarketplace and many others.

Stryker and I grew up together playing baseball at West L.A. little league and then played against each other at rival high schools (me at University vs. he at Palisades).  When I was in the music industry, we spent a lot of time together going to shows, festivals and recording studios.

In the late 90’s, Stryker turned the alternative rock genre on its head and influenced a massive shift in music and popular culture forever.  The new era, which I call the “Coachella effect” or the fusion of all genres of music and the disintegration of boundaries between musical artists was upon us.  Alternative rock music evolved and expanded to envelop hip hop, electronica, punk, heavy metal, ska, reggae and rock in a seamless, undefinable genre.  This new, complex era of youth culture needed a dynamic ambassador and Stryker was a natural fit.  

20 years and dozens of music festivals later, Stryker is still a vital voice in alternative music and pop culture.  He has done several TV shows including Loveline with Dr. Drew, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Audience on DirecTV and still hosts the daily Stryker and Klein show on KROQ 106.7 everyday from 3pm-7pm.

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