Kelly Clarkson's Encino, CA Mansion Going for $10 Million

Kelly Clarkson 

Photo credit:  Cameron Carothers for Compass

Source: www.compass.com

(Also, please see DONE DEALS, Dec. 24, 2019, "Kelly Clarkson's Tennessee Lake Mansion on Selling Block for $7.49 Million")

ENCINO, CA -- First year American Idol winner in 2002, Kelly Clarkson has not only crafted a stellar award-winning career, but over the last 18 years her creativity has taken on a life of its own. 

Brandon Blackstock

 She writes and sings top-of-the-charts songs, writes children’s books, made her mark as an actress, coach on The Voice and is now host of her own television show, The Kelly Clarkson Show. 

But since evolving into a homeowner, Kelly has developed a unique decorating style that could easily bear her name. 

Kelly Clarkson's Encino, CA Home Selling for $9.95 Million

 It shows in her waterfront Tennessee mansion, the Montana ranch where she and her family are hunkering down during the 2020 pandemic and in her stunning Encino, California mansion she has recently put on the market for $9.995 million.

Clarkson has always been popular for her girl-next-door persona and fresh, energetic personality. 

 From growing up very poor to a staggering net worth of more than $45 million, she has chosen beautiful but functional mansions, not the soulless showoff structures that scream, “Look at me! See how important I am!” 

 Instead, her style says, “Come on in and have some iced tea!”

The rooms are always large and airy but filled with wood and industrial accents, deep coziness and feel-good textiles. 

Guests are impressed, but are bear hugged in warmth and friendliness upon entering.  Her San Fernando Valley Encino home is no exception.

Built in 2018, the almost 10,000-square-foot home is comfortably sized for Kelly’s family of six with many indoor and outdoor venues for entertaining groups of extended family and friends. 

Included are formal living and dining rooms, eight bedrooms - one a master suite with its own private patio, eleven baths and a spacious kitchen and family room dining space with pool and lawn views. 

The layout also offers a number of private getaway spaces, both indoors and out, that provide spots for quiet meditation or to kick back and read a novel without interruption. 

Recreation is easy to find whether it is in the game room with its own kitchenette for snacks or the large pool deck with dining area near the kitchen or the twin bars and outdoor kitchen with fireplace and lots of space for sun loungers. 

Realtors Chris Corkum and Lisa Brende of Compass, Los Angeles.

The pool, spa and lawn beyond are completely private with walls and mature shrubbery.  There is also a separate two-bedroom guest house.

Currently enjoying the wide open spaces and peacefulness of their Montana ranch, Clarkson and manager-husband Brandon Blackstock have decided to sell their Encino, California estate. The listing agents are Chris Corkum and Lisa Brende of Compass, Los Angeles.

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Singer Taylor Swift Nears $100 Million Mark in Real Estate Assets Owned

Taylor Swift

BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- While Taylor Swift’s meteoric rise to music stardom is impressive, so too is her growth as a real estate mogul. 

 As of 2020, she owns almost $100 million in mansions and penthouses in Nashville, Rhode Island, Beverly Hills and New York City and is presently looking for a home in London to be near her boyfriend, British actor Joe Alwyn, according to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com. 

Joe Alwyn

As a promising tween music prodigy, Swift’s parents moved from Pennsylvania to Nashville to help jump-start her career. A few years later at age 20, Swift embarked on her ten-year real estate adventure purchasing her starter home in the center of Nashville’s Music Row for $1.99 million. 

 The 3,240-square-foot condo overlooking the city kept her close to the recording studios and her new peer group.  

Swift bought the historic  Samuel Goldwyn mansion (above)
 in Beverly Hills, CA for $25 million in 2015 

With her singing career growing rapidly and the necessity of spending time in Los Angeles, Swift needed a comfortable retreat and purchased a Cape Cod-style home in Beverly Hills in 2011 for $3.55 million that she sold a few years later for about $4 million.

 Back to Nashville in 2011, Taylor bought a 5,000-square-foot, Greek Revival-style mansion on almost six acres for her parents in the elite suburb of Forest Hills for $2.5 million that she still owns. 

Swift made a cash purchase of a 12,000-square-foot beach mansion in Rhode Island’s Watch Hill district for $17.75 million.

 In 2012, Swift bought a mid-century-modern home in Los Angeles for $1.78 million which she sold for $2.65 million in 2018. 

By 2013, Swift’s music and real estate careers had both hit the stratosphere with multiple Grammy, MTV, People’s Choice, Billboard and Entertainer of the Year Awards, and made a cash purchase of a 12,000-square-foot beach mansion in Rhode Island’s Watch Hill for $17.75 million.

It is the house where Swift is known for the parties she throws for her girl squad.  But soon back on the East Coast, New York City was calling.

By Valentine’s Day in 2014, Swift was checking out the trendy Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca.  She settled on two penthouses for $20 million, which she combined to cover 8,309 square feet of living space encompassing ten bedrooms and ten baths.

She added a third next door in 2015 in the form of an $18 million townhouse and further in 2018 by adding an apartment in the same building for $9.75 million.

The best of them all came in 2015 in Beverly Hills when Swift bought the historic  Samuel Goldwyn mansion for $25 million. 

In honor of Goldwyn’s award-winning career as a film producer and contributions to the film industry, Swift decided to restore the home to its original 1934 condition when it was built for the Goldwyns. 

 In 2018, she applied for and won Los Angeles landmark status for the estate ensuring that the home will never be significantly changed or demolished.

Now at age 30, Taylor Swift isn’t slowing down for a second.  

Her new Netflix documentary, Miss Americana has just hit the Internet with a splash and it is rumored that she has jumped the pond and is in London checking out its real estate market.

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