Unreal Estate Review

The real estate world of Los Angeles was in a tizzy at the release of Michael Gross's newest book, Unreal Estate, which promised to chronicle the most expensive homes in Beverly Hills, Beverly Park, Bel Air and Brentwood.

And after waiting seemingly forever for the book to come in at the library, I finally got my grubby paws on Unreal Estate and devoured it. I had quite high hopes, having loved 740 Park. 

I can honestly say I was not dissapointed. Gross goes into (somewhat excruciating) detail about the homes and their overly ambitious owners, billionaires (or frauds) who seem unable to keep it in their wallets or pants. In fact you could argue there is too much detail with some skimping on the homes. Most homes described are old, really nothing new or current. 

Hopefully there will be a lovely website for this book as was for the last... 

Overall its definitely worth a read if you are a real estate junkie. 

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