Listen up, real estate trendoids. The newest celebrity must-have "accessory" just may be the family compound, if two of the latest real estate deals on Long Island are any indication.
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have brand-new neighbors - themselves. Public records show the superstar couple purchased the home next door to the one they already own in Brookville for $2.05 million.
The sale on the 2.24-acre property closed Dec. 19. The deed is in Anthony's name.The five-bedroom, 4½-bath Colonial originally went on the market in March for $2.299 million with Regina Rogers of the Locust Valley office of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
The property shares estate gates with the home that Lopez and Anthony already own. The couple reportedly spent millions of dollars to fortify security and the gates to the estate before the birth of their twins, Max and Emme, last year.
At the time the house went on the market, Rogers told Newsday, "In order to access this house, you have to enter through the estate gates. I love the approach, and the long Belgian block-lined bluestone driveway."
The home that Lopez and Anthony had already owned was purchased by Anthony in 2000 for $3.7 million. It has been reported that Lopez's mother, Guadalupe, moved in with the couple last year to help out after the twins were born. Could this house be for her?
In the Hamptons, a trust in Gwyneth Paltrow's late father's name purchased a 2.32-acre parcel adjacent to property owned by the actress and her actress-mother in Amagansett.Public records show that the Bruce Paltrow Administrative Trust closed on the Bluff Road property Dec. 12 for $2.8million.
Paltrow's mother, Blythe Danner, bought a vacant parcel next to Paltrow's home where Danner planned to build a house. The West Fourth Street Trust bought that parcel for $3.4 million from the heirs of author and editor Joel Carmichael, who had lived on the land for 40 years.
The Carmichaels sold the latest parcel to the Bruce Paltrow trust. The sellers declined to comment on the sale.Paltrow and rocker husband Chris Martin - parents of Apple and Moses - bought their home for $5.4 million in 2006.