![]() The pint-sized pad, behind a secured entry gate atop a street-level two-car garage, has a hardwood-floored open-plan living/dining/kitchen space that listing details optimistically suggest “creates an enhanced sense of size and space.” The vaulted, exposed wood ceiling and the white brick corner fireplace in the tightly proportioned living room are certainly lovely features, but this property gossip is decoratively dismayed by the disturbing and utterly unnecessary use of both modern-ish, single-pane sliding glass doors and decidedly traditional, mullioned French doors. Thomas managed to extricate himself unharmed and, naturally, called the police who, after a six-hour stand-off, “used tear gas as well as flash bang grenades to remove the woman from the home.” There’s a moral lesson in there if any of the children want to find it but we’re not touchin’ it with a 10-foot pole. Mister Thomas, a stage-experienced actor who made his Broadway debut at 12 years old, acquired the tiny two bedroom and one bathroom residence in April 2004 for $700,000, according to property records, and it was here in 2013 that a woman he’d spent the night with allegedly held him hostage when he asked her to leave the next morning. Case in point: a cute enough but hardly deluxe 987-square-foot cottage tucked in to the Hollywood Hills between Beachwood Canyon and the Hollywood Reservoir that “Scorpion” and “American Pie” franchise star Eddie Kaye Thomas just sold for $900,000, a good bit above its $849,000 asking price. At the lower end of the market, however, or at least what passes for the lower end of the market in prime Los Angeles zip codes, business remains brisk. Jennifer Lopez recently hacked $2 million off the price of her Hidden Hills mansion, and last week the behemoth Beverly Hills mansion the of late pulp novelist Jackie Collins, first listed at a publicity ensuring $30 million, endured a bone rattling $5.5 million price reduction. And, indeed, we’ve noted increasing numbers of elephantine price chops from coast to coast. ![]() YOUR MAMA’S NOTES: It’s not difficult to find doom and gloom media reports that predict the uppermost reaches of the global real estate market is headed for a slump. SIZE: 987 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
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