A review of North Beverly Park, Beverly Hills Billionaire Estate.

Aerial view of Beverly Park estate in Los Angeles, California.

The Hills around Los Angeles are famously studded with stars, but the real money lives in North Beverly Park. It’s the most prestigious enclave for high-end residential real estate in Los Angeles.

Accessible only through two guarded checkpoints, the paparazzi-proof development boasts 2-acre-plus parcels of level land, all behind more gates and overlooking the city below. Homes average 20,000 sq. ft. and $24 million each.

The gated community of Beverly Park, in Beverly Hills is the penultimate neighborhood for estate homes. It was developed in 1990 built in the West Los Angeles area. Initially planned to be a private golf course, but instead of a golf course, what was built was a master-planned, gated community designed specifically for the world's wealthiest people who wanted to build significant estates on large-scale real estate lots.

What mostly sets Beverly Park real estate apart from that of the other locations is its ardent privacy. The entire neighborhood is gated and protected by full-time guards. Most of the estates inside of Beverly Park are also gated and guarded. Another very appealing feature of the homes of Beverly Parkis the lot size. It's simply hard to find a location this private and protected, with lots that can accommodate homes in the 40,000 to 50,000-plus-square-foot range.

Because of the privacy, location and lot size, many notable hollywood sports icons, CEOs and entertainers own Beverly Park real estate.
Residents include wealthy A-listers like actors Denzel Washington, Eddy Murphy, Sylvester Stallone (see our review of inside Sylvester Stallone's Beverly Park home) and rocker Rod Stewart. Billionaire chairman Sumner Redstone of Viacom company lives toward the southern end of the development.  The ultra exclusive development has also attracted a smattering of rich Saudis who have purchased their stateside palaces covertly through limited liability companies. Billionaire businessman Saleh Kamel is rumored to be one such resident: the reported owner of a sleek Contemporary that’s currently asking an astounding $175,000 per month in rent. Property purchase prices in this estate ranges from $9 million - over $30 million.


The architecture of homes in Beverly Park is beautiful yet varied. There are French Provincial homes and Tuscan estates, as well as modern and spanish masterpieces. The common areas are manicured like a park at the Los Angeles Getty Museum, yet each homeowner tends to go even further with stunning landscape, hardscape, pools, water features and much more.

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Sources: www.jademillsestates.com; www.forbes.com

A review of the Amen Estate, Eleko Beach road, Lagos

One visit to the Amen estate and you will be completely hooked, it is simply a lovely and classy dream home haven......

The Amen estate is a development of Redbrick Homes International Ltd, an independent, innovative firm with some of the best construction and real estate professionals in Nigeria. Presently, the Company is engaged in the construction of over 700 units at Amen Estate. The estate is built with red bricks in an exotic ambience and style that blends classic, traditional, vintage architecture with flexible, contemporary structures for today's living style.

It is a well planned estate, with tip-top layout and spatial property arrangement, designed to feature an array of homes that portray state-of-the-art design elements which embraces our culture and compliments the functionality of modern lifestyle.

It is strategically situated close to the Eleko beach lekki peninsula, the free trade zone and also the proposed soon to be established new international airport. Development is speedily advancing towards this area in the city of Lagos, with the expansion of the lekki-ajah expressway.

Interesting opportunity is being offered for any prospective home owner as there is a provision of a 10% initial deposit non-interest 2-year installmental payment plan for buyers who cannot afford an outright payment. 
 
Featured homes include 3-bedroom luxurious flats, 4-bedroom terrace houses, 4-bedroom villas, 5-bedroom villas, 5-bedroom mansions and 6-bedroom fully detached mansions. They come fully furnished with very good taste of interior design and also with accompanying BQs.
The homes also come with good prices of between 34M for the fully furnished 3-bedroom all en-suite luxurious flats to 120M for the fully furnished 7-bedroom detached mansion (with a study and 2 room BQ).

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The facilities, services and amenities within the estate are put in place bearing the concept of a 'Live-Work-Play' community with a provision for leisure and commercial areas. Facilities include; 

• Tarred roads with solar street lights and covered drains. 
•  24-hour lighting and maintenance services. 
•  Fire hydrants, waste and sewage disposal services. 
•  Treated water supply. 
•   Armed security patrol 
•  Concierge and janitorial services 
•  Integrated CCTV and broadband internet for link with main gate and neighbours 
•  Leisure facilities such as a gymnasium, pool, fitness centre, tennis court, football pitch, children's playground, public parks and gardens.
•  Commercial area to cater for shopping centres, schools, parties and events centre etc.

We love the interior design at the Amen estate as it was done with high taste and quality finishing. There are just a few things we would have loved to be done differently. They include;

•  Uniform colour scheme for all the doors, cabinets and wardrobes in the home, preferably ebony coloured MDF laminate doors and wooden surfaces.
•  Use of wooden or aluminium venetian blinds in the restrooms, bathrooms and kitchen area.
• Designing the curtains and drapes using the modern style rings/loops for pinning up the curtains to the rods.
• Lavish and adorn the beddings with throw pillows of various colours, patterns and designs that fit the theme of the rooms and beddings.
•  A more elaborate modern style dressing area in the bedrooms, and also a walk-in closet in the mistress's bedroom. 
•   A more elaborate TV/entertainment area design concept in the living rooms.

For more enquiries on the Amen estate, please contact us.