Hot Property: A bumper crop of $50-million listings

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Three Los Angeles area homes recently came on the market priced at or around $50 million.

For comparison’s sake, here’s a look at what that kind of money can buy:

Producer-director Bud Yorkin and his wife, actress Cynthia Sikes, listed their gated estate:

Price: $49.5 million
Area: Holmby Hills
Square footage: About 11,900
Bedrooms: 5
Bathrooms: 7 1/2
Lot size: Nearly 2.75 acres
Year built: 1938
Features: Oversized formal living room with a sunken bar; grounds include a rose garden, north-south tennis court, 60-foot lap pool.

A compound near the Bel-Air Country Club:

Price: $50 million
Area: Holmby Hills
Square footage: About 20,000
Bedrooms: 8
Bathrooms: 16
Lot size: 1.5 acres
Year built: 2003
Remarks: Dining room can accommodate large-scale entertaining; resort-like indoor spa and gym; billiard room; 2,000-square-foot master suite.

And this oceanfront Mediterranean:

Price: $49.5 million
Area: Malibu
Square footage: 7,552 (according to the L.A. County assessor’s office)
Bedrooms: 9
Bathrooms: 12
Lot size: 3.17 acres
Year built: 2007
Remarks: Private path to beach; 15-car climate controlled garage; collapsible glass doors along ocean side; wine cellar with bar; wraparound flagstone decks.

--Lauren Beale

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