A home in Beverly Hills, Calif., has sold for around $20.2 million, less than six weeks after listing for $22.5 million.
“Arrested Development” and “30 Rock” actor Will Arnett paid $16.4 million for the property in 2021, property records show. Arnett, who also co-hosts the “SmartLess” podcast, listed the house in January. He didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The purchaser is entrepreneur Courtney Reum, who said he will live in the house with his girlfriend, influencer and entrepreneur Maggie Sellers. Reum, who recently played a season of professional soccer in Portugal, co-founded the venture-capital firm M13 with his brother, Carter Reum, the husband of Paris Hilton.
Reum and Sellers were living separately—he in West Hollywood and she in Beverly Hills—and wanted a house to share. After seeing Arnett’s house, Reum said, the couple visited a medium, or a person who is said to communicate with spirits. She told them: ‘I see you guys getting married under the olive trees at the house,’” Reum said. “Not that that’s what guided me, but some things are too weird to make up.”
He and Sellers plan to tie the knot at the home on Aug. 28—a wedding anniversary shared by both of their parents. Reum said the fact that Arnett owned the house wasn’t a factor, although they later realized they share many mutual friends. Instead, he said key selling points were the design and location, which is within five minutes of his mother and siblings.
Arnett received multiple offers, said listing agent Richard Ehrlich of Carolwood Estates. There is more demand than inventory in Beverly Hills and the Beverly Hills Post Office section of Los Angeles, he said, and well-priced properties are selling quickly. The median single-family home sale price in Beverly Hills was $8.475 million in the fourth quarter, up 21.1% year over year, according to appraisal firm Miller Samuel. The number of sales jumped 70.4% during that period.
