Lauren Beale

Los Angeles

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Lauren Beale was Hot Property columnist and Real Estate editor for the L.A. Times. Editor-at-large for Forbes Global Properties. Author of the novel "Newcomer."

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Por qué el multimillonario australiano Bruce Mathieson y sus casinos podrían quedarse sin liquidez

Jan 22, 2025 | forbes.es | Yessar Rosendar |Lauren Beale |Alexandra Bregman |Brett Knight

Star Entertainment Group, respaldado por el multimillonario australiano de los juegos Bruce Mathieson, se enfrenta al riesgo de quedarse sin efectivo. El problema reside en que el operador de casinos está en problemas y se encuentra en una lucha por recaudar nuevo capital en medio de una caída de los ingresos por el juego.
Equestrian Lifestyle Awaits At New Jersey Farmland Estate

May 22, 2024 | forbes.com | Lauren Beale

Old Fox Farm in New Jersey’s Chester Township is much more than its name might suggest. There’s the historic lineage. The 25 acres of equestrian property and farmland were once part of a larger estate owned by Time, Life, Fortune and Sports Illustrated founder Henry R. Luce. The modern construction. The farm’s original house, built in 1941, was entirely renovated and expanded in 2005 by Chester architect William Byrne.
$7 Million Estate Embraces Lakeside Living And Golf In South Carolina

May 17, 2024 | forbes.com | Lauren Beale

Long View is lakeside and golf course living rolled into one 4.4-acre estate at the Reserve at Lake Keowee, a gated private residential club in Sunset, South Carolina. Built in 2016 and recently redecorated, the transitional residence mixes modern and traditional styles. The large windows, open spaces and clean lines of mountain modern design blend with Craftsman-inspired stone and timber accents, a screen porch and a dark-stained northern fir exterior.
Centuries-Old Swiss Chateau Offers A History Lesson In Preservation

May 3, 2024 | forbes.com | Lauren Beale

The salvaging and repurposing of building materials is a time-honored practice in Switzerland. The history of the site of Château de Trévelin in the canton of Vaud offers a case in point. A sacrificial stone that was used by the Druids, a religious order dating to the first century B.C., occupies a spot in what is today a garden.
$7 Million Del Mar Midcentury Captures California’s Fun And Sun Vibe

Apr 30, 2024 | forbes.com | Lauren Beale

Frederick Liebhardt believed homes should be both attractive and useful. The Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice and his partner, Eugene Weston III, put that principle to paper in 1961, designing a modernist house for Charles Dupont in the Montecillo neighborhood of Del Mar, California. The singular home is the embodiment of the style with angled rooflines, walls of glass and high ceilings. Clerestory windows and sliding glass doors seem to bring the outdoors inside.
$9 Million Ritz-Carlton Portland Penthouse Features Exclusive Amenities

Apr 26, 2024 | forbes.com | Lauren Beale

The gleaming glass towers of the Portland skyline are home to a number of luxury penthouses—centrally located residences ready for high-powered owners to jet in and open the front door to their personal out-of-town home bases. Not all penthouses are created equal, however. Cresting the current for-sale market in Oregon’s largest metropolis is one listed at $8.999 million in the new Ritz-Carlton Portland Residences.
Florence Apartments Are Rich In Renaissance Embellishments

Apr 23, 2024 | forbes.com | Lauren Beale

The heart of Florence’s old town is a study in Italian history, art and architecture. Palazzo Portinari Salviati, a luxury residential building near Piazza del Duomo and Filippo Brunelleschi's iconic dome, is an integral part of this revered past, taking its name from two influential families. The property was originally home to the family of Beatrice Portinari, the beloved muse of celebrated poet and writer Dante Alighieri.
$15 Million Paradise Valley Estate Pays Tribute To Pueblo Ancestry

Apr 17, 2024 | forbes.com | Lauren Beale

The Ancestral Pueblo communities of the Southwestern United States, with their sophisticated dwellings, infrastructure systems and functional pottery, have long been a source of historical study, reverence and wonder. A 1982 issue of National Geographic magazine on what the ruins left by these indigenous people reveal sparked the idea for an East Coast resident to build a second home in Paradise Valley, an affluent community near Scottsdale, Arizona.
Villa Above Italy’s Lake Maggiore Holds Fast To Its Classical Patina

Apr 17, 2024 | forbes.com | Lauren Beale

The words “hunting lodge” don’t begin to do justice to a storied villa now for sale in the heart of Lesa, a village on the Italian side of Lake Maggiore. Yet that’s the purpose for which this distinctive manor home was built in 1788 by the family of Savio di Bernistel, who would grow up to be a member of Parliament.
$2.9 Million Classic French Chateau In Vichy Has That Royal Touch

Apr 11, 2024 | forbes.com | Lauren Beale

When not discussing 19th-century matters of state or private affairs with her older brother King Louis Philippe d'Orléans, the politically minded Princess Adelaide might be found enjoying leisure time at her Vichy hunting lodge in the Auvergne Rhone-Alpes region of France. The neo-Gothic lodge was built in 1830 on the site of what had been a 13th-century Templar command post. It was converted to a chateau 60 years later.