US$2.85 million Kennedy bungalow is now on the market
Christopher Kennedy Lawford built his dream home from scratch. Now he’s selling it for US$2.85 million – or he’ll give it to his children
Christopher Kennedy Lawford, a nephew of the late US president John Kennedy and a son of movie star Peter Lawford, was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Los Angeles, and spent much of his professional life in the city. So when he began to look for a property in LA in 2013, he knew what he wanted.
“Everything I do, I do in my area,” he says. “I don’t leave the West Side: I don’t go east of the 405, and I don’t go south of the 10.” He considered living in Malibu for “about four seconds”, he says, but settled instead on Brentwood, in the hills above Sunset Boulevard.
He bought a small plot of land (about .32 acres) for US$1.3 million at the end of 2013, and told a friend at Tatum Construction “that I have US$600,000 [to spend on] a house”, Lawford says. The house took less than a year to build, and Lawford moved into it in 2014.
Four years later, he’s selling the finished product for US$2.85 million, having listed it with Simon Beardmore of Sotheby’s International Realty.
The building
The home covers about 1,720 square feet. The house is a single-storey rectangle, with rooms arranged in a line.
