3099 Mandeville Canyon Road
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Robert Taylor Ranch

The Robert Taylor Ranch is a ranch located on Mandeville Canyon Road, in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, California. The ranch was built in 1956 for Waite Phillips and designed by architect Robert Byrd. It is about 112 acres (0.45 km2) large, with more than 20,000 square feet of living space.

American actor Robert Taylor owned the ranch for several years before his death in 1969. The ranch was then purchased by Steven J. Earle, then sold in 1974 to Ken Roberts, former owner of the KROQ-FM radio station. The ranch is also the setting for most of the 1983 Sam Peckinpah movie, The Osterman Weekend.

In 2010, the ranch was sold to hedge fund New Stream Capital to settle a $27,500,000 legal claim. On November 30, 2012, the ranch was resold at an auction for $12 million to Fred Latsko, a Chicago-based real estate developer. The auction was conducted by Concierge Auctions in partnership with Hilton & Hyland, an affiliate of Christie's International Real Estate. The auction firm and Hilton & Hyland identified 761 buyer prospects and 12 bidders in only four weeks.

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Robert Byrd

Robert Taylor Ranch in Mandeville Canyon Sells at Auction for $12 Million

Robert Taylor Ranch in Mandeville Canyon Sells at Auction for $12 Million by Alison Cavatore

An anonymous buyer from Chicago just purchased the 112-acre Robert Taylor Ranch in Mandeville Canyon for $12 million at a live auction on Friday at the property.

The live auction took place on the property, and according to The LA Times, included 12 bidders at the 34-room, 11,700-square-foot sprawling estate. After guests “wined and dined under a canopy on the lawn”, the sale of the property commenced, “conducted by Concierge Auctions of New York in cooperation with Hilton & Hyland”.

The grounds feature rolling lawns, wooded hillsides, a casino and a remodeled estate previously owned by actor Robert Taylor, who passed away in 1969. Founder of Los Angeles radio station KROQ, Ken Roberts, purchased the home in the 1970s for $900,000 and put it on the market in 1990 for $45 million and subsequently dropped the price to $35 million but got no buyers. The home was eventually owned by a trust, and The LA Times says, that trust subsequently decided to put the property up for auction to the highest bidder.

Built in 1950, the home was designed by Robert Byrd and includes seven bedrooms, 17 and a half bathrooms, a 10-car garage, stables and a tennis court, according to LA Curbed.

A statement from Concierge Auctions said, “more than 7,000 interested parties from all 50 states and 97 other countries checked out the property online in the month before the auction. About 760 potential buyers expressed interest.”