Nic Cage: Treasure Buried in Bel-Air

Nicolas CageNicolas Cage may be too preoccupied with box-office receipts to worry about a little ol' housing slump! The L.A. Times is hailing the nepostar as a "savvy investor." But that statement is a little premature, and not quite the case.

The reality is: Cage purchased his Bel-Air mansion in 1998 for $7 million and in 2006 decided to put the hideaway on the market for a whopping $35 mil. The move would have given Nic a sweet profit -- if only the place had actually sold! After a year on the market (without lowering the price), the mansion remained without a buyer. Cage finally decided to take the house off the market. That move was the only savvy part about this situation!

Movie stars may not have been affected by the slump, but the rest of the nation has! Reality check, please!



Filed under: Wacky & Weird

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1. from 7 million to 35? maybe the potential buyers are the savvy one here!!!!!!!

Posted at 12:28PM on Dec 30th 2007 by RoughDaddy

2. How is this news? There's not even a story here. Come on Gillian Sheldon!!!

Posted at 12:32PM on Dec 30th 2007 by John

3. nic is so old news you shouldent even have writen the article

Posted at 12:33PM on Dec 30th 2007 by your mom

4. his comic book collection might be worth than that house!!!

Posted at 12:34PM on Dec 30th 2007 by RoughDaddy

5. He should donate the house to Sean Penn ,Hugo Chavez and Scientology.

Posted at 12:42PM on Dec 30th 2007 by EnoughAlready

6. wow what a clean up the tmz staff did!!!! great job!!!

Posted at 12:49PM on Dec 30th 2007 by RoughDaddy

7. I love Mr. Cage. Wish I had been the waitress that attracted his eye. Regarding the house, you can't blame a guy for tryin'.

Posted at 1:17PM on Dec 30th 2007 by Hideous

8. he will never rid himself of this house. By California standards (good economy) it use to be every year could fetch up to an extra 100k. So if he has been there for 18 years, and lets include renovations, the most he should sell this house for is 13 million, unless its on tons of acerage. He must have put in some of his own personal bizarre items in this house, that cost him a fortune, but sad because he will never get that price.

Posted at 1:36PM on Dec 30th 2007 by Jzz

9. Does anybody know if there has beenthat much renovation to the property or the area around. That is a big jump in property value.

Posted at 1:57PM on Dec 30th 2007 by Globaldatepages

10. I can't stand Nicolas Cage. Seriously, he can't act and thinks he's Elvis. The ONLY reason he ever got a start was that he's a Coppola.

Posted at 2:48PM on Dec 30th 2007 by thrasherbetty

11. Slow news day: Nicolas Cage DOES NOT Sell House

Posted at 2:58PM on Dec 30th 2007 by Mirillie

12. Yeah I read this really crazy thing about his son on howinsane.com, has anyone ever seen his son?
Check it!

Posted at 4:23PM on Dec 30th 2007 by Meghan

13. All celebrities are xxxked up mentally, and make way too much money for playing dress up and pretend.
Then they procreate and drag innocent kids into the mix when they can't even take care of themselves!
What a freaking joke!

Posted at 4:37PM on Dec 30th 2007 by Puhlease

14. myspace.com/whatsonpage47

Posted at 5:16PM on Dec 30th 2007 by John

15. Poor Nic... anycase a great financial moove indeed... he made what everyone of us would have done in this situation!!

Posted at 5:48PM on Dec 30th 2007 by Elenco Finanziarie

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