Adam Levine’s home in Beverly Crest may have gone to fellow musician John Mayer. Levine, who purchased the modern-style in 2012 for $4.8 million, had listed the home twice before the sale. Initially, in June of 2016, it had been marketed at nearly $17.5 million, but Levine withdrew the listing and offered it later in the year with a revised ask of $15.9 million. The sale price to Mayer was $13.5 million, according to the L.A. Times. The house is currently in pending status.
The modern-style ranch home features a wide-open living space with cathedral ceilings and a great deal of glass; there are five bedrooms and seven baths throughout its 7,100 square feet of interior living space. Its 3.7 acres are landscaped mainly with desert flora.
With a vintage dating to the early 1940’s, the house is an early example of its style. Renovations have modernized somewhat, but the feel is still very much early modern. The interiors present an interesting mishmash of textures, with flagstone, fieldstone, and a vaulted ceiling studded with a line of skylights expressing the open-concept common living space. The main living space also looks like it can provide good acoustics and a little natural reverb; maybe Mayer brought over his amp and plugged in for a few minutes before making an offer.
The home sits on 3.7 acres with views of Benedict Canyon, is accessed via a fairly long, cactus-rimmed driveway, and features a pool which looks mighty refreshing amid the native flora.
Levine, who was named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine in 2013, is frontman of pop-rock act Maroon 5; the band’s been riding high since it struck gold with its gritty alt-rock single ‘Harder to Breathe’ in 2002. They are currently on tour to support their latest studio effort, ‘Red Pill Blues.’ The evolution of their style on the album has elicited varied reactions, but their popularity does not seem to abate. Surely a good sign.
Mayer’s most recent studio release was last year’s ‘The Search for Everything.’ His story is that of a young musician with larger-than-life talent who couldn’t wait to set the world on fire with his soulful lyrics and intoxicating bluesy riffs. His seminal EP, ‘Inside Wants Out,’ prophesized great things to come and blossomed into a breathtaking major release called ‘Room for Squares’—a sophisticated yet accessible album that earned him millions of adoring fans. The bar was set vertiginously high.
The following ‘Heavier Things’ delivered a masterful number drenched in emotion and high on talent, quashing any talk of a one-album wonder. With his legend established, a liberated Mayer continued to unleash the full breadth of his talent, rising majestically with the glorious ‘Continuum,’ where he flirted with the absolute limits of talent as a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and composer.
But thrice’s not enough: The wunderkind from Fairfield, Connecticut triumphed again with the brilliant ‘Battle Studies,’ his fourth studio release. After a hiatus, he took a creative detour to explore other sensibilities on the critically acclaimed ‘Born and Raised’ and ‘Paradise Valley’ albums. The style was warm, earnest, and soul-searching. Mayer may have also been attempting to control his destiny when he shed his sensitive-guy/heartthrob image; the time had apparently come. Not that he ever claimed to be any of those things; he’s never been about anything other than the music.
