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Robin Givens' Former Hollywood Hills Mansion Lists at $3.5 Million

Marcus SterlingPublished 20m ago3 min readBased on 2 sources
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Robin Givens' Former Hollywood Hills Mansion Lists at $3.5 Million
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Robin Givens' former Hollywood Hills mansion is on the market with an asking price of $3.5 million, according to the New York Post, which reported the listing on November 2, 2026. A separate report published the same day gives the ask as $3.495 million, a difference of $5,000, or about 0.14 percent of the higher figure. Cottages & Gardens describes the property as the Hollywood Hills home where Givens lived with Mike Tyson.

The house is a Mediterranean-style property with six bedrooms and six bathrooms. The New York Post puts its living area at more than 8,000 square feet. Dividing the headline ask by that floor gives a ceiling of roughly $437 per square foot. That is a price-per-square-foot figure, a standard way to compare homes of different sizes. Because the true living area is above 8,000 square feet, the actual figure is somewhat lower. The number is a useful anchor against other Los Angeles-area listings, but only if those comparables are measured the same way, since square footage in this market is often reported loosely.

The first thing to separate, for anyone tracking homes as an asset class, is the ask from the price. An asking price is an opening position. It tells you what the seller hopes to receive, not what a buyer will pay. The gap between the two is set by negotiation, financing terms, and how long the property sits. A $5,000 spread between the two published figures is trivial in itself, but it is a reminder that the listing number is the starting point of a process.

The broader context here is that luxury property is a thin and idiosyncratic market. Buyers at this level rely less on mortgage financing than the typical purchaser, so a move in benchmark rates or mortgage spreads does not translate directly into their willingness to pay. Celebrity association can add visibility and draw a narrower pool of bidders, but it does not change the cost of the house, its layout, or its location. In my view, a reader judging this listing should weigh the physical specifications and the seller's pricing decisions well above the name attached to the address.

The listing materials lean on the property's history. The Cottages & Gardens headline frames the house around Givens' former residence there. For a buyer, that history carries no direct value in the appraisal, though it may matter to a small group of prospective purchasers and to the agents promoting the house.

What can be said at this stage is limited to the listing itself: the ask, the layout, the style, and the size. Whether the house sells near $3.5 million, sells for less, or is withdrawn will only become clear through completed transactions. Anyone sizing up what a comparable property is worth should treat $3.5 million as the seller's opening number and wait for closed sales before drawing conclusions about value.