Today’s market is different than we have ever seen before due to the pandemic we are all facing. However, the luxury real estate market is still strong and continues to grow. I prefer to focus on my client’s values and the lifestyle when it comes to purchasing an exclusive estate. We all value, knowledge, aesthetics, power, wealth, empathy, sensuality, and commitment. As a professional real estate advisor, I find what is most important to each of my clients and balance it with the luxury of the lifestyle they want to obtain. Lake Sherwood is that perfect balance and not to mention the most elite and private neighborhood in the Southern California suburbs, home to “The Great One” – the Gretzky residence, golf Pro Dustin Johnson and many more. This is where I focus my business on.

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Residents living in Sherwood or other similar communities share and cherish these same values. As a current resident, I understand the lifestyle my clients desire and the importance of the safety and luxury of living in this community. Our community offers lake activities like boating, kayaking, and more with ensured safety. There are two clubs with Olympic sized pools, one of a kind golf courses designed by Jack Nicklaus, tennis memberships with lessons from a Pro, and social memberships that include spa services and so much more! Each one of these features and activities appeals to the core values of my clients and that is why they trust me to find them their dream home and make it a stress-free process.

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In this new mindset of ‘keeping your distance’ from others gives clients a different perspective on ‘space.’ Because of the new restrictions of the world we live in today, space and convenience are extremely important. Sherwood is a unique place to reside because you have everything in your community at your fingertips. When you enter through the large cast-iron gates of Sherwood Country Club, you get the sense you are about to enter a special place.  As you make your way up the hilly, winding road past elegant French-style country homes with majestic views of the Santa Monica Mountains and the Hidden Valley below, you realize you might never want to leave. Jack Nicklaus stated, "This was one of the more magnificent pieces of land I've had the opportunity on which to design a golf course. It is rare to see a piece of property that is so private, with so much natural beauty. There isn’t another golf course in the world that has a more beautiful tree complex than Sherwood."

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Sherwood has a famous history and has been featured in many picture films. The mountains you see behind several of today's fairways are the same peaks you see in the famous opening helicopter scene from the series M*A*S*H and those fairways were once the rugged landscape for many a backdrop in the Dukes of Hazard.  But two of the most famous Hollywood epics shot on the premises were the 1923 version of Robin Hood, starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Enid Bennett, and the 1938 version of The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.  In fact, on the Sherwood property you'll still find the Robin Hood Cabin, a home built for the 1923 movie and where Fairbanks supposedly lived during the filming. The motion-picture industry discovered the area’s beauty in the 1920's and 1930's, when the site of what is now Sherwood Country Club became a popular filming location. Scenes from the feature films Tarzan and Birth of a Nation were filmed here, and the local valley was the location for countless westerns. In more recent film history, the Clubhouse itself has been featured in a number of television shows, such as The Mentalist, commercials, and feature films, including the popular Bridesmaids.

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Along with Sherwood’s aesthetically pleasing lush grounds and exclusivity to the movie industry, Sherwood is no stranger to hosting the top golf players in the world. Starting with the world No. 1 at the time, Greg Norman, who hosted his Shark Shootout from 1989-1998, followed by Tiger Woods' World Challenge from 2000-2013.  If most golf fans across the country don't remember the Showdown at Sherwood, where David Duval and Tiger Woods faced off in a nationally televised prime-time event, they nevertheless would have seen the course on television because of the World Challenge. Its winners over the past 14 years looks like the modern-day Who's Who of Golf, including Luke Donald, Padraig Harrington, Davis Love lll, Graeme McDowell, Vijay Singh, Zach Johnson, and Tiger Woods (five-time champion).

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All in all, if you have a buyer looking for an elite lifestyle with the ensured safety of themselves, friends, and family and the luxury of a convenient and elite lifestyle, Lake Sherwood is their destination. Given this extra time to analyze modern living, myself and clients included have rearranged or changed the values that are most important to them. Safety, space, and sensuality matter. Lake Sherwood will not only meet but overcome clients' expectations creating a stronger community for all.

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Sprawling on 1.4 acres, the 25,000-square-foot main house bears distinct features of the British West Indies architectural style and boasts interiors by Angela Reynolds.

The Seminole Beach waterfront includes 11 bedrooms, 18 baths, two kitchens, a custom wine cellar, a theater room, a below-ground gym, a roof deck, an outdoor swimming pool, putting green as well as a basketball/pickleball court. A three-story, ceiling-to-floor Swarovski crystal chandelier towers near the stairway and “glimmers in imitation of the ocean,” according to the property listing with Sotheby’s International Realty.

The estate also features two separate guest apartments with two bedrooms, each, kitchens and living rooms.

Nordegren’s spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal that she is selling the grand estate in an attempt to downsize. She first purchased the property in 2011 for the modest $12.25 million after her reported $100-million diverse settlement with Woods. Later, she razed the original home to erect the custom residence, where she lived since 2014.

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With her home wrecked by Woods’ well-publicized infidelity, she understandably did what any jilted person with a $100 million divorce settlement would do—she wrecked a home, too. But this time, the wrecking ball was to clear a path for her new life—and her new home in North Palm Beach, Florida.

Tiger Wood's ex wife Elin Nordegren bought a $12.2 million property with her divorce settlement, bulldozed it and built this upgraded nine-bedroom mansion from scratch.

Nordegren bulldozed the historic oceanfront mansion she bought in 2011 for $12.2 million (with the divorce settlement cash) and virtually built an upgraded, luxurious version of the same home. Why? According to People magazine, an architect and structural engineer suggested it made more sense (economically and structurally) to rebuild the home from scratch to bring the 1920s-built residence up to modern hurricane safety standards.

Prior to demolition, Nordegren charitably offered up the home and its contents (cabinets, fixtures, hardware, etc. totaling tens of thousands of dollars) for Habitat for Humanity. The removal of windows uncovered termite and carpenter ant damage to the 90-year-old mansion. Perhaps the home, crumbling from the inside out, was metaphor for Nordegren’s life at the time. You can’t fix a disintegrating house. Time to start over. Nordegren reportedly spent in excess of $20 million between the original residence and the rebuilt mansion, not counting a guest house secured during renovation.

Nordegren's lush property includes a large swimming pool and a cabana.

Nordegren's landscaped green with two bunkers.

According to recorded blueprints, Nordegren’s new nine-bedroom digs in the gated community of Seminole Landing boasts eight bathrooms, a 1,182-square-foot kitchen, a 1,000-square-foot master bedroom with Atlantic Ocean views, a state-of-the-art 1,102-square-foot gym, and a stadium-seating theater in the basement.

The 21,000-square-foot mansion also features a cedar-shake roof, French doors, a wine room, great room, family room, library and kids' playroom. Outdoor highlights include a swimming pool, a cabana, a Koi pond, and a putting green with two bunkers. Presumably the bunkers aren’t meant to trap bad golfers (or golfers who behave badly) but rather serve as a buffer to keep them away (you know who we mean...and he hates bunkers). Nordegren was an au pair for professional golfer and fellow Swede Jesper Parnevik and his wife, who admittedly regretted introducing her to Woods.

Elin Nordegren and Tiger Woods during a happier moment at the 2006 Ryder Cup in Ireland.

Now Nordegren is charting a new course in life—family, home, and even graduating with psychology degree from Rollins College in Orlando. Life on the golf course is filled with hazards. Nordegren negotiated those hazards with class. Judging from her new mansion, we suspect she still plays golf. She may rest easier knowing that while she’s making putts on her home green, her ex is consistently missing them on major championship greens. But then again, she has a major home course advantage.

Post Tiger Woods, Nordegren pursued and received her college degree in psychology.

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