These Minor Updates Can Have a Major Impact on a Home’s Sale

Filmmaker and music video director Roman Coppola is finally letting go of the pedigreed Hollywood Hills home he’s owned for three decades. After less than a month on the market at $2.75 million, the glamorous four-bedroom abode has a pending offer. Coppola is the son of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and documentary filmmaker Eleanor Coppola. Realtor.com

As the rest of the housing market in Long Island, New York, saw fewer home sales in the second quarter, many more houses were sold on the East End compared to a year ago. In the Hamptons, home sales rose 74% year over year, according to a report from Douglas Elliman, prepared by appraisal firm Miller Samuel. The number of available homes for sale in the Hamptons increased in the second quarter, too, rising 22.8% a year ago. The median price, meanwhile, hit $1.896 million, a 30.8% increase. Long Island Business News

A zero-emissions luxury villa has hit the market in Spain’s posh megadevelopment Sotogrande, a planned resort community in Andalusia. Built as a series of stone-clad intersecting circles, the dramatic-looking mansion known as Villa Noon operates entirely off the grid, with solar panels, geothermal energy, and its own rainwater- and water vapor-collection system. It’s reportedly the first net-zero luxury home in the country. Luxury Lifestyle Magazine

Bengaluru, India’s tech hub, was the country’s top residential property market last quarter, with 18,550 units sold, underpinned by a surge of new development, according to a report from real estate services company JLL. The robust demand in the city is being driven by its thriving IT sector, ongoing infrastructure upgrades and a favorable business environment, which has led to a steady stream of new projects each quarter, said Rahul Arora, senior managing director for Karnataka and Kerala at JLL India. News Karnataka