La Belle Vie sold last year for $40 million.

La Belle Vie in Bel-Air, built for Iris Cantor, sold last year for $40 million. (Nick Springett / March 13, 2012)

By Lauren Beale

March 13, 2012, 3:55 p.m.

Most of L.A. County’s big home sales from last year have made their way into the public record. Here are the larger sales, compiled using PropertyShark.com data and Times archives:

  • Topping the crop, of course, was Candy Spelling’s $85-million sale of the Manor in Holmby Hills.
  • A distant second, by comparison, was the sale of La Belle Vie, the mammoth Bel-Air residence built in 1993 for philanthropist Iris Cantor by her husband. It sold for $40 million.
  • Actress Jennifer Aniston has sold her Beverly Hills estate for $35 million.
  • A 5-acre compound in Brentwood went for $26 million.
  • Technology entrepreneur and philanthropist David Bohnett sold a walled estate in Beverly Hills for $23,079,750.
  • A Westwood mansion sold for $21.5 million.
  • A beachfront house in Malibu Colony sold for $21.45 million.
  • Former talent manager Sandy Gallin sold a remodeled home in Bel-Air for $21 million.  

Missing from the list is the Beverly Hills-area estate that actress Sandra Bullock bought. The Multiple Listing Service showed it as selling for $22.95 million. Public records list the price as $16.19 million.

Interestingly, all the sales except for Aniston’s closed in the first half of the year.