Eva Longoria has reportedly bought one of Tom Cruise’s properties

TOM Cruise offloaded one of his Hollywood Hills homes last month for more than $15 million. It turns out a desperate housewife was behind the sale.

Longoria pays $15m for Cruise’s pad

TOM Cruise offloaded one of his Hollywood homes last month for $11.4 million ($AU15.76 million) and it turns out there was a desperate housewife behind the sale.

Apparently the Mission Impossible star wanted $12.995 million ($AU17.97 million) for the LA residence, but Longoria managed to slash the purchase price. Mission accomplished.

The glamorous “European-style” house in Laurel Canyon was just portfolio fodder for Cruise whose main residence is a mega mansion in nearby Beverly Hills, which is also on the market.

On a very private 10,000sq m, Longoria’s new prestige property features a two-storey three-bedroom main home with oak plank floors, Venetian plaster walls, vaulted ceilings, three bedrooms and the ultimate addition for any desperate housewife — a vast wine-tasting and wine storage space.

For guests there is even a detached four-bedroom “slate-roof guesthouse” on the property with its own stat of the art kitchen and four bathrooms.

Other bonuses at Longoria’s new pad include a heated lagoon-style swimming pool, trellis-shaded dining terrace, children’s playground and detached three-car garage.

The Desperate Housewives actor has added to an already impressive residential real estate portfolio with a humble home in a gated community in San Antonio Texas, a bungalow in LA’s Whitley Heights and a mansion in the Hollywood Dell neighbourhood.

Scientology’s poster boy looks set to cleanse his real estate aura and earn a pretty penny in the process.

He is selling his Beverly Hills estate with hefty price hopes of $50 million ($AU69.13 million). He reportedly bought the seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom mega mansion with ex-wife Katie Holmes for $30.5 million ($AU42.35 million) in 2007.

And to add to the property pile, Cruise is still looking for a cashed up buyer to take his 1214sq m Telluride ranch off his hands for $59 million ($AU81.57 million).

It has room to accommodate his private jet and according toThe Wall Street Journal, Cruise is selling the place because he hasn’t used it much in recent years.

Listing agent Bill Fandel of Sotheby’s International Realty told The Journal that the actor designed the native stone and cedar home himself and the project was finished in 1994.

In recent years Cruise has reportedly also offloaded his East Village condo in New York, but he is still believed to own a brownstone in Greenwich Village.

Originally published as Eva Longoria has reportedly bought one of Tom Cruise’s properties