Megastar Kim Kardashian has just extended her foothold in the gated community of Hidden Hills in California, reportedly buying her next-door neighbour’s property for USD $6.3 million ($8.9 million). 

Spread over 4168-square-metres of prime real estate in the celebrity locale, the fixer-upper will undoubtedly be bulldozed by Kardashian – the 41-year-old’s existing abode is much, much nicer. 

That’s not to say that her new house doesn’t have a decent amount of potential, with the ’70s-built structure boasting four bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms and period styling that perfectly walks the tightrope of arresting and awful. 

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Inside, the dated domicile features a living space of 393-square-metres and includes period attributes such as a wall of mirrors, a wet bar and a second-storey gallery. 

Kardashian and her ex, hip-hop heavyweight Kanye West, have notoriously been buying up neighbouring pieces of property in the platinum postcode since the two split.

Initially, the Keeping Up star bought out Ye’s half of their sprawling family estate in late 2021, throwing the Monster performer a cool USD $20 million $28.3 million to secure the sizeable landholding. 

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Kardashian probably assumed that, by buying out her ex’s half of the megamansion, he would purchase a new home elsewhere and give each other breathing room as their divorce was being finalised. 

And, initially, that’s exactly what happened, with Ye dropping a whopping USD $57.25 million ($79 million) to secure a beautifully avant-garde, Tadao Ando-designed mansion in Malibu. 

However, West couldn’t bear to be far apart from his ex and their four children, North West, Psalm West, Saint West and Chicago West. 

So, the rapper did the only logical thing – snatch up a USD $4.5 million ($6.3 million) tear-down literally across the street from his former family digs. 

Speaking about the acquisition at the time, a source close to West told The New York Post: “It’s just simple logistics so that he is close to his children and has access to them at the drop of a hat.” 

It was later confirmed West would be bulldozing his latest property’s existing home, which was a tired-looking single-storey structure in desperate need of a makeover.

So, maybe the real reason Kardashian swept up this latest addition to her property portfolio was simply to stop her ex from buying it? 

That is plausible … after all, according to Dirt.com, the Kardashian spent USD $800,000 ($1.1 million) over the residence’s list price just to secure it.