A Palm Springs estate built for a Hollywood movie star fetched $9 million in a January sale, making it one of the highest priced homes to ever trade hands in the city.

The Old Las Palmas home, sometimes called Villa Serena, boasts four bedrooms between the main house and two guest casitas, a swimming pool and a tennis court on a 1.5-acre site.

It was sold off-market to a limited liability company. The company's manager, Brian D. Stevens, is the CEO of the West Hollywood-based hospitality services company ConferenceDirect.

Stevens said he had been eyeing the 1969 home for three years. He has had a house in Palm Springs on and off since 2002.

“I love the clean lines, the simplicity of the layout, the large rooms and of course the amazing unobstructed mountain views,” he said in an email.

Actor Laurence Harvey, who starred opposite Frank Sinatra in the thriller “The Manchurian Candidate,” commissioned the architecture firm Buff and Hensman to design the 5,500-square-foot home, according to property listings.

The seller, fashion designer Rea Laccone, bought the home in 2013 for $3.05 million, hiring the design and construction firm Marmol Radziner to redecorate the interior of the home with new furniture and art.

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Keith Markovitz, a real estate agent with TTK Represents, represented both the buyer and the seller.

The sale ranks among one of the most expensive home sales in the region, according to home sales recorded in the region’s multiple listing service, which real estate brokers use to manage home sales. Off-market sales, like the Old Las Palmas home, do not appear in the database.

The home sale record holder in Palm Springs is the Bob Hope house, which sold to investor Ron Burkle in 2016 for $13 million. Elrod House, a neighbor to Bob Hope on Southridge Drive, nabbed a $7.7 million price tag the same year.

The Coachella Valley’s largest sale ever is Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison’s $42.9 million purchase of the Porcupine Creek estate in Rancho Mirage.