Ellen DeGeneres

 

 

PHOTO: Ellen DeGeneres

Hollywood royalty and apparent house-flippers Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have unloaded a Beverly Hills home for $US15.5 million ($23 million), $US500,000 ($739,000) more than they paid for it less than a year ago.

The comedian and talk show host and her wife had done some minor cosmetic work on the five-bedroom mansion, listing agent Kurt Rapport of Westside Estate Agents told US property website Mansion Global.

But it was not enough to flip the property for more than the DeGeneres-de Rossis paid for it last year, with the pair having to back down from their $US17.95 million ($26.6 million) asking price from June.

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