Real estate beat: Action is hot and heavy in the posh Beverly Hills Post Office area, the unincorporated territory just outside Beverly Hills.
First Candice Bergen buys a 3,000-square-foot home to use while shooting her CBS-TV show "Murphy Brown." Price: About $1.2 million.Next, basketball star Magic Johnson makes plans to move into the neighborhood, buying a six-bedroom, 13,000-square-foot mansion that's still under construction. Johnson reportedly will pay about $7 million for the new place.
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Meanwhile, the Laker leader puts his 7,663-square-foot Tudor-style house in nearby Bel-Air on the market. It's problem was that it has only a racquetball court, not basketball. Asking price: $4.5 million.