Jennifer Aniston is making her first home purchase since she and Brad Pitt parted ways.

The actress is buying a house in Beverly Hills for $15 million. The home, designed in the seventies by Hal Levitt, is being rebuilt. The one-story house, on half an acre, has six bedrooms and seven bathrooms in 9,000-plus square feet.

Levitt, whose trademark is gray-and-black-onyx terrazzo floors, is popular with the celebrity crowd.

Since Aniston and her actor husband called it quits, she has leased a two-bedroom home with 50 feet of beachfront in Malibu. The house rents in the vicinity of $25,000 to $30,000 a month on a year’s lease. Rent on the property would skyrocket to $100,000 a month or more in July and August on a month-to-month lease.

Aniston often walks her dogs on the beach and barbecues in the rental’s kitchen with Friends pal and Malibu neighbour Courteney Cox Arquette. (lat-wp)