Sunday Real Estate Round-Up
From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:--Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis is moving into the Richard Meier-designed condos that her mother owns. As the Real Estalker noted last month, Alexis has put her TriBeCa aparmtent on the market for $12.4 million.
--The Esquire magazine-sponsored triplex apartment at 111 Central Park North in Harlem has gone to contract for approximately $8.5 million.
-The listing of the Bridgehampton home owned by Kelsey Grammer is "exploratory in nature," Kelsey and his wife Camille are just testing the real estate waters.
--Real-estate heiress/Democratic fundraiser Connie Milstein has sold her 15-room duplex at 770 Park Ave.
From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--As the Real Estalker first reported last May, "Lost" star Terry O'Quinn has placed his Oahu house, shown above, on the market for $2.94 million. The listing is here.
--The Manhattan condo in the Time Warner Center that Ricky Martin sold last year for $9.75 million is back on the market for $18.9 million.
--Colorado's Last Dollar Ranch, a site of ads for Marlboro, Budweiser and others has been sold for $6.27 million at auction.
From the Real Estalker:
--The Real Estalker Mama takes us on a mini tour of upstate NY including the neoprene-clad getaway home of Willem Dafoe.
--Are both Bono and Richard Gere moving into artist/director Julian Schnabel's Palazzo Chupi?
--Kate Moss has put her London home on the market for $6.6 million.
--Michael Vick has listed his Duluth, Georgia home for $4.5 million. The listing is here.
--Russ Weiner, founder of Rockstar energy drinks has put his Hollywood Hills home on the market for $22 million. The listing is here.
From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Ben Moody, who co-founded the band Evanescence, has paid $2.3 million for a home in Los Feliz.
--Actor Morris Chestnut has paid $3,300,000 for a 5,522-square-foot house in Hidden Hills and has sold his 4,633-square-foot house in Calabasas for $2,100,000 to Tracy Jernagin, a music production company owner who is the mother of late rapper Eazy-E's child.
--Musician Donovan Leitch Jr. has paid $1,435,000 for a 2,068-square-foot house in Studio City area and has listed his Spanish-style compound in the Hollywood Hills for $1,099,000. It is our estate of the day later today.
--Actor Noah Wyle has paid $1,800,000 for a four-bedroom house in Solvang, California.
From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Simon Fuller, the creator of American Idol just paid $19,360,752 for two ninth-floor condos, each over $9.9 million, at the Plaza.
--Indie actress Parker Posey has listed her three-room apartment in an 1845 brownstone in the East Village for 1.175 million.
--Russian billionaire and enemy of Vladimir Putin, Boris Belotserkovsky is already ensconced at the Plaza. Now he has a likeminded soul in the same building. Steven Theede, the ex-CEO of Yukos Oil closed this month on a 10th-floor Plaza spread.
--Texas-born philanthropist Courtney Sale Ross who already has a huge duplex at 740 Park has paid $7.25 million for a penthouse at 160 Wooster, a glass-and-white-metal downtown condo. The new condo is likely for a lucky member of her family.
From the LA Times Hot Property:
--As the Real Estalker also recently reported, Britney Spears is leasing, with an option to buy, in Malibu.
--The Pacific Palisades home that belongs to writer Angela Wilder (ex-wife of basketball player James Worthy) has been sold for close to $2 million.
--Want to live next door to the Mayor? Actor-director Al Morgenstern, who owns the only home immediately adjacent to Getty House, the official residence of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, has listed the home at $2,995,000. The listing is here.
--As the Real Estalker previously reported, Brad Garrett has dropped the price on his Hidden Hills home from $9,495,000 to $8,790,000.
--As, Celebrity Big Time Listings previously reported, Gene Wilder has sold his Bel-Air home for slightly less than $2.73 million.