Sunday Real Estate Round-Up
From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft and his journalist/author wife, Jennet Conant, have bought a six-room co-op on West 79th Street for $2.7 million.
--Artist and photographer Richard Prince has bought a Hamptons summer home in Wainscott for $9.7 million.
--Actress Mariska Hartigay has found a buyer for her downtown penthouse apartment. The home was originally listed for $6.5 million but sold for $5.1 million.
--Golfer Vijay Singh has picked up a home in the Hamptons on Further Lane for $9.5 million.
From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Heiress Libet Johnson has sold the 162-year-old, 25-foot-wide townhouse she bought the house from Meryl Streep in October 2005 for $12.85 million. Johnson had bought the home for or $9.1 million and originally listed it for nearly $16 million.
--Producer Marty Richards is still trying to sell his 14-room, four-bedroom duplex, shown above, on the garden of the iron-gated River House. It was first listed seven years ago for $17.5 million and went down to $11.5 million in 2003. It rocketed up to $29 million and now sits at $22.7 million.
--Jailed Jamaican-born British multimillionaire Carl Cushnie has sold a two-bedroom condo loft for $1.325 million.
--Another sale at the loft building 30 Crosby. Joel Distend, a retired executive whose apartment was damaged when Lenny Kravitz's toilet overflowed, has sold his 4,164-square-foot apartment for $6.2 million.
From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones has sold his Manhattan town home for $9,001,000, more than $1,800,000 above his asking price.
--From the NY Times' Big Deal, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has listed his five-bedroom condo in New York City's Trump Tower for $22,500,000. The listing is here.
--Denise Richards paid $4.395 million for her new house in Hidden Hills, California which is across the street from her current house, which is on the market for $3,799,950.
--Kimora Lee Simmons paid the $5.9 million for her new home in Beverly Hills that is next door to Jessica Simpson's house.
--Lucy Lawless has sold her five-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Studio City area for an undisclosed price after it had been on the market for $3,695,000.
--Mel Gibson's Malibu home sold for $23 million earlier this year meaning that he most likely took a loss on it after fees.
From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--It's official Richard Gere has bought in to Palazzo Chupi, the New York City condominium project being built by artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.
--Enterprise Rent-A-Car rental-car billionaire Jack Taylor has bought a Palm Beach, Fla., home for about $6.75 million.
--The price of a Montana ranch owned by the late Liz Claiborne has been cut 12% after a year on the market to $7.5 million from $8.5 million The listing for the 720-acre Tranquility Ranch is here.
From the Real Estalker:
--From Fox News, Michael Jackson has defaulted on a $23 million loan and could lose his Neverland Ranch.
--From Radar, a look at Leonardo DiCaprio's newest Malibu home.
--Hollywood hairstylist, Jose Eber has listed a West Hollywood home for $4.295 million.
--Tany Tucker has sold her 500-acre Tennessee ranch for around $11,500,000.
From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Loni Anderson has purchased a custom residence in Sherman Oaks for close to $2 million.
--British writer-director-producer Duncan Roy has picked up a two-bedroom post-and-beam home in Malibu which had a selling price of nearly $1.4 million.
--Daniel Loren May, set decorator for "CSI: Miami," has put his Sherman Oaks home on the market for $2.999 million. The Spanish hacienda-style home was designed by his son Nick May. The listing is here.
--Joe Behar has retired as a director of the daytime drama "General Hospital" and is moving with his wife, Carolyn, to Manhattan Beach and leasing out their Santa Monica home for $15,000 a month.
