Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Newly married Harvey Weinstein has sold his SoHo condo for $8 million.He bought the loft apartment in 2005 for $6.8 million and he and his new wife Georgina Chapman now live in a townhouse in the West Village.
--Former and potentially future first daughter Chelsea Clinton is interested in a $3 million, two-bedroom, two-bath apartment in the coveted One Madison Park condominium complex.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Popular real estate broker Robby Browne closed last month on a two-bedroom apartment at Robert A.M. Stern's new Fifteen Central Park West which he plans to rent out for somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000.
--Former internet entrepreneur Wayne Correia was briefly worth about $400 million during which time he paid cash for a New York City penthouse. Later he moved into a steel bus traveling the country. This month, his old eight-room penthouse at 136 Waverly Place closed for $8.7 million.
--The man who wrote Beyoncé's 'Irreplaceable' , Tor Erik Hermansens, has bought an apartment at 109 Greene Street for $3.65 million.
--A family trust signed by Isaac Chehebar just sold a 1,792-square-foot condo at the Olympic Tower high-rise at 647 Fifth Avenue, closing last month for $3.55 million. Six years ago Mr. Chehebar struck a group of Brooklyn pedestrians six years ago while speeding in a friend's Porsche. After he served four months of a six-month plea deal for criminally negligent homicide, the family bought this apartment for $2.5 million. Chenbar, now a real estate investor, lives in Brooklyn. The apartment is said to be sold to DJ turned shoe designer Giuseppe Zanotti.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Where does Kim Kardashian live? Mr. Big Time has the scoop on her Los Angeles condo.
--Actor and comedian Bryan Callen has paid $1,300,000 for a house in Silver Lake area and has sold his house in Venice for $1,310,000.
--Public records have cleared on the sale of actress Lucy Lawless' two-story house in Studio City and they reveal that she got $3,250,000 for the house.
--Artist David Hockney has sold his Hollywood Hills home to his former lover Gregory Evans, who now is Hockney's working partner and friend, for $600,000.
--David Hasselhoff is expected to put his Encino area on the market in the $4 million to $5 million range.
--via The Wall Street Journal, actress and singer Abbe Lane and her husband have put their house in Los Angeles' Holmby Hills, shown above, on the market for $19,750,000. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Singer Olivia Newton-John has listed her Malibu home for $14,000,000. The listing is here. Property records show that she purchased this house in August of 2004 for $5,995,000 when she bought the house from action actor Charles Bronson's widowed wife Kim.
--Boston Celtics co-owner Jim Pallotta and his wife Kim are building a huge slate Georgian style mansion on 27.5 acres in Weston, MA. According to The Boston Globe, the Pallottas unfinished home will be around 21,000 square feet. The Real Estalker Mama predicts, and I agree, that this place will probably be on the market in a few years when the happy couple realize they have a home with way too much space.
--The Richard Neutra designed Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, CA will be offered for sale in conjunction with Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art Sale on May 13, 2008. The property is expected to fetch $15-25,000,000.
--Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has picked up a gorgeous five-bedroom home in Beverly Hills for $4,187,545.
--John Goodman has picked up a new home in Pacific Palisades, California which was listed at $4,699,000.

Form the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Three years after listing his Marin County home for $65 million, mining magnate Robert Friedland has a signed sales contract for the full asking price. The Friedlands bought the Golden Gate Avenue in 1995 for just $5,500,000 then spent nine years and around $32-35,000,000 renovating the property.
--A farm in Spain's Catalonia, owned by the family of surrealist Joan Miró and the subject of one of his key paintings, is for sale for €5 million ($7.4 million). It is our estate of the day later today.