Sunday Real Estate-Round-Up. 03/08/09
From the Real Estalker:
--E Television presenter Giuliana Rancic has dropped the price on her Wilshire Blvd. condo in Los Angeles, shown above, to $749,000. The listing is here.
From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Ashton Kutcher has sold his former bachelor pad for $3.67 million, it was listed at $3.7 million.
--Fashion designer-turned-photographer Hedi Slimane has picked up a swank midcentury home in Beverly Hills for $4.1 million.
--Tawny Kitaen has listed her Newport Beach home at $3.45 million. The listing is here.
--Actor Kerr Smith has listed his home in Encino, California for $1,479,007. The listing is here.
--Soap opera actor Jerry Douglas has put his home in Encino, California on the market for $3.999 million. The listing is here.
--Jeremy Strick, the former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, has listed his Westwood-area home at $2.85 million. The listing is here.
--Reginald Hudlin, the first president of entertainment for Black Entertainment Television, has listed his Beverly Hills home for sale at $4.995 million. The listing for the five-bedroom home is here.
---Norm Zada, publisher of Perfect 10 magazine, has put his house in Beverly Park on the market for $24.5 million.
From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--A penthouse on the 165-unit cruiseliner known as The World, which calls itself the is a private residential community on a seafaring ship that travels around the globe, is for sale for $17.5 million. The listing is here. The apartment has prime views over the bow of The World and will accommodate up to 12 people. It includes dining areas with bar facilities and fully equipped kitchens with laundries plus 150 feet of private veranda and a private living area large enough to host your own parties. The listing is here.
--Tony-Award-winning producer Anita Waxman has dropped the price on her Lakeville, Connecticut home. We'll be checking out this one as our estate of the day on Monday.
--Sheik Abdul Aziz al-Thani of Qatar has cut the price of his Trump Park Avenue three-bedroom apartment to $10 million from $14 million. The listing is here.
--Alex Rodriguez, has gone to contract on his New York apartment. It was last listed at $10 million and was our estate of the day last October.
From Move Trends:
--Kanye West's six-bedroom home in teardown condition in Beverly Hills is back on the market. It first hit the market for $8.699 million last March and is now listed at $7.995 million. The listing is here.
--A Malibu home once lived in by Britney Spears and Kevin Federline is one the market for $11.75 million. The listing is here.
--The Inn at Jackson Hole, which was at $33 million back in September when we first mentioned it, has had a price chop to $26 million. It has 83 rooms and an onsite restaurant.
--Lindsay Lohan's former New York City apartment is listed for sale.
--Manny Ramirez has put his Boston apartment back on the market for $8.5 million. It was our estate of the day on Friday.
From the Daily Mail's Property:
--Sienna Miller has bought a cottage in the Cotswolds.
--Photographer Rankin converted an empty warehouse in North London into a space with his penthouse, a gallery and 11 flats but so far none of the apartments have sold.
From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Tori Spelling and her husband, Dean McDermott, have sold their Westwood area home for $2.3 million. It was listed at 2.395 million when it was our estate of the day in October.
--Actor Tom Bresnahan has paid $1.68 million to purchase a Paul Williams-designed house in Los Angeles' Silver Lake area.
--Singer-songwriter Ruben Blades has put his five-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Windsor Square area on the market for $2.65 million. The listing is here.
--Jewel has sold her home in the Hollywood Hills, which had been listed for $1.75 million.
From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--That $75 million pocket listing at 740 Park Avenue is still available.
--Another big Plaza Hotel penthouse may hit the market. Penthouse 2001 supposedly sold for around $31 milion but the owner, a hedge fund manager demanded his $6.5 million deposit back, plus $350,000 for legal fees--plus $3.5 million for punitive damages last fall. The hedge fund buyer will likely given an apartment in another development in exchange for his deposit. No word on what the apartment will be listed for but it will likely be far below $31 million.
--Energy executive Charles Price III has paid $3,375,000 for the late novelist, essayist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick's apartment at 15 West 67th Street. She was living in the eight-room duplex with Robert Lowell when they co-founded The New York Review of Books in 1963, and kept the co-op until her death in late 2007 at age 91.
From Newsday's Real LI:
--Hamptons real estate agent Gary DePersia recently sold his home in Amagansett for $4 million.
--The new owners of a beachfront house in East Hampton plan to tear their $26.5 million purchase down and rebuild so they offered it to local firefighters to burn down in a recent training exercise.
From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--seagram heir Matthew Bronfman has listed his Westchester mansion, Treetops for rent. The Seagram heir has listed his 9,000-square-foot manor home for $28,500 per month. The listing is here.
From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Mike McNamara, the CEO of Flextronics International, and his wife Deborah, have dropped the price of their apartment at the Plaza. It was listed for $12.5 million and is now down to $10.9 million. The listing is here.
--Srinivas Modukuri, the former head of mortgage strategies at Lehman Brothers, paid $2.995 million for an apartment at 74 Fifth Avenue.
--Fashion stylist and V magazine editor-at-large Beat Bolliger paid $1.59 million for an apartment at 12 East 12th Street.
--Fox News entertainment correspondent Jill Dobson and her husband Jim Ornstein, a William Morris agent paid $1.995 million for a condo at 243 West 60th Street.
--The penthouse at 895 Park that belonged to the late fashion tycoon and movie producer (Tootsie, Showgirls) Charles Evans has undergone another price cut. It started at $29.5 million in 2007 and is now down to $15.5 million. The listing is here.
William and Pat Buckley's duplex at 778 Park, which was put on the market for $24.5 million, has been taken off the market. It was our estate of the day last October.
