Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 04/05/09

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
----Real estate heiress Caroline Cumming has cut the price on her 12,128-square-foot townhouse at 11 Spring Street in New York City, shown above. It went on the market for $39.8 million in September and is now listed at $29.5 million.
--Risa Meyer, the daughter of late socialite and philanthropist Kitty Meyer and founder of the party-goods store PlumParty.com, has put her three-bedroom condo at Trump Parc East on the market for $14.8 million. The listing is here.
--Real estate developer Hunter Lipton and his wife, Tara, have paid $4.6 million for an apartment at 255 East 74th Street.
--Christiane Celle, the founder of the Calypso boutiques and her husband, fashion photographer Antoine Verglas, have lowered the price of their duplex penthouse at 129 Lafayette Street. The four-bedroom loft went on the market for $13.995 million but is now priced at $11.999 million.The listing is here.
--Visa senior vice president Darren Parslow and art director Justin Durongsaeng paid $1.9 million for a condo at 133 West 22nd Street.
--Nicole Eddy and her husband paid $7.3 million for a penthouse at the Chelsea Modern on West 18th Street.
--National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman and his wife Michelle have paid $1.95 million for a condo at the Grand Beekman.
--More financial fallout. Hedge funder Scott Bessent has dropped the price of his duplex at One Sutton Place South again. He put it on the market for $12.5 million in October and it is now listed at $9.95 million, about $2 million less than he paid for it in 2007.
--Hotel developer Henry Kallan and his wife Emilia paid $2.995 million for a 38th-floor, three-bedroom co-op at 45 East 89th Street.
--Architect Teresa Sapey has lowered the price of her apartment at the Plaza. She bought the two-bedroom unit for $6.9 million in 2007 and put back on the market for $10 million just a few months later. It's now listed at $8.5 million.
--The latest round of 'which celebrity's house is this?' features a home on Mandeville Canyon Road in Los Angeles' Brentwood area, which sold at the end of 2008 for $2.25 million.


From the LA TImes Hot Property:
--Soap opera actor Ingo Rademacher has listed his Venice, California home. We'll check it out later as our estate of the day.
----The voice of Nickelodeon's Jimmy Neutron, Debi Derryberry has listed a four-bedroom home in Toluca Lake, California for $2.5 million. The listing is here.
Travelscape's Tim Poster has listed his Laguna Beach home at $6.9 million. The listing for the three-story custom home is here.
--Decorating maven Kitty Bartholomew has listed her own Santa Monica cottage for $2.195 million. The listing is here.

From the Telegraph:
--Nicolas Cage has sold his German castle. We checked this out earlier in the week.

From the Real Estalker:
--Mick Jagger's girlfriend L'Wren Scott has put her Los Angeles home on the market. We checked it our earlier this week.
--Manuela Herzer, a former companion of Sumner Redstone, has picked up the home belonging to Lance Bass. She paid $3.85 million. It was listed at $3.925 million when it was our estate of the day last November.
--via Page Six, Kelly Bensimon from Real Housewives of New York City is said to be selling her East Hampton, New York home for a rumored $10.9 million and Countess Luann de Lesseps from the same show is putting her Bridgehampton home up for sale for $9.5 million.
--Hank Azaria has picked up a seven-bedroom Bel Air home which was last listed $13.975 million.
--David Spade has put his Malibu home up for rent for $65,000 a month.
--Spice Girl Melanie Brown has already sold her home which we covered last week as an estate of the day. Rumor has it that it sold for above the $2,999,999 asking price.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Rock star, author and activist Henry Rollins has listed his home in the Hollywood Hills. We checked it out earlier this week.
--A five-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills that John Lennon once lived in has come on the market for $4.5 million. The listing is here.
--Gangster legend Al Capone's onetime house in Chicago is on the market for $450,000. The two-flat building was built in 1914. The listing (without pictures) is here.
--Husband-and-wife actors William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman have paid exactly $1 million to purchase multi-unit residential building in Los Angeles' Fairfax District.
--Actor Richard T. Jones has listed his four-bedroom home in Encino for sale for $1.599 million. The property website is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Las Vegas nightlife entrepreneur and real-estate developer Andrew Sasson has listed just-finished contemporary mansion on Kailua Beach in Oahu for $21 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Anne Archer has offering her Rhode Island condominium for $1.1 million. We'll check this one out later in the week.
--Nedra Matteucci, a fixture of the Santa Fe, New Mexico art world, is asking $13.5 million for an adobe-style compound that includes one of her galleries and five homes. The listing for the Matteucci Compound is here.


From Move Trends:
--Shaquille O'Neal has cut the price on his home on Star Island in Miami yet again. It was listed at $29 million last year when we had it as an estate of the day. It is now listed at $22.5 million.

Halcyon House, which was listed at $30 million when it was our estate of the day, has had a deep price cut to $19.5 million.