Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 04/19/09

From the Real Estalker:
--Producer Roger Birnbaum has listed his home on Summit Drive in Beverly Hills, shown above, for $16 million, even though records show he bought the home for $16.5 million in 2007. The listing is here.
--Comedian Chris Elliott has put his five-bedroom home in Ridgefield, Connecticut on the market for $1.689 million.
The famous Castillo del Lago estate, currently owned by commercial director Joe Pytka, has been listed for $14.95 million. The home, which was once reportedly lived in by Bugsy Siegel and was later owned by Madonna, is listed here.
--Rumor has it that Scarlett Johansson may soon list her home in the Outpost Estates area of Los Angeles for around $5,100,000 which is less than the $7,000,000 property records show she paid for the home.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Former major-league centerfielder Devon White has cut the price on his Paradise Valley, Arizona mansion to $3.8 million a year after listing it for $4.7 million. The listing is here.
--Val Kilmer has put his New Mexico ranch on the market for $33 million.
--A pair of iconic Palm Springs homes are on the market, one owned by Cary Grant and one by Dinah Shore. We'll check them both out later today.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Five for Fighting's John Ondrasik has listed his Encino home for $1.299 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Busy Philipps has sold her Hollywood home for $1.075 million which is almost $275,000 less than she paid for it in 2005.
Music producer Scott Humphrey appears to have a deal to sell his four-bedroom Hollywood Hills home which was listed for $2.695 million. It was our estate of the day last December.
An eight-bedroom house in Encino that once was owned by Kirstie Alley and later by Katey Sagal has been listed for $9.395 million. The listing is here.
--Dylan McDermott continues to cut the price on his Brentwood home. It was originally listed at $11 million when it was our estate of the day last August and is now listed at $6.9 million.
--Retired baseball star Eric Davis has put his four-bedroom house in Calabasas, California on the market for $2.399 million. The listing is here.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Jane Beasley, the ex-wife of former GE chief Jack Welch, has put her condo at the Trump International up for sale for $28.8 million. The listing is here.
--Dr. Gary Roubin, an interventional cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital, and his wife Peta have gone into contract to sell their carriage house at 168 East 73rd Street which was most recently listed for $22 million.
--Ernst & Young executive Deborah Whitmore and her husband Kenneth paid $4 million for a penthouse condo at 140 West 22nd Street.
--Edwin Cohen, the founder of Carlin Ventures, has lowered the price of his three-bedroom apartment at 101 Central Park West for the third time since first listing it for $15 million last February. It's now priced at $10.75 million. The listing is here.
--via Curbed, author Gary Shteyngart has put his one-bedroom apartment at 575 Grand Street on the market for $450,000. The listing is here.
-- Attorney Bruce Kaye and his wife Deborah paid $7.8 million for a two-bedroom condo at 15 Central Park West less than a year ago and have now listed it for $11.9 million. The listing is here.
--via the NY Observer, Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald who once listed his four-bedroom apartment at Central Park West for $90 million is now renting it out for $75,000 a month.
--Haig Schneiderman, who owns the Knish Nosh knish chain and his wife Alison, have put their 4,000-square-foot apartment at 25 Central Park West on the market for $10.7 million. The listing is here.
--Hedge fund manager James Torrey and his wife Podie Lynch have closed on the sale of their duplex at 131 East 66th Street for $9 million. It was listed at $14.5 million last November and sold to John Heimann, a former exec at Merrill Lynch and his wife Maria-Cristina Anzola.
--Photographer Terry Richardson has paid $3.335 million for the three-story former fire station located at 185 Lafayette Street.
--Josh and Whitney Kroenke, the grandkids of Wal-Mart co-founder Bud Walton, have put their penthouse at 201 West 17th Street on the market for $2.995 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Director Sam Mendes, Kate Winslet's husband, recently checked out the penthouse at 99 Jane St. The four-bedroom condo apartment is listed at $14.5 million. The penthouse currently belongs to money man Bruce Bent Jr, and his wife, Rebecca, a food writer. Jennifer Lopez, Kate Hudson and Meg Ryan have also looked at the penthouse.
--Britney Spears is renting a home in Alpine, New Jersey for $30,000 a month and is house hunting in the area looking at homes in the $20 million range.
--Comedian Lisa Lampanelli has paid $1.32 million for a two-bedroom condo at 2250 Broadway on the Upper West Side.

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