Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 04/26/09
From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--A home in the Hollywood Hills, shown above, that once belonged to Bette Davis has been listed for $2.295 million. The listing is here
--Libertarian radio and TV talk show host Larry Elder has put Hollywood Hills home on the market for $4.175 million.
From the LA Times Hot Property:
--David LaChapelle has listed his Sunset Strip home for $1.65 million. We looked at this one on Friday.
The 1928 Spanish-style home of "Gossip Girl" producer Josh Schwartz and his wife, Jill in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles on the market for $2.395 million. The listing is here.
--Nicole Murphy, ex-wife of Eddie Murphy, has put her Calabasas home back on the market. We took a closer look on Saturday.
--Phoenix Pictures chairman and cofounder Mike Medavoy has taken his Beverly Park mansion off the market. It was most recently listed at $19.995 million but it was at $23.5 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day.
From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Disney heiress Abigail Disney and her husband, Pierre Hauser, are paying $12.16 million for a 16th-floor apartment at 15 Madison Square North.
--Writer/director John Ridley paid $6.65 million for a condo at 15 Central Park West in July 2008, relisted it a few days later for $13 million and has cut the prices several times since then. It is currently listed for $8.5 million.
--via the NY Times, London-based investment manager Franck Ruimy has picked up five apartments since March through limited liability corporations, including four units at 400 East 67th Street, purchased for a combined $11.5 million.
--Hedge fund exec Apostolos Peristeris and his wife Alicia have sold their two-bedroom condo at 207 East 57th Street for $1.65 million.
--As we mentioned earlier this week, Leona Helmsley's former estate in Greenwich is now available for just $75 million. It was still listed at $125 million when it was our estate of the day last June.
--John Legend has reduced the price on his New York City apartment. We checked this one out earlier in the week.
--New York Observer publisher and Ivanka Trump snuggle buddy Jared Kushner has paid $3.225 million for a two-bedroom, seventh-floor condo at 21 Astor Place.
--New York Mortgage Trust founder Steven Schnall and his wife Sherri have put their townhouse at 2 North Moore Streeton the market for $33 million. Check out a video from The Real Deal here.
--Tina Fey has picked up a new apartment for $3.4 million, we checked it out earlier this week.
--Lily Lee Lee Wong has cut $4.6 million off the price of her 115-year-old townhouse at 21 East 84th Street. She bought the home for $12.1 million in June 2007 and re-listed for $24.5 million just a month later. The 22-foot wide home is now on the market for $19.9 million.
--Real estate agent Raphael De Niro, the son of Robert De Niro, and his wife Claudine paid $2.9 million for a three-bedroom condo at 497 Greenwich Street.
From the Real Estalker:
--One of our former estate of the day properties, 40 Beverly Park in Beverly Hills has been sold. It was last listed at $31.5 million but was at $39.9 million when we checked it out last November. The buyer is said to be Oksana Borzina, a real estate investor/flipper who owns several other properties in the area.
--Usher has been spotted checking out real estate on the Sunset Strip. His Atlanta home remains on the market.
--Nicolas Cage has another home in New Orleans on the market, we checked it out earlier this week.
--Producer Brad Grey has picked up a Bel Air home for a reported $22 million.
A Los Angeles home that once belonged to Dermot Mulroney and Catherine Keener is back on the market. Mulroney and Keener sold to an entity linked to a charitable organization in North Carolina that belongs to Dave Matthews (it may have belonged to Dave Matthews Band saxophonist the late LeRoi Moore). The home is now listed at $3.199 million. The listing is here.
--Serial house flipper Jeff Lewis hasn't been having great luck lately. He listed a house on Valley Oak Drive with an asking price of $3.195 million last May, it was reduced to $2.595 million and then went into contact but it has popped back up on the market for $2.695 million.
From Newsday's Real LI:
--The East Hampton estate where Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon stayed last summer has gone into contract. Stone Meadow Farm was on the market for $19.995 million when we looked at it last summer as an estate of the day but it was most recently listed for $15.9 million.
--Michael Tunnicliffe, a partner in the Los Angeles-based Filament Entertainment Group, has listed his Roslyn Harbor, New York home for $2.699 million. It is also available for rent for $11,000 per month. The listing is here.
--A North Haven property that was once for sale for $80 million has been reduced to $60 million. The listing is here.
The seller of a $13.9 million estate in Nissequogue, New York will throw in a $130,000 Maserati Quattroporte. We'll look at this one later in the week.
From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--TV host Tim Gunn has picked up a two-bedroom home on New York's Upper West Side for $1.5 million.
--Yankees pitcher A.J. Burnett is renting a home in Alpine, New Jersey for about $32,000 a month.
--Madonna is still actively looking for a house in horse country, the Hamptons and Westchester are both on her radar.
--Golden Girl Rue McClanahan has been spotted checking out Harlem's new Windowson123 condo development.
From the New York Observer:
--Investor Paul Cejas has put his two-bedroom apartment at 834 Fifth Avenue on the market for $18.5 million. The listing is here.
Tommy Hilfiger's former NYC co-op at 820 Fifth Avenue which is now owned by real estate titan Ara Hovnanian and his wife Rachel has been listed for $36 million.
--Developer Louis Cappelli and his wife, actress Kylie Travis, have put their apartment at 515 Park Avenue on the market for $29.5 million.
From Curbed LA:
The H.M. Warner house which we had as an estate of the day earlier this year when it was listed at $4.195 million is now a short sale listed at $3.675 million.From Newsday's Real LI:
--The East Hampton estate where Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon stayed last summer has gone into contract. Stone Meadow Farm was on the market for $19.995 million when we looked at it last summer as an estate of the day but it was most recently listed for $15.9 million.
--Michael Tunnicliffe, a partner in the Los Angeles-based Filament Entertainment Group, has listed his Roslyn Harbor, New York home for $2.699 million. It is also available for rent for $11,000 per month. The listing is here.
--A North Haven property that was once for sale for $80 million has been reduced to $60 million. The listing is here.
From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--The former home of circus entrepreneur James Bailey has had a major price cut to $6.5 million from $10 million. We peeked inside in the post above this one.
--Artist Danny Simmons, brother of hip-hop mogul Russell and rapper-turned-television star Joseph (aka Rev. Run), has put his home-studio up for sale for $1.175 million. Danny Simmons runs a gallery in Brooklyn and is part of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, dedicated to arts outreach to urban youths. The one-bedroom loft in Clinton Hill has appeared in episodes of his brother's MTV show "Run's House." The listing for the rather-cluttered home is here.
--Evermay, a 3.58-acre Georgian Revival estate within walking distance of the White House, is now asking $39 million. It was previously listed at $49 million.We'll look at this one on Monday.
via Twitter:
--it looks like Descante, a home which we profiled as an estate of the day in 2007 when it was listed for $19 million has gone to contract fora around $11 million.
The seller of a $13.9 million estate in Nissequogue, New York will throw in a $130,000 Maserati Quattroporte. We'll look at this one later in the week.
--The East Hampton estate where Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon stayed last summer has gone into contract. Stone Meadow Farm was on the market for $19.995 million when we looked at it last summer as an estate of the day but it was most recently listed for $15.9 million.
--Michael Tunnicliffe, a partner in the Los Angeles-based Filament Entertainment Group, has listed his Roslyn Harbor, New York home for $2.699 million. It is also available for rent for $11,000 per month. The listing is here.
--A North Haven property that was once for sale for $80 million has been reduced to $60 million. The listing is here.
The seller of a $13.9 million estate in Nissequogue, New York will throw in a $130,000 Maserati Quattroporte. We'll look at this one later in the week.
From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--TV host Tim Gunn has picked up a two-bedroom home on New York's Upper West Side for $1.5 million.
--Yankees pitcher A.J. Burnett is renting a home in Alpine, New Jersey for about $32,000 a month.
--Madonna is still actively looking for a house in horse country, the Hamptons and Westchester are both on her radar.
--Golden Girl Rue McClanahan has been spotted checking out Harlem's new Windowson123 condo development.
From the New York Observer:
--Investor Paul Cejas has put his two-bedroom apartment at 834 Fifth Avenue on the market for $18.5 million. The listing is here.
Tommy Hilfiger's former NYC co-op at 820 Fifth Avenue which is now owned by real estate titan Ara Hovnanian and his wife Rachel has been listed for $36 million.
--Developer Louis Cappelli and his wife, actress Kylie Travis, have put their apartment at 515 Park Avenue on the market for $29.5 million.
From Curbed LA:
The H.M. Warner house which we had as an estate of the day earlier this year when it was listed at $4.195 million is now a short sale listed at $3.675 million.From Newsday's Real LI:
--The East Hampton estate where Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon stayed last summer has gone into contract. Stone Meadow Farm was on the market for $19.995 million when we looked at it last summer as an estate of the day but it was most recently listed for $15.9 million.
--Michael Tunnicliffe, a partner in the Los Angeles-based Filament Entertainment Group, has listed his Roslyn Harbor, New York home for $2.699 million. It is also available for rent for $11,000 per month. The listing is here.
--A North Haven property that was once for sale for $80 million has been reduced to $60 million. The listing is here.
From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--The former home of circus entrepreneur James Bailey has had a major price cut to $6.5 million from $10 million. We peeked inside in the post above this one.
--Artist Danny Simmons, brother of hip-hop mogul Russell and rapper-turned-television star Joseph (aka Rev. Run), has put his home-studio up for sale for $1.175 million. Danny Simmons runs a gallery in Brooklyn and is part of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, dedicated to arts outreach to urban youths. The one-bedroom loft in Clinton Hill has appeared in episodes of his brother's MTV show "Run's House." The listing for the rather-cluttered home is here.
--Evermay, a 3.58-acre Georgian Revival estate within walking distance of the White House, is now asking $39 million. It was previously listed at $49 million.We'll look at this one on Monday.
via Twitter:
--it looks like Descante, a home which we profiled as an estate of the day in 2007 when it was listed for $19 million has gone to contract fora around $11 million.
The seller of a $13.9 million estate in Nissequogue, New York will throw in a $130,000 Maserati Quattroporte. We'll look at this one later in the week.
