Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 06/28/09

From AOL Real Estate:
The most expensive suburbs in the U.S.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Melissa Joan Hart has re-listed her five-bedroom home in Sherman Oaks, California for $2.7 million. She paid $2.8 million for the home in 2005. The listing is here.
--Actor Morris Chestnut has put his seven-bedroom home in Hidden Hills, California on the market for $4.495 million.
--Harley Peyton writer and producer of many episodes of "Twin Peaks" has put his five-bedroom home in Los Angeles' Hancock Park area on the market for $3.995 million. The listing is here.


From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--via the NY Observer, cardboard magnate Dennis Mehiel's $34.9 million duplex at the Carhart Mansion is back on the market. It was previously listed at $35 million but the 10,350-square-foot apartment has resurfaced with a new listing and floorplan that lists dual dining rooms, a "study/gym" and a "media/playroom." The listing is here.
--via the NY Observer, money manager Raymond Cubero and his wife, Kathleen Comerford, have put their Trump Tower duplex on the market for $14.995 million. The listing is here.
--Anthony Sbarro, heir to the pizza empire founded by his parents in the 1950s, has sold his apartment at the Essex House on Central Park South for $3.25 million.
--via the NY Observer, commercial real estate broker Kenneth Laub plans to keep his four-floor townhouse at 163 East 64th Street sitting at $35 million even though it's been on the market for over a year and appears to be way overpriced. The listing for the 15-room mansion is here.
--via the NY Times, ad exec Simon Collins and his wife Roberta Anne McGuire have put their renovated townhouse at 28 Grove Street on the market for $14.9 million, they bought the home for $5 million last year. The listing is here.
--via the NY Times, the penthouse of the late Finnish economist Pentti Kouri at 114 Greene Street/102 Prince Street has gone on the market for $14.95 million. The listing is here.
--via Curbed Hamptons, disgraced lawyer Marc Dreier's two Hamptons properties sold for a combined $10.4 million at auction last week, which is about $2 million less than they were expected to fetch.
--Bruce Lisman, the former co-head of global equities at Bear Stearns, has gone into contract to sell his apartment at 923 Fifth Avenue, nearly two-and-a-half years after he first put it on the market. The four-bedroom condo had most recently been listed at $16.75 million but was previously listed at $22.75 million. The listing is here.
--The NY Times rounds up some news at the Plaza: Oscar Schafer, managing partner of OSS Capital Management, has gone into contract to sell his 17th-floor apartment, which had been listed most recently at $12.5 million. The listing is here. Guy Wildenstein has taken $3 million off the price of his Frank Lloyd Wright Suite, which is now listed at $18.5 million. The listing is here.
-A sale at 15 Central Park West, attorney Bruce Kaye and his wife Deborah have found a buyer for their two-bedroom condo which they bought for $7.8 million last July and put back on the market for $11.9 million in April. The listing is here.
-- Hedge fund manager Cliff Asness has sold his apartment at the The Oxford on East 72nd Street for $1.55 million.
--James Luikart, executive vice president of the private equity firm Jeffries Capital Partners, has paid $7.8 million for an 18th floor apartment and $500,000 for a ground floor studio at 170 East End Avenue.

From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
--A buyer finally has been found for Tom Petters' six-bedroom, three-level beach home on the Atlantic Ocean near Palm Beach, Florida. Petters is currently under indictment for allegedly masterminding a $3.5 billion Ponzi scheme. The offer on the home in Manalapan is for $9.475 million less than the appraised $9.75 value but more than the outstanding $8.4 million mortgage. The buyers are Robert and Suzanne Steinberg of Greenwich, Conn. Robert Steinberg is a former senior executive at Bear Stearns & Co.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Artist and director Julian Schnabel has cut the price on Palazzo Chupi yet again. Now you can buy the two top-floor units, for $27.9 million for the combination which is $10.1 million less than the last listing price and more than $31 million less than the original asking price of $59 million. The listing website is here. The penthouse is listed at $14.95 million with $12.95 million for the duplex below. Schnabel had to sell his Picasso, "Femme au Chapeau," for $7.7 million to maintain payments on the building.
--Matt Damon and his wife have been househunting at 1010 Fifth Ave. but they may be a hard sell with the co-op board.
--Mark Shuttleworth, 35, the South African entrepreneur who was world's second space tourist, has been house-hunting for penthouses downtown.
--Bids are coming in on the Southampton oceanfront estate of indicted platinum-collar criminal James Nicholson. Nicholson, who is accused of masterminding a doomed $150 million Ponzi scheme through his Westgate Capital funds, bought the home last January for $27 million. It is appraised at $25.5 million and there are now multiple bids being considered at around $27 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Comedian Ron White has put his home in Suwanee, Georgia on the market for $3.495 million. The listing is here.
--He has also put his Montecito, California home on the market for $3.495 million. The listing is here.
--Bob Weinstein's apartment on the Upper West Side has hit the market for $29.75 million. The listing is here.
--Lenny Kravitz may have already sold his Miami home.