From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--"Gossip Girl" executive producer Bob Levy has purchased a Hollywood Hills-area home for $1,005,000.
--A Palm Springs home once owned by Oscar-winning composer Frederick Loewe is on the market at $5.95 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are said to be the owners of the prewar Victorian townhouse on Prospect Park West formerly owned by Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany. The townhouse has scaffolding in front of it and is undergoing a gut renovation. Check out the pictures from when it was our estate of the day last year.
--Hockey star Scott Gomez's bachelor pad in the Chelsea Mercantile building on Seventh Avenue should soon be on the market since the New York Rangers traded Gomez to Montreal on Tuesday. Gomez signed a seven-year contract for $51.5 million in July 2007 and bought the apartment in September 2007.
--Ex-Ranger Darius "Kaspar" Kasparaitis has listed his two-bedroom condo on East 59th Street for $2.595 million. The listing is here.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--British developer Penny Bradley has gone into contract to sell her townhouse at 158 East 61st Street. It was most recently listed at $11.5 million.
--via the NY Times, investor Enrique Foster Gittes has dropped the price of the townhouse at 12 East 63rd Street he bought for $8.8 million in 2005. He put on the market for $28.75 million as a "raw space" back in April, it is now listed with Paula Del Nunzio for $24.95 million.
--via the NY Times, Russian financier Andrei Vavilov has gone into contract to sell the notorious penthouse he bought from the Plaza's developers for $11 million earlier this year (using the deposit he put down on the $53.5 million unit he was originally supposed to buy). It was on the market for $12.5 million in February, was most recently listed for $9.95 million.
--Writer/director John Ridley has finally found a buyer for his condo at 15 Central Park West. It was most recently listed for $8.5 million.
--via the NY Times, Madonna paid $32.5 million for the East 81st Street townhouse she went into contract to purchase in April. The home was listed for $45 million back in October.
The Philadelphia Daily News says that sources keep telling them that neither Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora nor Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels, two of the famous names used to market the Residences at Two Liberty Place, actually purchased their condos. They say instead the pair received free leases in exchange for promoting the luxury high-rise.
--Dr. Gary Roubin, Lenox Hill's chief of interventional cardiology, has re-listed the carriage house at 168 East 73rd Street he almost sold May. The deal fell through so the home is back on the market for $16.5 million. The listing is here.
--Retired Continental Airlines CEO Gordon Bethune has paid $5.882 million for a third-floor apartment at The Beresford on Central Park West.
--Markus Kiersztan, the owner of MP Creative and Uniqlo's creative director in the United States, has paid $1.8 million for a three-bedroom loft at 10 Leonard Street.
--via NY Mag, Director Stephen Daldry has gone into contract to buy a red-brick townhouse in Chelsea with an asking price of "just under $5 million."
--via NY Mag, British architect Lord Norman Foster has picked up the apartment next door to the one he already owns at 912 Fifth Avenue for $6.7 million
--via Curbed Hamptons, billionaire Juergen Friedrich has cut the price of his Southampton mansion again. It is now listed at $49.5 million but was priced at $67.5 million when it was our estate of the day.
--Keiko Ibi, the Tokyo-born filmmaker who won an Oscar her 1999 documentary The Personals, has put her condo at 15 Central Park West back on the market less than two years after purchasing it for $1.8 million. The one-bedroom is now listed for $3.75 million.
-- Investor Gerhard Andlinger has sold his penthouse at the Time Warner Center for $37.5 million.
--Sara Levinson, the former president of the women's publishing division of Rodale, and her husband Charles Hairston, have paid $2.625 million for a three-bedroom co-op at 45 East 85th Street.

The San Francisco Gate reports that the Marina mansion used to house the contestants of Top Chef's first season show, set in San Francisco, is up for rent.

Hall and Hall just sold Perry Ranch in Steamboat Springs, CO for $11 million. It was originally listed at $19 million but was $16 million when we checked it out.