Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 07/19/09

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--The Brentwood home of Esa-Pekka Salonen, former music director of the L.A. Philharmonic, has come on the Multiple Listing Service at $4.1 million. The listing is here.
--Former Lakers player Kwame Brown, now with the Detroit Pistons, has put his Playa del Rey home back on the market for $2.975 million. He bought the property for $3.375 million in 2005. The listing is here.
--Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone have sold their home in the Los Feliz Oaks neighborhood for $2.495 million.
--Actress Pamela Bowen has listed her Bel-Air home at $5.495 million. The listing is here.
--Milwaukee Brewer Jason Kendall has sold a Manhattan Beach home for $5.45 million. It was listed at $7.3 million when we checked it out in 2008.



From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--The most money ever for a two-week East End rental will be paid in August, $425,000. The home in question is Sandcastle, the 30,000-square-foot home on the market for close to $60 million.
--An estate on Hook Pond in East Hampton is for sale for $22.5 million.
--Mickey Rourke has been spotted looking for a bigger place to rent in New York City.
--Matt Damon continues to shop in Manhattan. His latest object of desire is a duplex at 1030 Fifth Ave which was once listed at $47.5 million but is now down to $19.9 million.


From Newsday's Real LI:
--Hedge fund manager John Paulson sold his Hamptons home for $9,977,500. It was once on the market for $19.5 million (it was at $13.9 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day). Paulson bought the home in 2006 for $12.75 million. Paulson bought Old Trees, a 10.4 acre Southampton estate for $41.3 million last year.



From Homes and Properties UK:
--Madonna may be looking to sell her Marylebone home on London's busy Great Cumberland Place but likely won't make a profit. She bought the eight-bedroom Georgian house for £7 million in 2001, plus a £900,000 mews house behind in Wythburn Place. She later paid £5.75 million for the adjoining Great Cumberland Place house and £900,000 for the adjoining mews house. A real estate agent estimates that Madonna could expect to receive about £16 to £17 million if she sells now.
--Jude Law has fallen in love with Cuba and plans to buy a property in the new Carbonera Club, where units cost from £92,600 for a studio to £1 million for a beachside villa.

From the NY Observer:
--New York City's once $64 million listing, the Sloane Mansion has been pulled from the market after more than a year and a $10 million price cut.
--Billionaire Michael Jaharis recently spent $6.7 million on an apartment and maid's room at 1049 Fifth Avenue.



From the Real Deal:
--Alex Rodriguez just can't seem to sell his home in Coral Gables, Florida. The home has had another price cut all the way down to $9.9 million an even $5 million off the original price and under the $12 million he paid for it in 2005.



From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Philanthropists Amnon and Caren Heller Barness have sold their former apartment at 1016 Fifth Avenue. The two-bedroom co-op was purchased for $4.2 million by attorney Peter Sloane and his wife, real estate agent Jaar-mel Sloane.
--via the NY Times, turns out that Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick aren't the buyers of Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany's Brooklyn townhouse. The buyer is a Google engineer and his wife.

--Dr. Richard Kaul, an anesthesiologist and spine specialist, has put his townhouse at 69 West 83rd Street on the market for $14 million. He bought the home for $3.6 million back in 2005. The listing is here.
--Jason Klarman, the general manager of Oxygen Media, paid $2.21 million for a three-bedroom condo at 201 West 72nd Street.
--Investment banker Lewis van Amerongen has slashed the price of his five-story townhouse at 13 East 71st Street. It was first listed last September for $24.95 million but is now at $16.95 million. The listing is here.
--Literary agent Luke Janklow and his wife Julie, who runs the restaurant Sweetiepie, have lowered the price of their townhouse at 16 West 12th Street. It was listed at $24.975 million but is now listed at $19.5 million, still way above the $4.5 million they paid for the home in 2004.
--The $15.5 million triplex penthouse at 895 Park has gone into contract again. Over the past few months, the building's co-op board has turned down three potential buyers but now a fourth person is ready to try.
--Lori Ferrell, an interior designer and the widow of attorney Milton Ferrell Jr., has sold her co-op at 480 Park. The two-bedroom apartment went on the market for $8.6 million in January and sold for $6.95 million.
--Lee Neibart, a partner at Apollo Real Estate Advisors, and his wife Joyce, have closed on the sale of their 16th-floor apartment at 15 Central Park West for $7.5 million, or $500,000 more than what the couple paid for
apartment in January.
--Real estate heiress Melissa Kushner has paid $2.225 million for a three-bedroom condo at 534 Hudson Street with her husband, Jeremy Kaplan.
--Emmy-winning composer Laura Karpman has purchased a Spanish-style duplex in Culver City for $765,000.
----The couple who paid $9 million for hedge fund manager James Torrey's East 66th Street duplex in April, former Merrill Lynch exec John Heimann and his wife Maria-Cristina Anzola, have sold their old apartment at 141 East 72nd Street for $5.625 million

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Casino and mixed-martial-arts mogul Frank J. Fertitta III and his wife have bought a beachfront home in Laguna Beach, California which was listed at $33 million.
--The Hamptons home of former Bear Stearns Co. hedge-fund manager Ralph Cioffi, who has been accused of fraud related to the credit crisis, has gone into contract less than five months after it was listed for $11.875 million.
--A money manager is asking $15.5 million for the former Philadelphia estate of oilman Joseph N. Pew, whose family founded one of the largest nonprofits, the Pew Charitable Trusts.

From the NY Daily News:
--Reality TV show star Jon Gosselin has moved into a two-bedroom apartment in New York City at the Alexandria where two-bedroom apartments rent for about $5,000 a month.