Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 09/13/09

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Sep 13th 2009 at 9:01AM

The listing for Bernie Madoff's Palm Beach, Florida home is up. It is listed for $8.49 million with Corcoran.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Former Baltimore Ravens cornerback Chris McAlister has listed his Beverly Hills Post Office area home at $7.9 million. The listing for the five-bedroom home is here.
--Actor Jerry Douglas, who has played "The Young and the Restless" patriarch John Abbott since 1985, and his wife, Kymberly Bankier,have re-listed their Encino home for sale at $2.695 million.The listing is here.

From CNBC:
--Obama's next-door neighbor in Illinois is selling. Check out a slideshow of the home here.

From Shelterpop:
--Inside all three of Madoff's properties--Montauk, NYC, and Palm Beach, oh my!
--Fashion Designer Anna Sui's East Village Fantasia
--Debbie Gibson Sells her Home Just in Time to Avoid Foreclosure--is it worth $900,000?

From AOL Real Estate:
Scandal in Malibu, a bank executive moved into the foreclosed $12 million home she was supposed to be taking care of over the summer. The property website for the home is here.
Is it smarter to rent or buy in your city, find out here.

From Move Trends:
Frank Sinatra's former 7 bedroom, 13 bath, Mountain Center, California home listed, Villa Maggio which was listed for $4.995 million last year is now listed for $4.9 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Former New York Jets star Curtis Martin is reconsidering a penthouse triplex at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, which he first looked at two years ago. He is hosting NFL's opening weekend this Sunday in the building's screening room.
--Bernie Madoff's Montauk beach house has at least four offers.
--Composer Adam Guettel, who won a Tony for "The Light in the Piazza," has bought a four-bedroom apartment at The Osborne building from clothing-store mogul Marcy Syms. We checked it out as an estate of the day earlier this year.

Gallery: Another Historic Osborne Apartment

--Apollo Global's Joseph Azrack has purchased a 6,250-square-foot townhouse at 24 W. 11th St. with a listing price of $14.9 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Former Fannie Mae chief executive Daniel Mudd has sold his 1927 colonial home in Washington to a company that caters to relocating executives. Mudd was asking $9.5 million for his six-bedroom home.

Gallery: Daniel Mudd In Washington DC

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has sold his one-bedroom co-op unit on Manhattan's Upper West Side for $565,000.
--A Malibu home that actor Steven Weber owned until selling it in 2007 has come back on the market, this time for $4.295 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Julie Bowen has sold her home in Los Angeles' Studio City area for $2.1 million. We checked it out as an estate of the day when it was listed at $2.695 million.

Gallery: Julie Bowen in Studio City

From the Real Estalker:
--Tennis player Kim Clijsters and her husband basketball player Brian Lynch paid $772,000 for a three-bedroom home in Wall Township, New Jersey.
--Actor John Krasinski has listed his starter home in West Hollywood for $1.245 million. He paid $1.050 for the home in 2006. The listing is here.
-- Tionne Watkins, a.k.a. T-Boz from TLC has listed her Duluth, Georgia home for $1.25 million. She bought the home in 2001 for $1,122,700. The listing is here.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Peter Buffett, the son of Warren Buffett, and his wife Jennifer have closed on the purchase of a three-bedroom condo at One Madison Park for $3.5 million.
--Grammy-winning record producer Russ Titelman has sold his three-bedroom co-op at 160 Riverside Drive for $3.020 million.
--Tiki Barber and his wife Ginny have closed on the purchase of a 22nd-floor apartment at the Miraval at 515 East 72nd Street, nearly two years after word first spread that they were buying the apartment. The Barbers paid $4.8 million for the new apartment.
--From the NY Observer, porn magnate Carl Ruderman has put his two 43rd-floor apartments at 200 East 65th Street on the market for $13.25 million. The listing is here.
--via the NY Observer, real estate investor Aharon Vaknin has put his brownstone at 9 West 70th Street on the market for $12 million. The listing is here.
----Gary Jortner, a retired SVP at Pfizer, and his wife, Cindy, have put their condo at 15 CPW on the market, less than two years after picking it up for $2.44 million. It is listed for $3.195 million.
--via the NY Observer, financier Dan Neidich, who co-founded the hedge fund Dune Capital with Steve Mnuchin, has paid $2.984 million for a two-bedroom condo at 211 Elizabeth Street for one of his children.
-- Nancy Rutter, a former reporter for Forbes and the ex-wife of Netscape co-founder Jim Clark, has paid $3.55 million for a penthouse apartment at 230 East 73rd Street.
--via the NY Observer, Gisele Bundchen has listed a red-brick townhouse in the West Village for $13.95 million. The listing is here.
--Eve Weinstein, the ex-wife of producer Harvey Weinstein, has gone into contract to sell her sixth-floor apartment at 1133 Fifth. It was listed most recently for $11.9 million.
--David Sidwell, who retired as Morgan Stanley's CFO in 2007, has picked up an apartment at 25 Central Park West a few floors below the one he sold back in June. He paid $6 million for a unit on the building's 20th-floor.

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Jay Nov 15th 2009 7:53PM

These homes are truly beautiful. 7.9 million for a home is a lot of money, but now I see why.

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