Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 01/24/10

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jan 24th 2010 at 9:01AM

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Professional skateboarder Erik Elllington has listed his Hollywood Hills contemporary, shown above, for $1,595,000. The property website is here.
--Kurt Rappaport, co-founder of Beverly Hills-based Westside Estate Agency sold a Beverly Hills home for around $24 million. Rappaport took a combination of cash and a house in the flats of Beverly Hills in trade in the transaction.
--Actors Jeremy Renner and Kristoffer Winters have sold a gated and restored 1924 Greek Revival in the Hollywood Hills area for $4,004,852.
--Screenwriter Tedi Sarafian has listed his renovated Normandy-style 1920s home in the Hollywood Hills for $1,749,000. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--Damages star Glenn Close has listed her two-bedroom apartment in the Beresford building at 211 Central Park West for $11.8 million. The apartment has two terrace's and a maid's room. The listing is here.

Gallery: Glenn Close On Central Park West

--Jay-Z and Ralph Lauren have both been spotted checking out the triplex penthouse in the ClockTower Building in Brooklyn. The apartment has gorgeous views through four giant clock faces and a glass elevator. It is listed at $25 million.

Gallery: Clock Tower Building

--Blackstone Group CEO Steven Schwarzman has sold his East Hampton home for $6.25 million. He bought the 3,200-square-foot home for $2.3 million in 1996 and later stayed there while the Water Mill estate he bought for $34 million in 2005 was being renovated.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Financially embattled Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicsk has sold his three-acre, Aspen-area estate to Howard M. Jenkins, the former head of the Southeastern Publix Super Markets chain, for $18.5 million.
--Restaurateur and celebrity chef Charlie Palmer is asking $11.5 million for the five-story Manhattan townhouse that housed his first restaurant, Aureole, and former apartment. The listing is here.
--Australian golfer Adam Scott has put his beachfront vacation home on Australia's Gold Coast on the market for 4.95 million Australian dollars. The listing is here.

From Move Trends:
--A San Fernando Valley home that once belonged to Charlie Sheen and then-wife, Denise Richards, as well as actresses, Kirstie Alley and Katey Sagal is listed at $8.995 million, down $400,000 from when it was first listed in October. The listing is here.

Gallery: Louise Avenue

--A Montecito, California home that once belonged to director Robert Zemeckis is on the market for $13.9 million. The listing is here.

Gallery: East Valley Road

From ShelterPop:
Celebs on the Move: Angelina & Brad, Taylor Swift, Bradley & Renee
Breaking News: Diane Von Furstenberg Home
Three Kennedy Clan Estates For Sale
Inside Project Runway's Updated NYC Digs

From Homes of the Rich:
--The "Le Reve" Estate in Georgia has been re-listed with a lower asking price. It was once listed at $45 million but can now be had for $28 million.

Gallery: Le Reve

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--via the NY Observer, John Cleese's two-bedroom apartment at 196 East 75th Street is now in the possession of his ex-wife, Alyce Faye Eichelberger. Cleese sold the apartment, which they bought in 2007 for $1.7 million, back to her for $1.492 million.
--Edgar Lampert, a partner at Marshall Rose's real estate firm, The Georgetown Company, and his wife Robin have paid $4.71 million for a three-bedroom apartment at 239 Central Park West.
--via bigdealnyc, real estate developer Ian Bruce Eicher has paid $5 million for a 52nd-floor condo at One Madison Park.
--via the NY Post, art dealer Otto Naumann and his wife Heidi have paid $8.5 million for a townhouse at 55 East 78th Street. The mansion first went on the market for $17 million in 2008.
--via the NY Observer, CB Richard Ellis chairman Stephen Siegel is reportedly buying a two-bedroom in the Fairchild building in Tribeca for for $1.75 million.
--via Blockshopper, Sanjay Swani, a partner at the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, and his wife Preeti, have sold their five-bedroom apartment at 33 East End Avenue for $3.2 million.
--Columbia professors Elazar Barkan and Pamela H. Smith have paid $1.78 million for a three-bedroom condo at 372 Central Park West.
--via Newsday, the former Manhasset Bay home of the late writer Ring Lardner has gone on the market for $2.25 million. The listing is here.

Gallery: Ring Lardner's Manhasset Home

--via Curbed, Guy Wildenstein has finally unloaded his fourth-floor apartment at the Plaza, albeit for a quite a bit less than the $21.5 million he paid for it in 2008. It sold for $13 million to an entity identified in property records as Hudson-Plaza Realty LLC.
--Dorris Carr Bonfigli, has dropped the price of her penthouse at 930 Fifth Avenue, it was once listed at $11.3 million but is now listed for $8.75 million.

Gallery: 930 Fifth Avenue

--John Geary III, the son of socialite Hilary Geary Ross and stepson of billionaire Wilbur Ross, and his wife Medora have paid $2.7 million for a three-bedroom co-op at 520 East 86th Street.
--via Newsday, a 4,000-square-foot home on Gibson Lane in Sagaponack near Billy's two mansions (both of which he's now trying to sell), has sold for $19 million.
--Lirenn Tsai, a managing director at UBS and his wife, Shuh Lan Tong, have sold their eighth-floor apartment at The Heritage at Trump Place on Riverside Boulevard for $3.98 million.
--via Newsday, Eric Spar, founder of the Hal-Hen hearing aid company, has put his Amagansett property up for sale. The six-bedroom home was once part of the larger Warner LeRoy estate and a Hamptons Cottages & Gardens designers showcase home. It is listed for $5.495 million.

Gallery: Hamptons Cottages & Gardens designers showcase home

From the Chicago Tribune's Elite Street:
--Northwestern University head football coach Pat Fitzgerald has paid $2.3 million for a six-bedroom mansion in Northfield and has listed his three-bedroom house in Evanston for $599,000.
--A Queen Anne-style house in Ravenswood that Abbott Laboratories founder Wallace Abbott built and owned has been reduced to $2.25 million.
--Chicago Bears linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer has rented out his three-bedroom town house in Vernon Hills for two years for $1,900 a month.
--Former Bulls forward Antonio Davis has sold a 1-acre lakefront lot in Plainfield's Lakelands subdivision for $315,000.

Tags: adam scott, AdamScott, eric spar, EricSpar, erik ellington, ErikEllington, glenn close, GlennClose, guy wildenstein, GuyWildenstein, jeremy piven, JeremyPiven, john cleese, JohnCleese, kristoff winters, KristoffWinters, pat fitzgerald, PatFitzgerald, ralph lauren, RalphLauren, tedi sarafian, TediSarafian, Tom Hicks, TomHicks

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Rae Jan 24th 2010 7:18PM

There are bigger and different pictures of this magnificent apartment in the Clock Tower building at http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/07/realestate/0809-deal-slideshow_index.html

You should feature this as estate of the day because it is so unique and cool!! I would like to see the comments others have about it.

jacksmith0141 Feb 16th 2010 6:07AM

This is very nice blog & pictures are also very beautiful. Rappaport took a combination of cash and a house in the flats of Beverly Hills in trade in the transaction, I like this blog very much.
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