Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 05/16/10

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
May 16th 2010 at 9:01AM

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Former American Skandia chief executive Wade Dokken has listed his ranch in Montana for $29.95 million. Bullis Creek Ranch was once planned to be an eco-luxury residential development with a cooking school run by chef Alice Waters. The 6,795-acre property is about 45 minutes from an entrance to Yellowstone Park and has a five-bedroom Engelmann spruce log home and two guest houses. The listing is here.
--Talent manager Sandy Gallin has put his Bridgehampton, New York estate back on the market for $26.9 million. It was listed at $32 million last year when we checked it out as an estate of the day.

Gallery: Sandy Gallin In Bridgehampton

From Luxury Real Estate:
--The boyhood home of singer Leonard Cohen is for sale in Montreal for $1.495 million Canadian. The listing is here.
From Curbed LA:
--Actress Angelica Huston has listed her home in Venice, California for $18 million. The home is two different buildings and was built by her late husband, sculptor Robert Graham, and his son.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Actor Bruce Davison and his wife, Michele, have put their remodeled Sherman Oaks home up for sale at $1.8 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Patricia Barry has listed her two-story home in Beverly Hills for $5.23 million. The home was built on a lot purchased in 1927 by Charlie Chaplin and his soon-to-be-ex-wife Lita Grey Chaplin. Lita Chaplin had architect Roy Seldon Price build the residence and set designer Harold Grieve did the interiors. The listing is here.
--Filmmaker and commercial director Joe Pytka has sold the Frank-Lloyd Wright-designed Taggart House in Los Feliz for $2.335 million. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Queen Latifah bought a Hollywood Hills home owned by actor Henry Simmons for $1.34 million.
--Actor Scott Caan has listed his home in the Lauren Canyon area of Los Angeles, shown above, for $2.075 million. The listing is here.
--Model Jessica Gomes has listed her one bedroom apartment in New York City for $875,000.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--Real estate mogul Joseph Moinian has cut the price on his five-bedroom Park Avenue apartment to $7.9 million, from $8.995 million. The listing is here.
--A co-founder of the Scoop clothing store, Uzi Ben-Abraham has listed his two-bedroom TriBeCa duplex for listed for $3.1 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--Anthony Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon, and model girlfriend Lily Aldridge are renting at the Superior Ink condo development on West 12th Street. Their two-bedroom residence was listed for around $8,000. Buyers in the building include Hilary Swank, Marc Jacobs and NASCAR star Jimmie Johnson.
--Harold Ford Jr. the former Tennessee congressman and his wife Emily are apartment shopping in Manhattan.
--Steven Kamali, the co-owner of Montauk's Surf Lodge and real estate broker for downtown clubs and restaurants has put his condo at the Porter House building on the market for $1.75 million. The listing is here.
--A piece of Southampton land with more than 1,000 feet of waterfront is hitting the market for $36 million. The two-parcel, 8-acre property is owned by descendants of Standard Oil founder Henry Rogers.
--Trey Parker, co-creator of the "South Park," recently looked at a $12,000-a-month rental at 261 W. 28th St. with his wife, Emma Sugiyama.

From the NY Observer:
--Former Lehman Brothers exec David Bize has sold his high-floor two-bedroom at 15 Central Park West for $7.1 million.
--Makeup master Bobbi Brown and her husband, Steven Plofker, a lawyer and real estate developer, have purchased a $1.9 million apartment at 1 Fifth Avenue.
Halston CEO and former president, Bonnie Takhar and her husband, Angus Whelchel, director of private capital markets for Barclays, recently closed on a $3,100,440 unit at 141 Fifth Avenue.

From the Chicago Tribune's Elite Street:
--Professional golfer Jeff Sluman has listed his 16-room mansion in Hinsdale for $5.45 million. The listing is here.
--A 7,000-square-foot turreted house on the Northwest Side of Chicago that belongs to Rudy Acosta, the onetime head of a Chicago hip-hop recording company, has been listed at $1.89 million. The listing is here.
--David W. Fox Jr., JPMorgan's vice chairman of investment banking, has listed his historic five-story graystone mansion on the Gold Coast for $5.5 million. The listing is here.

From the Homes of the Rich:
--The website for the $100 million Versailles mansion has gone live and features some amazing photos.
--The 48,000 square foot mansion in Texas named Champ d'Or, is now offering tours for $75 to help raise money for a library and community center.

Tags: angelica huston, anthony caleb followill, bruce davison, Harold Ford Jr., Jeff sluman, jessica gomes, joe pytka, kings of leon, leonard cohen, lily aldridge, patricia barry, queen latifah, sandy gallin, Scott Caan, steven kamali, taggart house, trey parker, wade dokken