Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 08/15/10

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Aug 15th 2010 at 9:01AM

From Newsday's Real LI:
--A Bridgehampton estate that once belonged to John Weitz, a fashion designer and novelist, is on the market for $8.995 million. Weitz's sons are Chris Weitz, director of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" film, and his brother, Paul. Together, the sons directed and produced the "American Pie" comedies. The listing is here.
--A 12,000-square-foot Water Mill home owned and designed by famed artist and architect Setsuo Ito is up for auction. It is listed for $10.995 million but Ito could choose a buyer through sealed bids between now and Aug. 15 based not only on the amount offered but the conditions of the offer, such as closing time and financing. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--A new luxury building near the High Line will be home to Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. They have just closed on a $10 million penthouse at 200 11th Ave. Kidman and Urban's new neighbors include Domenico Dolce of Dolce & Gabbana, who bought two penthouses for $29 million. Their three-bedroom penthouse was listed for $12.5 million. Interior designer Jamie Drake has also just closed on a $5 million unit in the building.
--Screenwriter Allan Loeb who wrote "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," is buying a two-bedroom at 141 Fifth Ave. for close to $3.9 million. The penthouse duplex at 31 W. 21st St., which served as the home of Shia LaBeouf's character in the movie is on the market for $15 million.
--Lady Gaga is still checking out apartment rentals in the $20,000 to $25,000 range. Most recently she was spotted at 408 Greenwich St. in TriBeCa looking at a large one-bedroom $24,000-a-month rental.
--Edmund Carpenter, the retired CEO of the Barnes Group, a car and plane parts manufacturer, and his wife, Mary, just bought a co-op at 840 Park Ave. for $9.25 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Graham Nash has listed his Encino, California home for $1.6 million.
-- Kevin Nealon has picked up a new home in the Pacific Palisades for $3.45 million.
--Leeza Gibbons has picked up a home in Beverly Hills for $6.6 million.

From US Weekly:
--Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds have recently purchased a two-bedroom, three-bath house in the L.A. area. The home was recently listed around $2.8 million.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Rapper and actress Eve has dropped the price on her Hollywood Hills home to $2.050 million or it can be leased for $15,000 a month. It was listed at $2.295 million back in February. She bought the home in 2005 for $1.775 million. The listing is here.

Gallery: Eve In Los Angeles

--"Hawthorne" producer Preston Fischer and his wife, Marsha Lewis, have listed their Marina Del Rey penthouse at $899,000. The listing is here.
--Scarlett Johansson has sold her walled and gated Spanish villa in the Hollywood Hills for $4 million. She bought her home in the Outpost Estates area of Los Angeles for an even $7 million in 2007, she seems willing to take a deep loss on the home. The home was listed at $4.995 million.

Gallery: Scarlett Johansson in Los Angeles

--Singer Donna Summer has purchased a unit in the Carlyle Residences that was listed at $3.8 million.

From the NY Observer:
--Ira Rennert bought his two daughters, Tamara Winn and Yonina Davidson, matching $30 million-plus apartments. Tamara's apartment is the 740 Park Avenue four-bedroom, A-line duplex of Mosler Safe heiress Janet Coleman and was sold by her estate to Mr. Rennert for $32 million. Ms. Winn and her husband, Randy Winn have sold their old 2,745-square-foot condo at the Chatham for $6.85 million. They bought the apartment in 2005 for $6.95 million.

From Homes and Property UK:
--Shania Twain has been shopping in London, looking at residential development opportunities in the St John's Wood and Maida Vale areas.
--Topshop billionaire Sir Philip Green recently bought a home in Knightsbridge for his teenage daughter Chloe.
--Actress Miranda Richardson has sold her three-bedroom Notting Hill house for £2.5 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Jeff Moorad, the lead owner of MLB's San Diego Padres, has taken his home just outside Phoenix off the market. It was listed for $28 million in the fall.

From the Chicago Tribune's Elite Street:
--Radio personality Jonathon Brandmeier has listed his six-bedroom mansion in Malibu, California for $7.995 million. The listing is here.
--Former Cook County Board President and Illinois gubernatorial candidate Richard Phelan and his wife sold their three-bedroom Streeterville condo for $2.275 million in June.
--WMAQ-Ch. 5 news anchor and reporter Dick Johnson closed August 2 on the sale of his 16-room Williamsburg Colonial-style house in Burr Ridge for exactly $1 million.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--Two Wal-Mart heirs, Josh Walton Kroenke and Whitney Ann Kroenke, who are siblings, just sold their two-bedroom apartment on West 17th Street in Chelsea for $2.45 million. They are the grandchildren of James Walton, a founder of Wal-Mart, and the children of Ann Walton and her husband, E. Stanley Kroenke, the owner of the Denver Nuggets basketball team.

From Homes of the Rich:
The Villa Taj estate in Burr Ridge, Illinois is back on the market with a new low asking price of $13 million. It was listed at $25 million when it was our estate of the day last year.

Gallery: Villa Taj