Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 12/12/10

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Dec 12th 2010 at 9:02AM

From the Real Estalker:
--Bernie Ecclestone has spent around £60 million on Sloane House a mansion in the Chelsea area of London for his daughter Petra.
--Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are set to marry this weekend at Lionel Richie's mansion that overlooks the Los Angeles Country Club in Beverly Hills
--Pierce Brosnan and his wife Keely Shaye Smith have dropped the price on their Malibu, California home from $3.9 million to $3.5 million. The listing is here.
--George Lucas has picked up a home in Carpinteria, California for a rumored $19.5 million.

From the LA Times:
--Former major league pitcher Bret Saberhagen has sold his gated Calabasas home for $2.4 million. We first checked out this home in 2009 when it was listed at $3.25 million.

Gallery: Bret Saberhagen in Calabasas

From Homes and Property UK:
--X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke spent an estimated £300,000 on a two-bedroom property in Barnet.
--Dave Myers, the shaggier half of The Hairy Bikers, BBC2's culinary double act, bought a nine-bedroom detached house close to his Barrow-in-Furness birthplace for almost £500,000.
--Magician, Drummond Money-Coutts, has bought his first home, a four-bedroom Victorian terrace house in Fulham, with a garden and roof terrace for £1.1 million.

From the NY Post:
--Will Smith is renting the fourth floor of 25 Bond St. The five-bedroom condo had been listed for sale at $19.5 million for nearly two years.
--LeBron James bought a new $9 million bayfront mansion on Crystal View Court in Miami. The 12,178-square-foot, six-bedroom home was built this year and a has a concrete dock big enough to hold two 60-foot yachts.
--Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen are still looking for a new apartment in Manhattan. This season they are renting a country cabin on a mountain in upstate Accord.
-- Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have been apartment-hunting. This week they visited a $25,000-a-month, three-bedroom rental at the new 55 Thompson building. --Billionaire Charles Bronfman has signed the contract to buy a two-bedroom co-op at 810 Fifth Ave., listed at $23.5 million.
--Bob and Cortney Novogratz are renovating one of Julia Roberts' Manhattan apartments.

From Newsday:
--Millard Drexler, J. Crew chief executive officer, bought Montauk's Deep Hollow Ranch for $11.4 million. The 17.8-acre property is the oldest working cattle ranch in the country.
"Jersey Shore" stars Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Jenni "JWOWW" Farley are planning to buy a house together on Long Island.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--John W. Marriott III, of the Marriott hotel family, is asking $4.995 million for his five-bedroom, Georgian Colonial-style home in Potomac, Maryland. The listing is here. The Marriotts recently moved to a nearby home with more garage space.
The Marriotts recently completed a nearby home that has more garage space.

Gallery: John Marriott III in Potomac

--Hollywood producer Thomas Tull, founder of Legendary Pictures, has bought an 18-acre parcel of land in Beverly Hills, California for $12 million.
--The penthouse apartment of the Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman has hit the market with a $44 million asking price. The 20,000-square-foot apartment comes with furnishings and can be customized. Developer Mike Ryan estimates annual fees for upkeep to be $200,000-$300,000, including chef, butler and maid service, which come with the apartment. It also comes with a Rolls-Royce Phantom and a 31-foot yacht.

From Move Trends--
Shane Keough, the son of former Real Housewife of Orange County Jeana Keough and an outfielder in the Oakland Athletics farm system has listed his three-bedroom Irvine, California townhouse for rent for $3,500 a month.

From the NY Observer:
-- Tiffany CEO Michael Kowalski and his wife Barbara have picked up a $2.4 million two-bedroom condo in the 1 River Terrace development in Battery Park City.

From the Seattle Times:
--San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum bought a condo last month on the 28th floor of the luxury Escala tower at Fourth Avenue and Virginia Street in downtown Seattle. He paid $1.575 million for the 2,400-square-foot unit with a 500-square-foot deck on the building's north side.

Tags: Bret Saberhagen, celebrity real estate, ivanka trump, lebron james, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, millard drexler, pierce brosnan, snooki, Tim Lincecum, Will Smith