Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 02/06/11

From the LA Times:
--"The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Kyle Richards and her husband, real estate agent Mauricio Umansky, have sold their Bel-Air home for $2.1 million. Richards and her husband bought their four-bedroom home in 2004 for $1.935 million and have had it on and off the market since May 2009 when it was first listed at $3.45 million. It was recently listed at $2.45 million.

--A compound built in the early 1930s by film director Frank Lloyd is on the market in Topanga at $4.3 million. The listing is here.
--Actor Corbin Bernsen and his wife, actress and interior designer Amanda Pays, have purchased a 1936 Tudor in Valley Village for $900,000. The couple, who restore older homes, plan to work their magic on this one.
--The family home of Jack Haley, the Tin Man in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz," has sold the family home in Beverly Hills for $2,876,250. Haley bought the home in 1941 for $26,000 in cash.
--BackStreet Boy Howie Dorough has sold his Sunset Strip-area home for $2.2 million.
--Drummer and former Conan O'Brien bandleader Max Weinberg and his wife, Rebecca, have sold a Sunset Strip-area compound for $2.95 million. The home was listed at $3.399 million last October. The pair bought the home in 2009 from director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Forner, the parents of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal. They had put the home on the market in 2008 for $4.2 million but after a few price cuts it later sold to the Weinbergs for $2.88 million. Their Middletown, New Jersey home, which was listed at $6.499 million last fall also appears to be off the market.



From the Wall Street Journal:
--A Manhattan townhouse owned by the family of Malcolm Forbes is on sale for $15.3 million. The five-story, Greek-revival townhouse was used by the Forbes family for entertaining and hosting visiting celebrities and dignitaries.
--A Carmel Valley, California ranch that originally listed for $33 million in 2006 has sold for $14.7 million. The buyer was Sue Ann Hamm, the wife of Harold Hamm, the chief executive officer of oil and natural gas company Continental Resources.
--Fuze Beverage founder Lance Collins has bought a Beverly Hills home for $10.3 million.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--"Jersey Shore" star Jenni "JWOWW" Farley looked at houses in East Setauket, New York but decided not to move there because it is too far from Manhattan and, of course, Jersey.
The East Hampton estate Grey Gardens is available to rent for two weeks this August. The 28-room mansion owned by Ben Bradlee, former Washington Post executive editor, and his wife, author and journalist Sally Quinn is listed for rent from Aug. 20 to Sept. 5 for $135,000.
--A seven-bedroom English cottage-style home in Amagansett recently sold for $6.5 million. The property was sold by international jeweler Salvador Assael and his wife, Christina Lang.
--A home on Meadow Lane in Southampton has come on the market for $24.95 million.The listing for the eight-bedroom beach house is with Raymond Smith of Prudential Douglas Ellman Real Estate.

From the NY Observer:
--Ursula Burns, the chairman and CEO of Xerox, has sold her three-bedroom home at the Beekman Regent, a 20-story condo building at 351 East 51st Street for $2.15 million.
--Swedish mogul Oscar Engelbert has purchased one of the few remaining units at 200 Eleventh Avenue, the condo tower with "the sky garages." Each apartment has its own private parking space connected to the unit, which is served by a vehicle elevator. His $5.5 million home is, like others in the building, a two-story condo.

From Homes and Property UK:
-- Sir Mick Jagger has finally moved into his five-bedroom Chelsea mansion overlooking the Thames.
--Best-selling crime novelist Peter James is selling Beddingham Place, his converted 18th-century barn near Lewes for £1.6 million through Strutt & Parker.
--Londesborough Hall, a former East Yorkshire shooting lodge used by Edward VII, is for rental at £25,000 a year unfurnished through Carter Jonas.
--British model, reality star, author and all-around glamour gal Katie Price is still trying to sell her eight-bedroom home in the Surrey area of England. It is still listed at £2.95 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Diane Keaton may be renting Meg Ryan's Bel-Air home which was on the market in 2009 for $14.2 million.
--Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson purchased a house in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles last year.