Adrian Aucoin

Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 06/18/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
A new 36,000-square-foot mansion has been listed in Beverly Hills at $68.5 million. It was built by C. Frederick Wehba, founder of the international real estate investment firm BentleyForbes. The French Palladian-inspired three-level house has nine bedrooms and 13 bathrooms. The listing with Joyce Rey is here.
--Grammy-winning musician Ziggy Marley has purchased a Los Angeles home in the Beverly Center area for more than $700,000.
--Musician and actor Ahmet Zappa has listed his Hollywood Hills contemporary for $1.165 million. The listing is here.
--Country music superstars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have finally sold their Beverly Hills Post Office-area home for $9.5 million. We first checked out this home in 2008 when it was listed for $14.8 million. They bought the home in 2003 for $6.2 million.

Gallery: Faith Hill and Tim McGraw in Beverly Park

--The Santa Monica home of late film star Jean Simmons has been listed for $3.895 million. The listing is here.
--Producer and So You Think You Can Dance" judge Nigel Lythgoe listed his Hollywood Hills home in February for $2.649 million. The sale recently closed for $2.3 million.

Gallery: Nigel Lythgoe in the Hollywood Hills

From the NY Observer:
--Louis Gonda has listed Manhattan penthouse pied-à-terre at 28 East 70th Street for $16 million. Brown Harris Stevens' agents Richard Ferrari and Drew Glick have the listing.
--Chevy Chase's former estate at 19 Lee Avenue in East Hampton is on the market for $33 million. The property is broken up into two bits, the $25 million property with a 10-bedroom main house and the adjoining one-acre property with a closer-to-the-ocean 18 Lily Pond Lane address and a "charming" 1940s four-bedroom home, plus its own pool for $8 million. Both are listed with Prudential Douglas Elliman's John Golden.

From the Chicago Tribune's Elite Street:
--Former Chicago Blackhawks defenseman and team captain Adrian Aucoin has cut the asking price of his six-bedroom house in Hinsdale to $1.995 million from $2.099 million.Aucoin paid $2.15 million in late 2005 to buy the house new. The listing is with Dawn McKenna of Coldwell Banker Residential.
--Chicago Blackhawks right wing Troy Brouwer has paid $675,000 for a three-bedroom duplex condominium unit in Roscoe Village.
--Aon Corp. Chairman Lester B. Knight has paid $3.2 million for a unit in a new luxury high-rise on the Gold Coast.
--New Orleans Saints running backs coach Bret Ingalls sold his four-bedroom, brick Georgian house in Evanston on April 23 for $660,000. He bought the home for $870,000 in 2006.

From Move Trends:
--Actor Justin Long has listed his three-bedroom home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles for $1.899 million. The listing is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Comedian and television-radio personality Dennis Miller has listed his Montecito, Calif., estate for $17.5 million.
Writer James Patterson has sold his Palm Beach, Fla., home for $10.3 million. He originally listed the property for $14.95 million in November.

Gallery: James Patterson in Palm Beach

From the Real Estalker:
--Brandon Routh and Courtney Ford have picked up a home in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for $1.213 million.
-- Rumer Willis bought a two-bedroom house with Los Angeles, her stepfather Ashton Kutcher is the co-owner.
--Glee's Matthew Morrison has picked up a Los Angeles home for $1.193 million.

Tags: Adrian Aucoin, ahmet zappa, bret ingalls, c. frederick wehba, celebrity real estate, faith hill, jean simmons, justin long, lester b. knight, nigel lythgoe, tim mcgraw, tony brouwer, ziggy marley