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Is Ben Stiller planning a move to New York City? We've been hearing rumors to that effect for a while and now the Real Estalker reports that Stiller and his wife Christine Taylor have put their home in the Outpost Estates area of Los Angeles on the market for $12.5 million. Stiller's estate is actually two separate homes connected by a pool area and lavish landscaping. There is also a separate one bedroom guest house. The Spanish style homes have ten bedrooms total, plenty of space for even the most extended of families. Curbed LA unearthed the property website which gives us beautiful shots of the exteriors but not a peep inside.

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From the WSJ's Private Properties:
--The 4.7-acre estate of American novelist William Styron is on the market in Roxbury, Connecticut. We'll check it out later as our estate of the day.
--Psychiatrist and television personality Dr. Daniel G. Amen has cut the asking price of his Newport Beach, California house, shown above, to $3.79 million. Dr. Amen bought the 6,000-square-foot home in 2005 for $2.85 million. The listing is here.
--Former Lehman chief Dick Fuld quietly put his 6,200-square-foot co-op at 640 Park Avenue on the market for $32 million earlier this week but by the end of the week he changed his mind and decided not to sell.

From The Telegraph:
--Phil Neville, the former England soccer player, has sold his Versace-themed home in Lancashire for nearly £1.5 million less than the initial asking price. A photo gallery is here.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--via NY Mag Sally Quinn and Ben Bradlee have put Grey Gardens, their famous East Hampton mansion for rent this summer. The six-bedroom house is available from August 28 to Labor Day for $30,000.
--Andy Warhol muse Jane Holzer sold her apartment at 23 East 74th Street for $14.1 million to Wear Me Apparel president Jason Rabin and his wife Nicole. The apartment was originally listed for $22.5 million last year.
--Gossip Girl co–executive producer Joshua Safran has put his one-bedroom loft at 77 White Street on the market for $2.295 million. The listing is here.
--via NY Mag, actress Emily Mortimer and her husband, Alessandro Nivola, have paid $980,000 for a four-bedroom farmhouse in Amagansett.
--Guy Metcalfe, co-head of Morgan Stanley's real estate investment banking group, has sold his second-floor apartment at 15 Central Park West, which he purchased for $9.35 million in October. He had first re-listed for $16.5 million but eventually settled for $11 million.
--via Curbed, a three-story townhouse that belonged to the late activist Jane Jacobs is on the market for $3.5 million. The listing is here.
--Two Trees Farm, the 115-acre Bridgehampton estate with two houses, three barns, two polo fields, two indoor riding arenas, a pool and a tennis court has had a $20 million, down to $75 million for the entire estate or $20 million for the Gin Lane house by itself.
--Doug Griebel, co-founder and president of the Rosa Mexicano restaurant chain, paid $1.9 million for an apartment at The Bromley.
--Marc Juris, executive vice president and general manager of truTV has paid $2.8 million for a condo at 133 West 22nd Street.
David Godbout, a managing partner at Ceres Realty Fund, has put his loft at 139 West 19th Street on the market for $3.995 million. The listing is here.
--Lee Neibart, CEO of Apollo's AREA Property Partners, has gone into contract to sell his 16th-floor condo at 15 Central Park West. The three-bedroom apartment, which Neibart and his wife Joyce bought for $7 million in January was listed at $8.2 million.
--Carlos Alejandro Pérez Dávila, an heir to one of the richest families in Latin America sold his four-story townhouse at 176 East 75th Street. The 5,800-square-foot mansion, which had been listed for $10.9 million, was purchased by Keith Meister, the son of tycoon Robert Meister, for $8.6 million.
--Bella Sapir, the ex-wife of billionaire Tamir Sapir has sold the penthouse at 250 East 53rd Street that she bought for $8.895 million in November 2008 for $10.5 million.
--Columbia Law professor Hans Smit has lowered the price of his 12,000-square-foot townhouse at 351 Riverside Drive. It first hit the market for $31 million back in 2006. The mansion, which Smit bought for just $325,000 back in 1979, is now listed for $25 million. The listing is here.

From The Real Estalker:
--Former Lehman exec Joseph Gregory has reduced the price on his Hamptons home to $27.9 million. It was listed at $32.5 million when it was our estate of the day last September.
--Ben Stiller may be getting ready to put his Los Angeles home on the market with a price around $12 million.
Real estate developer Robert Bisno has sold a six-acre plot in Beverly Hills for $8.25 million. The buyer is believed to be Mark Wahlberg.
--Producer Gary Barber has paid $17,350,613 for an oceanfront compound in LA Jolla, California.


From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Reality TV show daughters Vanessa and Angela Simmons plan to live in and film their spinoff, 'Daddy's Girls,' in a Beverly Hills Post Office-area house they are renting for about $10,000 a month.
--The Hollywood Hills compound of biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli has sold for $3.1 million.
--A Spanish villa in Los Angeles that movie legends Carole Lombard and William Powell once called home has been listed at $1.395 million. The listing is here.
--Scary Movie writer Aaron Seltzer has put his Studio City home on the market, we'll look at this one as an estate of the day on Monday.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Celebrity manager Rick Yorn has sold his Brentwood house for $9.35 million.
-- Wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin listed his 3,881-square-foot house in Malibu for $3,895,000 originally, it just sold for $2.5 million.
--The home belonging to Kanye West's mom, Donda West is expected to get another price cut, to $1.595 million. The contemporary home in the Playa del Rey area of Los Angeles was originally priced at $1.945 million and was dropped to $1.745 million at the end of May. The listing is here.
--The Polaroid house, shown above, is located on Malibu's Carbon Beach, has been home to plenty of A-list parties but with Malibu's new paparazzi crackdown the home is looking for just one owner. The property has 80 feet of beach frontage and has approved plans to build a 6,000 square foot estate with a beachfront pool and spa as well as the existing home. It is listed at $32 million.

From the NY Post's Real Estate section:
--Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger is about to list his Plaza apartment for $50 million. The apartment is located in the northeast dome on the 18th and 19th floors of the building and includes four bedrooms, a formal dining room, large living room, library and gourmet kitchen.
--Paul McCartney is looking for a New York City apartment closer to the Upper East Side apartment of his new flame Nancy Shevell.
--Denis Leary's TV series "Rescue Me" has just signed a six-month lease with Loft 14, the 10-story condominium building at 135 W. 14th St., where taping of their fifth season will begin this month. The lease is for $14,000 a month and the apartment has a real asking price of $2,375 million.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actor Chris O'Donnell has paid an undisclosed amount for a house in Pacific Palisades. The seller bought it last year for $4.675 million. He sold his last house in Pacific Palisades for $5.05 million.
--Jamie Foxx has sold his Tarzana home. It was our estate of the day back in June.
--Nicolas Cage's Bel Air home is back on the market, this time for $29.999 million. It hit the market last September for $35 million and was later pulled. The listing for the classic home which has been owned by both Dean Martin and Tom Jones is here.
--Glenn Frey has paid $7.75 million for a six-bedroom estate in Hana, Hawaii, on Maui.
--Kiefer Sutherland has paid $8.25 million for a t five-story town house in Manhattan's West Village.

From the Real Estalker:
--Looks like neither Donald Trump nor the mystery buyer have picked up Ed McMahon's house. It is still listed at $4.6 million.
--Rumor has it that Cher has sold her Malibu mansion which was listed at $45 million.
--Stevie Wonder has put his home in Los Feliz on the market for $3.2 million.
--Nascar racer Denny Hamlin has put his North Carolina home on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.
----via Boston.com, quarterback Tom Brady is a real estate winner. He converted a Beacon Street town house into four condos and sold three of them saving the top floors floors for himself. As a result he earned back more than he paid two years ago for the building. His total proceeds were $7.95 million which is $1.71 million more than he paid for the entire building, according to public deed records.
--via Nashville City Paper, country singer Kix Brooks of Brooks & Dunn and his wife Barbara are the buyers in Nashville's biggest home sale of the year. They paid $5.45 million in August for a new house in Forest Hills.
--via the Real Deal, Moby sold his penthouse at the El Dorado, the twin-towered cooperative apartment at 300 Central Park West near 90th Street, for $6.7 million. It was our estate of the day in July of 2007 when it was priced at $7.5 million.
--Dane Cook has picked up a four-bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills for $7,078,412.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Basketball player Allen Iverson has reduced the price on his Villanova, Pennsylvania home by 37%. We will be checking this out as our estate of the day on Monday.
--Basketball player Rasheed Wallace has cut the price on his Portland, Oregon home. It will be our estate of the day on Tuesday.
--Actor Matthew Modine has purchased a condominium in New York's Chelsea section for $1.7 million.
--Leonard Ross who put the Hearst estate in Beverly Hills on the market for $165 million has taken it off the market. He has decided to keep the home.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
-- A co-op penthouse in 1060 Fifith Avenue has sold for $48,836,000 setting a new co-op price record in Manhattan. Hedge fund manager Scott Bommer and wife Donya. The couple bought the home for $46 million penthouse back in January. The buyer is listed anonymously on the deed as Park View Trust.
--Writer Ian Buruma spent $1,495,000 on an apartment at the Kalahari on West 116th Street. He and Eri Hotta, who taught at Oxford until 2005, closed last month.
--Ben Stiller spent $10 million on a duplex in a prewar orange-brick co-op on Riverside Drive in the West 80s, the same building that his parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, have lived in for years.