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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 05/10/09

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Investor Stanley Chais, who funneled funds to Bernard Madoff, has cut the price of his condo in the celeb-friendly Sierra Towers condominium complex in West Hollywood by 15 percent, to $4 million, less than the $4.4 million he paid for the condo, shown above, in 2007. The property website is here.
--Kelsey Grammer has sold a Los Angeles house for $3.3 million which is 19 percent less than he paid for it in 2007. He has leased the seven bedroom home in Holmby Hills, California that we checked out in 2008 when it was listed at $19.9 million.
--Tom DeLonge of the band Blink-182 has relisted his San Diego-area home for $5.1 million. He bought the home for $5.5 million in 2005 and spent another million on renovations. The couple first listed the house for $6.25 million in 2007.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Singer Rupert Holmes' (The Pina Colada song) house in Scarsdale, New York is listed for $1.387 million. Holmes has purchased a house in Cold Spring, NY for $860,000.
--Actor Monte Markham has placed his four-bedroom house in Malibu on the market for $1.129 million.
--Actress, voice actress and singer Elizabeth Daily has put a six-bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills on the market for $2,499,999.
--Paris Hilton's uncle Steven Hilton has put a Malibu home up for sale. We'll check it out later today as our estate of the day.

From the Real Estalker:
--A home in Los Angeles which was once rented by Rihanna is on the market for $2.949 million. The listing is here.
--Model Shannan Click has listed a home in Los Angeles for $2.146 million. The listing is here.
--The creator of "The L Word" Ilene Chaiken has listed her Los Angeles home for $2.195 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Kelly Killoren Bensimon from "The Real Housewives of New York City" has put her Hamptons home up for rent for $295,000 for the summer season. It was listed for sale for $14.5 million when it was our estate of the day.
--Anne Hathaway is living in the Avalon Bowery rental complex, where one-bedrooms start around $4,000 per month and two-bedrooms around $5,500.
--Isabel Rose, a TriBeCa mom and author with family money, is the purchaser of Stone Meadow Farm in East Hampton. She paid $12.5 million for the home which Mariah Carey rented last summer. It was listed at $19.95 million when it was our estate of the day.
The 15.4-acre Southampton estate of the late Howard Gittis is back on the market for $45 million, down from its $59 million asking price in December 2007.

From AOL Home:
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From Bright and Spacious:
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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 04/12/09

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From the LA Times Hot Property:
--A home, shown above, built by the family of Laguna Beach star, Kristin Cavallari has hit the market for $13.95 million in Three Arch Bay, a gated Laguna Beach community. The listing is here.
--Last week, the Real Estalker suggested that Slash may have bought Colleen Maloof's home in the Mulholland Estates area of Beverly Hills, now it is listed as sold. She paid $8 million for the home in 2006 but sold it for $7.3 million.
--Mel B of the Spice Girls sold her Hollywood Hills home for $3.14 million after only seven days on the market at $2,999,999.
--Sitcom writer David Litt has sold his Hollywood Hills house for $1.95 million. He bought in 2007 for $1.1 million.
--Actress Maura Tierney has sold her Hancock Park-area house for $2.175 million to acting couple Tom Lennon and Jenny Robertson.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actor D.W. Moffat has listed his Hollywood Hills home for $1.895 million. The listing is here.
--Actor Connor Trinneer has placed his 2,066-square-foot Craftsman-style house in Los Angeles' Bronson Canyon area on the market for $1,089,000. The listing is here.
--U2 guitar player, The Edge owns a large chunk of Malibu land and is planning on building five houses on a very large parcel of close to 300 acres. Neighbors are concerned over Edge's plans to build a private access road onto the property.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
-George Hirsch, the founding publisher of New York has sold his former home at 246 East 32nd Street for $2.88 million.
--via the Real Deal, Donald Trump's son Eric paid $540,000 for the 14th-floor apartment next door to the one he already owns at 100 Central Park South which he bought in 2007 for $2 million.--Mortgage exec Steve Schnall and wife Sherri have dropped the price of their townhouse at 2 North Moore Street in Tribeca from $35 million to $33 million. The listing is here.
--The triplex penthouse at 895 Park that belonged to the late fashion mogul and film producer Charles Evans has gone into contract. It first went up for sale for $29.5 million in October 2007 but was most recently listed at $15.5 million.
--The sixth-floor co-op at 960 Park Avenue that belonged to the late Baroness Jacqueline de Gunzburg has gone into contract. It was listed for $10.95 million.
--Ramona Singer from "The Real Housewives of New York" has listed her Southampton home as a summer rental.
--via the NY Post, the townhouse at 42 West 12th Street once owned by Ambrose Kingsland, has sold after more than a year on the market. It was most recently listed with Paula Del Nunzio for $17.95 million.
--Karen and David Fleiss are highly motivated to sell at 1030 Fifth Avenue. They've lowered the price of their 16-room duplex to just $22 million, which is $25.5 million less than what they were seeking back in June. The listing is here.
--Anne Chandler Bass, the daughter of Oak Hill Capital Partners founder Robert Bass and the niece of Sid and Mercedes Bass, has sold her co-op at 956 Fifth Avenue for $6.25 million.
--via the NY Post, Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia and his wife Amber paid $15 million for a six-bedroom home in Alpine, NJ.

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