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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up 07/25/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Real Estalker:
--The ex-wife of Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, Jo Wood, has listed their home in Kingston on Thames, shown above, for £13,000,000. The listing is here.
--Actress Peri Gilpin of Fraser fame and her artist husband Christian Vincent were the buyers of Shabby Chic creator Rachel Aswell's Malibu home.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--The Beverly Hills home of the late Ed McMahon is back on the market for $4.6 million. This is the same price it was listed at in 2008. The listing is here.
--Actor Ving Rhames and his wife, Deborah have sold a Brentwood house that had been listed as a short sale. The five-bedroom house sold for $1.95 million. It had been listed on and off for three years and was at $2.699 million when we checked it out in 2008. It had been purchased five years ago for $2.5 million. The couple also sold a larger Brentwood home in late June for $5,520,786 that had been purchased in 2005 for $6.5 million.

Gallery: Ving Rhames in Brentwood

--Olympic medal winner Carl Lewis has sold his Pacific Palisades home for $2.5 million.
Rapper and "Pimp My Ride" host Alvin " Xzibit" Joiner has lowered the price of his Woodland Hills, California home to $650,000. He bought the home in 2003 for $670,000. The listing is here.
--Filmmaker, commercial director and restaurateur Joe Pytka has sold Castillo del Lago in the Hollywood Hills for $7 million. He bought the home from Madonna in 1996 for $5.3 million. The home was first listed at $14.95 million in April of last year.

Gallery: Castillo del Lago

Actress and real estate agent Dana Sparks has listed her Lake Sherwood contemporary at $2.555 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--Lady Gaga is still apartment hunting in New York City most recently checking out a four-bedroom One Morton Square rental.
--Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have been looking at a $29.8 million penthouse duplex at the Mayfair building at 610 Park Ave.
--A a Tribeca home once rented by Leonardo DiCaprio and Gwen Stefani is on the market at $6.995 million.
--Pet-food tycoon Leonard Stern and his wife, Allison, are purchasing a SoHo penthouse to live in while their 110-year-old Fifth Avenue mansion is being renovated uptown. They are in contract to buy a penthouse duplex at 25 W. Houston St. for about $8 million.

From the NY Times:
--Donald J. Trump Jr. sold his condominium at 220 Riverside Boulevard at Trump Place this month for $1.845 million.

From Chicago Breaking Business:
--Nicholas Pritzker, the chief executive and chairman of the Hyatt Development Corp. and a member of the Pritzker family, has placed his contemporary-style mansion on 45 acres on Lake Michigan in Covert, Michigan on the market for $4.95 million.

Tags: Carl Lewis, celebrity real estate, charlie palmer, dana sparks, Ed McMahon, Jo wood, lady gaga, Ronnie Wood, sarah jessica parker, sting, ving rhames, Xzibit

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 03/28/10

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--A Connecticut farmhouse-style home in Brentwood designed by Roland Coate for Academy Award-winning director William A. Wellman is listed at $10 million. Wellman won a best original story Oscar for "A Star is Born" in 1937 and directed the silent film "Wings" which won the first best picture Oscar in 1927. The listing for the home is here.
--Actor Jerry Douglas, known for his long-running role on "The Young and the Restless" and his wife, Kymberly Bankier, have sold their Encino home for $2,075,000.
--A Beverly Hills house built in 1934 for "Gone With the Wind" producer David O. Selznick is on the market for $15.9 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--Billy Joel has bought a two-bedroom $3.3 million apartment in Nolita. It is believed that he is buying it for his daughter, Alexa Ray Joel.
--Diego Della Valle, chairman and CEO of footwear company Tod's paid $1.56 million for the three-bedroom, three-bath unit at the Caribbean in Miami Beach.
--Eduardo ~~Safra~~ Cohen, son of philanthropist Lily Safra, is in contract to buy two apartments that comprise the entire fourth floor of the 2 E. 67th St. co-op building for around $18 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Track-and-field star Carl Lewis has listed his home in Pacific Palisades for $2.6 million. Lewis, who has won a total of nine Olympic gold medals, purchased the home for $1.75 million in 2002 and remodeled the kitchen, pool and backyard. The listing is here.
--DHL Worldwide Express delivery co-founder William Armsted Robinson has cut the prices on his two Idaho properties. He's asking asking $14.5 million for his 938-acre horse ranch and $12.5 million for a nearby 600-acre fishing property.
--Art collector John Traina's landmarked San Francisco property, a converted 1893 firehouse once owned by former California Gov. Jerry Brown has sold for $3.36 million. It was listed at $4.4 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day last year.

From the Huffington Post:
A Palm Beach Florida home owned by disgraced and jailed newspaper magnate Conrad Black is on the market. It was listed in 2004 at $36 million but is now for sale for an unlisted price.

Tags: billy joel, Carl Lewis, celebrity real estate, david o selznick, Diego Della Valle, eduardo safra, janice min, john traina, william armsted robisnon, william wellman

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