Dr. Phil

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Whose house is the fairest of them all?

Which celebrities have the most expensive properties on the market right now? Let's apologize up front for not including any pocket listings that we don't know about. (In fact, if you'd be so kind as to let us know about them, we'd be most grateful.)

And sorry, but we aren't counting Candy Spelling's Bel-Air listing at an unrealistic $150 million here -- not because it isn't a super property (if overpriced) but because despite her befriending us on Facebook, we still don't quite consider her a celebrity. We're also not including Dennis Hopper's estate, no disrespect intended toward the recently departed but if we opened the cemetery floodgates, there wouldn't be enough room in cyberspace to list them all. And lastly, we're so sick of athletes who misbehave that we'll pass on considering them celebrities for the moment. Overgrown kids maybe, but not celebrities.

So with those caveats, here's the unofficial Luxist list of 10 of our favorite and most expensive celebrity homes on the market.

1) Billy Joel's Sagaponack Village house for $19.9 million. We love love love this beachfront house in Sagaponack Village South that sits on 145 feet of oceanfront. We even loved it when it was first listed at $22.5 million. Classy, elegant, blends with the surroundings. You half expect a seagull to land on you while you stare at the photos. High beamed ceilings, white-washed, New Englandy without the pretensions. It was renovated in 2009 and clearly is a place where great music could be made -- although apparently not between Billy Joel and his soon-to-be-ex wife Katie Lee Joel. Nothing like a divorce to force the issue of liquidating the real estate. And nothing like a recession to keep things from moving. The piano man and his fourth wife also listed the property next door to this one for $12 million. There are some reports it sold in the $10 million vicinity.

Dr. Phil McGraw and his wife, Robin, have purchased a close to $30 million home in Beverly Hills that re-creates the Alamo. The home, on nearly three acres, features a formal dining room, huge entryway, library/media room, and a great room that combines the living room and kitchen. It totals 15,000 square feet and has five bedrooms, nine full baths, and two half-baths, and there's a giant fountain out front (of course). There's also a guest house above the garage with another bedroom and a full bath, as well as a pool and lighted tennis court. McGraw and his wife not long ago listed their current home for $16.5 million. The listing was with Jana Jones Duffy.

From the Real Estalker:
--Sacha Baron Cohen has listed his Los Angeles home for $2.9 million. It is also listed for lease for $11,995. The listing is here. Cohen and his wife, Isla Fisher, recently bought a new lavish seven-bedroom home.

From the NY Post:
--Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos may be quietly shopping their duplex penthouse at 76 Crosby St. They bought the 9,865-square-foot unit for $9.5 million in 2005 but it could bring as much as $15 million to $20 million now.
--Stephen Haymes, whose family real estate business owns 5 Penn Plaza, has just sold "The Point," an home on 2.2 acres in Westhampton for $13 million, far less than its original $20 million asking price. The buyer is hedge-funder Paul Levy.
--Nick Rizzo Jr., managing director of Loeb Partners Realty, just bought a $3.5 million, new-construction home in Sagaponack.
--Lady Gaga's latest apartment hunting took her to a four-bedroom penthouse at SoHo Mews that is listed for $9.975 million. This is the same property that Katy Perry and Russell Brand looked at in June.
--Sarah Jessica Parker was spotted checking out the $24.5 million, 11,875-square-foot townhouse at 870 Park Ave as well as the $20 million former Woolworth mansion at 2 E. 80th St.

From Move Trends:
--Meg Ryan's Bel Air home is now listed for rent for $40,000 a month. The home hit the market last year for $14.2 million. She bought the six-bedroom home for $8.995 million in 2000.


From the Wall Street Journal:
--Phil McGraw, a.k.a. Dr. Phil, has bought an estate in Beverly Hills for $29.5 million.His Beverly Hills home is listed for $16.5 million.

--A ranch owned by the family of Malcolm Forbes, the late chairman and editor in chief of Forbes magazine, has hit the market in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for $12 million.
--Real-estate investor Michele Hughes will auction off a seven-acre oceanfront estate on Kauai's Anini Beach next month. Her 40-acre unlisted beachfront property in Kauai's Kilauea is available for $40 million.

After years of speculation Dr. Phil and Robin McGraw have finally put their Beverly Hills home on the market. The impressive eight-bedroom mansion is over 11,000 square feet. The LA Times has reported that the pair are moving on because they have bought another home. The Real Estalker took a peep at the property records finding that the self-help pair purchased the property for $7.5 million in cash in 2002. The home includes a double-height rotunda entrance hall, screening room, library, billiards room, his and hers offices, staff quarters and a beauty salon. The home has a pool and a detached two-bedroom casita. The home is listed at $16.5 million with Billy Dolan of Hilton & Hyland.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Brooke Shields and Chris Henchy are buying a Greek Revival townhouse on West 10th Street.. The townhouse currently has four apartments with 18 rooms total and had a $5.6 million asking price. The listing is here.
--Director Ang Lee has been spotted checking out a a building in Chelsea with a $5.195 million asking price. The listing is here.
--Joy Behar has bought one apartment at Astor Court on the Upper West Side for approximately $3.5 million and is selling another unit in the building.
--Donald Trump has already dropped the rent on the $200,000 a month penthouse apartment rental/sales listing on Park Avenue. Trump has lowered the price to $175,000 a month but the for sale price is still $45 million.
--Neil Simon's wife, Elaine Joyce, has just bought an apartment at the new Platinum condo complex at Eighth Avenue at 46th Street. She is said to be paying approximately $1.8 million for a mid-floor two-bedroom apartment.


From The Wall Street Journal Online's Private Properties:
--It's looking more and more like movie producer Sidney Kimmel has sold his Palm Beach, Florida house for a number close to the astronomical $81.5 million asking price.
--Meanwhile in Palm Beach, Donald Trump has finally dropped the asking price for his Palm Beach spec house to $100 million.
--British music producer Nellee Hooper has relisted his former London house for £2.6 million (about $5.2 million). The listing for the 1,400-square-foot, 19th century carriage house is here.
--In Santa Barbara County, an 80-acre ranch has sold for $21 million, more than 10 times what the sellers paid in 1993.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Tennis player Andy Roddick has just bought his first Manhattan apartment, a condo, at East 22nd Street near Gramercy Park, which was listed for $1.195 million.
--Princeton alum Naomi Waletzky (class of '98), who sings as Muffy Nixon and is Laurence Rockefeller's granddaughter has bought an apartment at 40 Bond which cost $9.25 million. There is no record of a mortgage so she may have paid cash.
--Art collector Adam Lindemann and his wife, Amalia Dayan have bought a slim townhouse at 64 East 77th Street for $5.2 million.
The 12.5-foot-wide brick-front house was bought for Ms. Dayan's private art dealership.
--Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil have bought a new two-bedroom condo at the A Building on East 13th Street for $1.34 million.
--Laura Blankfein, the wife of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has paid $701,000 for Suite 807 (a staff apartment) at 15 Central Park West. The Blankfeins closed on a 16th-floor duplex condo in the building back in January.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Dr. Phil McGraw has paid $2,560,000 for a two-bedroom contemporary-style house in the Hollywood Hills. it may be a house for a member of his family.
--the Los Feliz area home that was Gwen Stefani's house until last year is back on the market for $4.885 million. The listing is here.
--A Hollywood Hills that former NFL quarterback Cade McNown had owned until last year has come back on the market for $3.595 million. The property website is here.
--A Los Feliz home the was owned by the late actor Paul Winfield until his death in 2004 has been listed for $4.295 million. The property website is here.
--Richard Dreyfuss has paid $1,500,000 to purchase a home in Encinitas, Califorina and has listed his Carlsbad home for $1.1 million. The listing is here.
--Shannen Doherty has listed a five-bedroom house in Malibu for $4.4 million. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Olivia Newton John has dropped the price on her Malibu home from $14 million to $12.95 million. The listing is here.
--The price on the large home in Holmby Hills that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were spotted checking out has been reduced to $19.5 million. The property website is here.
--Orchestra conductor Jonathan Sheffer has put his shingled Hamptons compound on the market for $18.5 million. The listing is here.
--Reese Witherspoon has bought a Wallace-Neff-designed country retreat in Ojai. The home which belonged to designer Kathyrn Ireland was listed at $6.95 million.
--Actress Khandi Alexander has reduced the price on her Hollywood Hills home to $3.495 million. The listing is here.
--Chris Tucker has put a Tarzana home on the market, it's our estate of the day later today.
--via the Nashville Post, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban paid $3,470,000 for a 10,925 square foot house in a gated community in Nashville, Tennessee.
--Rumor has it that Dr. Phil McGraw may be putting his huge Beverly Hills mansion on the market for around $15 million.
--The old Cecil B. DeMille estate in Laughlin Park has hit the market for an astounding $26.25 million. The listing is here.
--Sean Hayes has already dropped the asking price of his Hancock Park home from $8.95 million to $7.45 million. It was our estate of the day back in March.
--via the Daily Mail, Heather Mills has been looking at apartments in New York City and is reportedly checking out One Jackson Square.

From the London Times:
--Designer Patrick Cox is selling his selling his London home for £2.25 million.

From the Sun:
--English soccer player, Peter Neville has put his Versace-decorated 18th century Grade II listed home in Lancashire on the market for £4million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have bought a $7-million, contemporary-style home in Brentwood. Turns out this one wasn't true, Kidman is still house hunting.
--Coco Crisp, center fielder for the Boston Red Sox, has purchased a $3-million getaway in a gated Rancho Mirage community.
--The former Los Feliz home of Universal Studios staff composer the late Herman Stein and his wife, Anita, has come on the market at $1,049,000. The listing is here.
--A 10,000-square-foot French Regency-style compound on a 1.5-acre ocean bluff in Malibu has been sold for $14 million.

It's time to check out the goods for the next Barrett-Jackson auction. The next auction, in Palm Beach, March 30 and April 1 will include two of Dr. Phil's exotic rides. The talk show host is unloading a  2002 Ferrari 360 Spider and a 2001 Gemballa Porsche Turbo. The Ferrari has titanium paint, chrome wheels and a blue convertible top with matching interior and the  black Porsche is a 911 Turbo modified by Gemballa with a 415-horsepower 6-cylinder engine and upgraded performance suspension. The cars should both bring in six figures. Also on sale is  a 2006 Cadillac CTS owned by musician Paul McCartney. The car was built for  McCartney with no animal products  and proceeds from the sale of McCartney's car will go to Adopt-A-Minefield.