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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 05/31/09

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actor Patrick Dempsey may have found a buyer for his four-bedroom Bel-Air home which was most recently on the market for $3.295 million.
--Los Angeles weather forecaster Kaj Goldberg has placed his three-bedroom house in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles, shown above, up for sale for $1.249 million. The property website is here.
--Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich has placed his Washington DC condo on the market for $570,000. The listing is here.
A renovated, Cape Cod-style home in Beverly Hills owned by the late actor Darren McGavin until he sold it just before his death in early 2006 has come back on the market for $2.795 million. The listing is here.
--The home that was used in the Ferris Bueller movie as his best friend's home is on the market in Highland Park, Illinois for $2.3 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Actor Hank Azaria paid $10 million for a seven-bedroom home in Bel-Air. As the Real Estalker reported last month this home was last listed $13.975 million.
--Oakland Raiders quarterback Jeff Garcia and his Playboy model wife, Carmella, have sold their Manhattan Beach home for $2.5 million.
Former NFL linebacker Mike Croel and his wife, Cassaundra, have sold their Sunset Strip-area home for $1.912 million.
--Actor Jim Belushi has leased out a Brentwood house he owns for $11,500 a month.
--L.A. Kings player Tom Preissing has put his Manhattan Beach home on the market. We checked this one out on Saturday.
--Shannen Doherty has listed her Malibu mansion for $4 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--James Marden, whose father, Bernard, was one of Berni Madoff's largest victims, has sold his Wainscott home at 42 Beach Lane. It is in contract for around $11.2 million.
--Another Madoff victim, David Silver, is also selling his oceanfront beach house, which is in contract for around $6.9 million but was originally listed at $14 million.
--Marden's ex-wife, Iris, a broker at Stribling, is selling her three-bedroom, 3 1/2-bath TriBeCa penthouse at 7 Hubert St. for $12.5 million. The listing is here.
--Hamptons developer Joe Farrell has bought property for the first time in 18 months picking up a couple acres in Bridgehampton and an acre in Southampton Village. He's planning to build two "small" houses. For him that means a house priced at just under $5 million and one for around $3 million.
--Seth Meyers looked at a one-bedroom $1.195 million condo at 380 W. 12th St. The listing is here.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--A piece of land just under nine acres in Amagansett has gone on the market for the steep price of $200 million.

From Cityfile's Buyers & Sellers:
--via the NY Post, Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. has a NYC apartment but now he has a second home in Eldred, New York. His 10 acres of land also includes a barn with a recording studio.
--via the Real Deal, a full-floor apartment at the former Stanhope Hotel sold for $17 million. It was originally listed at $31 million.
--Furniture designer Stuart Parr has sold his condo at 25 Fifth Avenue for $1.35 million.
via Page Six, poker champ Vadim Trincher has picked up a condo at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue for $5 million which is $1 million less than the asking price.
Hedge fund manager/art collector Adam Sender and his wife Lenore have sold their fourth-floor apartment at 109 Greene Street for $3.695 million.
--Padma Lakshmi has transferred ownership of a full-floor loft at 211 East 2nd Street to a trust called "The Delicious Trust" for $0. Lakshmi purchased the loft in early 2008 for $1.65 million.
--JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's Chicago home is now listed for $10.5 million, $3 million less than it was back in 2007.

From the Real Estalker:
--Nicole Kidman has sold off her Sydney, Australia home in Darling Point for $13,200,000 (AUS) and picked up a duplex penthouse for around $6,000,000 (AUS).
--Actor/singer Jesse McCartney has put his two bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills on the market for $1.199 million. The listing is here.
--David Niven Jr. has put his home on Blue Jay Way in Los Angeles on the market for $5.75 million. The listing is here.
Kirsten Dunst has listed her home for $1.7 million.

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 03/15/09

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

The world of real estate reporting lost one of the greats this week. Braden Keil who wrote the Gimme Shelter column for the NY Post succumbed to cancer. He was a sharp writer and a true gentleman and will be much missed.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Golfer Jim Furyk has listed his Hawaii mansion, shown above, for $7.5 million. The listing for the five-bedroom home with ocean views is here.
--A duplex in a small 19th-century New York building where painter Mark Rothko once lived is for sale for $2.75 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Patrick Dempsey has put his Bel Air home on the market for $3.595 million. The listing is here.
--Singer Jesse McCartney has listed his Hollywood Hills home for lease for $4,900 a month. The listing is here.
--Diane Keaton has listed her Beverly Hills, California home for $12.995 million. The listing is here. You can see interior pictures from when the home was covered in Architectural Digest here.
--Max Weinberg, drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and the leader of Conan O'Brien's house band has bought the home on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles being sold by Naomi Foner and Stephen Gyllenhaal. The couple, who are the parents of Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal first listed the home at $4.2 million but had dropped the price to $3.495 million. It is rumored to have sold for around $3.1 million.
--Producer Mike Medavoy and his wife Irina have listed their home in the Beverly Park community of Beverly Hills again. The home was listed at $23.5 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day in April 2008 but is now on the market for $19.95 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Sally Field has put her Malibu home on the market for $6.95 million. It is our estate of the day later today.
--Keith Gonzales, the editor of the Players Directory the film and television industry's oldest and best-known casting guide, has put his Los Angeles home up for sale for $4.399 million. The property website is here.
--Chef Mark Peel has sold his home in the Windsor Square area of Los Angeles for $3.25 million

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actress Golden Brooks of TV's "Girlfriends" has placed her four-bedroom, home in the Hollywood Hills on the market for $1,799,900. The listing is here.
--Baby Phat fashion designer Kimora Lee Simmons has dropped the asking price of her home in the Beverly Hills post office area to $6.9 million. It was listed at $7.75 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day last June.
--Actor Robert Loggia has listed his four-bedroom home in the Bel-Air area of Los Angeles for $3.65 million. The listing is here.

From Move Trends:
--Last summer, Sylvester Stallone purchased a property along with the lot next door in the Lake Sherwood area of Thousand Oaks, California for a total of $6.35 million. Now the home is up for sale for $5.2 million and the adjacent lot is also for sale for $1.65 million.
--Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis' former six-bedroom home in Los Angeles is listed for $3.195 million.

From AOL Real Estate:
--Check out the amazing homes of some of America's billionaires.
--The best suburbs to live well for less.

Gallery: Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 03/15/09