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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 02/08/09

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping


From the Real Estalker:
--Movie producer Dylan Sellers and his wife Wendie have put their Pacific Palisades, California home, shown above, on the market for $2.995 million.
--Duane Martin and Tisha Campbell-Martin have put their getaway home in Lake Arrowhead, California on the market for $1.597 million. The listing is here.
--British imports Katie Price and Peter André are reportedly renting a $100,000 a month house in Malibu.
--Chef Mark Peel, who owns Los Angeles restaurant Campanile and his wife Daphne Brogdan have put their home in the Windsor Park area of Los Angeles on the market for $3.299 million. The listing is here and is "looking for backup."
--Zac Efron may have picked up a new modern stunner of a home in the Hollywood Hills.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--A home in Sherman Oaks owned by Marlon Brando's former housekeeper and mother of his three youngest children is for sale for $2.8 million (the agent's website shows it listed for $3.5 million).
--Former baseball player Brady Anderson has put the Malibu property he redesigned on the market for $8.999 million. The listing is here.
--Eunetta T. Boone, co-creator of "One on One" has sold her Hollywood Hills home for $1.96 million. It was originally listed at $2.5 million, then lowered to $2.295 million and had been on the market for about six months.
--TV producer Jonathan Axelrod has listed his Sunset Strip-area home for $2.999 million.
Actor Geoffrey Blake has put his two-story Venice, California home on the market for $1.999 million. The listing is here.
--Actor-producer Grant Heslov has listed his Sherman Oaks home for $3.495 million. The listing is here.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Willem de Vogel, a partner at the private equity firm Three Cities Research, sold his loft at 105 East 29th Street for $2.3 million.
•--Béla Szigethy, co-CEO of The Riverside Company, and his wife Alice, have sold their 16th-floor apartment at 90 Riverside Drive for $3.5 million.
--Former Wall Street big-wig Marshall S. Cogan is re-listing his apartment at 810 Fifth Avenue. It was on the market for $40 million two months ago. It is now listed at a more modest $25.5 million.
--One of my favorite NYC estate of the day properties, the chapel owned by Dan and Cynthia Lufkin has been reduced to $14 million. It was listed at $17.5 million when it was our estate of the day.

From Newsday's Real LI:
A three-bedroom home in Sag Harbor owned by Arlene Alda, wife of actor Alan Alda, sold for $550,000. The property originally went on the market in the summer of 2007 for a reported $799,000.
--The Phipps Mansion has gone into contract and is expected to close by next June. The home, which was our estate of the day in October, was most recently listed at $11.5 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
Russian oilman Andrei Vavilov and Plaza developer El-Ad have settled their lawsuit over Vavilov's $53.5 million penthouse. In late January he bought a smaller unit under the name Hayling Island Inc., paying a bit more than $11 million. A source has said he didn't get his $10.7 million deposit but instead swapped it for the smaller apartment which he has now listed for $12.5 million.
--There's a new $80 million listing in New York. Sources say that Sandie Tillotson, the senior vice president and co-founder of Nu Skin Enterprises, is quietly shopping aorund her Time Warner Center penthouse. She paid $29 million for it in early 2005, and renovated the condo from raw space into a five-bedroom showplace.
A two-bedroom co-op belonging to the estate of Araxia M. Buckhantz, on the 13th-floor of 834 Fifth Avenue has found a buyer to pay close to its $30 million asking price, even though the apartment was officially listed less than a month ago.
--One of my favorite NYC estate of the day properties, the chapel owned by Dan and Cynthia Lufkin has been reduced to $14 million. It was listed at $17.5 million when it was our estate of the day.
--Former Wall Street big-wig Marshall S. Cogan is re-listing his apartment at 810 Fifth Avenue. It was on the market for $40 million two months ago. It is now listed at a more modest $25.5 million.
--James Craige, a partner at Stone Harbor Investment Partners, paid $7.5 million for a four-bedroom duplex at 170 East End Avenue.
--Fashion photographer David LaChapelle's two-bedroom pied-à-terre at 170 Second Avenue is now up for sale for $1.65 million. It was listed at $1.95 million when it was our estate of the day back in 2007.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Tony Parker and Eva Longoria Parker have put his San Antonio home on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.
--Another price cut for John McCain's former home in Phoenix, Arizona. It was listed at $12 million when it was our estate of the day last summer but is now down to $10 million.
--A real estate investor who bought President Gerald Ford's former home in Vail, Colorado has dropped the price from $14.9 million to $12.95 million. The listing is here.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--A look at the many places President Barack Obama has lived.
--Actor Dylan McDermott has cut the asking price of his Brentwood home to $8.995 million. it was listed at $11 million when it was our estate of the day last October.

From the Daily Herald:
--Singer Kylie Minogue has put her vacation home on Australia's French Island on the market. The listing is here.

Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 08/03/08

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping


Has someone finally picked up Villa Versailles? The over-the-top Malibu mansion which we featured as an estate of the day back in May, is now listed as having gone to contract.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Two Trees Farm, the site of the Bridgehampton Polo Club has gone on the market for a whopping $95 million. The land is 115 acres, which has preliminary approval for 18 "estate parcels," as well as two houses, an eight-unit apartment building, three barns, two indoor riding arenas, two polo fields, a pool and a tennis court.
--Natalie Portman has put her apartment, shown above, in Richard Meier's transparent West Village tower at 165 Charles St. for $6.55 million. The listing for the three-bedroom pad is here.
--Mel B. (aka Melanie Brown or Scary Spice) is in negotiations to buy a two-bedroom apartment with a $2 million price tag at Platinum, the nearly completed Midtown condominium complex on Eighth Avenue and 46th Street.
--Heather Mills has just closed on a full-floor condo at the Richard Meier-designed 173 Perry St.
--Sports broadcaster Bob Costas has sold his Time Warner Center apartment in the south tower for $8.5 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
-- Mark Peel, executive chef and owner of Campanile, has bought a classic Mediterranean in Hancock Park that was listed for $3.1 million. Peel's wife, comedian Daphne Brogdon, is host of TV Guide Channel's weekly series "The Fashion Team." She is creator of CoolMom.com.
--Fashion designer Christian Audigier has bought a just-restored Spanish-style hacienda that had been listed for $2.15 million.
--Actress Luciana Paluzzi and Michael Solomon,former president of Warner Bros. International and co-founder of Telepictures Corp. have llisted their Beverly Hills home for $19.995 million. The 13,638-square-foot Spanish-style house was built in 1988. The property website is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Perez Hilton recently showed off his apartment on MTV Cribs.
--Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard have put their home in Stillwater, Minnesota on the market for $1.95 million. It's our estate of the day later today.
--Film and television composer Graeme Revell has listed his Malibu estate for $27.5 million. He and his wife Brenda purchased the five acre estate in May of 2004 for $12 million. The listing is here.
--Rumor has it that Ed McMahon may have finally unloaded his home.
--via TMZ, real estate agent Josh Flagg who stars on Bravo's Million-Dollar Listing TV show has been arrested for stealing valuable paintings from listed houses.
--Pete Wentz has put his Hollywood Hills home on the market for $1.799 million. The property website is here

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Grateful Dead bassist PhilLesh and his wife, Jillspeth, paid $1,775,000 earlier this month for a condo on Prince Street near Broadway.
--Three new expensive rentals have hit the marketing charging $75,000 per month (nearly $1 million per year). At the Plaza, the founder of European operations for the clothing company Esprit, Jürgen Friedrich, put the building's largest original apartment, the Astor Suite, up for rent (he also recently put a Southampton home on the market for $67.5 million). The apartment listing is here. A duplex penthouse at 25 West Houston also went on the market for $75,000 a month, the listing is here. And there is also a $75,000 per month listing at the Waldorf Towers on East 50th Street (the listing agent Margaret H. Bay also has $95,000, $130,000 and $140,000 per month listings). The listing for the $75,000 apartment is here. The king of expensive rentals, is still the penthouse duplex at Trump Park Avenue that is being offered for $200,000 per month.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actor Johnny Knoxville has listed his three-bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills for $1.695 million. The listing is here.
-Music producer DJ Lethal has listed his two-bedroom contemporary-style house in the Hollywood Hills for $1.35 million. He purchased the home from actor Ivan Sergei's Lankershim Blvd Trust back in 2005 for the exact same amount. The listing is here.
--Once again rumors are swirling that Dr. Phil McGraw has placed his Beverly Hills mansion on the market for $18 million in a pocket listing, which means it is private and we can't show you a listing.
--Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen's official sale price for their house in Malibu was $15.5 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Cher's Malibu mansion has hit the market for $45 million. As Big Time Listings points out, the 14,000 square foot home was on the market in early 2007 for $25 million. The listing is here.
--Artist Jennifer Bartlett has sold her Manhattan townhouse, which includes a pool and her studio, for $17 million. It was previously our estate of the day back in July of last year.
--Shaquille O'Neal has dropped the price on his Miami home from $32 million to $29 million. I'll be taking a closer look at this one on Monday as our estate of the day.

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