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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 12/12/10

From the Real Estalker:
--Bernie Ecclestone has spent around £60 million on Sloane House a mansion in the Chelsea area of London for his daughter Petra.
--Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are set to marry this weekend at Lionel Richie's mansion that overlooks the Los Angeles Country Club in Beverly Hills
--Pierce Brosnan and his wife Keely Shaye Smith have dropped the price on their Malibu, California home from $3.9 million to $3.5 million. The listing is here.
--George Lucas has picked up a home in Carpinteria, California for a rumored $19.5 million.

From the LA Times:
--Former major league pitcher Bret Saberhagen has sold his gated Calabasas home for $2.4 million. We first checked out this home in 2009 when it was listed at $3.25 million.

Gallery: Bret Saberhagen in Calabasas

From Homes and Property UK:
--X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke spent an estimated £300,000 on a two-bedroom property in Barnet.
--Dave Myers, the shaggier half of The Hairy Bikers, BBC2's culinary double act, bought a nine-bedroom detached house close to his Barrow-in-Furness birthplace for almost £500,000.
--Magician, Drummond Money-Coutts, has bought his first home, a four-bedroom Victorian terrace house in Fulham, with a garden and roof terrace for £1.1 million.

From the NY Post:
--Will Smith is renting the fourth floor of 25 Bond St. The five-bedroom condo had been listed for sale at $19.5 million for nearly two years.
--LeBron James bought a new $9 million bayfront mansion on Crystal View Court in Miami. The 12,178-square-foot, six-bedroom home was built this year and a has a concrete dock big enough to hold two 60-foot yachts.
--Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen are still looking for a new apartment in Manhattan. This season they are renting a country cabin on a mountain in upstate Accord.
-- Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have been apartment-hunting. This week they visited a $25,000-a-month, three-bedroom rental at the new 55 Thompson building. --Billionaire Charles Bronfman has signed the contract to buy a two-bedroom co-op at 810 Fifth Ave., listed at $23.5 million.
--Bob and Cortney Novogratz are renovating one of Julia Roberts' Manhattan apartments.

From Newsday:
--Millard Drexler, J. Crew chief executive officer, bought Montauk's Deep Hollow Ranch for $11.4 million. The 17.8-acre property is the oldest working cattle ranch in the country.
"Jersey Shore" stars Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Jenni "JWOWW" Farley are planning to buy a house together on Long Island.

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 11/07/10

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Wall Street Journal:
--Hedge-fund pioneer Paul Tudor Jones is asking $30 million for his 6,250-acre hunting retreat on Maryland's eastern shore. It is our estate of the day on Monday.
--A 44-acre Aspen, Colorado estate sold for $31.5 million, for what brokers say is a record price for the area this year. The seller of the property was Bob Zangrillo, founder of private-equity firm Z Capital.
--After nearly four years on the market at $33 million, a roughly 6,500-acre Carmel Valley, California ranch, shown above, has seen its asking price cut 35 percent to $21.5 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Times:
--Renee Zellweger has listed a pair of apartments on New York's Upper East side. 82nd Street, The apartments take up the entire second floor of a co-op on 82nd Street at Madison Avenue. She paid $8.2 million for all three units. One, a three-bedroom unit is $6.975 million. The listing is here.

From Newsday:
--A three-acre estate in Sagaponack that includes land once owned by businessman Ronald Lauder as well as a planned 11,600-square-foot, 10-room traditional home designed by architect Francis Fleetwood has has a price cut to $14.995 million down from $17.75 million. The listing is here.
--An Old Westbury estate that once belonged to the family of the late commercial shipping magnate Michael P. Grace had had a price cut. The five-bedroom Colonial was listed at $4.498 million but is now listed at $3.968 million. The listing is here.

Gallery: Wheatley Road

From the LA Times:
--"CSI: Miami" star Rex Linn has bought a Sherman Oaks home for $1.415 million.
--Iron Chef Michael Symon has picked up a two-story loft in the Dogtown Station mixed-use development in Venice. The two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit was listed at $1.1 million.
--Judd Apatow and his wife, Leslie Mann, have sold their Pacific Palisades home for $5.26 million.

From Housing Watch:
--Actress Jessica Alba is trying to lease out her 3,035-square-foot Beverly Hills home for $8,950 a month. The listing is here.

Gallery: Rent Jessica Alba's Beverly Hills Home