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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 7/20/08

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping


From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Brady Bunch actress Eve Plumb has put her tiny Malibu beach bungalow on the market for $5.5 million. The cottage has just two bedrooms but the deck, shown above, overlooks the beach. The listing is here.
--David Duchovny and Téa Leoni have sold their Malibu home that had been listed briefly for $12 million.
--L.A. Galaxy coach Ruud Gullit has listed his Hollywood Hills West house for sale at $4.25 million. It will be an estate of the day later this week.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Villa Maria, a former nunnery in the Hamptons, is about to hit the market for $100 million. The property also known as the Siena Spirituality Center, is a 21,000-square-foot Beaux Arts mansion with 12 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, a ballroom, an institutional kitchen, three guest cottages and 1,200 feet of shoreline.
--American Idol winner Taylor Hicks is renting in the Atelier building while he stars in "Grease."

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Matthew Perry has paid $883,000 for a modest house in Studio City. It looks like this might be a flip or a real estate investment for the actor who has a long list of properties.
--A four-bedroom in the Hollywood Hills that currently is owned by an executive for the BBC, and that he purchased in 2006 from comedienne Carol Leifer, is on the market for $2.15 million. The listing is here.
--Official sales numbers for Melissa Etheridge's Hidden Hills home which went to Nicollette Sheridan. The deal closed for $4,304,000.
--Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio has listed his his five-bedroom house on Malibu's Broad Beach for $22 million. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--In addition to their recent Los Angeles purchase, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have also picked up an estate in Sutton Forest, Australia for around $6.5 million.
--Ellen Degeneres and Portia di Rossi have picked up yet another property in Beverly Hills for $5.5 million. This property on Lago Vista Place has sight lines into Ellen and Portia's backyard and will likely be torn down.
--Rumor has it that reality TV's favorite house flipper Jeff Lewis recently sold his house on Los Feliz's Commonwealth Avenue to Lost actor Dominic Monaghan.
--Artist Elizabeth Peyton and her boyfriend Tony Just have listed their weekend home in Orient, New York for $900,000. The two-bedroom home on the North Fork of Long Island includes a lap pool and a custom designed kitchen with teak counter tops and mahogany cabinets. The listing is here.
--Olivia Newton John has dropped the price on her Malibu mansion again. It's now at $11.95 million. The listing is here.
--The Tarzana home where Kevin Federline lived after he and Britney Spears first split up has hit the market for $1.89 million. The listing is here . Federline has moved on to another Tarzana lease.
--Jamie Foxx may have already sold his Tarzana home. A tipster to the Real Estalker Mama indicates that sign at the front of the property indicates the house is in contract. It was recently our estate of the day.
--The Beverly Hills fixer upper belonging to real estate agent Kevin Huvane was almost snapped up by nightlife king Sam Nazarian, then nearly bought by Hollywood divorcee Jamie Tisch but neither one followed through and the home is still listed at $14.95 million. The listing is here.
--The Hollywood Hills home belonging to Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal's parents, Naomi Foner and Steven Gyllenhaal has been given a price cut to $3.495 million. The listing is here.
--"Without A Trace" actor Enrique Murciano's home in the Hollywood Hills is now listed as "looking for backup." The listing is here.
--via the Daily Mail, one of my all-time favorite estate of the day properties, Witanhurst, has been sold again. London's largest private house besides Buckingham Palace sold for £50,000,000 to Russia's richest woman Elena Baturina who is married to Yuri Luzkhov, the current mayor of Moscow. Property developer Marcus Cooper bought Witanhurst in 2007 for £32,000,000 with plans to renovate but managed to sell for an £18,000,000 profit without touching a thing.
--Oscar winning writer William Monahan has put his home on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles on the market for $2.35 million. The listing is here.
--Kelsey Grammer is flipping again, he's put a Holmby Hills home on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Nicolas Cage has put a home he owns in Las Vegas on the market for $9.95 million. It's our estate of the day on Monday.
--Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer has put his Massachusetts home on the market for $4.99 million. It will be our estate of the day later this week.
-- Locksley Hall, a 12,000-square-foot mansion on Belvedere Island overlooking San Francisco Bay was recently in contract for $65 million but is back on the market at an unchanged price. It was our estate of the day back in 2006 and the listing is here.


From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--André Balazs has introduced a new amenity at his Beaver House condo in the Financial District building, The Beaver Butler. For about $1,000 per year, buyers can watch footage from their "in-residence cameras" on their computers--to "check up on what's happening while you're away."
--Plastic surgery poster girl Jocelyne Wildenstein lived for years with husband Alec on the third floor of his father's 29-foot-wide mansion at 11 East 64th Street. Mr. Wildenstein died earlier this year and now the house has been sold for $42.5 million. The contract was signed back in September and the buyer is listed as a limited liability corporation named Vesta International.
--Sherman Cohen's $35 million Park Avenue mansion, it was our estate of the day in June, has gone to contract. Braden Keil at the NY Post says the sale price is $32 million and that it went to a "American non-hedge-fund manager."
--A Central Park West apartment belonging to Abraham Pustilnik, who has been indicted insurance fraud and grand larceny, sold to New York Rangers Center Chris Drury for $5.1 million.
--Director Peter Jackson may be the purchaser of a two-unit, 10-bedroom, $17.35 million penthouse duplex on Franklin Street.

Sunday Real Estate Round-Up 6/01/08

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping



From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Grammy Award-winning music producer Danny Bramson and wife Julee are selling a 40-acre horse ranch in Topanga for $4,195,000. The listing is here.
--Robert Olodort, who invented the Stowaway -- a full-size QWERTY keyboard tthat fits in a shirt pocket is selling his Brentwood house for $3,195,000. The three-bedroom home was recently redone. The listing is here.
Producer Danny Dimbort is selling his two-story English Tudor in Hancock Park for $6 million.
-Music producer Jimmy Jam (Harris) and his wife, Lisa, are selling the 20-acre property they own in Thousand Oaks for $7,995,000. It is a gated ranch adjacent to the Sherwood Country Club. They tore down the existing house and plans have been approved for a 17,000-square-foot estate with a 2,500-square-foot guesthouse. There are existing barns and horse facilities. The listing is here.
--Actor Chris Masterson has put his traditional 1939 Los Feliz home, shown above, on the market. The virtual tour is here.
--Former NFL football player Phil McConkey sold his contemporary home above La Jolla Cove in San Diego County for $2.85 million. McConkey and his wife, Erin, are in escrow on another home in the Beach Club Terrace neighborhood of La Jolla Shores. The Spanish-style house was listed at $4.5 million and has five bedrooms and five bathrooms.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--They are already flipping at the 15 Central Park West condo complex. A four-bedroom unit is now on the market for $90 million after being sold to a venture capitalist for $30 million last month. I know the building is hot but could it really be that hot?
--One of the Hamptons' largest waterfront estates, Tyndal Point, a 55-acre property in North Haven is now being offered at $75 million, down from its original $80 million listing price in January 2007.
--Manhattan House on the Upper East Side has hit their sales go which means that the project is now official.
--Fashion stylist Phillip Bloch has put his Chelsea penthouse on the market for $1.5 million. He says he was to busy to renovate but it has roof rights for the construction of an additional 1,000 square feet above to create a duplex. The listing is here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Scarlett Johansson has paid $2.1 million for a penthouse on East 53rd Street near Sutton Place.
--Designer Betsey Johnson paid $1,854,000 for an apartment at 30 East 85th Street. Her pink apartment in the Village remains on the market and is now listed at $2.495 million. It was listed at $3.6 million when it was our estate of the day last December.
--A 15-room, six-bathroom, four-fireplace co-op at 1030 Fifth Avenue, put on the market for $34 million has found a buyer in less than a week. It belongs to psychoanalyst Christine Wasserstein, who kept the apartment after her divorce from New York magazine publisher Bruce Wasserstein, the billionaire CEO of Lazard.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--"Malcolm in the Middle" actor Justin Berfield has paid $1.45 million or a new three-bedroom house in Venice, California.
--A three-bedroom home in the Beverly Hills post office area that was owned from 1996 until 2007 by actor Brendan Fraser is back on the market for $3.995 million. The virtual tour is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--An investor group led by fashion trade-show producer Elyse Kroll has sold a townhouse in New York's venerable Sutton Place neighborhood for $30 million, which is roughly $8 million more than the group paid almost a year ago.
--The Montana ranch of the late fashion designer Liz Claiborne has sold for close to its recent $7.5 million asking price. It was our estate of the day in October of last year.
--Kenny Rogers has listed his six-bedroom home in Atlanta, Georgia. It's our estate of the day later today.
--CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien has put her downtown Manhattan loft up for sale for $4.6 million. The listing for the elegant full-floor apartment is here.
--The widow of best-selling author Sidney Sheldon, Alexandra, has sold one of the Palm Springs, Calif., properties she listed earlier this year and cut the price of the others by 30%. A four-bedroom home known as the "playhouse" and used for entertaining sold for $1.425 million, slightly less than its asking price. She is asking $2 million for the adjacent main house and $2.3 million for a guest house. A second guest house, across the street, now sells for $3 million, down 25% from its original asking price of $4 million. The listings can be found here.
--Philanthropist Lois Pope, widow of National Enquirer founder Generoso Pope Jr., is asking $36.5 million for her ranch in Colorado.

From the Real Estalker:
--Rumor has it that Beyonce and Jay-Z have picked up a house in Scarsdale, New York which is also where they picked up their marriage license.
--Chris Noth and his girlfriend Tara Wilson recently bought a mid-century modern style home in Sherman Oaks, California for $1.445 million.
--Matthew Perry has put his condo in the celeb-friendly Sierra Tower in West Hollywood up for sale for $4.5 million.
--NIcole Kidman has put her Sydney, Australia home on the market for $20 million.
--Stylist Philipp Bloch, mentioned above, has also put a two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles on the market for $629,0000.

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