Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 07/26/09
Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Real Estalker:
--Brian Austin Green has listed his four-bedroom Tudor style home in Los Angeles, shown above, for $2.395 million. The listing is here.
--The estate of Jimmy Durante has put his three-bedroom home in Beverly Hills on the market for $3.395 million. The listing is here.
--Hard Rock Cafe heir Harry Morton has listed his two-bedroom unit in West Hollywood's Sierra Towers for $2.895 million. He paid $3.5 million back in 2007. The listing is here.
--LeVar Burton has listed his home in Sherman Oaks, California for $1.85 million.
From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--The Gosselins have dropped the price of their former home in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania from $325.000 to $315,000. You can check out pictures here.
--A two-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills area that Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses once owned has been listed for $1.25 million. The listing is here.
--"Weeds" creator Jenji Kohan has placed her three-bedroom home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles on the market for $1.597 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Parminder Nagra has put her four-bedroom home in Los Angeles' Los Feliz area back on the market for $1.375 million. The listing is here.
--Olympic gold medalist Lenny Krayzelburg has sold his home in the Hollywood Hills for $3.575 million.
Justin Long has re-listed his two-bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills for $1.245 million. The listing is here.
--Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's Holmby Hills mansion next to the Playboy mansion which was listed at $27.995 million is now listed as "looking for backup."
From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Michael Lemos, the son of a Greek shipping tycoon, is raising the price of his apartment at 2 East 67th Street again. It went on the market for $34.9 million in May 2008, was increased to $39.5 million last July, is now listed for $45 million.
--via Curbed, Och-Ziff chief financial officer Joel Frank and his wife Lynn paid $9.4 million for a third-floor condo at 15 Central Park West last October. But now they're buying an apartment downtown, too, a 1,200-square-foot pad at 99 Jane Street for $1.5 million.
--David Schrader, a former senior managing director at Bear Stearns, has sold his 12th-floor apartment at 30 Fifth Avenue for $1.95 million.
--via New York Daily News, disgraced lawyer Marc Dreier's condo at One Beacon Court sold at auction for $8.2 million after 45 people placed bids on the 3,000-square-foot pad. The buyer is Ajit Jain, a protégé of Warren Buffet and the head of Berkshire Hathaway's reinsurance group.
--David Salomon, co-founder of California-based Financial Asset Trading & Technology, and his wife Joanne, have picked up a condo at 530 West End Avenue for $3 million.
via the Real Deal, the Broome Street building where Heath Ledger died in 2008 has changed hands. The property's lender, Donald Burns of Palm Beach Mortgage Management, paid $15 million for the building.
--Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman has paid $2.65 million for an apartment on the second floor of 79 East 2nd Street.
From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Art dealer W. Graham Arader III has taken his mansion at 1016 Madison Avenue off the market. We checked it out in 2007 when it was listed at $75 million.
--Attorney James Triedman paid $3.65 million for a three-bedroom co-op at 14 East 90th Street which was listed at $4.25 million.
--Investment strategist Jason Trennert paid $3.25 million for nine-room co-op at 22 East 88th Street which was listed at $4.695 million.
Artist Richard Prince has paid $11.5 million for a townhouse located at 57 East 78th Street.
--Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby has paid $3.905 million for a penthouse at 43 East 19th Street.
--Former Bear Stearns executive Alex Reyfman has sold his co-op at 245 West 107th Street for $1.555 million to William Ulfelder, director of the Nature Conservancy of New York.
From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--The Jonas Brothers may be close to buying a mansion in Alpine, New Jersey. The approximately 8,000-square-foot home is a five-bedroom Colonial is in the $10 million price range.
--Lorraine Bracco has found a buyer for her Hudson River hideaway in Trey Anastasio, the lead singer/guitarist of Phish. He is in contract to buy her cottage for around $2 million. We checked out this home in 2007 when it was listed at $3.2 million.
--Real estate investor Gerhard Andlinger is in contract to buy a 1920s home on Sherwood Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut. It has been quietly been on the market since April at around $19.5 million.
From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--A Los Feliz home owned by singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder has sold for $2.407 million.
--Singer and actor Frankie Avalon has sold his golf course retreat in La Quinta for $955,000.
From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Mickey Rourke has rented a loft in Manhattan's meatpacking district for $19,800 per month which is less than half what the apartment rented for just four months ago.
From Newsday's Real LI:
--Attorney Bruce A. Blakeman whose ex-wife Nancy Shevell, is currently dating Paul McCartney has purchased a six-bedroom, four-bath home in Water Mill, New York for $2 million.
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