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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 11/28/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From Homes and Property UK:
--Sienna Miller has dropped the price on her two-bedroom Georgian mews house in Maida Vale. It is now listed at £1.1 million.

From the LA Times:
--Actor Justin Berfield, has sold a Calabasas house he bought for $3.75 million four years ago for $2.1 million. He bought the house in 2006 from Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey.
--Director-producer Marcos Siega and his wife, Lisa, have sold their Sunset Strip-area home for $1.635 million.
--Two comedians are among recent buyers of lofts at Dogtown Station in Venice. Dov Davidoff bought a single-story unit that was listed for about $900,000 and Neal Brennan purchased a three-story town house listed at $1,050,000.

From the Chicago Tribune:
--Chicago mayoral candidate and former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun has her five-bedroom, Prairie-style town home in Hyde Park on the market for $1.9 million. The listing is here.

Gallery: Carol Moseley-Braun in Chicago

From Newsday:
--Kathleen Turner has sold her home on Bluff Road in Amagansett, New York. The sale price was $3.9 million, a little less than half the $8 million price she asked for the property in 2005. She bought the home in 1990 for $488,500.

Gallery: Kathleen Turner in Amagansett

--A home in Southampton, New York has hit the market for $18.8 million. The 3.4 acre property has approval for a subdivision into two 1.7 acre lots. There is already an 11-room home on the property. The listing is here.

Gallery: Southampton Village

--A home on Gin Lane in Southampton recently sold for $12.85 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Movie producer Joe Roth has listed his amazing Art Deco Santa Monica, California home for $12.45 million. He bought the home in 2004 for $9 million and decorator Michael Smith redid the interiors. The listing is here.

Gallery: Joe Roth's Santa Monica home

From NY Observer:
--Mayor Bloomberg's nominee to run the city schools, former Hearst head Cathleen Black sold her former Connecticut home, a five-bedroom antique colonial on 27 acres in Litchfield County for sold for $1.98 million, below the $2.35 million asking price.
--CitiGroup exec Michael Del Giudice spent $5.5 million for two apartments at 36 Gramercy Park East, including a $4.3 million on a three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom unit on the ninth floor and a penthouse for $1.24 million.
--One of the 25 apartments at 510 Park Avenue was recently listed for $15.9 million, reduced to $13.9 million, and sold for $11 million. The buyer is Stephanie Hessler, while the sellers are Mitchell and Yonina Davidson.
--Music power agent Peter Mensch has bought his very own West Village townhouse for $7.25 million at 267 West 11th Street. Mr. Mensch's Q Prime talent agency has represented Garbage, Nickel Creek, Snow Patrol and Josh Groban. The seller is Melissa Meyer.
--Kelsey Grammer has traded his $29,000-per-month three-bedroom rental for a $6.5 million four-bedroom apartment which was originally listed at $7.52 million.
--Author Andrew Trees has sold his two-bedroom unit at The Orion for $1.02 million.
--Isaac Mizrahi bought a unit at 59 West 12th Street for $3.5 million.
--Leslie Alexander, owner of the Houston Rockets basketball team sold his two penthouses at the Superior Ink building for $31.5 million.

From the Wall Street Journal:
Jason Lee has sold his home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles home. It was listed at$3.25 million, $100,000 less that Lee bought it for, when we checked it out as an estate of the day and it sold for $3.1 million.

Gallery: Jason Lee in Los Angeles

--Norman Zada, the founder of Perfect 10 magazine, has sold his Beverly Park mansion for $16.5 million. It was once listed for $24.5 million.

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Rue McClanahan's New York City Apartment Up For Sale

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Filed under: Estates

Actress Rue McClanahan died earlier this month and her New York City apartment is already on the market. The NY Times Big Deal column reports that the three-bedroom co-op belonging to "The Golden Girls" star has been listed with Steven Marvisch of Brown Harris Stevens for $2.25 million. The apartment at 430 East 56th Street has a south facing private garden and overlooks private tennis courts.

The home has a large master suite with plenty of closet space. The spacious living room has floor to ceiling windows and doors leading to the garden. A dining room, kitchen and office round out the space. The Times article points out that the apartment is full of quirky details like a door disguised as a spice rack that leads to a bathroom behind the kitchen and the door to the office that is sculptured to look as though a naked woman was walking through it, her hand is the doorknob and her head and one breast peek into the hallway while on the other side of the door her rear curves into the room.

Gallery: Rue McClanahan's New York City Apartment

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 04/26/09

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From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--A home in the Hollywood Hills, shown above, that once belonged to Bette Davis has been listed for $2.295 million. The listing is here
--Libertarian radio and TV talk show host Larry Elder has put Hollywood Hills home on the market for $4.175 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--David LaChapelle has listed his Sunset Strip home for $1.65 million. We looked at this one on Friday.
The 1928 Spanish-style home of "Gossip Girl" producer Josh Schwartz and his wife, Jill in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles on the market for $2.395 million. The listing is here.
--Nicole Murphy, ex-wife of Eddie Murphy, has put her Calabasas home back on the market. We took a closer look on Saturday.
--Phoenix Pictures chairman and cofounder Mike Medavoy has taken his Beverly Park mansion off the market. It was most recently listed at $19.995 million but it was at $23.5 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Disney heiress Abigail Disney and her husband, Pierre Hauser, are paying $12.16 million for a 16th-floor apartment at 15 Madison Square North.
--Writer/director John Ridley paid $6.65 million for a condo at 15 Central Park West in July 2008, relisted it a few days later for $13 million and has cut the prices several times since then. It is currently listed for $8.5 million.
--via the NY Times, London-based investment manager Franck Ruimy has picked up five apartments since March through limited liability corporations, including four units at 400 East 67th Street, purchased for a combined $11.5 million.
--Hedge fund exec Apostolos Peristeris and his wife Alicia have sold their two-bedroom condo at 207 East 57th Street for $1.65 million.
--As we mentioned earlier this week, Leona Helmsley's former estate in Greenwich is now available for just $75 million. It was still listed at $125 million when it was our estate of the day last June.
--John Legend has reduced the price on his New York City apartment. We checked this one out earlier in the week.
--New York Observer publisher and Ivanka Trump snuggle buddy Jared Kushner has paid $3.225 million for a two-bedroom, seventh-floor condo at 21 Astor Place.
--New York Mortgage Trust founder Steven Schnall and his wife Sherri have put their townhouse at 2 North Moore Streeton the market for $33 million. Check out a video from The Real Deal here.
--Tina Fey has picked up a new apartment for $3.4 million, we checked it out earlier this week.
--Lily Lee Lee Wong has cut $4.6 million off the price of her 115-year-old townhouse at 21 East 84th Street. She bought the home for $12.1 million in June 2007 and re-listed for $24.5 million just a month later. The 22-foot wide home is now on the market for $19.9 million.
--Real estate agent Raphael De Niro, the son of Robert De Niro, and his wife Claudine paid $2.9 million for a three-bedroom condo at 497 Greenwich Street.

From the Real Estalker:
--One of our former estate of the day properties, 40 Beverly Park in Beverly Hills has been sold. It was last listed at $31.5 million but was at $39.9 million when we checked it out last November. The buyer is said to be Oksana Borzina, a real estate investor/flipper who owns several other properties in the area.
--Usher has been spotted checking out real estate on the Sunset Strip. His Atlanta home remains on the market.
--Nicolas Cage has another home in New Orleans on the market, we checked it out earlier this week.
--Producer Brad Grey has picked up a Bel Air home for a reported $22 million.
A Los Angeles home that once belonged to Dermot Mulroney and Catherine Keener is back on the market. Mulroney and Keener sold to an entity linked to a charitable organization in North Carolina that belongs to Dave Matthews (it may have belonged to Dave Matthews Band saxophonist the late LeRoi Moore). The home is now listed at $3.199 million. The listing is here.
--Serial house flipper Jeff Lewis hasn't been having great luck lately. He listed a house on Valley Oak Drive with an asking price of $3.195 million last May, it was reduced to $2.595 million and then went into contact but it has popped back up on the market for $2.695 million.

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