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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 01/23/11

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times:
--Chris Ursitti, chief executive of GreenHouse Holdings, a global energy and ethanol company in San Diego, has listed a house he built on spec in Pacific Palisades for $9.495 million. The listing is with Madison Hildebrand.
Actor and teen star Carlos Pena Jr. has bought a Mediterranean-style home in the San Fernando Valley for close to its $1.5-million asking price.
--Television writer Lyla Oliver has sold her Santa Monica home for $1.902 million.

From the NY Post:
--Jennifer Aniston was spotted touring an $8.75 million penthouse at 552 LaGuardia Place in the Village. The listing for the five-bedroom apartment is here.
--Jon Pollock, senior portfolio manager at Elliott Associates, bought three ninth-floor units last year and planned to merge them into an almost 8,500-square-foot mega-home at the Apthorp on the Upper West Side. He paid close to $14 million, but now he wants to sell. He's asking $17 million for all three units, or $11.5 million for two units he's already combined.
--Designers/reality TV couple Bob and Cortney Novogratz are redecorating 16 Minetta Lane, once home to late designer Robert Isabell, and holding a party there next week to publicize its return to the market with a $3.95 million asking price.
--Hedge-fund honcho Robert Jaffe has just purchased the five-story townhouse at 138 E. 71st St., which once belonged to Diandra Douglas, ex-wife of actor Michael Douglas for $7.25 million.
--Aaron Tighe, son of commercial real estate queen Mary Ann Tighe has just closed on a prewar co-op at 4 E. 72nd St. He and his wife, Kimberly, bought the four-bedroom, 4½-bathroom duplex for around $5.9 million.
--Jared Kushner has put his duplex at 21 Astor Place on the market for $4.1 million, and he and wife Ivanka Trump are getting ready to buy a four-bedroom, 4,200-square-foot penthouse at Trump Park Avenue. The unit is unofficially on the market for $16 million.

From TMZ:
--The Bel-Air home of Zsa Zsa Gabor is set to hit the market at $28 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Billionaire software entrepreneur Tom Siebel has sold his 62,000-acre Montana cattle ranch. The N Bar Ranch had been listed at $45 million.
--Metro Networks founder David I. Saperstein has cut the of Hummingbird Nest Ranch, his approximately 125-acre equestrian estate in Southern California from $75 million to $49.5 million. It was our estate of the day back in 2007.
--Talent manager Sandy Gallin is contracted to sell his Bridgehampton, New York estate. The home was first listed for $32 million in 2009 but was most recently priced at $20 million.

Gallery: Sandy Gallin In Bridgehampton

From the Real Estalker:
--Dennis Quaid may have purchased a six-bedroom home in Austin, Texas that was on the market for $12.5 million.
--Queen Latifah may be renting Jane Fonda's Atlanta, Georgia loft which is still on the market for $2.5 million. it was listed at $4.5 million when it was our estate of the day back in May 2010.

Gallery: Jane Fonda In Atlanta, Estate of the Day

--Mel Brooks has listed a three-bedroom home in Santa Monica for $5.995 million. The listing is here.
--Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith paid $910,000 for a five-bedroom home in Woodland Hills, California that is believed to have been purchased for family or friends.

From Chicago Breaking Business:
--Interior designer and talk show host Nate Berkus has listed his seven-room, full-floor condo Chicago's Gold Coast for $2.65 million. The listing is here.

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 10/31/10

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

Flying Dog Ranch, a Colorado property we covered back in June when it was at $56 million has had a price cut down to $46.2 million.

Gallery: Flying Dog Ranch

--Lance Collins, founder of FUZE® beverages, sold his Tribeca, Hubert St. apartment to Courtney Ross for $7.3 million and has landed in Matthew Perry's old bachelor pad in Beverly Hills for upwards of $10 million. Collins is in California to work on his next functional beverage innovation- Body Armor nutrition drinks.

From the Wall Street Journal:
--Willis Johnson, the founder and chairman of auto-part auction company Copart, has listed a Suisun Valley, Califorina, estate for $22 million. The incredible home known as Villa De Madre has a 22,900-square-foot main house with an indoor swimming pool but what's even more amazing are the car barns that can hold 100 cars. There are three of them, one has an antique gas station and another has an old-fashioned diner. The listing is here.

Gallery: Villa De Madre

--The WSJ says that Willis Johnson and his wife purchased a Tennessee ranch from country singer Alan Jackson for $28 million. We're assuming it's this one, which we covered last year when it was listed for $38 million.

Gallery: Alan Jackson in Franklin, Tennessee

--Paul Wilmot, a PR executive who represents celebrities and designers like Beyoncé Knowles and Tommy Hilfiger, has listed his Miami Shores, Florida home for $1.9 million. He bought the home in 2006 for $1.5 million and renovated it. The listing is here.

Gallery: Paul Wilmot in Miami Shores

From the NY Post:
--New York Knick Amar'e Stoudemire is renting a $37,500-a-month, five-bedroom penthouse rental in the West Village. The condo was once listed for sale at $16.5 million.
--Chef Rocco DiSpirito is house hunting and recently toured the $7.95 million penthouse at the Ritz-Carlton residences in Battery Park.

From the LA Times:
--Richard Fortus, rhythm and lead guitarist for the rock band Guns N' Roses, has placed his Woodland Hills house on the market at $549,000. Fortus bought the three-bedroom home in 2006 for $700,000.

Gallery: Richard Fortus in Woodland Hills

--The Santa Monica estate that was the home of late film star and singer Kathryn Grayson for 65 years has sold for $7.7 million. It came on the market at $8,995,000 and was in escrow within three weeks.
--Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Rafael Furcal has put his home on a golf course in La Cañada Flintridge up for sale at $4.449 million. According to records on PropertyShark.com, Furcal paid $4.25 million for the home in 2007. The six-bedroom home was built in 2000 and has two-story foyer, a study, a media room, a wine tasting room and a billiards/game room. The grounds have a swimming pool with spa, an outdoor kitchen and a built-in barbecue.

Gallery: Rafael Furcal in La Canada-Flintridge

From the Real Estalker:
--Toni Collette and David Galafassi have picked up a Los Angeles home for $1.33 million.
--Bill and Giuliana Rancic paid $1.56 million for their new seven-bedroom home in Hinsdale, Illinois.

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 05/16/10

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Former American Skandia chief executive Wade Dokken has listed his ranch in Montana for $29.95 million. Bullis Creek Ranch was once planned to be an eco-luxury residential development with a cooking school run by chef Alice Waters. The 6,795-acre property is about 45 minutes from an entrance to Yellowstone Park and has a five-bedroom Engelmann spruce log home and two guest houses. The listing is here.
--Talent manager Sandy Gallin has put his Bridgehampton, New York estate back on the market for $26.9 million. It was listed at $32 million last year when we checked it out as an estate of the day.

Gallery: Sandy Gallin In Bridgehampton

From Luxury Real Estate:
--The boyhood home of singer Leonard Cohen is for sale in Montreal for $1.495 million Canadian. The listing is here.
From Curbed LA:
--Actress Angelica Huston has listed her home in Venice, California for $18 million. The home is two different buildings and was built by her late husband, sculptor Robert Graham, and his son.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Actor Bruce Davison and his wife, Michele, have put their remodeled Sherman Oaks home up for sale at $1.8 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Patricia Barry has listed her two-story home in Beverly Hills for $5.23 million. The home was built on a lot purchased in 1927 by Charlie Chaplin and his soon-to-be-ex-wife Lita Grey Chaplin. Lita Chaplin had architect Roy Seldon Price build the residence and set designer Harold Grieve did the interiors. The listing is here.
--Filmmaker and commercial director Joe Pytka has sold the Frank-Lloyd Wright-designed Taggart House in Los Feliz for $2.335 million. The listing is here.

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Sandy Gallin In Bridgehampton, Estate of the Day

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You have to admire a man who has the real estate cojones to put two $32 million homes up for sale in this crazy market. Talent manager Sandy Gallin, who has represented Michael Jackson and Barbra Streisand, is also a real estate madman. Earlier this year he put a flawless home in Bel Air, California on the market for $32 million. He must like that number, that's how much he has listed his 14-acre estate in Bridgehampton for as the Wall Street Journal's Private Proeprties reveals.

If the California home is a mogul-ready manor then the Bridgehampton home is for the New York City financial tycoon looking for a bit of peace of mind on the weekends. The quiet and tasteful shingled home has seven bedrooms and a calm interior design that shows off modern country taste taken to its apotheosis. The property includes a 1.5 acre pond and a pool.

Gallery: Sandy Gallin In Bridgehampton

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Sandy Gallin Lists Bel-Air Mansion for $32 Million

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L.A. talent manager Sandy Gallin, who has represented divas like Dolly Parton, Barbra Streisand and Michael Jackson, has listed his mansion in Bel-Air (above) for $32 million. Gallin, a serial property flipper, intended for this, his 42nd house project, to be "a place to wind up and stay," but found the estate "too big and too lavish for me," he tells the Wall St. Journal. The mansion was built in 1936 by architect Paul Williams, and Gallin purchased from the estate of award-winning actress Jane Wyatt two years ago for $8 million.

He planned to tear it down and build a modern monstrosity but the city refused to grant permission. Instead Gallin restored and enlarged the existing house boosting the square footage to 12,000 with seven bedrooms and 12 baths. The Real Estalker adds that there's an entire wing devoted to a master suite with dual baths, and the living room opens onto a "living lounge" with a covered porch, cobblestone floor and fireplace. Also inside are a billiards pub, a glass-encased wine room, a media room, a gym, a yoga studio, steam room and a swimming pool.

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