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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 7/06/08

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping


From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood have picked up a home on the Malibu beachfront that had been listed at $5.45 million. Big Time Listings found the property website which is here.
--Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer has listed his Laguna Beach, California home. It's our estate of the day later today.
--Michael D. Kunce, the president of Armstrong Garden Centers and his wife, Marianne, have listed their palatial Claremont home, Villa Di Fiori, for $3 million. The listing is here.
--Stuntman-turned-director Scott Gillen has listed his midcentury modern in Malibu at $5.475 million. The property website is here.


From Big Time Listings:
--Teri Garr has sold her two-bedroom house in Brentwood. It was listed for $3,995,000.
--Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman have sold their two-bedroom condo unit in Encino after it had been on the market for $750,000.
--Andrew Alexander, who co-owns the Second City improvisational comedy troupe in Chicago has paid $1.395 million for a house in the Beverly Hills Post Office area.

From the Real Estalker:
--Denise Richards has put her Hidden Hills home on the market for $4.25 million. The listing is here.
--Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly's Brooklyn home has gone to contract. It was our estate of the day in May.
--Brett Butler has sold her home for $2 million.
--Producer Mark Brazill is still trying to unload the 1920s home in Los Feliz he bought from Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale. He paid $4.795 million for the home, relisted for $4.885 million and has now cut the price all the way down to $3.995 million which means he will take a huge loss on the home. The listing is here.
----Angela Bassett and Courtney Vance seem to have finally sold their Hancock Park home. The home which was originally listed at $5.999 million went all the way down to $3.9 million and is now listed as "looking for backup."
--CSI: Miami actress Khandi Alexander's home is back on the market for $2.995 million. The listing is here.
--Real estate agent Joe Babajian has put a home in Westwood on the market for $1.95 million. The listing is here.
---Ellen Degeneres and gal pal Portia Di Rossi have picked up a third property on Cabrillo Drive which will allow them to request permission from the city of Beverly Hills to gate the entire street. It is rumored that Ellen may have spent around $40 million total to create a new massive compound.
--Candy Spelling is selling a pair of condos in Century Woods, a small gated community in Century City. Both condos have five bedrooms but the one with over 8,000 square feet is listed at $7.895 million and the one that is a bit under 5,000 square feet is listed at $4.795 million.
--Musician Beck and Marissa Ribisi have put their Hancock Park home on the market for $9 million. The pair bought for $6.75 million a little over a year ago. The six-bedroom home also comes with a professional recording studio and rehearsal room in the guest house. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Ralph Fiennes has paid $2 million for a one-bedroom condo loft on West 13th Street.
--Veronica Hearst sold her Upper East Side co-op (two apartments) at 4 E. 66th St. for $36.5 million.
--Diana Ross is planning to renovate her Sherry-Netherland hotel apartment and raise its price from $9 million to $11 million sometime after Labor Day.

From the NY Observer:
----Another huge listing in New York City. This time a Fifth Avenue duplex, shown above, belonging to Karen Fleiss, who founded the hedge fund KMF Partners, and her husband, David, a Fifth Avenue orthopedic surgeon has been put on the market for $47.5 million. The listing is here.
--Exiting Metropolitan Museum of Art director Philippe de Montebello and his wife, Edith, director of financial aid at the Trinity School, sold their two-bedroom co-op at 25 East 86th Street this month for $2.195 million. The buyer is graphic designer Holly Okner, whose father is the investor Peter A. Aron, the chairman of the South Street Seaport Museum from 1987 to 2000. De Montebello has moved to another apartment nearby.
--The founder of Rag & Bone David Neville and his wife, celebrity makeup artist Gucci Westman just bought a duplex penthouse loft at the Spears Building, a former warehouse on West 22nd Street for $4.426 million.
----Charmaine Ho, a 22-year-old handbag designer and freelance fashion write bought a 25-foot-wide Greek Revival townhouse on West Ninth Street earlier this year for $8.1 million. Her parents, who live in Hong Kong, are paying for the bulk of the mortgage and will pay around $200,000 to renovate the floor-through apartment that she will live in. A three-bedroom apartment downstairs and the one-bedroom place upstairs are being rented out.

Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 5/18/08

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping


From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Former talk show host Dick Cavett is selling 77 acres of oceanfront property in Montauk for $30 million. Cavett has owned the property for about 30 years.
--A full-floor co-op residence at 2 E. 67th St. has it the market for $34.9 million. The eight-bedroom unit in the Rosario Candela-designed building belongs to Greek shipping billionaire Michael Lemos. The listing is here.
--The former Bluhdorn estate in Bedford, NY first hit the market for $42 million a couple years ago. Now the property which has been trimmed to 25 acres and includes a 10-bedroom mansion is listed at $20 million. Check out the listing here.
--Movie producer Bob Weinstein, the older brother and partner of Harvey Weinstein has paid $1.05 million for a street-level co-op on West 67th Street between Central Park West and Broadway which he bought as a personal investment.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--via the NY Post, you can be a Clinton neighbor in Chappaqua for $1.7 million. Be warned though, the home's history has put off some buyers The home was recently rented by Carlos Perez-Olivo who rented the house with his wife, Peggy. He is now accused of having murdered Peggy in order to be with his mistress. The listing is here.
----A five-bedroom house in Beverly Hills, Calif. where Dean Martin lived during the 1980s has been listed for $5.495 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Teri Garr has listed her house in Brentwood for $3.995 million. The listing for the cottage-style home is here.
--Actress Dedee Pfeiffer has sold her ranch-style house in Brentwood for $1.15 million.
--via the Miami Herald, a waterfront residence on La Gorce Island in Miami Beach that was once home to Cher and rented to Janet Jackson and Julio Iglesias is back on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.
--Jerry Seinfeld's former Los Angeles home has hit the market for $7.9 million. The listing is here.
--Sharon Stone has dropped the price again on a Beverly Hills home she's been trying to sell off and on since 2006. The home which was once listed at $12.5 million is now listed at an even $10 million. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman have listed a two-bedroom condo unit in Encino for $750,000. The listing is here.
--Frankie Muniz has relisted his Hollywood Hills home for $3.695 million. It was our estate of the day back in December.
--The price on Kathleen Turner's Amagansett, N.Y. home has been reduced to $5.9 million, down from $6.995 million. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Turns out that the home that I profiled as the most expensive in zip code 90210 belongs to producer Mike Medavoy.
----Aaron Kamin of the band The Calling has placed a three-bedroom house in Studio City on the market for $1,199,999. The listing is here.
--Terence Michael, the executive producer of Showtime's "I Can't Believe I'm Still Single" show, is selling his bungalow in Playa del Rey for $981,000. The listing is here.
--Erik Nelson, a producer of more than 75 television specials and series, is selling his Los Feliz home and relocating to Vancouver, Canada, where most of his TV production is. His home on Observatory Drive, shown above, once belonged to Cecil B. DeMille. Check out the virtual tour here.
About a year ago I profiled Belle Epoque, the Montecito mansion of Norm Waitt Jr., co-founder of Gateway personal computers, as an estate of the day. He's been trying to sell the home for a while now, dropping the price all the way to $19.7 million with no results. Now he's auctioning it off through Sheldon Good & Co. via sealed bid. All sealed bids must be submitted by 3 p.m. on June 25 and Waitt has the right to accept, reject or negotiate with any and all bidders.

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