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From the Real Estalker:
--A New York City townhouse rented by Kate Hudson is now for sale for $4.95 million. The listing is here.
--Christina Ricci's home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles is for sale for $1.549 million. The well-decorated home, shown above, is already listed as "looking for back up."

From the NY Post:
--Two new townhouses, which can be converted into one monster home, are hitting the market for a combined $33 million. The townhouses are currently under construction at 22-24 Downing St. in the West Village. Together they would form one 12,127-square-foot, 50-foot-wide, six-story home. The listing is here.
--A co-op at 640 Park Avenue belonging to retired financier Peter Smith is on the market for $26 million. Smith's residence is on the third floor of the 13-story building which has only 12 units. The listing is here.
--Last month, Dick Fuld, the former boss of Lehman Brothers, sold his apartment at 640 Park Ave., which closed for $25.87 million to Glenn Fuhrman, an art collector and co-founder of MSD Capital, Michael Dell's investment fund.
--Tuesday Weld's Montauk beach house has sold for nearly its latest asking price of $7.75 million. The home had been on the market for years but we only covered it as an estate of the day last month. The buyers of Weld's house are a finance family based in Manhattan.

--Rumor has it that the Corcoran Group listing brokers selling Bernie Madoff's Montauk beach house have pledged to donate their commissions to the victims of Madoff's fraud but the broker for the buyer, who works for a rival firm has apparently made no such promise.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Former model and fashion designer Gail Elliott and her husband, Joe Coffey, have sold their condo at 40 Mercer. The buyers, club owner Bryant Yunker and his wife, paid $3.812 million.
--Seymour Zises, founder of the investment advisory firm Family Management, and his wife Cathy, have closed on the sale of their five-bedroom apartment at 1016 Fifth Avenue. It was listed for $10.95 million and sold to investor Paul Orlin for $8.9 million.
--via the Real Deal, British architect Lord Norman Foster has closed on the purchase of a second apartment at 912 Fifth Avenue. The eighth-floor pad, which Foster was first reported to be buying back in July, was bought for $6.7 million.
--via the Real Deal, Mark Brashear, who heads up Hugo Boss in the US, has paid $3.2 million for a 2,793-square-foot condo at 60 Beach Street in Tribeca.
--via Curbed, publishing entrepreneur Win McCormack has put his apartment at 170 East End Avenue on the market less than a year after he bought it for $8.75 million. The four-bedroom apartment with 1,600-square-foot terrace overlooking Gracie Mansion and the East River is currently listed for $10.5 million.
--Real estate investor Adam Gordon has dropped the price of his West 76th Street townhouse. It was listed at $25 million last November and is now listed for $23.5 million.
--Jewelry designer Lorraine Schwartz paid $4.7 million for a duplex at the Olympic Tower on Fifth Avenue.
--Steven Oesterle, a managing director at Giuliani Partners, and his wife Nancy, have sold their three-bedroom apartment at the Park Imperial on West 56th Street for $4.9 million.
--Developer Arthur Zeckendorf and his wife Connie have sold an apartment they owned at 524 East 72nd Street for $1.81 million, which is $1 million less than what it was listed for when it first went on the market for in August 2008.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Charles Schwab's small penthouse at 834 Fifth Avenue, which neighbors part of Rupert Murdoch's triplex is now available for around $14 million.
-- Media entrepreneur Clive Ng and his wife, ex-model Farrah Summerford, have put their 25-foot-wide townhouse at 20 East 10th Street on the market. The five-bedroom home is listed for $19.9 million.
--A third-floor, 14-room apartment at the Plaza which was to sell to Italian businessman Luigi Zunino for around $45 million now appears to be listed for $39 million. The huge L-shaped apartment includes former State Rooms which were used for private entertaining.
--The drama between Princess Firyal and the family of Lionel Pincus, a 78-year-old who's been legally incapacitated for three years continues. Mr. Pincus' two sons want to sell off their father's $50 million, 14-room duplex at the Pierre while the Princess says the she was promised the pad.

From Move Trends:
--A classic mid-century modern home designed by R.M. Schindler and used in the movie "Pineapple Express" is on sale in Glendale, California for $2.475 million. The listing is here.


From NOLA.com:
--Sandra Bullock has purchased a historic home in the Garden District of New Orleans, Lousiana from entrepreneur John Russell Lee Sr., whose I CAN Learn educational software was at the center of the Mose Jefferson trial. The 1876 home is near properties owned by John Goodman and Nicolas Cage and the home previously owned by writer Anne Rice. It sold in June for $2.25 million in cash to Big Easy Bebe LLC, which was incorporated a few days earlier by John Chamblee, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, who has represented Bullock in other real estate transactions.

From a reader tip (thanks, Patrick)
--A Houston estate that we covered in 2007 when it was listed at $19.9 million has had a huge price chop and is now listed at $9.5 million.

From Homes of the Rich:
--The businessman who bought the most expensive Yankees seats, has been charged with mortgage fraud. His New Jersey house just hit the market for $7.99 million.

From Big Time Listings:
--Actor Brad Sherwood has re-listed his Encino home, shown above, for 3.595 million. It was listed last year for $4 million.
--Singer Lisa Loeb has paid $1.125 million for a four-bedroom, Cape Cod-style house in Los Angeles' Valley Village area.
--A six-bedroom mansion in the Beverly Hills Post Office area once owned by Ricky Martin is back on the market for $26.9 million. The listing is here.From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Actor Daniel Craig is renting a three-bedroom apartment in the Park Imperial building on West 56th Street for $38,000. This apartment was previously rented by racecar driver Jeff Gordon who rented it for $26,000 a month before moving into a condo he bought at 15 Central Park West.
--At the Waldorf Towers on East 50th Street a six-bedroom apartment is listed for $140,000 a month, the highest price for a rental in the city. The listing for the 33rd-floor unit, which was once the home of Cole Porter, is here.
--Ballroom dancer Karina Smirnoff has been staying at the Visionaire, a 36-story eco-friendly luxury condo building at 70 Little West Street in Battery Park City, and likes it so much she wants to buy.
--Matt Damon is the latest celebrity to check out the Apthorp building and may be looking to combine several apartments. The Apthorp must sell 25 units before September 15. If that doesn't happen the building will lose the chance to convert from rentals to condos. So far 22 contracts have been signed.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--An Oyster Bay Cove estate that once belonged to aviation pioneer James T. Pyle is on the market for $1.99 million. The listing is here.
--Football player Vinny Testaverde has dropped the price on his home in Oyster Bay Cove. It was first listed at $6.995 million and is now listed at $3.995 million.


From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Don Trump Jr. and his wife Vanessa already bought an apartment on the 12th floor of The Sovereign on East 58th Street, for $1.125 million and they've now paid another $1.595 million for the apartment next door.
--via the NY Times, Douglas Lebda, the founder of LendingTree, has gone into contract to sell his penthouse at the Legacy on East 84th Street. He bought the home for $8.6 million in 2007 and is selling for close to the listing price of $7.5 million.
--via the NY Times, Peter Buffett, the son of Warren Buffett and a musician, and his wife Jennifer, are reportedly about to close on a three-bedroom condo and separate studio at One Madison Park.
--via the Real Deal, builder Greg Konner has increased the price of his Bridgehampton mansion. It was listed for $14.995 million and is now priced at $15.795 million. The listing is here.
--Mariann Florio, the widow of former Condé Nast CEO Steve Florio, has paid $1.65 million for a three-bedroom apartment at 235 East 73rd Street owned by former Bear Stearns exec Leo Tilman. Her Key Largo home remains on the market for $8.9 million.
--Richard Bressler, the former CFO of Viacom and now a managing director at the private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners, went into contract to sell his duplex at 850 Park last month and has bought a new place. Bressler paid $7.15 million for a four-bedroom condo at 170 East End Avenue.
--via the NY Post, Billy Joel is looking to sell two properties he bought for his wife Katie Lee Joel in Sagaponack. Now that they are splitting up he plans to list the properties for $35 million.
--via the Real Deal, fomer Bear Stearns chief operating officer Alvin Einbender has cut the price on his Charles Gwathmey-designed apartment in the Police Building at 240 Centre Street. It went on the market for $30 million in May 2008 and is now listed for $19.95 million.
--Developer and former investment banker Keith Jacobson has relisted his duplex at 173 Perry Street. He bought the property for $3.74 million in 2007 and put it up for sale in July 2008 for $11.5 million. He took the property, which was once owned by Vincent Gallo, off the market for a while but now it is back on the market.
--via the NY Observer, Johnson & Johnson heiress Jaime Johnson has paid $2.654 million for a two-bedroom loft at 285 Lafayette Street. The seller, Lucy Waletzky, is the daughter of Laurence Rockefeller and a great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller.
--via the NY Observer, Lyor Cohen, who runs Warner Music, has taken a loss on the UES co-op he owned with his ex-wife, Amy. In 2006, they paid $7.75 million a duplex at 8 East 96th Street. They sold to Google executive Julio Pekarovic and Maria Vasconcelos for $6 million.
--via the NY Observer, Susan Bloomberg, the ex-wife of Michael Bloomberg has put her 4,472-square-foot penthouse at One Kenmare Square in SoHo on the market for $11.5 million. The listing is here.
--Celebrity hairstylist Orlando Pita has sold his former co-op at 2 Fifth Avenue for $2.95 million to Razorfish co-founder Craig Kanarick and his wife, Rebecca Odes.


From The Real Estalker:
--Action star Jason Statham has picked up a home in Malibu for $10.95 million. His two-bedroom condo at the Broadway remains on the market.
--Bjork and Matthew Barney are reportedly buying a four-bedroom condo at 160 Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights that was listed recently for $4.25 million. They're also trying to sell their a one-bedroom co-op which went on the market in July for $1.7 million and Bjork has listed her home in Sneden's Landing for $1.8 million.


From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
The Maryland estate of Eunice Kennedy Shriver has sold for $7.81 million which was 34% less than its original offering price last fall. It was listed at $11.8 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day.
--Former Lehman Brothers Chairman and Chief Executive Richard Fuld Jr. has sold his apartment on New York's Park Avenue for $25.87 million. Fuld and his wife, Kathleen, purchased the apartment for $21 million in January 2007. It was not officially on the market but had been quietly shopped for $32 million.
--Actress Tuesday Weld , whose Montauk home we looked at as an estate of the day recently, has sold her Manhattan apartment for $1.04 million.




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Actress Tuesday Weld has been trying to sell her home in Montauk, New York for a couple of years now. The home occupies a nice plot of land on 1.2 acres perched above the ocean dunes. The property includes rolling green lawns, a guest cottage and a brick-surrounded pool. The large five-bedroom home has a cozy brick fireplace in the living room, wood floors and an open country kitchen. The home's style seems a bit dated and the bathrooms likely need renovations but it's great space in a gorgeous area. The home was once listed at $9.9 million and now sits at $7.75 million.

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