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From the LA Times Hot Property:
--A walled and gated Encino estate that has been home to actors Al Jolson, Kirstie Alley, Katey Sagal and Charlie Sheen at various times has come back on the market at $6.95 million. It was listed at $8.995 million earlier this year. The listing is here.
--Designer Waldo Fernandez has sold a house he remodeled in Beverly Hills for $8.3 million.
Celebrity photographer Mark Liddell has listed a gorgeous compound in the Hollywood Hills area at $3.25 million. The woodsy retreat includes a main house, guest house, saltwater pool and a meditation garden. The listing is here.
A gated Corona del Mar home with eight fireplaces and a 60-foot waterfall has come on the market for $19 million. The listing is here.
Retired pro basketball player Kiki Vandeweghe has bought an estate in Encino for $2.25 million.


From the NY Observer:
-- Architect Jill Brunstad, who's designed retail spaces for Dolce & Gabbana and Eileen Fisher, has sold her penthouse at 145 East 84th Street for $2.1 million.
--Senior MTV exec Joey Molko has sold his Upper East Side apartment for $1.385 million to Jean Vitau, a French jewelry designer.
--Edwin Muelensteen, a Dutch art dealer who recently purchased one of the city's most exclusive art galleries, has also grabbed a home at 122 Chambers Street, in the Seaman Company Building, for $1.8 million.
--Another apartment at Chelsea Enclave, on the grounds of the theological seminary, has sold for a $5.3 million,a nearly 12 percent cut.
--Aby Rosen's 11,700-square-foot, single-family townhouse at 3 East 94th Street is off the market because it has been rented. Estimates have it renting for between $50,000 to $100,000 a month. It was listed at $29.5 million when it was our estate of the day.

--Jane Holzer has sold a five-story townhouse at 109 East 69th Street for $13.15 million. The former Warhol muse purchased the brownstone in March of 2008 for $10.5 million and later listed it for $17 million. The home is currently listed for rent for $48,000 per month.
--Senior MTV exec Joey Molko has sold his Upper East Side apartment for $1.385 million to Jean Vitau, a French jewelry designer.
--Edwin Muelensteen, a Dutch art dealer who recently purchased one of the city's most exclusive art galleries, has also grabbed a home at 122 Chambers Street, in the Seaman Company Building, for $1.8 million.
--Hip-hop clothing mogul Joseph Betesh, the man behind Dr. Jay clothing, has sold his home at 15 Central Park West for $11.39 million. He bought the 28th-floor condo in 2008 for $5.6 million.
The home of the late William F. Buckley Jr. has had another price cut. It was listed at $24.9 million when we first checked it out in 2008. It is now listed with Brown Harris Stevens for $10 million.

--Judge Judy (Judith Sheindlin) and her husband Jerry, have sold their penthouse at 60 Sutton Place for $2.25 million.
--Actress Francie Swift has bought an apartment at 2 East End Avenue for $1.6 million.
--Mexico's former finance secretary, Pedro Aspe, has snatched up a spot in Lenox Hill for $1.475 million.
--L'Oreal CEO Laurent Attal has purchased a Carnegie Hill home for $1.3 million.
--1024 Lexington Avenue the building, which was once the offices of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex counselor to the nation, has sold for $24.5 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--A waterfront home in Corona del Mar, California owned by a trust linked to actress Diane Keaton and her sister, and an adjacent lot for which Ms. Keaton's sister is a trustee under a different trust have sold for a total of $6.5 million, that price is 28 percent less than the original $9.5 million asking price.
--Fashion designer Leon Max of Max Studio is the new owner of Castillo del Lago, the Los Angeles home once owned by Madonna. He bought the home for $7 million. It was listed at $15 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day in April 2009.

--A property in Miami Beach, Florida, has listed for $29 million. The seller is Mark Gainor, a health-care entrepreneur who purchased the home for $13.9 million in 2005 from the singer/actress Jennifer Lopez.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--David W. Higgins, the president of production at Sobini Films, has listed a midcentury home in Sherman Oaks at $949,000. The listing for the colorful home is here.
--Internet pioneer David Bohnett has sold his Holmby Hills compound to art dealer Larry Gagosian for $15.5 million.

From the NY Observer:
--Real estate mogul Aby Rosen's townhouse at 22 East 71st Street may have finally sold or at least been pulled off the market. It was listed at $75 million in 2008 but later had a price cut to $59 million.

--Official records show that Damon Dash's foreclosed Tribeca condo at 25 North Moore Street went to Platinum Capital for $5.6 million.
--Society staple Countess Sharon Sondes sold her Trump International Hotel & Tower pied-a-terre for $1.45 million.
--Allen Ginsberg's apartment at 437 East 12th Street is now up for rent for $1,700 a month.
--Interior designer Jamie Drake purchased an apartment at 200 11th Avenue (the star-filled building where Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban recently bought) for $4.662 million and is already planning renovations.
--CB Richard Ellis vice chairman Darcy Stacom and her husband, Chris Kraus, a managing director at Jones Lang LaSalle bought a four-bedroom apartment at 447 East 57th Street for $4.775 million.
--Actor Liam Neeson recently sold his two-bedroom co-op at 91 Central Park West for $1.352 million. He and his late wife, actress Natasha Richardson, bought the apartment for $1.4 million in 1994.
--Ponzi schemer James Nicholson's three-bedroom at the Time Warner Center has finally been sold by the U.S. Marshal's office for $6.75 million. Nicholson bought the home for $8.5 million two years ago.
--New York Philharmonic flutist, composer and pianist Gary Schocker and Richard Norton purchased a brownstone at 215 West 137th Street in Central Harlem. They purchased the home from Vincent and Kim Van Doorn for the listing price of $2 million even.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
-- Winecup-Gamble Ranch in Nevada, one of the largest in the West, with access to nearly one million acres of land has hit the market for $50 million. The ranch is owned by a corporation headed by Paul Fireman, the former chairman and chief executive of Reebok and the chairman of Fireman Capital Partners. The listing is here.
--A Beverly Hills home owned by Max Palevsky, the late philanthropist, art collector and a founder of Intel is listed for $9.5 million. The property website is here. His Malibu home remains listed at $55 million.
--Bert Saberhagen's Calabasas, California home is back on the market. The former Major League Baseball pitcher listed his home for $3.25 million last year but it is now for sale for $2.699 million.


From the Real Estalker:
--Filmmaker Brett Morgen and actor/director/writer Debra Eisenstadt have listed their home in the Rockaways, Queens, New York for $4.495 million. The listing is here.
--Rumor has it that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are cozied up in a contemporary love nest in Bel Air.
--Courtney Love has leased actress/model Milla Jovovich's West Village townhouse.

--Andrew Dice Clay has sold his Hollywood home for the asking price of $1.399 million.

From Housing Watch:
--Christina Aguilera has dropped the price again on her Hollywood Hills home. It is now listed at $5.995 million, a full $2 million off the original asking price when she put it on the market in 2008. She bought the home in 2003 for $5 million.

Decorating model apartments is a challenge, the designer has to create a space inviting enough for potential residents to want to kick off their shoes and move right in but the space also has to have a broad enough appeal to suit many different tastes. Interior designer William T. Georgis designed the lobby at 350 West Broadway, a building of full-floor residences in New York's SoHo and he is behind the new model apartment at the building.

The newly built structure is home to six full floor residences and a duplex penthouse with a private roof. "In order to fully appreciate the elaborate design and custom quality of this building, we waited to unveil our model residence until construction was completed," said Developer Aby Rosen, principal of RFR Holding LLC and a man who knows a thing or two about luxury real estate in New York City.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--The Hollywood Hills home built for actress Beverly Garland and constructed by Garland's husband, Fillmore Crank is on the market for $1.765 million. The listing with Michael Tunick is here.

--Actress Missi Pyle and her husband, grizzly bear expert Casey Anderson, have listed their Beachwood Canyon home for sale at $669,000.
--Kim Kardashian has bought a furnished estate in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for about $3.5 million.
--Actor Malcolm McDowell and his wife, Kelley, have listed their 1922 home in Ojai at $3.55 million. The listing for the three-bedroom home is here.

From the NY Post:
--One of the three East 80th Street townhouses Frank Winfield Woolworth created for his daughters is up for sale. The home at 2 E. 80th St. built in 1915 for his eldest daughter, Edna Woolworth Hutton is now up for sale at $19.99 million.
--Blake Lively has been spotted apartment hunting in TriBeCa. She was seen looking at apartments at 55 Vestry St., also known as the Fairchild building, a development we profiled recently.
--Real estate developer Aby Rosen has re-listed a six-story limestone townhouse at 3 E. 94th St. for $24.75 million. It was listed at $23.75 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day last year but has been listed as high as $29.5 million. Rosen bought it for $8.8 million in 2005 and gave it a gorgeous renovation.

The Loews Regency Hotel is catering to long-term residents. A one-bedroom suite costs around $12,450 per month, a two-bedroom unit goes for around $18,000 per month.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--James Preston, who ran Avon Products from 1988 to 1998, has sold his 398-acre property in Kent, Connecticut for $8.5 million, it had previously been offered for around $14 million.
--The late Walter Cronkite's apartment in New York City has sold for $2.5 million, which is about 17 percent less than the original asking price of just under $3 million in December. The buyer is a Citibank executive.
--Bell Ranch, a 250,000-acre ranch in New Mexico first listed in 2007 for $115 million is now for sale for $83 million. It was listed at $103 million with an additional 40,000 acres thrown in when we last covered it in April 2009. The Bell Ranch features Bell Mountain and a a 10,832-square feet hacienda with swimming pool and tennis courts The property includes a general manager residence and lake house, ranch offices, stables, barns, garage and storage facilities. Cowboy camps are located throughout the property. The Bell Ranch airfield (8,200' x 75' lighted dirt airstrip) has a large hangar. The new listing is here.



From MediaBistro:
--George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth have gone to contract on their Washington mansion.


From the Real Estalker:
--via the Palm Beach Daily News, Bruce Springsteen bought two homes next to each other in Wellington, Florida. He has sold one of them which was listed at $3.95 million but sold for $2.95 million.
--David Chu, the fashion designer who created the Nautica brand, and his wife Gina have listed their Park Avenue triplex for $32.8 million. The listing is here.

Last fall we checked out Aby Rosen's $75 million townhouse in New York City but this isn't the only prime piece of real estate belonging to the art collector and investor. The Wall Street Journal's Private Properties reports that he has dropped the price on another of his properties. He bought a 25-foot-wide townhouse on East 94th Street for $8.8 million and set to renovating it. The home is over 11,700 square feet on six floors that include five bedrooms, a wine cellar, elevator and a 50-foot indoor pool. There are five woodburning fireplaces and the home makes great use of skylights to add light to the home. Rosen first listed the home for $29.5 million but it is now listed at $23.75 million. Check out more images at the property website.

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From Move Trends:
--You can rent the home once rented by Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for $100,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Katherine Heigl is trying her hand at selling her house, shown above, again. The home was listed last summer for $1.75 million and is now listed at $1.595 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--"ER" actress Maura Tierney has listed her Los Angeles home for $2.195 million. The listing is here.
--The Toluca Lake home of actor Alan Thicke is for lease at $15,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Screenwriter turned art gallery owner Laurie Frank has put her Hollywood Hills home on the market for $1.495 million. The listing is here.
--Former football player Brian Bosworth has listed has listed his seven-bedroom Malibu home for $8.995 million. The listing is here.
--Emmy award-winning writer and television show creator Gary David Goldberg has listed his eight-bedroom Brentwood home for $19.95 million. The listing is here.
--London rapper and mixed martial arts fighter Mams Taylor has listed his Beverly Hills home for $9.95 million. The listing is here.
--Kirsten Kemp Becker, host of TLC's series "Hope for Your Home" and "Property Ladder" has listed her Montecito estate at $5.195 million. She has renovated the eight bedroom home which sits on 1.71 acres. The listing is here.
--Actress Natasha Henstridge has put her five-bedroom home in Sherman Oaks, California on the market for $1.75 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Former Japanese soccer star Hidetoshi Nakata has cut the price of the apartment building he owns in New York City. The price for 43 Crosby is now $15 million. Last year, he was asking $22 million for the freshly renovated building which includes three floor through apartments, a duplex penthouse plus a ground floor/basement retail. The listing is here.
--Iceland has put four of its ambassadorial residences up for sale. We'll check out the Washington DC ambassadorial residence Monday as an estate of the day.


From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Danny Errico, the co-founder of Equinox gyms, has sold his home in Amagansett, New York for $11.895 million. His asking price was $14.995 million.
--Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of England's Manchester United soccer team, may be trying to back out of purchasing a penthouse at the Manhattan House development on East 66th Street.
--Richard and Cherylyn Cieri closed on their Manhattan House penthouse purchase for close to $8 million.
--Financier Stephen Benson has reduced the asking price on his Park Avenue apartment again. He originally wanted $13 million for the two-bedroom residence at 885 Park Ave. but is now asking $8.25 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Financier J. Christopher Flowers has put the Harkness mansion, which he bought in 2006, on the market for $49.95 million. He reportedly also spent millions on renovations.
--Aby Rosen's $75 million listing at 22 East 71st Street will be the site of the 37th annual Decorator Show House to be held this April and May. Rosen reports that he has received two offers above $60 million for it. Rosen paid $15.65 million for the house in August 2004 but isn't interested in cutting the price. We covered this home as an estate of the day last November.

From the Real Estalker:
--Moby and Stacey Bendet are leasing their Hollywood Hills home for $15,000 a month.
--Adam Levine of the band Maroon 5 has put his Los Angeles home up for rent for $10,000 a month. The listing is here.
The Castillo del Lago mansion in the Hollywood Hills is rumored to be soon to hit the market. The home was once owned by Madonna.
Last year, Los Angeles real estate agent Kurt Rappaport paid $15.99 million for a home in Beverly Hills. He has now renovated it and flipped it back on to the market for $28.5 million. The listing is here.
--Tennis star Lindsay Davenport has put two of her Southern California homes up for sale. We'll check out her Ventura beach house as today's estate of the day.