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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 09/12/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times Hot Property:
-- A home rented by Heidi Montag for $25,000 a month is now on the market for $5.5 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Observer:
--Amy Redford has sold her Greenwich Village apartment for $985,000.
--A duplex at 950 Fifth Avenue, the exclusive seven-unit co-op that is also home to Mort Zuckerman has sold for $25 million.
--Businessman Paul Cejas, who recently sold his home at 834 Fifth Avenue to Swiss tycoon Maurice Amon, is joining the ranks at the Carlyle, purchasing an 11th-floor co-op for $5.6 million.
--Psychologist/author Anne-Renee Testa has sold her apartment at 860 Fifth Avenue to investment banker Marc Rothfeldt for $3.35 million.
--A townhouse at 15 East 77th Street once owned by fashion legend Diana Vreeland's parents has sold for $8 million.
--Investment banker Jay Drezner, brother of the conservative pundit Daniel Drezner, has purchased a $1.9 million apartment on the Upper West Side.
Fashion designer Pamella DeVos, the designer behind the Pamella Roland brand, and her husband, Daniel DeVos, the son of Amway billionaire Rich DeVos, have purchased a $3 million apartment at the Chatham at East 65th Street, next door to the 1,700-square-foot apartment they already own in the building.
--The trustees for the late All in the Family star Carroll O'Connor have sold his $2.75 million home at 75 Central Park West.
--Michael van Biema, author of books on value investing, has purchased an apartment at 440 Riverside Drive for $1.55 million.
The grandson of Nan Kempner, bought a $1.52 million apartment at 30 Fifth Avenue with his newlywed bride, Baily.

From the NY Post:
--NY Yankee Alex Rodriguez has been spotted apartment hunting with Cameron Diaz. They toured a 5,600- square-foot duplex on the 21st floor of the Aldyn. The six-bedroom apartment comes with a private swimming pool and hot tub on the terrace. If you want to get your peek at the building, eight apartments on the 14th floor will open as a benefit showhouse. The public will be invited starting on September 21 and it will run until December 10.
--Kelsey Grammer and his new, pregnant girlfriend, Kayte Walsh, 29 are looking for an apartment. They were seen looking at a $5.995 million SoHo co-op at 84 Mercer St.
--Mexican soccer star Rafael Marquez and his model girlfriend, Jaydy Michel, were the first to tour the Chelsea Skyhouse at 213 W. 23rd St. The five-bedroom triplex is selling for $10 million.

From the NY Times:
--Rita Magli, the creative director at Bruno Magli in the 1990s, has bought a place at the Cammeyer, a prewar building at 650 Avenue of the Americas that was converted to condos in 2007. She paid $2.325 million for a two-bedroom two-bath apartment that was the model apartment for the building.
-- James Shaffer, also known as Munky, the guitarist for the band Korn, has listed his loft on West 37th Street with Thomas Demsker of Demsker Realty for $1.295 million. The listing is here.

Gallery: Munky on West 57th Street