alexis stewart

Radio host and Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis Stewart is another celebrity slow seller. She's been trying to sell her duplex loft at 27 North Moore Street on and off since 2007 and we've seen prices as high as $12.95 million. Curbed NY reports that the home is now down below the $10 million mark. It is listed at $9.5 million.

There's a lot to love about this home. It has almost 4,000 square feet of interior space and also has an outdoor terrace. The large bright and white living room has a solarium celing. The kitchen includes two SubZero refrigerators and two dishwashers for Martha-Stewart-style entertaining. The three-bedroom home also has grey terrazzo floors, custom-designed wood shelving and integrated built-ins.

From Homes and Property UK:
--Singer Eddy Grant has listed Bayleys, his 15-bedroom Barbados plantation house for £19 million (around $35 million). The listing is here.
--Guinness heir Henry Channon has listed his nine-bedroom, Thameside home on Cheyne Walk, shown above, for £25 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--While in New York City, Jude Law is staying in a downtown penthouse at the Novare building on West Fourth Street. He is renting the three-bedroom 3,500-square-foot unit with 20-foot ceilings and a terrace for an undisclosed price. The apartment is also listed for sale at $7.8 million with Reid Price of Brown Harris Stevens. The listing is here.
--Matt Damon has been spotted in and around the Belnord rental building at West 86th Street and Broadway.
--A five-story Gramercy Park townhouse is back on the market for $12 million. It was listed at $18.5 million price three years ago. The listing is here.

From Shelter Pop:
--A look inside Speidi's (Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt) new love nest courtesy of the Real Estalker.
--Peer inside the loft of Emily Robison, of the Dixie Chicks.


From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--via Curbed, retired tech exec Lawrence Mueller and his wife Mary Kay have dropped the price of their three-bedroom condo at 15 Central Park West. It was listed at $16.5 million and is now at $15.5 million.
--via the NY Times, Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs executive, founder of Dune Capital, and son of Bob Mnuchin, is looking to unload his duplex apartment at 740 Park. The five-bedroom spread is being shopped around with a $37.5 million asking price.
--via Curbed, the West Village townhouse that was once home to writer/urban activist Jane Jacobs has sold for $3.3 million after four months on the market.
--Whoopi Goldberg has gone into contract to sell her two-bedroom New York City loft.

--The triplex penthouse at 895 Park that belonged to the late movie producer and clothing entrepreneur Charles Evans has finally found a buyer. It was purchased for $15 million by Robert Weisz, the CEO of the commercial real estate company the RPW Group, and his wife Cristina.

--via the NY Observer, Brett Icahn, the son of billionaire Carl Icahn, had paid $2.9 million for a penthouse duplex at the Piano Factory building on West 46th Street.
--via the NY Observer, Italian mogul and former Formula One boss Flavio Briatore is renting out his four-bedroom apartment at the Plaza for around $65,000 per month. The apartment was up for sale for $38 million.

--Amalgamated Bank CEO Derrick Cephas and his wife Donna paid $4.425 million for a five-bedroom apartment at 610 West End Avenue.
--Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis Stewart has put her duplex loft at 27 North Moore Street back on the market again. She tried to sell the apartment for $12.4 million in both 2007 and 2008. It is now listed for $12.95 million.
--via the NY Observer, actor Daniel Radcliffe has paid $5.65 million for a five-bedroom New York City townhouse.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--"Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius has listed a two-bedroom, post-and-beam house in the Beverly Hills, Calif. postal area for $1.95 million. The listing is here. He also paid $1.475 million to purchase a 3,499-square-foot house on a flag-shaped lot in Los Angeles' Beverly Crest area.
--Author and comedian Steve Harvey has his 19-room mansion in Plano, Texas on the market for $3.5 million. The listing is here.


From Fanhouse:
--Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn has listed his home in Avon Lake, Ohio for $775,000. The listing is here.

From Rented Spaces:
--Short on rent? Here are the details on throwing a gold party.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--LAPD Chief Bratton and his wife Rikki Klieman have reduced the price of their Los Feliz home to $1.49 million.
--Dr. Richard Ellenbogen who has starred on 'Dr. 90210' has listed his Sunset Strip home for $3.495 million. The listing is here.
--Rocky Oaks Estate, a 37-acre Malibu estate, has come on the market for $65 million. The listing is here.

From SocketSite:
--Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has purchased a San Francisco home for $2.4 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Gisele Bündchen has gone into contract on her penthouse in New York's West Village. The latest listing price of $4.5 million was less than half the original, September 2007 price tag of $10.9 million. She bought the condo in 2002 for nearly $3 million. Her townhouse is still on the market for $13.95 million.
--Eric Clapton is renting out his 45-acre Antigua estate for $50,000 a week.

From CNBC:
--America's most luxurious golf homes.

From the Real Estalker:
--Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers has put his Beverly HIlls Post Office home on the market for $6.997 million. You can watch a delightful flash tour at a website titled Villa Chili. Trust me, it's worth a sit through, this house is a peach and Kiedis has an impressive art collection.
--Randy Jackson of American Idol is selling his Tarzana home. It is listed at $3.199 million. It's our estate of the day later today.
--I must have missed this one before but apparently Merv Griffin's Carmel Valley home has been on the market for a while, it is listed at $6.2 million. You can check out the listing here.
--Mariska Hargitay and her husband have put their New York condo on the market for $6.495 million. You can see the listing here. They are also selling their Los Angeles home for $2.699 million. The listing for the hilltop charmer is here.

From the Rat and the Mouse:
--You can share a wall with Madonna. A ten bedroom home next door to Madonna's house in London is for sale for £5.75m. It has been used in a clinic and is need of major renovation. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Jon Bon Jovi put his seven-room Upper West Side condo on the market last November for $6.95 million and with no takers he has decided to rent it out. He is meanwhile looking to buy a six-bedroom penthouse duplex loft at the New Museum building on Mercer Street (it was our Estate of the Day a few weeks ago) with an asking price of $26.5 million.
--Lisa Bonder Kerkorian has pulled her Bridgehampton home which was listed for $13.9 million off the market.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Billionaire Karen Pritzker, heiress to the Hyatt hotel fortune, has picked up the two-bedroom penthouse at the Carlyle (a former Estate of the Day) for $12.5 million.
--Alexis Stewart has paid $16 million for her fourth and fifth apartments at Richard Meier's 165 Charles Street condo building. She already has a $19,119,000 three-unit spread in the building.
--Alan Quasha, board chairman of President George W. Bush's old oil firm, Harken Energy, has paid $6.175 million for a 14th-floor apartment at 580 Park Avenue. The apartment is below the duplex that Mr. Quasha bought two years ago for $8 million so he is likely building a massive triplex.
-- Eliot Ferguson, drummer for the band Gogol Bordello, has bought a $2.65 million apartment at Philip Johnson's Urban Glass House.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Holly Robinson Peete and Rodney Peete have put their house in the Summit (where Britney Spears recently bought) for $5.995 million. The pictureless listing is here.
-- Nicolas Cage, has put that Ghost Rider money to good use paying $8.5 million for another mansion in Las Vegas.
--Rapper Juicy J of Three 6 Mafia has paid exactly $2 million for a six-bedroom house in Sherman Oaks, California.
--Character actor Brian Geraghty has paid $675,000 for a cool-looking two-bedroom pod-like house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills.

From the Real Estate Journal:
--Former boy band manager Louis J. Pearlman's home in Windemere, Florida has gone on the market for $12.5 million. The beautiful home, shown above, may be subject to foreclosure. It is two separate lots with a compound that includes ten bedrooms. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--As we mentioned before, Larry King and his wife Shawn Southwick, have bought a new house in Beverly Hills for close to $12 million. Their current home is in escrow for more than its $7.2-million asking price.
--Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has purchased a Calabasas home for $9.5 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Fashion guru Elie Tahari has sold his penthouse apartment to Gregory Olsen. The four-bedroom condo at Trump International has sold for $13.05 million.
-- TV reporter Penny Crone has paid $2 million for an apartment in Midtown.
-- Susan Allen has sold her six bedroom Southampton guest house for more than $20 million.
--Leonard Stern better finish up his Southampton home now, he has sold his other home in Bridgehampton.
--It turns out that Susan Soros paid exactly $25 million for her Starck-designed home at 115 Central Park West.
--Looks Len Blavatnik won't get his co-op after all. He was denied at 998 Fifth Ave. even though he was all set to pay $27.5 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren and her husband, John Coale, paid $2.57 million for a 1,582-square-foot apartment on the site of the former Studebaker Building on Broadway at 48th Street
--The Rev. Dr. Robert Stephanopoulos, a leader of the country's Greek Orthodox community and father of George Stephanopoulos has bought a $1.08 million co-op at 399 East 72nd Street.
--The neo-Georgian townhouse at 22 West 74th Street, that was the 42-year home of the Stephen Gaynor School, has been sold for $9.1 million to a hedge-fund manager and his wife.
--Albert Hoser, the founder of the Siemens Foundation, has sold his penthouse at the Park Belvedere for $3.97 million.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--Alexis Stewart will be combining three units into a triplex apartment at a Richard Meier-designed building on West Street. The combined units which measure around 6,900 square feet cost about $19 million.
-- William A. Ackman, a hedge fund founder paid $26 million in late May for a three-bedroom duplex at the Beresford.
--Sanjiv S. Sidhu, a dot-com boom and bust and boom again story has paid $2.85 million for a two-bedroom, 1,600-square-foot apartment at the Grand Millennium, shown above.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go' s has listed her San Fernando Valley home for $2.199 million because she is moving to Austin, Texas. The home in the Longridge Estates area of Studio City has five bedrooms and a grotto pool and spa. The listing is here.
--Lauryn Hill is renting space in a loft in a 1920s for $3,000 a month.
--Bruce Davison is selling a Sherman Oaks home that he worked on for 20 years. The asking price is close to $2.3 million.
--The longtime Beverly Hills home of Hollywood personal manager Jay Bernstein is in escrow at just under $3.5 million.