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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 10/12/08

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping


From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Actor Christopher Lloyd has put his smaller house in Montecito, shown above, for sale for $3.6 million. The elegant home has two bedrooms, bamboo floors and a raised bamboo pergola overlooking the pool and spa. His other home in the area which was listed in 2007 for $11.27 million and was an estate of the day, has been taken off the market.
--Mark Wahlberg has listed his house in Beverly Hills at $15.9 million. The listing is here.
--Basketball player Elton Brand has sold his Hollywood Hills home for $4.55 million.
--Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon has listed his home in Brentwood. it's our estate of the day later today.
Another "Buffy" and "Angel" veteran, writer David Greenwalt, recently sold his house in the Pacific Palisades for $2.958 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--The asking price for the triplex penthouse at artist Julian Schnabel's, pink Palazzo Chupi building in the West Village has been cut by $5.5 million to $24 million. It was our estate of the day earlier in the year.
--Quarterback Tom Brady has cut the price on his Time Warner Center apartment from $18.29 million to $17.75 million. We'll be checking this one tomorrow.
--Cosmetics mogul Adrien Arpel and her husband, Ronald Newman, have paid $5.9 million for a seven-room co-op at 900 Fifth Ave.
--One of the Hamptons' premier properties, Fordune, will be listed for rent next year. This may be the first time since Henry Ford II owned the 42-acre oceanfront Southampton property. it will rent for $600,000 to use it from August through Labor Day next year and has 12 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, a game room, a library, a large formal dining room, staff rooms and a commercial kitchen.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Cher has paid $1,400,000 to purchase a two-bedroom, 1,455-square-foot house in West Hollywood,California. It may be a house for her daughter, Chastity.
--Regis Philbin has put his Greenwich, Connecticut home on the market for $5.4 million. It was our estate of the day on Friday.
--Brad Garrett finally has sold his 10,223-square-foot mansion in Hidden Hills, California. The most recent listing price was $8.35 million.
--Little more than a year after he sold it for $2.9 million, the former house of fashion critic Steven Cojocaru in the Hollywood Hills is back on the market, for $3.695 million. The property website is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--The home used to film ABC's "Bachelor" shows is for sale and the price has been dropped to $8.75 million, down from just under $13 million. You can see listing pics from when the home was listed at $11.5 million here.
--Last month, philanthropist Carroll Petrie sold a Palm Beach, Fla., house for $3 million, $500,000 less than she paid less than a year earlier, to investor John D. Firestone, of the tire-manufacturing family. In May, she paid $7.45 million for a 6,700-square-foot, five-bedroom home about a mile farther south.

From Newsday's Real LI:
-- A 4.08-acre property on Meadow Lane in Southampton will be listed soon for $38 million. According to public records, the oceanfront mansion was owned by Virginia Salomon, who died last month. She was married to Citigroup's honorary chairman William R. Salomon (and former managing partner at Salomon Brothers, Inc.) for more than 70 years. The 6,000 square foot house, built in 1992, has six bedrooms and eight baths, with a gunite pool and is located just west of designer Calvin Klein's home.
--Hairspray actress Nikki Blonsky may or may not be leaving Great Neck. Her family's home was recently seen on the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island for $649,000.
--Hilary Duff's longtime boyfriend, New York Islanders center Mike Comrie has purchased a condo in Garden City.


From the Real Estalker:
--Former Green Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre has listed his Wisconsin home for $475,000. It was our estate of the day on Saturday.
--Technology guru Halsey Minor is not only trying to sell his home in Bel Air, he is said to be spending $15 million to renovate Le Petit Trianon in San Francisco, which he bought in 2007. The home was on the market for a while (I first got wind of it in 2005) and is said to be in some disrepair.
--The listing for the $24 million Goldwyn mansion has been temporary pulled from the market so that it can be renovated.
--Baseball player Tom Glavine and his wife Christine have put their home in Alpharetta, Georgia on the market for $3.75 million. We'll be looking at this one as an estate of the day on Monday.
--Cameron Diaz is said to be house shopping in Beverly Hills.
--More Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner real estate rumors, this time it is said that they have put their home in Brentwood on the market for around $8 million.
--Tae-Bo king Billy Blanks is getting a divorce and has put his Hidden Hills home on the market for $11.5 million. The listing is here.

From The Sun:
--Robbie Williams has picked up a seven-bedroom mansion in the Beverly Park community in Los Angeles for over $20 million.

From ONTD:
--Lauren Conrad of The Hills has been spotted house shopping in her home town of Laguna Beach.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
-- Kurt A. Locher, formerly a Lehman Brothers managing director recently bought a $5.25 million apartment at 500 West End Avenue. His old place on Park Avenue is still on the market for $2.495 million. We discussed this one earlier this week.
--According to numbers prepared for The Observer by research site StreetEasy, the days of easy luxury apartment sales are over. As of Monday, Manhattan had 168 super-luxury listings asking at least $15 million each which is nearly twice the number from autumn 2006.
--Former investment banker Jack Grubman has put his New York City townhouse on the market for $32 million. It was our estate of the day on Thursday.
--Sarah Allentuch, a former assistant to Woody Allen, and her husband, Greg Mottola, who directed Superbad recently bought a $2.6 million apartment at the new One York condo.
----An East River mansion, 7 Sutton Square, has sold for $32.5 million, well above its $25 million asking price. The seller is William F. Reilly, a retired magazine mogul and the buyer is listed anonymously, though a billing address is given care of Wildenstein & Co., which suggests that the house now belongs to the art collector Guy Wildenstein.

From the Daily Mail:
--James Bond star Daniel Craig has picked up a £4million apartment near Regent's Park in London.

Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Madonna's former house in Beverly Hills is listed for $17.495 million. The eight-bedroom mansion, shown here, is a Wallace Neff showplace that Madonna bought in 2000 for a reported $6.5 million from Diane Keaton, who had bought in 1996. Madonna listed the house in 2003 for $10.9 million and then reduced it to $8.9 million. The current owners recently refurbished the home. The listing is here.
--Spice Girl Melanie Brown has paid $3 million for a home in the Hollywood Hills, and has sold her Los Feliz home for an undisclosed price (the home she sold was listed at $1,499,000.
--Joely Fisher has reduced the price on her Encino home, down to $3.999 million. It was our estate of the day back June when it was listed at $4.75 million.
--Charlie Sheen's fiancee Brooke Mueller has sold her four-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills for $2.317 million.
--The official purchase price on Anne Heche's house sale to Matt Olmstead was $3.66 million.
--A Mediterranean-style mansion in Los Feliz area that was owned by actor Lorenzo Lamas from 1996 until 1999 has sold for $4,150,000.
--A three-bedroom house in Beverly Hills that once was owned by the Monkees' Mike Nesmith has been reduced from $5,450,000 to $4,995,000. The property website is here.
--Jack Black has sold a 1,959-square-foot home in the Hollywood Hills for $1,210,000
--Former baseball star Hideo Nomo has sold his condo on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $1,200,000.
--A Bel-Air home once owned by Farrah Fawcett is listed for $4,195,000. The listing is here.
--The price for Ursa Major, the architectural beauty once owned by Wilt Chamberlain has been reduced from $11.5 million to $8,950,000. It was our estate of the day last December.
--Model Rachel Hunter and her hockey-player boyfriend Jarret Stoll have paid $3,645,000 for a house in Hermosa Beach.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Shabby Chic home of interior decorator Rachel Ashwell is for rent for in Malibu for $20,000 a month. The listing is here.
--It looks like designer Vera Wang's $35 million Park Avenue apartment has already gone to contract.
--Nic Cage has listed his Bel-Air manor for $35 million.
--Alex Band, of the band The Calling, has put his home in the Outpost Estates are of Los Angeles on the market for $2.995 million. The property website for the very charming for bedroom is here.
-Brad Garrett has dropped the price on his Hidden Hills home to $8,790,000.
--Damien Wayans, actor, director and nephew of Damon Wayans, has put his Los Angeles home on the market for $2.050 million. The listing is here.
--Linda Evans has listed her Beverly Hills home for rent for $14,500. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--As we previously learned, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne sold their Beverly Hills home to Christina Aguilera and hubby and have moved to Hidden Hills.
--Actress Denise Richards is also in Hidden Hills in a new home which had been listed for about $4.6 million.
--More Hidden Hills news, Melissa Etheridge already lived in the community but recently bought a larger house for $5.1 million.
--And one more Hidden Hills story, Graeme Revell, the award-winning film-music composer, just sold his home there for about $8 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters has bought a five-story townhouse in New York for $14.995 million from Coach leather goods president Reed Krakoff.
--News anchor Campbell Brown and her political strategist husband Dan Senor are close to closing on a three-bedroom home in lower North Haven.
--Grey's Anatomy actress Chandra Wilson is buying a three-bedroom residence in Fifth on the Park, the 30-story condo complex going up in Harlem.
--Ex NFL player Tiki Barber is spending about $6 million to connect four adjacent condos at the Miraval complex at 515 East 72nd St.

Also from the NY Post:
--Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have listed their Nashville home for $2.5 million. It is our estate of the day later today.



From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--New York Rangers hockey player Scott Gomez has paid $3.2 million for a duplex penthouse at the Chelsea Mercantile on Seventh Avenue.
--Architect Thom Mayne has paid $2.675 million for a two-bedroom loft at 85 Mercer Street.
--Nobel-prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk has paid $1.8 million for an apartment at 355 Riverside Drive.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Atlanta Hawks rookies Al Horford and Acie Law have both bought homes listed at about $1 million in gated communities on opposite sides of Atlanta. Horford bought a four-story Georgian-style townhouse in norther Atlanta. Law picked up a European-style single-family house in the southern part of the city.
--Actress Arlene Dahl's husband has listed their Sparkill, New York home for $8.5 million. The home was our estate of the day back in January.
--Professional golfer Justin Leonard has a tentative deal to sell his Dallas suburban home for close to his $6.8 million asking price.

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