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From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Trader John Devaney has raised the price on the Sardy House, shown above, in Aspen, Colorado. We've seen this home jump around a lot in the past few years. It was at $16.5 million back in 2005. Devaney bought it in 2006 for $16.25 million and then put it on the market in 2007 (along with his yacht) for $21.5 million. He's now bounced it up to $23.5 million. The listing is here.
--Stanley Chais, who funneled funds to Bernard Madoff, has listed his Los Angeles condominium in the Sierra Towers for $4.7 million. The two-bedroom unit can also be leased for $28,000 per month.
--In Washington, D.C, the onetime home of a World War II spy, Betty Thorpe Pack, is on the market for $1.95 million. The listing is here.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--The owners of the restaurant Bar Pitti, Giovanni and Michele Tognozzi, have purchased a home in Peconic, NY for $1.6 million.
--The former head of the Olsten Corporation, temp agency, has put his summer home on the market for $14.5 million. The listing is here.
--Richard Gere and Carey Lowell have put their home in Water Mill, New York on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.
--You can rent an oceanfront home in Sagaponack belonging to the ex-wife of New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine for $900,000 from Memorial Day to Labor Day. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Ashton Kutcher has listed his Beverly Hills home for $3.7 million. This is the home where he lived before marrying actress Demi Moore in 2005. The home is already in escrow.
--David Litt, the writer ad creator of "The King of Queens" has listed his Hollywood Hills home for sale for $2.025 million. The listing is here.
--"Blame It on Rio" actress Michelle Johnson has listed her Hollywood Hills home at $5.85 million. Last year at this time she put the three-bedroom home in West Hollywood on the market for $6.35 million. The listing is here.
--Bruce Somers Jr., the son of Suzanne Somers and producer of several of her exercise videos, has listed his Brentwood home for $3.295 million. The French Normandy style four-bedroom home is stuffed with flouncy furnishings and has hand-carved fireplace mantels. The listing is here.
--Courtney Love is renting a five-bedroom Hollywood Hills home for $20,000 a month.
--You can rent the condo used in Entourage.
--Movie and commercial producer Lee Nelson has listed a home in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles for $9.95 million.
--Music video director Mark Romanek has listed his four-bedroom Hollywood Hills home for $3.995 million.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--A Malibu home once rented by Britney Spears is on the market for $5.5 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Milla Jovovich has placed her four-bedroom home in the Beverly Hills, Calif. postal area on the market for $3.299 million.
--Soap opera actress Michelle Stafford has listed a three-bedroom house that she owns in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles for $1.599 million. The listing is here.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Brooke Astor's NYC apartment has been relisted at $29 million with some new pictures. It was listed at $46 million when it was our estate of the day last year.
--Fashion designer Richard Chai paid $2 million for a 2,300-square-foot New York City apartment.
--Actor Kevin Corrigan and his wife Elizabeth Berridge have sold their fourth-floor apartment at 321 Greenwich Street for $2.39 million.
--Blythe Masters, JP Morgan Chase's head of global commodities, has lowered the price of her townhouse at 150 Reade Street from $14 million to $11.9 million. The listing is here.
--New York Times public editor Byron Calame and his wife Kathryn have sold their three-bedroom co-op for $2.4 million to Bill Bermont, a vice president at Citigroup, and his wife Lynne.
--Joseph Kohls, a Bank of America managing director, and his wife Christin paid $5.2 million for an apartment at the Tribeca Summit.

From the Real Estalker:
--Lauren Conrad's four-bedroom home in Los Angeles is available for rent for $11,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Interior designer Thomas Britt has put his eight-bedroom home in Water Mill on the market for $13.2 million.
--Cassandra Peterson, the actress best known as Elvira has put her Los Angeles home on the market for $1.499 million. She bought this home for $1.698 million in 2007. The listing is here.

From Curbed LA:
--40 Beverly Park, a custom chateau in Beverly Hills has had a big price chop. It hit the market at $45 million, was at $39.9 million when it was our estate of the day, and is now at $31.5 million.
--Richard Neutra's Singleton residence is back on the market, listed at $14.95 million. It was at listed at $25 million (although also rumored to be $19 million) when it was our estate of the day in 2007.

From SF Gate's On the Block:
--A $650,000 home in Lake Tahoe is being raffled off by the Boys and Girls Club. The raffle is here.
--San Francisco's $70 million penthouse has been reduced by $21 million to $49 million. It was our estate of the day back in November.

From Homes and Properties:
--Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are leasing a three-bedroom home in London for £4,000 a week. The home is for sale for £2,795,000 and the listing is here.
--Elle Macpherson has cut the price of her six-bedroom Notting Hill, London home from £9.5 million to £8.95 million. The listing for the classic Victorian is here.

From Move Trends Real Estate Blog:
--Chad Michael Murray has put his WIlmington, North Carolina home on the market for $785,000. The listing is here.

--Ryan Cabrera has knocked $100,000 off the price of his Los Angeles home. It is now listed at $1.599 million but was at $1.699 million when it was our estate of the day last August.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--via In Touch Weekly, 'Dancing with the Stars' co-host Samantha Harris and her husband, Michael Hess have paid $1,600,000 to buy a in Los Angeles west of the Century City area.
--Slash has finally sold his five-bedroom "lawsuit house" in the Hollywood Hills, possibly to San Diego Padres relief pitcher Randy Wolf.
--An update of the real estate moves of Hilary Swank, she paid $5.8 million earlier this year for a place in Pacific Palisades and told W Magazine that she left New York because of the high real estate prices (Swank and ex-hubby Chad Lowe sold their Manhattan townhouse for $7,050,000 million in January) but likely her romance with her former agent John Campisi, who is L.A.-based also had something to do with it. Nevertheless, New York magazine has spotted Swank browsing for a loft and reported that she was looking at a a two-bedroom unit in the Superior Ink development in Manhattan.
--'One Tree Hill' actors Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush have sold their house in Wilmington, N.C. for $730,000.
--Justin Long, who is perhaps most famous for the "I'm a Mac" ads, has paid about $1,400,000 for amid-century modern home in the Hollywood Hills.
--Nicole Richie has sold her condominium unit in the Empire West building in West Hollywood for $2,250,000.

From the Real Estalker:
--via Newsday, Patricia Kennedy Lawford's estate has sold her Southampton home for $9.8 million.
--via Luxury Real Estate, Eddie Murphy's ex-wife Nicole Murphy has sold their Sacramento area home for the highest price the Sacramento area has ever seen, $6.1 million.Most of the furnishings, including at least 20 TVs and a sleek, black, $200,000 Schimmel Pegasus grand piano were included in the deal.
--The Real Estalker Mama has nabbed some interior shots of the Golden Beach, Florida house that Ricky Martin has put on the market for $22.5 million.
--The Mama takes a look at Peter Guber's Kauai Tara Plantation. This home has sat on the market for $46.5 million for nearly 3 years, we covered it way back in February 2005.
--Amanda Peet and her screenwriter husband David Benioff have sold their Angelo View Drive house high above Holmby Hills and have purchased the former James Cagney estate above Sunset Boulevard on N. Wetherly Drive.
--50 Cent has reduced the price of his Connecticut home to $12 million from $18.5 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Nicolas Cage has pulled his Bel-Air mansion, which was listed at $35 million, off the market.
-- St. Louis Rams owner Georgia Frontiere sold her Bel-Air home for close to $30 million.
--Madonna's former home in Beverly Hills, which was redone by Diane Keaton, just closed at almost $17 million.
--Comedy writer Bill Richmond has purchased a town house overlooking the lake in Calabasas Park for close to its asking price of $1.3 million.
--Gregory Joujon-Roche, a celebrity personal trainer, has listed his Malibu condo for $2.695 million. The listing is here, the home is freshly redecorated and gorgeous.
--Peter Shin, supervising director of the TV show "Family Guy," has bought a contemporary-style house for $1.3-plus million in the Hollywood Hills.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Fashion designer Kenzo has put his Paris home on the market for 12 million euros. it is our estate of the day later today.


From the NY Times Big Deal:
--The buyer of Ricky Martin's former apartment in the Time Warner Center have signed a contract to flip it for around $17.9 million. Martin bought it in 2004 for $6.8 million and sold it in September 2006 for $9.75 million.
--Fewer than a third of the 201 coveted apartments in Robert A. M. Stern's complex 15 Central Park West near the foot of Central Park, at West 61st Street, have now closed. But of those, five apartments were put back on the market almost instantly and more listings are likely.