From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--A look at the planned Nobu Hotel and Residences in the Financial District. The project, in which Robert De Niro is an investor, is a 62-story glass tower at 45 Broad Street that will include 77 "super-luxury" condos, a 128-room hotel, retail space and a Nobu restaurant on the third floor.
--Hillary Clinton's communications director Howard Wolfson and his wife, Terri McCullough, who's chief of staff for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have sold their condo at 455 Central Park West for $1.91 million. Not much of a profit, they bought the condo in 2005 for just under $1.8 million.
--Former Mets and Yankees pitcher David Cone is looking for an in-town apartment. He was recently spotted in the Miraval Living condominium sales office on the Upper East Side.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Baron Eric de Rothschild just bought his painter wife, Maria-Beatrice Caracciolo Di Forino, a Village penthouse where she can do some work whenever they're staying in New York. According to deeds, they paid $1.15 million for the one-bedroom, 1,050-square-foot co-op at 40 West 12th Street.
--Hotelier Jeff Klein has sold his house at 153 West 18th Street for $5.95 million.
--The listing for the late Brooke Astor's duplex at 778 Park Avenue is finally online, we covered it as our estate of the day on Friday.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Melissa Etheridge has sold a six-bedroom house in Hidden Hills for an undisclosed price after it had been listed for $4,995,000. The home was purchased by a two trusts (the Olivers Estate Trust and the Veronica Matsui Trust) which may indicate the home was purchased by a celebrity (the Real Estalker says Michael Bolton and Nicolette Sheridan are
--Actress and former MTV VJ Kari Wuhrer has sold a Craftsman-style house in Los Angeles' Windsor Square area for $1.7 million.
--Comedian Carlos Mencia and his wife, Amy, purchased an Encino, CA home in November from actor Eddie Cibrian for an official purchase price of $4.3 million.
--via the Observer, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and her NFL husband Tim have paid $3,25 million. for a condo on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Real Estalker Mama drops a tasty blind item that a mystery billionaire will be bidding on the Kaufmann house auction that will be part of the Christie's auction on May 13.
--Action actor Jason Statham has been spotted checking out the Devlin Drive home, shown above, recently put on the market by Christina Aguilera for $7.995 million. The virtual tour of this amazing home is here.
--Former CSI: Miami actress Khandi Alexander has cut the price again on her Hollywood Hills home. It was ginally listed at $4,495,000 but is now down to $2,995,000 which is not much more than the $2,850,000 she paid back in January of 2006. The listing says "huge $1 million price reduction" in bold block letters with an army of exclamation points.
--Angela Bassett and Courtney Vance have dropped the price on their Hancock Park home from $5.999 million to $4.6 million. The listing is here.
--Britney Spears has been spotted touring a 7,350 square foot house on Tara Drive in the Clark Gable community of Encino.
--Dishonored Lord Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel are quietly putting their Palm Beach, Florida home on the market. No listing price yet but in 2007, the Palm Beach assessor valued the estate at $27,980,115 so we are likely looking at a fairly big number here.
--Football player Pacman Jones has listed Tennessee home, it's our estate of the day later today.
--Once again, Michael Jackson has forestalled foreclosure on Neverland.
--Louwana, a grand old Palm Beach, Florida estate has been listed for sale for $30 million. The listing is here.
--Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have put their Malibu home for summer rent again for $95,000.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--More background on Roman Abramovich's purchase of Wildcat Ridge. Abramovich also bought another home in the area for $11.8 million in February.
--Baseball great Henry "Hank" Aaron has listed his West Palm Beach, Fla., home that borders a golf course for $900,000.
--A home in Corona del Mar, California has sold for about $28 million, a record for an Orange County off-water property, local brokers say.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Former NHL player Ken Belanger has put his three-bedroom Manhattan Beach townhouse on the market for $1.125 million. It is listed with Ed Kaminsky.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Designer Vera Wang and her family are moving from their Park Avenue apartment into another Park Avenue co-op, her late parents' duplex at 740 Park Ave. Her father Cheng Ching Wang bought a smaller three-bedroom after his wife's death which was listed at $5.95 million (listing here) and has recently gone to contract. Wang's apartment is not on the market yet but is expected to be listed for around $35 million.
--Billionaire Wilbur Ross and his socialite wife, Hilary Geary, are in contract to buy the penthouse that was once home to Earl Blackwell. It was last listed at $18.9 million, the listing is here. Ross is selling his apartment in the Sherry-Netherland hotel to Todd Meister, perhaps best known for his quickie marriage to Nicky Hilton.
--An update on dog-food king Leonard Stern's beach house. It has over 18,000 square feet with nine bedrooms.
-- Robert Goldstein, the president of the Venetian resort in Las Vegas, has paid $17.4 million for a restored vintage estate known as "Gardenside."

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Brian Leetch, who retired from the New York Rangers, has sold his apartment at the Bromley on West 83rd Street for $3.718 million.
--Filmmaker Jake Paltrow (Gwyneth's brother) and photographer Taryn Simon have bought a six-room, 125-year-old co-op at The Portsmouth on West Ninth Street for $2.125 million
--Eugenia Kaye, who recently battled with Donald Trump Jr., ejecting him from the condo board at Trump Place's 220 Riverside Boulevard tower, has bought a place several miles away on West 18th Street for $2.171 million.
--Texas billionaire, Sam Wyly and his wife have spent $3.05 million on an apartment in the Novaaare, which was formerly home to a Methodist church.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Ethel Kennedy has cut the price on Hickory Hill yet again. It is not listed at $12.5 million, a full 50% off the original $25 million asking price.
--Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber are in talks for each to buy adjoining apartments in the same Manhattan condominium building, One Madison Park.
--Shell Oil Co.'s president, John Hofmeister has listed his Pennsylvania farm for $4 million. The listing is here.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman has sold his condominium unit in Evanston, Illinois for $825,000.
--A condo on East Lake Shore Drive that was once owned by Oprah has sold for $4.5 million.
--TV executive producer Carter Bays, who created CBS' "How I Met Your Mother," has paid $1.285 million for a 1,768-square-foot California bungalow in Los Angeles' Spaulding Square neighborhood. The listing for the house is here.
--Renee Zellweger has paid $2.2 million for a commercial condominium unit on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
--Actor Ed O'Neill has sold his three-bedroom house in Beverly Hills for $1.9 million. The listing is here.
--Loni Anderson has sold her house in the Mulholland Estates area above Beverly Hills, Calif. for $5.7 million.
--A home that formerly belonged to Lorenzo Lamas is on the market for $4.5 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Jennifer Finnigan, who starred on the recently canceled CBS drama "Close to Home," has sold her 3,345-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $1.399 million and presumably moved in with new hubby actor Jonathan Silverman.
--Patricia Heaton and her husband, director David Hunt, have paid $1.145 million to purchase a loft-style unit in a development in West Hollywood, CA. They are using the building as an office for their production company.
--Professional skateboarder Erik Ellington has paid $1.845 million to purchase a four-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills.
--Actress Paula Cale has sold a 1,396-square-foot house in the Hollywood Hills for $1.1 million and bought a 2,210-square-foot house in the Bronson Canyon area of the Hollywood Hills for $1,327,500.

From Perez Hilton:
--Hulk Hogan has listed his Miami home at $18.9 million. More on this one as our estate of the day later.

From the Real Estalker:
--Courtney Vance and Angela Bassett have listed their five-bedroom Hancock Park home, shown above, for $5.99 million. The listing for their luxurious estate is here.
--The Real Estalker Mama unearths the listing for a house in Tarzana, California owned by Jaime Pressly of "My Name Is Earl." She has listed the home for $1.499 million.
--The Real Estalker Mama serves up some tempting pictures of Fleur de Lys, the $125 million Saperstein mansion in Beverly Hills.
--Danny Bonaduce and his long-suffering soon-to-be ex-wife Gretchen have put their Spanish style mansion on the market for $4.5 million. This one will also be part of our estate of the day later on.
--Child actor Taran Noah Smith's Sherman Oaks home was foreclosed on. TMZ has video of the complete and utter mess that the house is in thanks to a messy divorce between the actor and his much older wife.
--Did you wonder about that fabulous house that Victoria Beckham was prancing around in during her TV special? Wonder no more, we'll check out the listing for her deluxe rental during out restate of the day feature later today.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--As the Real Estalker reported several weeks ago, Nicky Hilton has bought a home in the Hollywood Hills for close to $3 million.
--Wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin has put his four-bedroom Malibu home on the market for $3.895 million. You can take a look at the listing here.
--As the Real Estalker first mentioned back in April, the Bel-Air home of actress Jane Wyatt was sold to Hollywood producer and talent manager Sandy Gallin.
--Jolie Jenkins, who played Deirdre (Zach's birth mother) on "Desperate Housewives," and David Pagani, a director of TV commercials, have sold their Studio City home to Dwight D. Smith, a producer of "Project Runway" and "Last Comic Standing."

--Les Firestein and Gwyn Lurie, a Hollywood producer and screenwriter have listed their Brentwood home at $4.595 millionn. The Real Estalker Mama recounts that the couple got in a bit of a dust-up with the neighbors over their deluxe treehouse.