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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up: 08/29/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--David W. Higgins, the president of production at Sobini Films, has listed a midcentury home in Sherman Oaks at $949,000. The listing for the colorful home is here.
--Internet pioneer David Bohnett has sold his Holmby Hills compound to art dealer Larry Gagosian for $15.5 million.

From the NY Observer:
--Real estate mogul Aby Rosen's townhouse at 22 East 71st Street may have finally sold or at least been pulled off the market. It was listed at $75 million in 2008 but later had a price cut to $59 million.

Gallery: Forstmann Mansion

--Official records show that Damon Dash's foreclosed Tribeca condo at 25 North Moore Street went to Platinum Capital for $5.6 million.
--Society staple Countess Sharon Sondes sold her Trump International Hotel & Tower pied-a-terre for $1.45 million.
--Allen Ginsberg's apartment at 437 East 12th Street is now up for rent for $1,700 a month.
--Interior designer Jamie Drake purchased an apartment at 200 11th Avenue (the star-filled building where Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban recently bought) for $4.662 million and is already planning renovations.
--CB Richard Ellis vice chairman Darcy Stacom and her husband, Chris Kraus, a managing director at Jones Lang LaSalle bought a four-bedroom apartment at 447 East 57th Street for $4.775 million.
--Actor Liam Neeson recently sold his two-bedroom co-op at 91 Central Park West for $1.352 million. He and his late wife, actress Natasha Richardson, bought the apartment for $1.4 million in 1994.
--Ponzi schemer James Nicholson's three-bedroom at the Time Warner Center has finally been sold by the U.S. Marshal's office for $6.75 million. Nicholson bought the home for $8.5 million two years ago.
--New York Philharmonic flutist, composer and pianist Gary Schocker and Richard Norton purchased a brownstone at 215 West 137th Street in Central Harlem. They purchased the home from Vincent and Kim Van Doorn for the listing price of $2 million even.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
-- Winecup-Gamble Ranch in Nevada, one of the largest in the West, with access to nearly one million acres of land has hit the market for $50 million. The ranch is owned by a corporation headed by Paul Fireman, the former chairman and chief executive of Reebok and the chairman of Fireman Capital Partners. The listing is here.
--A Beverly Hills home owned by Max Palevsky, the late philanthropist, art collector and a founder of Intel is listed for $9.5 million. The property website is here. His Malibu home remains listed at $55 million.
--Bert Saberhagen's Calabasas, California home is back on the market. The former Major League Baseball pitcher listed his home for $3.25 million last year but it is now for sale for $2.699 million.

Gallery: Bret Saberhagen in Calabasas

From the Real Estalker:
--Filmmaker Brett Morgen and actor/director/writer Debra Eisenstadt have listed their home in the Rockaways, Queens, New York for $4.495 million. The listing is here.
--Rumor has it that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are cozied up in a contemporary love nest in Bel Air.
--Courtney Love has leased actress/model Milla Jovovich's West Village townhouse.

Gallery: Milla Jovovich in New York City

--Andrew Dice Clay has sold his Hollywood home for the asking price of $1.399 million.

From Housing Watch:
--Christina Aguilera has dropped the price again on her Hollywood Hills home. It is now listed at $5.995 million, a full $2 million off the original asking price when she put it on the market in 2008. She bought the home in 2003 for $5 million.

Gallery: Christina Aguilera in West Hollywood

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 02/28/10

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From Move Trends:
Former tennis star Jennifer Capriati's home in Wesley Chapel, Florida is listed for $ 2.1 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Beck has finally sold his Malibu home which was once listed as high as $2.399 million. It sold for $1.65 million (he bought the home for $2.050 million in 2007). His Hancock Park home which was once listed as high as $9 million is listed in a pocket listing. He bought the home for $6.75 million in 2007 and will likely take a loss on it.

Gallery: Beck in Malibu

Designer Kelly Wearstler and property developer Brad Korzen may be listing their Hillcrest estate in Beverly Hills. Rumor has it that it could be listed at $50 million. The property website is here.

How low can she go? Philanthropist and art collector Audrey Irmas has reduced the price on her Holmby Hills mansion, from $25 million to $16.9 million and now to $14.9 million. The property website is here.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
Technology entrepreneur and philanthropist David Bohnett has listed his exquisitely restored Holmby Hills estate for $18.9 million. The home was designed in 1955 for Gary Cooper. The property website is here.
--"American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi's Spanish-style home in the Hollywood Hills is on the market at $1.649 million. The property website is here.
--Commercial real estate giant John C. Cushman III and his wife, Jeanine, have sold their Monterey Colonial-style home in Pasadena for $3.25 million.
--Producer-director Bud Yorkin and his wife, actress Cynthia Sikes, have listed their Holmby Hills estate for $49.5 million. The property website is here.
--Television writers Krista Vernoff and Kevin Maynard have listed their Los Feliz home at $1.995 million. The listing is here.
--A Palm Springs estate built in 1977 for Oscar-winning actor William Holden has hit the market at $5.5 million. The listing is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Bob Parsons, the founder and CEO of Web-hosting company GoDaddy.com was the buyer who paid $8.72 million for a Balinese-style house on Hawaii's Big Island that was built by Cher.

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