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From the Wall Street Journal:
--Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar bin Sultan is asking $3.75 million for his 5,400-square-foot prewar condominium in Washington, D.C. The listing for the unit is with Washington Fine Properties.
-- Bren Simon, the second wife of Melvin Simon, has bought three adjoining properties in California's Ventura County for nearly $21 million. She has listed the home she shared with the late shopping-mall magnate in Bel Air, California for $50 million. The 20,000 square foot Mediterranean-style villa sits on roughly 1.5 acres and has eight bedrooms. The listing is with Coldwell Banker.

--Nighthawk, a10,700-square-foot home in Aspen's Red Mountain neighborhood has been listed for $23.9 million. A group of real-estate investors and developers own the recently completed house. The investors paid $6.5 million in 2007 for the land and a small home, which has been torn down. The property website is here.


From the Real Estalker:
--Milla Jovovich has listed her New York City townhouse again. This time it is at $7 million. The listing is with Corcoran.

--Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond have listed their New York City apartment for $2.295 million.
--Former Dodger Derek Lowe listed his house in 2008 for $5.7 million but sold the home for just $3.9 million. He bought the home in 2006 for $5 million.

--Celebrity photographer Tony Duran has listed his Los Angeles home for $2.195 million. The listing is with Rose + Chang.

From the LA Times:
--Actress Debi Mazar has sold her home in the Beverly Center area of Los Angeles for $1,162,515. We checked out this home in 2009 when it was listed at $1.399 million.

--Indiana Pacers point guard Earl Watson has sold his home in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for $3.38 million.
Actress turned psychotherapist Judy Lewis, whose biological parents were actress Loretta Young and actor Clark Gable, has listed her West Hollywood condominium for $499,000. The listing is with Sotheby's.
--Perry Farrell of the band Jane's Addiction has sold his longtime Venice home for $1.425 million. It hit the market in March for $1.6 million.

What is it about sports stars and Manhattan Beach, California? Over my years of real estate obsession I've noticed that a variety of basketball, baseball and football stars have made the seaside community their home. The rich and famous often cluster near the ocean but Manhattan Beach, with its soft beaches and relatively easy accessibility to Los Angeles, has seen more than average interest from those who make their living tossing, catching and chasing balls. In fact, the LA Times recently had a story on the phenomenon. Some past and current Manhattan Beach residents include Luke Walton, former NHL player Ken Belanger, former L.A. Clippers forward Yaroslav Korolev, L.A. Lakers' assistant coach Jim Cleamons, Jeff Garcia, Lamar Odom, Tim Brown and Nomar Garciaparra and Mia Hamm.

Over the past couple of weeks I've noticed three sports stars with homes in the area put their places on the market so I've combined them into one triple threat estate of the day.

First up, Tony Gonzalez. The Real Estalker notes that the Kansas City Chiefs tight end has put his four-bedroom home in Manhattan Beach on the market. Gonzalez bought in 2003 for $1.575 million. HIs four-bedroom place is certainly nice enough but not particularly remarkable except for one fantastic feature: a huge roof deck with a barbecue area, shaded lounger and a hot tub. The home is a couple blocks from the ocean and so the deck has some truly fantastic views. It is listed at $3.999 million. The property website is here.

A little further from the beach but with a bit more room is a home owned by Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jason Kendall. According to the LA Times Hot Properties column, Kendall doesn't live in the home which is in the desirable hill area of Manhattan Beach. The home is still within walking distance of the beach and the main living spaces are on the upper floor for maximum view potential. The home has around 7,400 square feet of space which includes a formal living room and dining room, a great room, large kitchen with a separate breakfast room, a kids' study room, game room, a master suite with an adjoining sitting room and a rather makeshift home theater. It is listed at $7.3 million. The property website is here.

The third home belongs to former Boston Red Sox and current L.A. Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe. The Real Estalker reports that Lowe bought the home in 2006 for $5 million. It has four bedrooms and two outdoor terraces. The home is located a few blocks from the ocean. It is listed at $5.7 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Evermay, a 12,000-square-foot Georgian-style mansion, on 3.58 acres in the Georgetown area of Washington D.C. has gone on the market for $49 million. The home was built in 1801 and has eight bedrooms. The property includes a gatekeeper's house, three-room staff house, terraced gardens with six fountains and parking for 100 cars. The current record sale in the area is $25 million.
--At least two of the prefabricated houses on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art are available for purchase. MoMA commissioned five full-size homes for Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling The Philadelphia architecture firm KieranTimberlake is seeking a minimum of $1.75 million for the Cellophane House, a four-story, two-bedroom aluminum and polycarbonate home with two walls of solar panels for the 1,800-square-foot structure. Architects Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier have listed their 1,000-square-foot Burst house for $475,000. The listing is here.
--Former Viacom Chief Executive Tom Freston has taken his townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side off the market. Freston was asking $35 million for the home which once belonged to Andy Warhol.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are house hunting together in NYC and recently toured a condo duplex loft at the Lion's Head building in Chelsea.
--The $70 million Pierre Hotel penthouse triplex listing has officially been on the market for four years.
--A new apartment record may have been set for the Financial District. Platinum Properties has just signed a $7.82 million contract for the penthouse at the Setai at 40 Broad St.,
--Hockey star Eric Lindros has put his condo in One Morton Square on the market for $6.3 million. The listing is here.
--Law and Order star S. Epatha Merkerson has been spotted checking out units in the Kalahari building on 116th Street.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Actress Julianna Margulies has listed her home in Santa Monica, it's our estate of the day later today.
--British model Jasmine Lennard has leased a 1930s Hollywood traditional just above the Sunset Strip for $16,000 a month. Lennard appeared on the British reality show "Make Me a Supermodel."
--Renée Taylor and Joe Bologna have listed their Beverly Hills home which is in teardown condition for $5 million. The listing is here. Check out a gallery of other celebrity teardowns here.
--Movie producer Richard Suckle has put his Hancock Park home on the market for $3.295 million. The virtual tour is here.
--Model and actress Simona Fusco has listed her Bel Air area home for $3.995 million. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver front man Scott Weiland and his wife Mary Forsberg have put their Sherman Oaks, California home on the market for $2.25 million. The listing is here.
--Baseball player Derek Lowe has listed his Manhattan Beach home for $5.7 million. We will discuss this one as Monday's estate of the day.
--Football player Tony Gonzalez has also listed his home in Manhattan Beach for $3.999 million, this will also be part of Monday's estate of the day.
--Reality TV star Audrina Patridge has picked up a new home in the Hollywood Hills which was listed at $1.29 million.
--via People, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will decamp from the south of France to Berlin with their brood and move into Palais Parkschloss on Wannsee Lake while Pitt films a movie.
--Billy Baldwin and Chynna Phillips have listed their Bedford Corners, New York home. It was our estate of the day on Friday.

From Newsday's Real LI:
Property that once belonged to inventor Elmer Sperry, who founded the Sperry Corporation is on the market in the village of Bellport, New York. The nearly five-acre property has a thre-bedroom cottage and 300 feet of beach. The property was sold by the Sperry family in 2007 for $5.5 million and is now back on the market for $5.7 million. The listing is here.
--The Westhampton Beach home of Asian art dealer Michael Weisbrod, which originally went on the market last year for $9 million, is now being handled as a bankruptcy sale.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Video artist Douglas Gordon (he does photography and sculpture, too) sold his 2,000-square-foot loft at 225 Lafayette Street to Italian photographer Elisa Sighicelli, who paid $3 million, according to city records.
--Lawyer Eleanor P. Vale has listed her apartment in the Hampshire House for $10.9 million to raise money to help her children in this bad economy. She bought in 2005 for $1.515 million. The listing is here.
--Cosmetics queen Laura Mercier sold her 5,500-square-foot, eight-room loft at 205 West 19th Street for $8.5 million back in April but the sale just cleared public records recently.Her buyers are Ana and Henry Pincus, the son of ailing venture capital titan Lionel Pincus.

From the AP:
--Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard's estate in Stillwater, Minnesota has sold for $1.825 million. It was our estate of the day last month and was listed for $1.95 million.