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Sunday Real Estate Round-up, 10/17/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the NY Observer:
--The new owner of Steve Wynn's Fifth Avenue condo is the ex Mrs. Wynn. Elaine Wynn took over control of the home, which was listed for $25 million in 2009, for $17.155 million. This summer the Wall Street Journal reported that Wynn is buying a four-bedroom duplex condominium at the Plaza for around $23 million.
--Robert Kaliner, a developer, and his wife Jodi have bought an apartment at The Grand Madison at 225 Fifth Avenue.
--Richard Khawam, a director at Wachovia, and his wife Angela have cashed in their Soho apartment at 15 Mercer Street for $3.7 million.
--Charlie Palmer, the acclaimed chef, has sold his five-story townhouse at 34 East 61st Street for $10 million.
--Sangyeup Lee, the designer who brought the Camaro back to life, and his wife, Soonhyun Kwon bought a river-facing unit at Extell's Rushmore at 80 Riverside Boulevard for $2.59 million.
--Philip J. Purcell IV, known as "Boo" and son of the former Dean Witter and Morgan Stanley boss whose name he shares, has just bought an apartment with his wife, Stephanie, at the colorful, SOM-designed 101 Warren in southern Tribeca for $2.93 million according to city records.
--Advertising exec and television host Donny Deutsch sold his two Tyson Lane lots off East Hampton's Further Lane for around $29 million total.

From the NY Post:
--Dixie Chicks lead singer and her husband, former "Heroes" actor Adrian Pasdar, are buying a four-bedroom home at 525 W. 22nd St. for just more than $4.3 million.
--Prudential Douglas Elliman broker Michael Lorber is set to star in Bravo's "Million Dollar Listing." Warburg Realty will be the newest addition to HGTV's "Selling New York" when new episodes premiere in January.
--Glenn Beck has settled into one of the city's fanciest East Side buildings, where multiple condos are on the market for upwards of $3,000 per square foot and two-bedroom rentals can run more than $10,000.
--Mimi Dalva has decided to put her 12-room maisonette at 320 E. 72nd St. on the market for $7.95 million. The listing for the six-bedroom co-op is here.

From the Real Estalker:
Jeff Lewis of "Flipping Out" has, after a few price cuts, finally sold his personal residence in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles for $2.325 million.
--Basketball superstar Tony Parker, the husband of Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker, has bought a condo in the Du Parc Kempinski Private Residences in Switzerland. Check out more details about this property in a review we did earlier this year.
--Tiger Wood's ex-wife Elin recently toured a penthouse apartment at the 16-unit Claridge condo tower in Tequesta, Florida.

From Chicago Breaking Sports:
--Former Chicago Cubs pitcher Ted Lilly has just listed his six-bedroom, nearly 5,500-square-foot mansion just west of Wrigley Field for $2.4 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Derivatives pioneer Howard Sosin, who founded AIG's financial products unit in 1987, has bought a home in Palm Beach, Florida for $5.05 million. He plans to use the six-bedroom house as a winter home for himself and his family.
--Former Bear Stearns CEO Alan D. Schwartz in February sold his six-bedroom home in Purchase, N.Y., for $3.28 million.
--William P. Foley II, founder and chairman of title insurer Fidelity National Financial Inc., and his wife, Carol, have sold their roughly eight-acre, oceanfront estate in Santa Barbara, Calif., for $18.44 million. In Feburary the Foleys were asking $28.5 million and the most recent asking price was $23.5 million. Foley says he plans to spend time in Northern California, where he owns several wineries.

From Curbed LA:
--Dennis Hopper's Venice, California compound has had a price cut down to $4.799 million. It started at $6.245 million back in July when the listing went live.

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

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Filed under: Estates

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Deidre Hall has sold her Bel-Air home which was listed at just under $8.5 million. The home used to belong to Bob Newhart and was designed to look like an English country home.
--NBA player Slava Medvedenko has bought newly-built home in Manhattan Beach for around $2.5 million and sold his Playa Vista condo for nearly $1.7 million. He was released from the Lakers due to a back injury.
--Screenwriter Tedi Sarafian recently bought a $1.6 million Sunset Strip-area home that once belonged to Bette Davis. He also has owned the West Hollywood apartment she spent her later years in.
--Designer-builder Nicole Sassaman is rehabbing a Beverly Hills house that was built by orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski and was briefly home to Greta Garbo and later fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt. The newly updated home which will now have a master bedroom suite with a sundeck and a bathroom with an infinity tub and a steam shower should hit the market in May for just under $8 million.

From the NY Post Gimme Shelter:
--Frederic Fekkai has purchased the Fifth Avenue apartment of billionaire John Kluge for around $7.4 million.
--Entertainment mogul Edgar Bronfman Jr. has paid $26 million for a 3.4 acre compound in Bridgehampton. It has "minimal water frontage" and if you look out the second story windows you can catch a glimpse of the ocean. Luckily it has more to recommend it including eight bedroom, a media room, wine cellar, pool and a tennis court. He also bought another 1.3-acre piece of land with a smaller house and a pool, for $5 million.
--Donny Deutsch paid $1 million over the asking price for a six-story townhouse on East 78th Street. He was outbid on his $21 million offer but the owner liked Deutsch's broker better.
--In the Hamptons, East Hampton Point, a compound that includes a restaurant, guest cottages and a marina is for sale for $55 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--Scarlett Johansson picked a duplex in TriBeCa for $1.95 million in January/
--A new condo building, the Caledonia next to the High Line in Chelsea will have bamboo plank floors, stainless-steel appliances, a fitness club, terraces, a meditation garden and its own entrance to the proposed High Line park.
--Author A.M. Homes who has written short story collections and written for "The L Word" has purchased a three-bedroom house that was listed for $1.3 million in the Village of East Hampton. She already has a one-bedroom house in the Town of East Hampton.
--Sol Kerzner, a resort and casino developer will buy the $10.5 million penthouse at the Urban Glass House for his daughter Beverley.

And in Aniston, Jolie, Pitt News
--Forbes reports that the Wallace Neff Beverly Hills mansion that belonged to Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston is in escrow for $22.5 million.
--The rumor that Angelina Jolie is buying Yves St. Laurent's house on the Normandy Coast is alive and well once again.

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