Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 02/08/09
Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Real Estalker:
--Movie producer Dylan Sellers and his wife Wendie have put their Pacific Palisades, California home, shown above, on the market for $2.995 million.
--Duane Martin and Tisha Campbell-Martin have put their getaway home in Lake Arrowhead, California on the market for $1.597 million. The listing is here.
--British imports Katie Price and Peter André are reportedly renting a $100,000 a month house in Malibu.
--Chef Mark Peel, who owns Los Angeles restaurant Campanile and his wife Daphne Brogdan have put their home in the Windsor Park area of Los Angeles on the market for $3.299 million. The listing is here and is "looking for backup."
--Zac Efron may have picked up a new modern stunner of a home in the Hollywood Hills.
From the LA Times Hot Property:
--A home in Sherman Oaks owned by Marlon Brando's former housekeeper and mother of his three youngest children is for sale for $2.8 million (the agent's website shows it listed for $3.5 million).
--Former baseball player Brady Anderson has put the Malibu property he redesigned on the market for $8.999 million. The listing is here.
--Eunetta T. Boone, co-creator of "One on One" has sold her Hollywood Hills home for $1.96 million. It was originally listed at $2.5 million, then lowered to $2.295 million and had been on the market for about six months.
--TV producer Jonathan Axelrod has listed his Sunset Strip-area home for $2.999 million.
Actor Geoffrey Blake has put his two-story Venice, California home on the market for $1.999 million. The listing is here.
--Actor-producer Grant Heslov has listed his Sherman Oaks home for $3.495 million. The listing is here.
From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Willem de Vogel, a partner at the private equity firm Three Cities Research, sold his loft at 105 East 29th Street for $2.3 million.
•--Béla Szigethy, co-CEO of The Riverside Company, and his wife Alice, have sold their 16th-floor apartment at 90 Riverside Drive for $3.5 million.
--Former Wall Street big-wig Marshall S. Cogan is re-listing his apartment at 810 Fifth Avenue. It was on the market for $40 million two months ago. It is now listed at a more modest $25.5 million.
--One of my favorite NYC estate of the day properties, the chapel owned by Dan and Cynthia Lufkin has been reduced to $14 million. It was listed at $17.5 million when it was our estate of the day.
From Newsday's Real LI:
A three-bedroom home in Sag Harbor owned by Arlene Alda, wife of actor Alan Alda, sold for $550,000. The property originally went on the market in the summer of 2007 for a reported $799,000.
--The Phipps Mansion has gone into contract and is expected to close by next June. The home, which was our estate of the day in October, was most recently listed at $11.5 million.
From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
Russian oilman Andrei Vavilov and Plaza developer El-Ad have settled their lawsuit over Vavilov's $53.5 million penthouse. In late January he bought a smaller unit under the name Hayling Island Inc., paying a bit more than $11 million. A source has said he didn't get his $10.7 million deposit but instead swapped it for the smaller apartment which he has now listed for $12.5 million.
--There's a new $80 million listing in New York. Sources say that Sandie Tillotson, the senior vice president and co-founder of Nu Skin Enterprises, is quietly shopping aorund her Time Warner Center penthouse. She paid $29 million for it in early 2005, and renovated the condo from raw space into a five-bedroom showplace.
A two-bedroom co-op belonging to the estate of Araxia M. Buckhantz, on the 13th-floor of 834 Fifth Avenue has found a buyer to pay close to its $30 million asking price, even though the apartment was officially listed less than a month ago.
--One of my favorite NYC estate of the day properties, the chapel owned by Dan and Cynthia Lufkin has been reduced to $14 million. It was listed at $17.5 million when it was our estate of the day.
--Former Wall Street big-wig Marshall S. Cogan is re-listing his apartment at 810 Fifth Avenue. It was on the market for $40 million two months ago. It is now listed at a more modest $25.5 million.
--James Craige, a partner at Stone Harbor Investment Partners, paid $7.5 million for a four-bedroom duplex at 170 East End Avenue.
--Fashion photographer David LaChapelle's two-bedroom pied-à-terre at 170 Second Avenue is now up for sale for $1.65 million. It was listed at $1.95 million when it was our estate of the day back in 2007.
From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Tony Parker and Eva Longoria Parker have put his San Antonio home on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.
--Another price cut for John McCain's former home in Phoenix, Arizona. It was listed at $12 million when it was our estate of the day last summer but is now down to $10 million.
--A real estate investor who bought President Gerald Ford's former home in Vail, Colorado has dropped the price from $14.9 million to $12.95 million. The listing is here.
From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--A look at the many places President Barack Obama has lived.
--Actor Dylan McDermott has cut the asking price of his Brentwood home to $8.995 million. it was listed at $11 million when it was our estate of the day last October.
From the Daily Herald:
--Singer Kylie Minogue has put her vacation home on Australia's French Island on the market. The listing is here.
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