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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 05/31/09

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping


From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actor Patrick Dempsey may have found a buyer for his four-bedroom Bel-Air home which was most recently on the market for $3.295 million.
--Los Angeles weather forecaster Kaj Goldberg has placed his three-bedroom house in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles, shown above, up for sale for $1.249 million. The property website is here.
--Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich has placed his Washington DC condo on the market for $570,000. The listing is here.
A renovated, Cape Cod-style home in Beverly Hills owned by the late actor Darren McGavin until he sold it just before his death in early 2006 has come back on the market for $2.795 million. The listing is here.
--The home that was used in the Ferris Bueller movie as his best friend's home is on the market in Highland Park, Illinois for $2.3 million.


From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Actor Hank Azaria paid $10 million for a seven-bedroom home in Bel-Air. As the Real Estalker reported last month this home was last listed $13.975 million.
--Oakland Raiders quarterback Jeff Garcia and his Playboy model wife, Carmella, have sold their Manhattan Beach home for $2.5 million.
Former NFL linebacker Mike Croel and his wife, Cassaundra, have sold their Sunset Strip-area home for $1.912 million.
--Actor Jim Belushi has leased out a Brentwood house he owns for $11,500 a month.
--L.A. Kings player Tom Preissing has put his Manhattan Beach home on the market. We checked this one out on Saturday.
--Shannen Doherty has listed her Malibu mansion for $4 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--James Marden, whose father, Bernard, was one of Berni Madoff's largest victims, has sold his Wainscott home at 42 Beach Lane. It is in contract for around $11.2 million.
--Another Madoff victim, David Silver, is also selling his oceanfront beach house, which is in contract for around $6.9 million but was originally listed at $14 million.
--Marden's ex-wife, Iris, a broker at Stribling, is selling her three-bedroom, 3 1/2-bath TriBeCa penthouse at 7 Hubert St. for $12.5 million. The listing is here.
--Hamptons developer Joe Farrell has bought property for the first time in 18 months picking up a couple acres in Bridgehampton and an acre in Southampton Village. He's planning to build two "small" houses. For him that means a house priced at just under $5 million and one for around $3 million.
--Seth Meyers looked at a one-bedroom $1.195 million condo at 380 W. 12th St. The listing is here.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--A piece of land just under nine acres in Amagansett has gone on the market for the steep price of $200 million.

From Cityfile's Buyers & Sellers:
--via the NY Post, Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. has a NYC apartment but now he has a second home in Eldred, New York. His 10 acres of land also includes a barn with a recording studio.
--via the Real Deal, a full-floor apartment at the former Stanhope Hotel sold for $17 million. It was originally listed at $31 million.
--Furniture designer Stuart Parr has sold his condo at 25 Fifth Avenue for $1.35 million.
via Page Six, poker champ Vadim Trincher has picked up a condo at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue for $5 million which is $1 million less than the asking price.
Hedge fund manager/art collector Adam Sender and his wife Lenore have sold their fourth-floor apartment at 109 Greene Street for $3.695 million.
--Padma Lakshmi has transferred ownership of a full-floor loft at 211 East 2nd Street to a trust called "The Delicious Trust" for $0. Lakshmi purchased the loft in early 2008 for $1.65 million.
--JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's Chicago home is now listed for $10.5 million, $3 million less than it was back in 2007.

From the Real Estalker:
--Nicole Kidman has sold off her Sydney, Australia home in Darling Point for $13,200,000 (AUS) and picked up a duplex penthouse for around $6,000,000 (AUS).
--Actor/singer Jesse McCartney has put his two bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills on the market for $1.199 million. The listing is here.
--David Niven Jr. has put his home on Blue Jay Way in Los Angeles on the market for $5.75 million. The listing is here.
Kirsten Dunst has listed her home for $1.7 million.

Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 04/05/09

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping


From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
----Real estate heiress Caroline Cumming has cut the price on her 12,128-square-foot townhouse at 11 Spring Street in New York City, shown above. It went on the market for $39.8 million in September and is now listed at $29.5 million.
--Risa Meyer, the daughter of late socialite and philanthropist Kitty Meyer and founder of the party-goods store PlumParty.com, has put her three-bedroom condo at Trump Parc East on the market for $14.8 million. The listing is here.
--Real estate developer Hunter Lipton and his wife, Tara, have paid $4.6 million for an apartment at 255 East 74th Street.
--Christiane Celle, the founder of the Calypso boutiques and her husband, fashion photographer Antoine Verglas, have lowered the price of their duplex penthouse at 129 Lafayette Street. The four-bedroom loft went on the market for $13.995 million but is now priced at $11.999 million.The listing is here.
--Visa senior vice president Darren Parslow and art director Justin Durongsaeng paid $1.9 million for a condo at 133 West 22nd Street.
--Nicole Eddy and her husband paid $7.3 million for a penthouse at the Chelsea Modern on West 18th Street.
--National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman and his wife Michelle have paid $1.95 million for a condo at the Grand Beekman.
--More financial fallout. Hedge funder Scott Bessent has dropped the price of his duplex at One Sutton Place South again. He put it on the market for $12.5 million in October and it is now listed at $9.95 million, about $2 million less than he paid for it in 2007.
--Hotel developer Henry Kallan and his wife Emilia paid $2.995 million for a 38th-floor, three-bedroom co-op at 45 East 89th Street.
--Architect Teresa Sapey has lowered the price of her apartment at the Plaza. She bought the two-bedroom unit for $6.9 million in 2007 and put back on the market for $10 million just a few months later. It's now listed at $8.5 million.
--The latest round of 'which celebrity's house is this?' features a home on Mandeville Canyon Road in Los Angeles' Brentwood area, which sold at the end of 2008 for $2.25 million.


From the LA TImes Hot Property:
--Soap opera actor Ingo Rademacher has listed his Venice, California home. We'll check it out later as our estate of the day.
----The voice of Nickelodeon's Jimmy Neutron, Debi Derryberry has listed a four-bedroom home in Toluca Lake, California for $2.5 million. The listing is here.
Travelscape's Tim Poster has listed his Laguna Beach home at $6.9 million. The listing for the three-story custom home is here.
--Decorating maven Kitty Bartholomew has listed her own Santa Monica cottage for $2.195 million. The listing is here.

From the Telegraph:
--Nicolas Cage has sold his German castle. We checked this out earlier in the week.

From the Real Estalker:
--Mick Jagger's girlfriend L'Wren Scott has put her Los Angeles home on the market. We checked it our earlier this week.
--Manuela Herzer, a former companion of Sumner Redstone, has picked up the home belonging to Lance Bass. She paid $3.85 million. It was listed at $3.925 million when it was our estate of the day last November.
--via Page Six, Kelly Bensimon from Real Housewives of New York City is said to be selling her East Hampton, New York home for a rumored $10.9 million and Countess Luann de Lesseps from the same show is putting her Bridgehampton home up for sale for $9.5 million.
--Hank Azaria has picked up a seven-bedroom Bel Air home which was last listed $13.975 million.
--David Spade has put his Malibu home up for rent for $65,000 a month.
--Spice Girl Melanie Brown has already sold her home which we covered last week as an estate of the day. Rumor has it that it sold for above the $2,999,999 asking price.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Rock star, author and activist Henry Rollins has listed his home in the Hollywood Hills. We checked it out earlier this week.
--A five-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills that John Lennon once lived in has come on the market for $4.5 million. The listing is here.
--Gangster legend Al Capone's onetime house in Chicago is on the market for $450,000. The two-flat building was built in 1914. The listing (without pictures) is here.
--Husband-and-wife actors William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman have paid exactly $1 million to purchase multi-unit residential building in Los Angeles' Fairfax District.
--Actor Richard T. Jones has listed his four-bedroom home in Encino for sale for $1.599 million. The property website is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Las Vegas nightlife entrepreneur and real-estate developer Andrew Sasson has listed just-finished contemporary mansion on Kailua Beach in Oahu for $21 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Anne Archer has offering her Rhode Island condominium for $1.1 million. We'll check this one out later in the week.
--Nedra Matteucci, a fixture of the Santa Fe, New Mexico art world, is asking $13.5 million for an adobe-style compound that includes one of her galleries and five homes. The listing for the Matteucci Compound is here.


From Move Trends:
--Shaquille O'Neal has cut the price on his home on Star Island in Miami yet again. It was listed at $29 million last year when we had it as an estate of the day. It is now listed at $22.5 million.

Halcyon House, which was listed at $30 million when it was our estate of the day, has had a deep price cut to $19.5 million.

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