Another celebrity who has had to scale their real estate expectations to the current economy is wrestler Hulk Hogan. Back in 2006 he listed his Belleair, Florida home which was featured in "Hogan Knows Best" for $25 million. Since then he's gone through subsequent TV shows, a messy divorce and a whole platter of family drama we won't get into here. But now the Hogans are selling off two Florida homes as part of the final division of assets. It's not known who gets what.

The Belleair home is a French country style manor on the water.The 17,000 square feet include a guest apartment, and a boat house. The property includes large lawns, several garages, boat lifts and a floating dock. Inside the listing pics appear to be the same ones we saw in 2006 showcasing Mrs. Hogan's flouncy feminine decorating style mingling with the needs of a large family home. The home can now be yours for $13.9 million although I suggest we'll see this one dip to being 50 percent off of the original price at least before the "sold" sign hits the lawn.



The other property is far smaller, a Key West style three-bedroom home right on the beach in Clearwater. The home, which appears to be barely lived in, has three bedrooms that includes a master suite where the wallpaper doesn't just cover the walls but is on the ceiling too. It is listed at $2.3 million.


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From US Weekly:
---Paris Hilton has bought a five-bedroom, Mediterranean-style mansion for $6.25 million. There's some discussion over whether she has or has not bought the home, a rather bland yet lavish home in the Mulholland Gates community. Check out the listing here, it's clear the home was a family dwelling and will need a big remodel to fit Paris's single girl lifestyle. The home may also have more bookshelves than Miss Paris may require.
--The 7,000-square-foot Beverly Hills home Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have been renting is back on the market for $100,000 a month.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Three Ponds in Bridgehampton , shown abvoe, which was on the market for $75 million is now listed at $68 million. The listing is here.
--Alan Alda has listed a three-bedroom Sag Harbor home that he used as a home for the help for $799,000.
--Patricia Clarkson has bought a loft in the Village for $1.55 million.

From the Miami Herald:
--Hulk Hogan, has sold his Miami Beach mansion to action movie director Michael Bay for close to the listing price of $18.9 million. You can see pictures of the home here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--FIIC chairman and C.E.O. Abdul Huda Farouki, a friend of the disgraced former deputy Iraqi prime minister Ahmed Chalabi, is moving into the same building that Jon Bon Jovi recently paid $24 million for a penthouse in, the New Museum building in SoHo. Farouki's apartment is more modest, he paid $5.95 million for a second-floor condo.
--Anne Hathaway's parents have bought a $1.6 million apartment at the St. James Tower, a purplish far East Side condo.
--The daughter of socialite Denise Rich, Daniella Klistock, and her husband Richard have paid $3.9 million for a two-bedroom co-op at 785 Fifth Avenue where Ms. Rich lives in a lavish 28-room penthouse.
--The tales of Russian billionaire Len Blavatnik's search for a home in New York have been legion. Looks like Blavatnik, who has purchased a couple of blockbuster properties in New York is also the buyer of the Bronfman home making him just the second person history to pay over $50 million for a New York townhouse.


From the Real Estalker:
--Film producer Andrew Vajna has listed his Beverly Hills home for $6.495 million. The listing is here and it looks like it has already been sold.
--Tommy Lee has picked up a home in Calabasas that was listed at $6.75 million.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--"Dancing with the Stars'' dance Louis van Amstel has paid $1.1 million for a two-bedroom condo unit in West Hollywood.
--French singer Johnny Hallyday and his wife, Laetitia, have paid $3.9 million for a Mediterranean-style house in the Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills/Bel-Air area.
--Motley Crue lead guitarist Mick Mars has paid $1.46 million 3,603-square-foot home in Malibu.
The National Enquirer has reported that Lionel Richie bought actor Dennis Franz's 2,274-square-foot town home in Century City area as a surprise for his daughter Nicole Richie and her fiancé Joel Madden. The rather bland condo was listed at $1.395 million.
--Marie Osmond has listed her six-bedroom home in Orem, Utah for $1.2 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Anna Paquin and two relatives have paid $1,575,000 for a home in the Hollywood Hills.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--NBA all-star Allen Iverson has listed his five-bedroom home in Villanova, Pennsylvania for $6.3 million. The listing for the 14,000 square foot chateau-like home on Chateau Lane is here.
--Grammy award-winning producer James Harris III, better known as Jimmy Jam, sold his lakefront home in Minnesota in June for $7 million.

From Reuters:
--Hedge fund manager and Red Sox owner John W. Henry has paid $16 million for a Boston estate.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Actress Catherine Bell and her husband Adam Beeson, have put their Calabasas home on the market for $3.25 million. The listing is here.
--Robert Wagner and his wife Jill St. John are selling a home in Brentwood's Mandeville Canyon, designed by Cliff May, for close to $15 million.
--A five-bedroom modern home which belonged to the late sci-fi film writer Bernard Gordon has been sold for close to its $2.3-million asking price.
--Fashion critic Steven Cojocaru has bought a contemporary house with city views and a pool for close to $4 million. As the Real Estalker reported in May, Cojo had listed his five-bedroom Hollywood Blvd. home for $2.995 million.
--Chris Salvaterra, an executive with Nickelodeon Movies and producer of "Fast Food Nation," and his writer wife, Marjorie, have sold their Venice home to "Flightplan" director Robert Schwentke and his wife, Jen Howard. The selling price was $1.6 million. The Salvaterras bought a home in Hancock Park.

From People:
--Actor John O'Hurley is selling his Beverly Hills villa. It is listed at $6.2 million, it's our estate of the day later today.

Bad news for the Hogan family. Hulk Hogan and his family are looking to sell their house in Miami and recently the house was burglarized. Thieves ended up walking off with $100,000 of jewelry including diamond-covered dog tags and a platinum and diamond watch belonging to Hogan's young son Nick. The incident occurred while the Hogans were moving out of the home. The home, which we recently profiled as an estate of the day, is listed for sale at $18.9 million.

I couldn't resist the chance to feature three reality television show houses that were all in today's real estate round-up. All three were part of the subgenre of reality television in which the semi-famous or formerly famous seek a bit more fame through having their lives filmed. For those interested in real estate snooping it's often a chance to eavesdrop on some pretty interesting homes. Today's batch brings us Hulk Hogan's house in Miami, the home of Danny Bonaduce and the home that Miss Victoria Beckham recently pranced through during her reality TV special. Plenty of pics after the jump.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Martha Stewart is eager to sell her Turkey Hill Farm property which has been on the market for a while. She is dividing the property into two two acre pieces and selling the part that includes the main house for $4.5 million. The listing is here.
--Russell Simmons has leased out his unsellable Liberty Street 7,000-square-foot residence to a Westchester couple and their children. Simmons first listed the 13-room penthouse in May 2005 for $11 million, and lowered the price to just below $6 million last year. Simmons may be buying a place in the West Village for close to $8 million.
--One of Newport, Rhode Island's famed grand mansions, the one belonging to publishing heir Gilbert Kahn will soon be sold. Fairholme, a 17-room Tudor-style mansion will be on the market as Kahn has bought homes in Palm Beach and Miami's Fisher Island.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
-- Brokers report that the January real estate market was particularly heated among the wealthiest buyers.
--Stephen M. Ross, the chairman of Related and the new chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York recently took title to the 8,900-square-foot, full-floor penthouse at 25 Columbus Circle, the south tower of the Time Warner Center. Mr. Ross was both the buyer and a principal of the company that sold the condominiums. He then sold his co-op at 965 Fifth Avenue for $10 million to Bruce A. Beal Jr., one of Mr. Ross's top lieutenants.
--Mikhail Kurnev, president of Coalco New York, has bought a loft-style, full-floor condominium in Loft 67, at 219 East 67th Street, the former offices of the Christie's East auction house. The condo in Loft 67 has 4,655 square feet of space, a 50-foot terrace and floor-to-ceiling windows and was sold as raw space.

From the New York Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--The parlor-floor apartment in the Berwind Mansion co-op, listed for $9.495 million, has been sold to real-estate developer Howard Ronson.
--Writer-director Noah Baumbach and Jennifer Jason Leigh have paid $1.26 million for their next-door neighbor's co-op.
--Columbia University senior executive vice president Robert Kasdin and his wife have bought an eight-room apartment at 239 Central Park West for $3,485,000.
-- Daniel Snyder, the billionaire owner of the Washington Redskins, may have bought an Upper East Side townhouse for $4.8 million.

From Berg Properties BIg Time Listings:
--Smokey Robinson has listed his house at 1357 Opal Valley Street in Henderson, Nev., near Las Vegas, for $1.9 million. The listing is here. He has also reduced the asking price for his Chatsworth, California home from $10.5 million to just under $10 million.
--Hulk Hogan has put his Bellair, Fla. house back on the market for $17.9 million.
--Actress Paz Vega and her husband Orson Salazar have become first-time homeowners, paying $985,000 for a 1,410-square-foot house in Hollywood.
--Soap opera actor Paul Leyden has paid $865,000 for a recently remodeled, two-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills.

From the Real Estalker:
--Ed McMahon has reduced the price on his six-bedroom house in Beverly Hills from $7.699 million to $6.75 million. The expansive flash tour for the home can be found here.
--Attorneys Jeanine and Albert Pirro are selling their Palm Beach vacation home for $795,000 and their Harrison, New York home for $4.295 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford's Hollywood home is for lease for $40,000 per month.
--New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan has purchased a town house in Hermosa Beach for slightly more than $2 million.
--Gareth Davies, a producer of "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer," "Remington Steele" and other TV series, has put his Sherman Oaks home on the market at $1.95 million. The listing is here.
--Rapper Juicy J has closed escrow on a Sherman Oaks home for nearly its asking price of $2.2 million.
--The nearly-finished compound of a Saudi prince was sold under court order for $35 million. The home is on 25 acres and has 50,000 square feet of space.

More interesting real estate news, Hulk Hogan has decided to take his Florida Gulf Coast mansion off the market and move back in. The Hulkster put the home, which was featured in the first couple of seasons of his show "Hogan Knows Best," on the market in June after he bought a $12 million home in Miami Beach. After the end of filming, his family decided to return to the mansion in Belleair, Florida. I wonder if it was nostalgia for the old home or the fact that the real estate market isn't exactly perky lately that drove Hulk back to the French Country manse.