jeana keough

We've been following the real estate travails of Jeana Keough, former star of the Real Housewives of Orange County and real estate agent, for a while now. Just last summer her seven-bedroom home in the Coto de Caza, California community was listed at $5.5 million. Flash forward to now and the Real Estalker leads us to a fresh listing for the home and a new low price of $3.9 million. But it gets worse, apparently a second Notice of Default was filed on the property in mid-December of 2009 setting an auction date of March 5. The OC Register reported that $1,519,824.50 is owed on the home.
The listing's rather fuzzy photos show the French Country estate with a guest house, basketball court and a large pool and spa with covered patios and a firepit. Inside the home has high ceilings, lots of draperies and plenty of beige. There is a two-person office with a view of the hillside, large family room with built in wet bar, game room, library and a media room formed by a pull-down screen, a couple of leather chairs with cupholders and some large speakers.

UPDATE: The home has been saved from foreclosure by a loan modification. She told the Orange County Register that the home will be taken off the market.

We mentioned a few weeks back that Jeana Keough, one of the women on "The Real Housewives of Orange County" was in default on several of her properties. After receiving a loan modification she decided to list her family home in the Coto de Caza area of Orange County California. She listed the seven bedroom home for $5.5 million and the pictures are now online. The rather fuzzy photos show the French Country estate with a guest house, basketball court and a large pool and spa with covered patios and a firepit. Inside the home has high ceilings, lots of draperies and plenty of beige. There is a two-person office with a view of the hillside, large family room with built in wet bar, game room, library and a media room formed by a pull-down screen, a couple of leather chairs with cupholders and some large speakers. This home has been listed at $5.5 million in a town which is stuffed with multi-million dollar properties on the market. We're not too optimistic about her chances of getting her asking price. She told the Orange County Register that the property was once worth $6.5 million and is now worth around $5 million.

UPDATE: This home has been pulled off the market.

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Jeana Keough, the former Playboy model turned real estate agent/reality TV star is having a bit of trouble in the Orange Country, California real estate market. She stars on "The Real Housewives of Orange County" and owns four homes including three rental properties. She has told the Orange County Register that all four homes are in trouble. Last month,her lender filed a notice of default for a $1.3 million mortgage made in 2003, saying that she owes $37,538 in unpaid bills. She's also under fire from the homeowner's association in her neighborhood, Coto de Caza which says she owes $3,732.

Keough, who recently announced that she wasn't not planning to return to the show, has said she's working on loan modifications on all four homes and that's why they are going into default. She has renters in her three other units but isn't sure if she is going to sell.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Oscar-nominated screenwriter (and Harrison Ford's ex-wife) Melissa Mathison has paid $2.9 million for a maisonette apartment at 50 Central Park West.
--Real estate broker Bob Knakal and his wife Cynthia have closed on a two-unit, 2,250-square-foot apartment at the new condo 45 Park Avenue. They paid around $4 million, which includes a $240,000 parking space in the building.
--Stephen Feinberg, founder and CEO of Cerberus Capital Management and his wife Gisela have sold their ninth-floor co-op at 151 East 79th Street for $9.1 million.
--Carter-era Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, 82, has put his ninth-floor apartment up for sale along with his late next-door neighbor's larger co-op, for $24 million. The apartment at 550 Park Avenue, shown above, once belonged to Vogue editor Diana Vreeland.Together both apartments create a 6,500 square-foot-spread. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Oprah Winfrey's best friend Gayle King has bought the penthouse apartment at Place 57 on East 57th Street for approximately $7.4 million.
--The former Dakota apartment of Leonard Bernstein has finally sold and closed after first going to contract 10 months ago.
--Young fashion designer Christian Cota has gone to contract on a $4.55 million penthouse at the Chelsea Modern.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Cartoon voice actress Kath Soucie has paid $2,300,000 for a 1,979-square-foot, gated house in Pacific Palisades.
--Supermodel Carolyn Murphy has sold her four-bedroom Brentwood home for $3,600,000.
--Tatiana Namath, the ex-wife of Joe Namath, has listed her house in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades area for $6.9 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--In September, Moby found a buyer for his apartment spread over four floors atop the south tower of the El Dorado,near his asking price of $7.5 million. Now it has been listed again because the co-op board turned down the prospective buyer. It was our estate of the day last July. The listing is here.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--Jim Rogers who created the Quantum Fund and later set a record for round-the-world travel by motorcycle and became a visiting professor at Columbia University and a columnist and television commentator has now officially sold his Riverside Drive home for $15.75 million, a record for a town house on the Upper West Side. The buyer of the Riverside Drive house was Helen LaKelly Hunt, a daughter of H. L. Hunt, the oil tycoon. She conducts workshops for couples, with her husband, Harville Hendrix, a clinical pastoral counselor. The mansion next door to Mr. Rogers's has been on the market off and on for several years. It was recently listed again, for $30 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--A house on Spain's Mediterranean coast once owned by Hitchcock film actress Madeleine Carroll is on the market for €10 million (about $14.7 million). The home was built for Ms. Carroll and has eight bedrooms, eight bedrooms, beamed ceilings, tiled floors, arched windows and a double-height great hall. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--A look at the home in Topanga that TV actor Eric Mabius sold for $1,209,000 which is now back on the market for $1.495 million. The listing is here.
--Baseball player Mark Teixeira has put his Westlake, Texas home on the market for $5.75 million. It is our estate of the day later today.
--Actress Kristen Kerr has put her Los Angeles home on the market for $1.995 million. The listing is here.
--Reality TV star Slade Smiley's Coto de Caza home is headed into foreclosure.
--Avril Lavigne is still trying to sell her Beverly Hills home, the price has been reduced $400,000 to $5,800,000. The listing even admits "we picked the wrong buyer twice!" The property website is here.
--More Real Housewives of the O.C. news, Jeana Keough is selling off the condo she bought for her son in Irvine. The three-bedroom townhouse is listed at $849,000.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Conan O'Brien is buying a newly built, six-bedroom house in Brentwood for just under $10.5 million.
--Mark Harmon has purchased the Malibu compound Villa Vista Oceano, where the Stone Temple Pilots recorded the album "Shangri-La Dee Da." The compound was set to be auctioned but Harmon bought it for $9 million plus an 8% premium.
--Celebrity photographer Firooz Zahedi has listed his home in the Empire West tower, just off Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, for $1.449 million. The listing is here.