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From the NY Observer:
--Upper East Side restaurant icon Elaine Kaufman's penthouse has hit the market for $2.995 million. The listing for the two-bedroom co-op, shown above, is with her friend Kathy Sloane of Brown Harris Stevens.

From the NY Post:
--Alex Rodriguez is still real estate shopping. He was recently spotted checking out a $37,000-per-month townhouse rental at 9 E. 62nd St. The three-bedroom, 3,846-square-foot limestone mansion has 18-foot ceilings, an elevator, a solarium and a cedar-lined cigar room. The listing with Frances Katzen of Prudential Douglas Elliman is here.
--Belgian entrepreneur Rob Heyvaert is the buyer of the 54 Bond St., penthouse that was last listed for $14.45 million, down from its $16.5 million price in 2009. --Designer Steven Stolman is back in New York as design director of Jack Rogers, the iconic shoe company that was a favorite of Jackie Kennedy. He is renting a 800-square-foot studio at 215 E. 68th St.
--Author/journalist Carl Bernstein was spotted checking out two penthouse rentals at 55 Thompson in SoHo. --Courtney Love is back on the prowl for a townhouse rental and was seen at 24 Thompson St., the apartment owned by Miami Heat center Zydrunas Ilgauskas and his wife, Jennifer. The $37,050-per-month townhouse is listed by Spire Group.
--Mystery writer Harlan Coben is in contract to buy a 1,600-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bathroom co-op, listed for $2.69 million, at the Dakota building.

From the Real Deal:
--The price on writer Truman Capote's Brooklyn Heights has been dropped from $18 million to $15.9 million.

--A man once nicknamed the "Psychic Hotline King" has put his Time Warner penthouse back on the market. The 25 Columbus Circle penthouse belonging to Steven Feder, onetime head of the now-defunct pay-per-call service Psychic Readers Network (made famous by Jamaican-accented fortune teller "Miss Cleo"), hit the market for $38.5 million. The listing is here.

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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.

From The New Zealand Herald:
--RIchmond Hall,shown above, a Georgian-style manor in New Zealand that was used in the Peter Jackson movie, "The Frighteners" is for sale. The listing is here.

From The Sun:
Billionaire Lakshmi Mittal may be set to purchase a mansion in Kensington Palace Gardens, West London for £117 million He has denied being the buyer but has been looking to buy a home for his son and already lives in the area, having paid £67million for a 12-bedroom home four years ago.


From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen are now living in a brownstone in the West Village. They've rented a 10-room triplex apartment in the building with five bedrooms, three bathrooms and a terrace for $12,000 a month rent. They have dropped the price on their penthouse at Morton Square from $11.9 million to $10.495 million. The listing is here.
--Chef Bobby Flay bought a $1.4 million apartment 220 Riverside Drive for his father.
--Interior designer Nate Berkus has been seen looking at the three-bedroom, two-bathroom corner loft at 43 Clarkson in the West Village. The apartment is listed at $4.89 million. The listing is here. The listing agent Darren Sukenik has also reportedly shown a one-bedroom, three-floor townhouse to singer/songwriter Ryan Adams . That property listed at $2.495 million.
One half of Dolce & Gabbana, Domenico Dolce has bought a duplex apartment at 200 11th Ave. for more than its $17.5 million asking price.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Joy Behar paid $2,555,000 for a co-op in the building she already lives in and hasn't sold her old apartment.
--Once the home of Danceteria, 30 West 21st Street will now be luxury condos. Beck Street Capital is turning the building into 11 floor-through apartments, about 4,000 square feet apiece, that will go on the market next month for $5,895,000 to $7,950,000. There will also be a duplex penthouse (with six terraces and a rooftop pool) that costs $7,795,000, and a bigger townhouse apartment downstairs priced at $9.25 million.
--Russian fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin bought the duplex penthouse at the Curzon House on East 62nd Street for $5.7 million.
--Model Lily Donaldson picked up a home in the East Village for $2.2 million on Tompkins Square Park around East Eighth Street.
--Last summer, Rosie O'Donnell signed a $1.97 million contract for a two-bedroom pied-a-terre at the new steel-and-tinted glass condo called Platinum, on West 46th Street and now she has also bought the condominium's model apartment.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--A home in the Hollywood Hills once owned by jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty which was listed for $2 million, has sold.
--Actress Jaime Pressly has sold her house in Tarzana area for $1.27 million after it had been on the market for over a year.
--via the Observer, Howard Stern's newswoman Robin Quivers has paid $2.425 million for a condominium in 200 West End Avenue in New York City.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen have sold their oceanfront house in Malibu which had been listed at $16.75 million.
--Former KTLA Morning News co-anchor Giselle Fernandez-Farrand and her husband, John Farrand, have listed their 1924 Hancock Park house for $6.3 million. The listing is here.
--Tattoo artist Kat VonD as just leased a guesthouse above the Sunset Strip for $2,000 a month.
----A Palm Springs house that was once Cary Grant's getaway is on the market for $4,995,000. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--"Nip/Tuck" creator Ryan Murphy has put his gorgeous three-bedroom Midcentury Modern home in the Hollywood Hills on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.
--via the NYT's Big Deal, the swanky Wanamaker Munn House, a brick and limestone mansion at 17 East 90th Street near Fifth Avenue that was the home of Aimee de Heeren, an international socialite, has been bought by the Spence School, a private school for young women. The home was originally listed at $33 million but it sold in the high $20 millions.
--Jeff Lewis and Ryan Brown of Bravo's Flipping Out program are set to flip another one. They bought this home in Los Feliz for $1.710 million in 2007 and have now listed the three bedroom home for $2.995 million. The listing is here.
--Los Angeles restaurateur Greg Finefrock has put his Malibu property on the market for $8.999 million. The virtual tour of this three-bedroom home on a bluff in the Point Dume area is here.
--Actress Julie Kay Araskog has listed her Beverly Hills Post Office area house for $5.15 million. The property website is here.

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From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Film and theater producer Scott Rudin has sold his 18th-century home in Washington, Connecticut for about $4.25 million which was nearly 20% less than his asking price.
--Hedge-fund executive William von Mueffling paid $25 million last week for a 10th-floor co-op apartment at 810 Fifth Ave. in New York.
--Catherine Crier, whose Court TV legal news show was canceled earlier this year, has placed her 622-acre Wyoming ranch on the market last month for $3.99 million. Plenty of acreage and a simple 1,440-square-foot log cabin where Crier wrote several books. The listing can be found through Charlie Ross.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter and Page Six:
--The CEO of Estee Lauder has picked up an expansive apartment in the same building as Vera Wang's six bedroom spread, 778 Park Avenue. His application was approved by the co-op board less than a week before it was revealed that he had a baby with a woman who was not his wife.
--Celeb couples Christy Turlington Burns and Ed Burns and Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber have been spotted house hunting in the Hamptons.
--Lisa Bonder Kerkorian, ex-wife of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, has put her Bridgehampton property on the market again. This time for $16.3 million, it was on the market for $13.9 million earlier this year. The home is assembled from a 200-year-old barn. Enjoy the spare splendor at the listing here.
--Loews Hotels CEO and New York Giants co-owner Jonathan Tisch has been checking out a duplex apartment at 740 Park Ave. He has also signed a lease to take a $75,000-a-month apartment at Trump Park Avenue, presumably where his fiance Lizzie Rudnick will live before the knot is tied.
--Rachel Ray and her husband have purchased a compound in Southampton for just under $3 million. It has a three-bedroom main house and a two-bedroom pool house with sauna, separate guest cottage, pond and heated pool.

From The Real Estalker:
--Following up on a Berg Properties story from March, actor Rick Schroeder has bought a Malibu home, shown above, that belonged to real estate agent John Cortazzo and was featured on Bravo's Million Dollar Listings TV show. The two-bedroom beach house went for $5.85 million. Check out the home's website here.
--Actor Isaiah Washington has put his Hancock Park co-op on the market for $1.695 million.
--Has Nic Cage purchased Midford Castion, a Gothic castle three miles South of Bath that was built in 1775 in the shape of the ace of spades?
--Adrienne Vittadini is selling a five-bedroom home in Water Mill, New York. She bought in May of 1997 for just $1,470,000 and is now listing at $7.6 million. You can check out the listing here.
-- Frank and Jamie McCourt, who own Los Angeles Dodgers may be purchasing the home that belongs to Courtney Cox-Arquette and David Arquette which is listed at $33.5 million.
--Jeff Lewis, who is the house flipper on Bravo TV's new reality show Flipping Out is behind this flip in Los Feliz. He bought for $975,000 in June 2006 and has now listed at $1.525 million. It's nice but everso bland, check it out here.
--Terence Howard was renting in Los Feliz for $12,500 a month.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Fashioin maven Ellin Saltzman who has lived at the Carlyle House for seven decades, has sold the apartment for $4.7 million to Peter and Jill Melhado.
--Is Zach Braff buying stage director Tom O'Horgan's Greenwich Village loft?
--Schuyler Tilney, the ex-head of Merrill Lynch's energy group and his wife, Elizabeth, an ex-senior vice president at Enron have paid $2.3 million for an apartment at the new Place 57 condo on East 57th Street.
--Architect Peter Eisenman has sold his 21st-floor apartment at 101 West 12th Street to nightclub owner Noah Tepperberg for $3.2 million.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Detective author Robert Crais and his psychotherapist wife Pat have paid $2.975 million for a house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills that is next door to a house that has long has been owned by actress Jennifer Aniston.
--The Providence Journal reports that Nicolas purchased theGray Craig mansion for $16 million. We first wrote about it back in 2005 when it was listed at $19 million.
--Professional poker player Annie Duke has sold her house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $2,840,000.
--Stevie Nicks has listed her Arizona home for $3.8 million. It's our estate of the day later today.


From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Joely Fisher has purchased a newly built house in Sherman Oaks for $3.5 million.
--Dayna Devon of the show "Extra" and her husband, Brent Moelleken, a plastic surgeon have bought a getway house in Lake Arrowhead for $4.5 million.
--Actress Sofia Vegara has purchased a condo on the Wilshire Corridor for close to $2 million.
--Producer David Kahne has sold his home in the Beverly Hills post office area for $1.62 million and is moving to Manhattan.