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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 09/26/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times:
--Guitarist Brian Bell of the alt rock band Weezer has purchased a Spanish-style house in Los Angeles for $1.6 million.
--Musician Herb Alpert and his wife, singer Lani Hall, have listed a house in Pacific Palisades, shown above, at $2.6 million. The listing is here.
--Sports agent, developer and rare-coin collector Dwight Manley has listed a remodeled house in the Hollywood Hills at $4.995 million. The listing is here.
--Marc Blucas, who was on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as Buffy's boyfriend, Riley, has listed two houses for sale in Brentwood. The listings for both homes are here.

From Newsday's Real LI:
-- Twinight, the six-acre Centre Island estate said to be based on the Petit Trianon chateau at the Palace of Versailles, has come on the market for $25 million.The listing is here.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--A penthouse on the top floor of the 56-story Park Millennium building near Lincoln Center is being listed this weekend by Prudential Douglas Elliman for $34.5 million.
--An Park Avenue apartment designed by architect Charles Gwathmey is on the market for $5.7 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--Meg Ryan has signed a one-year lease on a three-bedroom rental at 40 Mercer in the $25,000-per-month range.
--Kelsey Grammer and his pregnant flight-attendant girlfriend, Kayte Walsh, are still apartment-hunting together and were most recently seen hecking out a $12.24 million apartment at the storied Apthorp building.
--Real estate investor Jonathan Eilian is spending $55,000 a month on a penthouse rental at 80 Columbus Circle, also known as the Time Warner Center's Residences at the Mandarin Oriental. The 77th-floor unit is also listed for sale at $35.5 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Observer:
--Soccer star Thierry Henry has picked up a $9 million penthouse purchase at 39 Crosby Street.
--Russian supermodel Irina Shayk just purchased a $1.963 million one-bedroom at 166 Perry Street.
--Indian liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya has paid $2.4 million for a penthouse in Trump Plaza.
--HealthGuru.com founders Joshua and Marsha Silberstein have sold their apartment at 301 East 87th Street for $1.45 million.
--Less than two months after the condo at the Atalanta at 25 North Moore formerly owned by Damon Dash and Rachel Roy was auctioned off for $5.5 million by Eastern Savings Bank, the buyer, Mr. Stasis' One Platinum Company LLC, is taking Ms. Roy to court to evict her.
--A two-level penthouse in 166 Bank Street, just across the hall from Heidi Klum's former Manhattan crash pad, has sold for $4.1 million.
--The Tudor Village home of the late Lovelia Fried Albright, the daughter of Mackay Construction George Fried and by some reports the first American to enter East Berlin during the Cold War, has sold for $1.07 million.

From Housing Watch:
The new buyer of the Olsen twins' penthouse at Morton Square is Continuum Company CEO Bruce Eichner. He bought the home for $7.7 million.

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 11/30/08

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Palais Rhoul, a family-owned boutique hotel in Marrakech, Morocco has gone on the market for €25 million. The small hotel which is a fave of celebrities in the know could also be turned back into a luxurious private residence. The listing can be found here and the hotel website is here.
--Locksley Hall, a Bay Area home we first mentioned in 2006 when it was listed at $65 million has gone through one monster pay cut and is now listed at $48 million. Mining executive Robert Friedland bought the home for $5.5 million but has said he spend $32 million and nine years turning it into the showplace it is today. The listing is here.
--Chris Whittle, founder of school-management company Edison Schools, has listed part of his 11-acre waterfront Hamptons estate for $27 million. We'll be checking it out as our estate of the day later today.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Is New York powerhouse Dolly Lenz no longer the top real estate broker in the country? She didn't make the Real Estate Top 200, an objective ranking sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, Real Trends and Lore Magazine but that's because she didn't submit her numbers.
--Robert C. Almon, who began his career at General Motors, was made one of Lorillard's eight board members earlier this month, has sold his Park Avenue apartment for $3.75 million. It was listed at $3.85 million.
--John C. Whitehead, a former Goldman co-chairman who served as the deputy secretary of state during the Reagan administration sold a five-room, two-bedroom co-op at 830 Park Avenue for $3.2 million, also only $100,000 below its asking price.
Coldplay guitarist Jonny Buckland has paid $3.4 million for a condo at 21 Astor Place .

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Real estate heir Leslie Spira Lopez has closed on a four-bedroom apartment on the 18th floor of 15 Madison Square Park for $5.5 million.
--James Frey has cut the price on his four-bedroom condo at 505 Greenwich Street, it is now listed at $3.995 million.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Retired basketball star and current broadcaster Mark Jackson and his singer wife, Desiree Jackson have listed their home in Calabasas, California for $4.995 million. The couple bought the home from NBA star Mitch Richmond in July 2004 for $3.4 million.
--Leonardo DiCaprio has closed on his unit in Manhattan's new Riverhouse development, paying $3.6 million last month.
--A Los Feliz mansion once owned by long-ago Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler is on the market for $6.799 million. The listing is here.
A two-bedroom home near Los Angeles' Hancock Park area that actor Christopher Lloyd owned from 1981 until 2002 and that actor/director Howard Morris later owned is on the market for $1.229 million. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Talk radio host John Kobylt of the "The John and Ken Show" has listed his Beverly Hills home for sale at $2.695 million. The listing for the six-bedroom home is here.

From Contact Music via the NY Post:
--Tommy Hilfiger has taken his $50 million listing at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan off the market.

Because there isn't a lot of real estate dish lately, I thought it would be fun to take a look at some estate of the days that have been on the market for over a year:

--Hillandale on the New York-Connecticut border is still on the market for $95 million for over a year.
--Boldwater in Maine has been sitting at $7.5 million for over a year.
--Four Ponds in Vermont is still listed at $8.7 million.
--The price on this Mt. Tiburon, California house has been dropped to $9.95 million but it is still on the market.
--Pinnacle Farm in Connecticut seems to have inexplicably gone up over $10 million and is now listed at $35 million.
--This massive chateau in McLean, Virginia has been reduced to $15 million from $17.5 million.

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Locksley Hall, Estate of the Day

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates

Locksley Hall made Forbes' list of the most expensive homes in America this year with a list price of $65 million. It is located across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco in the exclusive Belvedere area of Marin County. Its location right on the bay is highly desirable, in a place where both land and coastline are at a premium, not to mention that it allows the residents to be treated to world-class views of the bay area.

UPDATE: Three years later and this home is now listed at $48 million.

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