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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 03/01/09

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping


From Move Trends:
--You can rent the home once rented by Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for $100,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Katherine Heigl is trying her hand at selling her house, shown above, again. The home was listed last summer for $1.75 million and is now listed at $1.595 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--"ER" actress Maura Tierney has listed her Los Angeles home for $2.195 million. The listing is here.
--The Toluca Lake home of actor Alan Thicke is for lease at $15,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Screenwriter turned art gallery owner Laurie Frank has put her Hollywood Hills home on the market for $1.495 million. The listing is here.
--Former football player Brian Bosworth has listed has listed his seven-bedroom Malibu home for $8.995 million. The listing is here.
--Emmy award-winning writer and television show creator Gary David Goldberg has listed his eight-bedroom Brentwood home for $19.95 million. The listing is here.
--London rapper and mixed martial arts fighter Mams Taylor has listed his Beverly Hills home for $9.95 million. The listing is here.
--Kirsten Kemp Becker, host of TLC's series "Hope for Your Home" and "Property Ladder" has listed her Montecito estate at $5.195 million. She has renovated the eight bedroom home which sits on 1.71 acres. The listing is here.
--Actress Natasha Henstridge has put her five-bedroom home in Sherman Oaks, California on the market for $1.75 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Former Japanese soccer star Hidetoshi Nakata has cut the price of the apartment building he owns in New York City. The price for 43 Crosby is now $15 million. Last year, he was asking $22 million for the freshly renovated building which includes three floor through apartments, a duplex penthouse plus a ground floor/basement retail. The listing is here.
--Iceland has put four of its ambassadorial residences up for sale. We'll check out the Washington DC ambassadorial residence Monday as an estate of the day.


From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Danny Errico, the co-founder of Equinox gyms, has sold his home in Amagansett, New York for $11.895 million. His asking price was $14.995 million.
--Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of England's Manchester United soccer team, may be trying to back out of purchasing a penthouse at the Manhattan House development on East 66th Street.
--Richard and Cherylyn Cieri closed on their Manhattan House penthouse purchase for close to $8 million.
--Financier Stephen Benson has reduced the asking price on his Park Avenue apartment again. He originally wanted $13 million for the two-bedroom residence at 885 Park Ave. but is now asking $8.25 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Financier J. Christopher Flowers has put the Harkness mansion, which he bought in 2006, on the market for $49.95 million. He reportedly also spent millions on renovations.
--Aby Rosen's $75 million listing at 22 East 71st Street will be the site of the 37th annual Decorator Show House to be held this April and May. Rosen reports that he has received two offers above $60 million for it. Rosen paid $15.65 million for the house in August 2004 but isn't interested in cutting the price. We covered this home as an estate of the day last November.

From the Real Estalker:
--Moby and Stacey Bendet are leasing their Hollywood Hills home for $15,000 a month.
--Adam Levine of the band Maroon 5 has put his Los Angeles home up for rent for $10,000 a month. The listing is here.
The Castillo del Lago mansion in the Hollywood Hills is rumored to be soon to hit the market. The home was once owned by Madonna.
Last year, Los Angeles real estate agent Kurt Rappaport paid $15.99 million for a home in Beverly Hills. He has now renovated it and flipped it back on to the market for $28.5 million. The listing is here.
--Tennis star Lindsay Davenport has put two of her Southern California homes up for sale. We'll check out her Ventura beach house as today's estate of the day.


Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 09/07/08

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping


From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Celebrity manager Rick Yorn has sold his Brentwood house for $9.35 million.
-- Wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin listed his 3,881-square-foot house in Malibu for $3,895,000 originally, it just sold for $2.5 million.
--The home belonging to Kanye West's mom, Donda West is expected to get another price cut, to $1.595 million. The contemporary home in the Playa del Rey area of Los Angeles was originally priced at $1.945 million and was dropped to $1.745 million at the end of May. The listing is here.
--The Polaroid house, shown above, is located on Malibu's Carbon Beach, has been home to plenty of A-list parties but with Malibu's new paparazzi crackdown the home is looking for just one owner. The property has 80 feet of beach frontage and has approved plans to build a 6,000 square foot estate with a beachfront pool and spa as well as the existing home. It is listed at $32 million.

From the NY Post's Real Estate section:
--Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger is about to list his Plaza apartment for $50 million. The apartment is located in the northeast dome on the 18th and 19th floors of the building and includes four bedrooms, a formal dining room, large living room, library and gourmet kitchen.
--Paul McCartney is looking for a New York City apartment closer to the Upper East Side apartment of his new flame Nancy Shevell.
--Denis Leary's TV series "Rescue Me" has just signed a six-month lease with Loft 14, the 10-story condominium building at 135 W. 14th St., where taping of their fifth season will begin this month. The lease is for $14,000 a month and the apartment has a real asking price of $2,375 million.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actor Chris O'Donnell has paid an undisclosed amount for a house in Pacific Palisades. The seller bought it last year for $4.675 million. He sold his last house in Pacific Palisades for $5.05 million.
--Jamie Foxx has sold his Tarzana home. It was our estate of the day back in June.
--Nicolas Cage's Bel Air home is back on the market, this time for $29.999 million. It hit the market last September for $35 million and was later pulled. The listing for the classic home which has been owned by both Dean Martin and Tom Jones is here.
--Glenn Frey has paid $7.75 million for a six-bedroom estate in Hana, Hawaii, on Maui.
--Kiefer Sutherland has paid $8.25 million for a t five-story town house in Manhattan's West Village.

From the Real Estalker:
--Looks like neither Donald Trump nor the mystery buyer have picked up Ed McMahon's house. It is still listed at $4.6 million.
--Rumor has it that Cher has sold her Malibu mansion which was listed at $45 million.
--Stevie Wonder has put his home in Los Feliz on the market for $3.2 million.
--Nascar racer Denny Hamlin has put his North Carolina home on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.
----via Boston.com, quarterback Tom Brady is a real estate winner. He converted a Beacon Street town house into four condos and sold three of them saving the top floors floors for himself. As a result he earned back more than he paid two years ago for the building. His total proceeds were $7.95 million which is $1.71 million more than he paid for the entire building, according to public deed records.
--via Nashville City Paper, country singer Kix Brooks of Brooks & Dunn and his wife Barbara are the buyers in Nashville's biggest home sale of the year. They paid $5.45 million in August for a new house in Forest Hills.
--via the Real Deal, Moby sold his penthouse at the El Dorado, the twin-towered cooperative apartment at 300 Central Park West near 90th Street, for $6.7 million. It was our estate of the day in July of 2007 when it was priced at $7.5 million.
--Dane Cook has picked up a four-bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills for $7,078,412.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Basketball player Allen Iverson has reduced the price on his Villanova, Pennsylvania home by 37%. We will be checking this out as our estate of the day on Monday.
--Basketball player Rasheed Wallace has cut the price on his Portland, Oregon home. It will be our estate of the day on Tuesday.
--Actor Matthew Modine has purchased a condominium in New York's Chelsea section for $1.7 million.
--Leonard Ross who put the Hearst estate in Beverly Hills on the market for $165 million has taken it off the market. He has decided to keep the home.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
-- A co-op penthouse in 1060 Fifith Avenue has sold for $48,836,000 setting a new co-op price record in Manhattan. Hedge fund manager Scott Bommer and wife Donya. The couple bought the home for $46 million penthouse back in January. The buyer is listed anonymously on the deed as Park View Trust.
--Writer Ian Buruma spent $1,495,000 on an apartment at the Kalahari on West 116th Street. He and Eri Hotta, who taught at Oxford until 2005, closed last month.
--Ben Stiller spent $10 million on a duplex in a prewar orange-brick co-op on Riverside Drive in the West 80s, the same building that his parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, have lived in for years.

Moby's Real Estate Woes

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

Musician Moby is facing real estate woes on both coasts this week. He has been trying to sell his charming New York co-op in the El Dorado since last summer (check out pictures from our estate of the day posting here) but seems to be having trouble finding a buyer his co-op board will love. Moby bought the two-bedroom tower apartment for $4.5 million in September 2005 and it is spread out over four levels and has terraces with terra cotta tiles, stone parapets and of course, mega views. He originally listed it at $7.5 million and found a buyer but the El Dorado co-op board turned the buyer down. Moby got smart and Main Street reports that he is now offering $75,000 as a finder's fee to anyone who can help him find a buyer that can pass muster.

As we heard a couple months ago, Moby and his friend fashion designer Stacey Bendet bought a $3 million house in the Hollywood Hills with the plans to turn it into a showplace for stylists and celebs with the garage as Moby's recording studio. Now neighbors aren't thrilled with idea of a music studio in the area and are warning him not to pursue the renovation. A neighbor said to the NY Post that they kicked Prince off the street for making noise and so Moby should be careful. Gee, life as a peace-loving vegan millionaire is tougher than I thought.

Sunday Real Estate Round-Up


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.

Moby's Tower, Estate of the Day

Filed under: Estates


Say what you like about Moby's music, this is a man who likes design. Josh Barbanel of the NY Times recounted the story of his adventures at 300 Central Park West. The last property we looked at from the music man had a minimalist quality but this one is far more traditional to, as Moby put it "honor the Art Deco spirit of the building."

He bought the two-bedroom tower apartment for $4.5 million in September 2005. The apartment is spread out over four levels and has terraces with terra cotta tiles, stone parapets and of course, mega views. Moby lived in the space for a while and then embarked on a 14-month odyssey of renovation. With the help of interior designer, Sara Bengur, he turned the home into his ideal. And then, as so often happens, he decided to move.

There's lots to love here. The views, the terraces, the living room with a working fireplace, the opportunity to getaway from whoever you are living with simply by switching floors. Unfortunately there's no elevator here so if you want this place you better have the legs for it. But your $7.5 million buys you a truly unique place. After the jump, my favorite level is the third floor which has a cherry paneled library, a spiral staircase leading up to the fourth floor office and a wrap around crenellated terrace with 360 degree views.


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