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Sunday Real Estate Round-up, 10/17/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

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.

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Steffi Graf has listed her Miami home, shown above, for $3.5 million. Graf bought the Hibiscus Island home for $1.315 million in 2001, about eight months before she married Andre Agassi. The listing is here. Only in Miami would a home like this be listed as a potential teartown.
--Real-estate developer R. Donahue Peebles and his wife, Katrina, sold their house in Santa Fe last month for $2.813 million. They paid $2.35 million in 2005 for the close to 9,000-square-foot property.
--Actor Cliff Robertson's former beachfront estate in La Jolla was recently listed for $28 million but has been reduced $22.5 million. We'll take a look at this historic property as our estate of the day.

From TMZ:
--The sale of Paris Hilton's home has hit a snag. The home appraised for under the asking price ($4.25 million). Instead the buyer got an appraisal for $3.6 million. There's some discussion of just how much all that included Paris furniture is worth. The real estate agent, Paris' uncle Mauricio Umansky says the buyers, a married couple from Texas, will pay the agreed-upon purchase price (and mostly cash to boot, taking a loan for $1 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Los Angeles Dodger Rafael Furcal has listed his Pasadena townhouse for $1,159,000.
--Kimora Lee Simmons has sold her home on N. Doheny Drive in Beverly Hills for $5,665,000.
--The Real Estalker Mama delivers pics of Steven Cojocaru's swanky new digs.
--The Real Estalker Mama also has more pics of David Spade's Malibu home for sale for $16 million. It's quite shabby chic and girly.
--And the Mama really hits it big with a whole boatload of pics of the $165 million Ross home for sale.

From the NY Post's Page Six:
--Yankee catcher Jorge Posada and his wife have paid $3.6 million for a three-bedroom apartment t next door to their four-bedroom condo on East 77th Street.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Dixie Chick Natalie Maines and her "Heroes" hubby Adrian Pasdar have bought a $5.6-million home in a Brentwood gated community. Mr. Big Time Listings unearths the listing. You can check the gorgeous home out here.
--Stand-up comic and writer Carol Leifer has sold a rental house in the Hollywood Hills for close to its asking price of $2 million.
--Rapper Erik Schrody, known as Everlast, has put his Woodland Hills home on the market at $789,000. The listing is here. Mr. Big Time Listings reports that Everlast has bought a $1.2 million home in Altadena.
--Christopher Knight and his wife, "America's Top Model" Adrianne Curry, have sold their Manhattan Beach town home for its asking price of $1,689,000. They have bought a larger home with ocean views in the area.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--The buyer of a five bedroom home in Toluca Lake that Damon Wayans had owned from 2001 to 2006 had listed the house for $4,495,000 months after buying the home from Wayans for $3.3 million. The successful flipper sold the home for $4.4 million.
--Mr. Big Time nails down the dollars on Kelsey Grammer's recent Los Angeles home moves. He sold his Bel-Air home for $13.5 million and paid $13.7 million for a home in Holmby Hills.
--Actor Paul Reiser has paid $755,000 to purchase a one-bedroom, 1,174-square-foot condominium unit in Beverly Hills.
--Actor Steven Weber sold his house in Malibu for $3,820,000 around $1 million more than he paid for it in early 2006.
--The asking price for the Hollywood Hills home that once belonged to Bobby Darin has been reduced from $3,689,000 to $2,995,000.

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