On the market, off the market, and back on again, We've been seeing Nicole Murphy, ex-wife of Eddie Murphy, try to sell her home in the Calabasas area of Southern California since 2007. It's hard to say why this one hasn't sold but the LA Times Hot Property column reports that she's trying again.

The home in The Oaks gated community has seven bedrooms and a Spanish hacienda style that includes high vaulted ceilings, crown molding, custom stone work, hand painted tiles, floor to ceiling windows, arched walk ways, distressed hardwoods, terra cotta flooring, and hand-forged iron light fixtures and railings. The open family room includes a wet bar and wine cellar and a home theater offers stadium seating. The master suite has a formal entry with travertine floors, a balcony, two walk in closets, his and hers vanities, a spa and a large walk-in shower. The grounds provide places to play with a pool and spa, a barbeque area with a refrigerator, ice maker, warming drawer and wet bar and a casita with a full kitchen and an indoor and an outdoor fireplace, fountains and walking paths with mountain vista views. It has been listed as high as $9.995 million in the past but is now listed at $8.495 million and may need more of a price cut to finally move into the sold column.

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From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--A four-story Upper East Side townhouse 152-156 East 81st Street, shown above, has gone on the market for $45 million. It has a a 3,000-square-foot garden, 38-foot-wide drawing room. two libraries and one sitting room; a parlor-floor dry bar and a "wine cellar/grotto" in the basement. The listing is here.
--Moby is an investor in a a four-floor, six-room, three-bedroom unit at Landmark 17 which was sold to gas broker Javier Loya and his interior designer wife Lucinda for $4.35 million.
--Michael Novogratz's a former Goldman Sachs partner who is behind Fortress Investment Group and officially became a billionaire last February his company went public once rented a 5,000-square-foot loft at 400 West 14th Street that had listed for $37,500 per month. The hedge fund executive's family even made changes to the rental. Now they've moved to their renovated Tribeca apartment and the their old apartment is listed at $29,000 a month. Check out the listing here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Stephen Dorff has listed his Chelsea apartment. It was our estate of the day on Friday.
--Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have listed their Beverly Park estate, it is our photo-heavy estate of the day later today.
----Lawyer Chris Darden has put his Tarzana home on the market for $2.199 million.
--Madison Hildebrand, a real estate agent who appears on Bravo's Million Dollar Listing show has listed his Malibu townhouse for $1.27 million.


From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Ving Rhames has listed a five-bedroom home in Brentwood. It was our estate of the day on Saturday.
--American pop artist Edward Ruscha has listed his Malibu beach house for $7.15 million. The listing is here.
--Barbi Benton, Hugh Hefner's former live-in girlfriend, Hee Haw star and frequent Fantasy Island and Love Boat guest star, has listed her Bel-Air home with her husband, George Gradow, a real estate developer.The pair live in Aspen and have rented the Bel-Air home to a variety of celebrities including Prince, Mariah Carey and Michael Caine. The property website for this elaborate home is here.
--Nicole Murphy, Eddie Murphy's ex-wife has re-listed her Calabasas house, asking $8.495 million. Last October it was on the market at $9.95 million. The listing is here.
--The Beverly Hills estate of three-time Oscar-winning songwriter Ray Evans is listed for sale at $9.995 million. Evans, with his partner Jay Livingston penned "Que Sera, Sera," "Silver Bells" and "Buttons and Bows." He lived in this mid-century modern house for more than 50 years. It's a real beauty, check out the property website.
--The owners of Stonepine the Stonepine Estate Resort in Carmel Valley, Gordon and Noel Irwin Hentschel have put their longtime Bel-Air home on the market for $18 million. The French Normandy-style home also rents for $65,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Beck has listed his Malibu home for $2.399 million. The listing is here.
--Tori Spelling has listed her home in the Westwood area of Los Angeles for $2.395 million.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actress Annabeth Gish has paid $1.65 million for a 1,476-square-foot house in Valley Village.
--A seven-bedroom house in Sherman Oaks once owned by model Rachel Hunter has been listed for $3.495 million. The property website is here.
--A five-bedroom home in Encino where Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen spent a good amount of their youth is on the market for $2.795 million. The listing is here.
Public records reveal that Brad Garrett got $7,500,000 for his five bedroom home in Hidden Hills.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Alexis Stewart has relisted her bright white TriBeCa apartment at the same price, $12.4 million, with a new broker. The listing is here.
--A 16-room duplex at 1030 Fifth Ave. has been reduced by $13 million since it first went on the market last June for $47.5 million. The owners are still set to make a profit though, they paid just $2 million for it in the 1980s. The listing for the now $34.5 million apartment is here.
--Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit has sold a four-bedroom co-op at 300 E. 85th St. to Pantelis Apessos, a fellow Citigroup executive for $2.25 million.
--John Paulson, a hedge-fund manager who pocketed as much as $3 billion last year on bets against subprime mortgages, had a buyer with a signed contract walk away from his $16.9 million listing on Ox Pasture Road in Southampton. The home is still on the market, the listing is here. Meanwhile Paulson has spent more than $41 million for a 10-acre estate down the street known as Old Trees.

From the Wall Street Journals' Private Properties:
--The former home of Truman Capote in the Hamptons recently went on the market for $14.6 million.
--In Tel Aviv, two high-floor apartments in a planned 27-story condominium designed by architect Richard Meier have gone to contract for about $15 million each.
--James Guercio, who produced early albums by the rock group Chicago, has placed a large piece of Wyoming land up for sale for $75 million. The property has more than 80,000 acres including the legendary OW, V Bar C, Pitchfork, Wolf and LX Bar Ranches along with two downtown Sheridan office buildings, and the old Birney Store & Saloon.The listing is here.

From Newsday's Real LI:
Socialite and actress Jennifer Creel and her ex-husband Lawrence have sold a five-year-old, 3,500-square-foot home on Fisher's Island for $3.05 million.

From the International Herald Tribune's Raising the Roof:
--The Montreal Ritz Carlton has officially started selling 50 new residences starting at $1.75 million for the apartments, which range from 1,060 to 5,640 square feet. The apartments are scheduled for completion in 2010.
--Cacique, the $800 million development in Costa Rica being developed by AOL founder Steve Case has been delayed and now won't break ground until 2010, at the earliest.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--via In Touch Weekly, 'Dancing with the Stars' co-host Samantha Harris and her husband, Michael Hess have paid $1,600,000 to buy a in Los Angeles west of the Century City area.
--Slash has finally sold his five-bedroom "lawsuit house" in the Hollywood Hills, possibly to San Diego Padres relief pitcher Randy Wolf.
--An update of the real estate moves of Hilary Swank, she paid $5.8 million earlier this year for a place in Pacific Palisades and told W Magazine that she left New York because of the high real estate prices (Swank and ex-hubby Chad Lowe sold their Manhattan townhouse for $7,050,000 million in January) but likely her romance with her former agent John Campisi, who is L.A.-based also had something to do with it. Nevertheless, New York magazine has spotted Swank browsing for a loft and reported that she was looking at a a two-bedroom unit in the Superior Ink development in Manhattan.
--'One Tree Hill' actors Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush have sold their house in Wilmington, N.C. for $730,000.
--Justin Long, who is perhaps most famous for the "I'm a Mac" ads, has paid about $1,400,000 for amid-century modern home in the Hollywood Hills.
--Nicole Richie has sold her condominium unit in the Empire West building in West Hollywood for $2,250,000.

From the Real Estalker:
--via Newsday, Patricia Kennedy Lawford's estate has sold her Southampton home for $9.8 million.
--via Luxury Real Estate, Eddie Murphy's ex-wife Nicole Murphy has sold their Sacramento area home for the highest price the Sacramento area has ever seen, $6.1 million.Most of the furnishings, including at least 20 TVs and a sleek, black, $200,000 Schimmel Pegasus grand piano were included in the deal.
--The Real Estalker Mama has nabbed some interior shots of the Golden Beach, Florida house that Ricky Martin has put on the market for $22.5 million.
--The Mama takes a look at Peter Guber's Kauai Tara Plantation. This home has sat on the market for $46.5 million for nearly 3 years, we covered it way back in February 2005.
--Amanda Peet and her screenwriter husband David Benioff have sold their Angelo View Drive house high above Holmby Hills and have purchased the former James Cagney estate above Sunset Boulevard on N. Wetherly Drive.
--50 Cent has reduced the price of his Connecticut home to $12 million from $18.5 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Nicolas Cage has pulled his Bel-Air mansion, which was listed at $35 million, off the market.
-- St. Louis Rams owner Georgia Frontiere sold her Bel-Air home for close to $30 million.
--Madonna's former home in Beverly Hills, which was redone by Diane Keaton, just closed at almost $17 million.
--Comedy writer Bill Richmond has purchased a town house overlooking the lake in Calabasas Park for close to its asking price of $1.3 million.
--Gregory Joujon-Roche, a celebrity personal trainer, has listed his Malibu condo for $2.695 million. The listing is here, the home is freshly redecorated and gorgeous.
--Peter Shin, supervising director of the TV show "Family Guy," has bought a contemporary-style house for $1.3-plus million in the Hollywood Hills.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Fashion designer Kenzo has put his Paris home on the market for 12 million euros. it is our estate of the day later today.


From the NY Times Big Deal:
--The buyer of Ricky Martin's former apartment in the Time Warner Center have signed a contract to flip it for around $17.9 million. Martin bought it in 2004 for $6.8 million and sold it in September 2006 for $9.75 million.
--Fewer than a third of the 201 coveted apartments in Robert A. M. Stern's complex 15 Central Park West near the foot of Central Park, at West 61st Street, have now closed. But of those, five apartments were put back on the market almost instantly and more listings are likely.

From the Real Estalker:
--Turns out that Nicole Murphy, Eddie Murphy's ex-wife, isn't just selling her home near Sacramento, she has also put her Calabasas home on the market for $9.995 million. Check out the virtual tour here.
--Gossip diva has put her mid-century Modern home in Hancock Park on the market for $2.995 million. We are checking it out later as our estate of the day.
--Musician Robert Cray has listed his three-bedroom home in Los Feliz. The home is located in The Oaks neighborhood where Brad Pitt also has a home and includes a guest house, an office/studio. The land also includes some Zinfandel vines. It is listed at $3.25 million.
--Pussycat Doll Carmit Bachar has bought a house which was listed at $699,900 in Valley Village.
--More news from Los Feliz, actor T.R. Knight has bought himself a gorgeous vintage fixer-upper in the area for $2,912,500.
--Want to spend $100,000 per month on a rental? Then you too can live in a Beverly Hills home rented by Tom Cruise and maybe even stay in the North wing while your significant other sleeps in the South wing, just like the Cruises supposedly did.
--Model Kylie Bax has listed her Hollywood Hills home for $1,749,900. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Serial househopper Denise Richards has put her newest Hidden Hills home on the market for $3.9 million. Richards listed a home last year for $4.3 million also in Hidden Hills and then moved into this one. She then moved into another one in the same area which cost around $4.6 million. The listing for the home is here.
--Danny Bonaduce has bought himself an $825,000 condo in Hollywood.
--Producer-director Paris Barclay has bought a home in Valley Village for close to $1.7 million and sold another in the Hollywood Hills for slightly more than $1.7 million.
--Cinematographer Dion Beebe, who won an Oscar for his work on the 2005 movie "Memoirs of a Geisha," has listed his Hollywood home for $1.875 million. The listing is here.
--Jeffrey Bischoff, founder and president of the music-merchandising company Cinder Block, is putting his traditional-style Los Feliz home for $1.749 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are house hunting in Manhattan, they've been spotted at the Time Warner Center.
--Billy Joel and his wife, Katie Lee Joel, have just gone to contract to buy an oceanfront property next door to their Sagaponack home that has an asking price of $12.99 million.
--A townhouse on the Upper East Side that Madonna was spotted checking out has been sold to real estate investor Keith Rubenstein and his wife, Inga for its asking price of $35 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--The real estate market may be in trouble but you wouldn't know that by some recent New York sales, a three-unit duplex penthouse at Trump World Tower recently went for $33.6 million. And over at Palazzo Chupi, artist/director Julian Schnabel's magenta monstrosity, William J. B. Brady, co-chairman of global technology for Credit Suisse, paid $15.5 million for "Unit 1" even though he already bought a four-bedroom duplex penthouse elsewhere for $6.95 million less than four months ago and city records put his billing address at a penthouse in the Millennium Tower. But who can resist the chance to live with the Schnabel in a building that includes seven-foot fireplaces, antique Moroccan window dressings and a shared pool. Brady has put the Greenwich Street penthouse on the market for $12 million. The listing is here.
--British power-player Sir Ronald Cohen, a close friend of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, has paid $5 million for a 2,948-square-foot condo at 388 West Broadway, two floors down from hotelier Jason Pomeranc.
--Boris Belotserkovsky, a co-owner of Russia's largest gambling operator, and his son George have paid $5,010,205 for a 13th-floor condo at the Plaza.
--Nigerian-born supermodel Oluchi Onweagba has bought a two-bedroom apartment at the new 10 West End Avenue condo, near Lincoln Center for $1,708,500. Her husband, Luca Luca designer, Luca Orlandi bought a Gramercy House penthouse earlier this year for $3.345 million so this apartment is for investment purposes. She plans to rent it out for around $11,500 a month.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--The official price that singer Christina Aguilera paid to buy Ozzy Osbourne's mansion in Beverly Hills is $11,500,000.
--Actress Valarie Pettiford, who starred on the UPN's 'Half & Half' has sold her house in Studio City for $1,181,000 and paid $520,000 for a town home in the North Hollywood area.
--Danny Masterson has paid an undisclosed amount for a loft unit in the new Broadway Hollywood building in Hollywood.
--Soap opera actor Sebastian Roche has paid $1,525,000 for a house in Los Angeles' Venice area.
--Ali Landry has sold her four-bedroom home in Los Feliz for $1,812,000 to a congressional candidate from New York.
--Gene Wilder has sold his Bel-Air home for an undisclosed amount.

From TMZ:
Jessica Simpson was seen apartment hunting in Manhattan.