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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 06/18/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
A new 36,000-square-foot mansion has been listed in Beverly Hills at $68.5 million. It was built by C. Frederick Wehba, founder of the international real estate investment firm BentleyForbes. The French Palladian-inspired three-level house has nine bedrooms and 13 bathrooms. The listing with Joyce Rey is here.
--Grammy-winning musician Ziggy Marley has purchased a Los Angeles home in the Beverly Center area for more than $700,000.
--Musician and actor Ahmet Zappa has listed his Hollywood Hills contemporary for $1.165 million. The listing is here.
--Country music superstars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have finally sold their Beverly Hills Post Office-area home for $9.5 million. We first checked out this home in 2008 when it was listed for $14.8 million. They bought the home in 2003 for $6.2 million.

Gallery: Faith Hill and Tim McGraw in Beverly Park

--The Santa Monica home of late film star Jean Simmons has been listed for $3.895 million. The listing is here.
--Producer and So You Think You Can Dance" judge Nigel Lythgoe listed his Hollywood Hills home in February for $2.649 million. The sale recently closed for $2.3 million.

Gallery: Nigel Lythgoe in the Hollywood Hills

From the NY Observer:
--Louis Gonda has listed Manhattan penthouse pied-à-terre at 28 East 70th Street for $16 million. Brown Harris Stevens' agents Richard Ferrari and Drew Glick have the listing.
--Chevy Chase's former estate at 19 Lee Avenue in East Hampton is on the market for $33 million. The property is broken up into two bits, the $25 million property with a 10-bedroom main house and the adjoining one-acre property with a closer-to-the-ocean 18 Lily Pond Lane address and a "charming" 1940s four-bedroom home, plus its own pool for $8 million. Both are listed with Prudential Douglas Elliman's John Golden.

From the Chicago Tribune's Elite Street:
--Former Chicago Blackhawks defenseman and team captain Adrian Aucoin has cut the asking price of his six-bedroom house in Hinsdale to $1.995 million from $2.099 million.Aucoin paid $2.15 million in late 2005 to buy the house new. The listing is with Dawn McKenna of Coldwell Banker Residential.
--Chicago Blackhawks right wing Troy Brouwer has paid $675,000 for a three-bedroom duplex condominium unit in Roscoe Village.
--Aon Corp. Chairman Lester B. Knight has paid $3.2 million for a unit in a new luxury high-rise on the Gold Coast.
--New Orleans Saints running backs coach Bret Ingalls sold his four-bedroom, brick Georgian house in Evanston on April 23 for $660,000. He bought the home for $870,000 in 2006.

From Move Trends:
--Actor Justin Long has listed his three-bedroom home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles for $1.899 million. The listing is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Comedian and television-radio personality Dennis Miller has listed his Montecito, Calif., estate for $17.5 million.
Writer James Patterson has sold his Palm Beach, Fla., home for $10.3 million. He originally listed the property for $14.95 million in November.

Gallery: James Patterson in Palm Beach

From the Real Estalker:
--Brandon Routh and Courtney Ford have picked up a home in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for $1.213 million.
-- Rumer Willis bought a two-bedroom house with Los Angeles, her stepfather Ashton Kutcher is the co-owner.
--Glee's Matthew Morrison has picked up a Los Angeles home for $1.193 million.

Tags: Adrian Aucoin, ahmet zappa, bret ingalls, c. frederick wehba, celebrity real estate, faith hill, jean simmons, justin long, lester b. knight, nigel lythgoe, tim mcgraw, tony brouwer, ziggy marley

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 02/14/10

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--A Hollywood Hills home owned by TV dance show judge and producer Nigel Lythgoe has been listed for $2.649 million.

Gallery: Nigel Lythgoe in the Hollywood Hills

--Eyeworks television production company founder Reinout Oerlemans has sold his Beverly Hills contemporary for $12.5 million.

Gallery: Shadow Hill Way

--Walton Goggins, who starred in the crime drama "The Shield" from 2002 to 2008, is putting his remodeled Hollywood Hills home on the market for $1.175 million.
-- A Beverly Hills house designed by architect Wallace Neff in 1956 for Groucho Marx has sold for $8.8 million. It was listed at $12.9 million when we covered it as an estate of the day.

Gallery: Groucho Marx Estate

From the NY Post:
4Kids Entertainment CEO Al Kahn has picked up Bernie Madoff's old penthouse and listed his apartment at the Time Warner Center for $33.6 million. The listing is here.

Gallery: Al Kahn at Time Warner Center

--Interior designer Jamie Drake is close to closing on the sale of his home in East Hampton. He is reportedly selling for $2.75 million.

Gallery: Jamie Drake in East Hampton

--Alec Baldwin seems to have been spotted everywhere in New York looking for an apartment. He was most recently spotted in SoHo last week, where he checked out the $13.75 million penthouse duplex at 34 Greene St.
--Joseph Plumeri, the CEO of Willis Group Holdings, has reportedly gone into contract to buy a 15th- floor apartment at 995 Fifth Avenue which had been listed most recently for $23.5 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Actress Kate Walsh listed her home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles with an asking price of $3,995,000.
--Deion Sanders has listed a three-bedroom penthouse at the Azure building in Dallas, Texas for $7.5 million. His mansion in Prosper, Texas is still on the market for $21 million.

Gallery: Deion Sanders in Dallas, Texas