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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 11/28/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From Homes and Property UK:
--Sienna Miller has dropped the price on her two-bedroom Georgian mews house in Maida Vale. It is now listed at £1.1 million.

From the LA Times:
--Actor Justin Berfield, has sold a Calabasas house he bought for $3.75 million four years ago for $2.1 million. He bought the house in 2006 from Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey.
--Director-producer Marcos Siega and his wife, Lisa, have sold their Sunset Strip-area home for $1.635 million.
--Two comedians are among recent buyers of lofts at Dogtown Station in Venice. Dov Davidoff bought a single-story unit that was listed for about $900,000 and Neal Brennan purchased a three-story town house listed at $1,050,000.

From the Chicago Tribune:
--Chicago mayoral candidate and former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun has her five-bedroom, Prairie-style town home in Hyde Park on the market for $1.9 million. The listing is here.

Gallery: Carol Moseley-Braun in Chicago

From Newsday:
--Kathleen Turner has sold her home on Bluff Road in Amagansett, New York. The sale price was $3.9 million, a little less than half the $8 million price she asked for the property in 2005. She bought the home in 1990 for $488,500.

Gallery: Kathleen Turner in Amagansett

--A home in Southampton, New York has hit the market for $18.8 million. The 3.4 acre property has approval for a subdivision into two 1.7 acre lots. There is already an 11-room home on the property. The listing is here.

Gallery: Southampton Village

--A home on Gin Lane in Southampton recently sold for $12.85 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Movie producer Joe Roth has listed his amazing Art Deco Santa Monica, California home for $12.45 million. He bought the home in 2004 for $9 million and decorator Michael Smith redid the interiors. The listing is here.

Gallery: Joe Roth's Santa Monica home

From NY Observer:
--Mayor Bloomberg's nominee to run the city schools, former Hearst head Cathleen Black sold her former Connecticut home, a five-bedroom antique colonial on 27 acres in Litchfield County for sold for $1.98 million, below the $2.35 million asking price.
--CitiGroup exec Michael Del Giudice spent $5.5 million for two apartments at 36 Gramercy Park East, including a $4.3 million on a three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom unit on the ninth floor and a penthouse for $1.24 million.
--One of the 25 apartments at 510 Park Avenue was recently listed for $15.9 million, reduced to $13.9 million, and sold for $11 million. The buyer is Stephanie Hessler, while the sellers are Mitchell and Yonina Davidson.
--Music power agent Peter Mensch has bought his very own West Village townhouse for $7.25 million at 267 West 11th Street. Mr. Mensch's Q Prime talent agency has represented Garbage, Nickel Creek, Snow Patrol and Josh Groban. The seller is Melissa Meyer.
--Kelsey Grammer has traded his $29,000-per-month three-bedroom rental for a $6.5 million four-bedroom apartment which was originally listed at $7.52 million.
--Author Andrew Trees has sold his two-bedroom unit at The Orion for $1.02 million.
--Isaac Mizrahi bought a unit at 59 West 12th Street for $3.5 million.
--Leslie Alexander, owner of the Houston Rockets basketball team sold his two penthouses at the Superior Ink building for $31.5 million.

From the Wall Street Journal:
Jason Lee has sold his home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles home. It was listed at$3.25 million, $100,000 less that Lee bought it for, when we checked it out as an estate of the day and it sold for $3.1 million.

Gallery: Jason Lee in Los Angeles

--Norman Zada, the founder of Perfect 10 magazine, has sold his Beverly Park mansion for $16.5 million. It was once listed for $24.5 million.

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Shonda Rhimes In Hancock Park, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

Sometimes it seems that celebrities don't really want to buy a house in Los Angeles unless another celebrity has lived there first. Earlier this year "Grey's Anatomy" producer Shonda Rhimes bought Beck's old place in Hancock Park. We had watched that house, once listed as high as $9 million, received a host of price cuts. The Real Estalker reveals that that home sold for $5.7 million back in March leaving Rhimes with the task of selling her own home in the same area. The home that Rhimes is selling is a five-bedroom Mediterranean which was built in 1926. The Real Estalker reports that Rhimes bought the home in 2005 for $3.885 million.

It looks like Rhimes moved on a while ago. This home is styled within an inch of its life. But I suspect that the colorful paint jobs were done before Rhimes moved out. The home has great old bones with dark-stained hardwood floors, carved stone moldings on the entrance into the living room and beamed ceilings. Wide windows and French doors create a sun-filled open space. The second floor has four bedrooms including a master suite with two walk-in closets with dressing areas, a large master bath and a covered balcony. The backyard has a swimming pool, barbecue center and a very cute children's playhouse that looks like a Victorian house. The two-car garage has been converted into a book-shelved office and changing room. This home is listed at $3.695 million.

Gallery: Shonda Rhimes In Hancock Park