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From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Ronald Tutor, president and chief executive of construction giant Tutor-Saliba, has listed his Hidden Hills compound for $18.9 million. The listing is here.
--Actor Bradley Cooper has purchased a town house in the 35-unit Dogtown Station in Venice. He will use the town house, which had been on the market for $1.25 million as office space for his Indiana & 22nd production company.
--Home designer Marc Canadell has sold his house, his latest creation in the Bird Streets area of the Hollywood Hills, for $14 million. He bought the home for $2.725 million in 2006 and took it down to the foundation. The house was first put on the market last year for $17.995 million.
--Lions Gate Chief Executive Officer Jon Feltheimer has purchased a Holmby Hills estate bordering the Los Angeles Country Club for $9,812,500.
--Actress Joely Fisher has sold her Encino compound for $2.4 million. We first checked this house out in 2007 when it was listed at $4.75 million. Fisher bought the home in 2005 for $3.35 million.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Theodore Friedman, a former negligence lawyer who was disbarred in 1994, and his wife, former New York Surrogate's Court judge Eve Preminger, have sold their three-bedroom penthouse at 25 Central Park West for $10.05 million.
--via the NY Post, Alicia Keys and boyfriend Swizz Beatz have been house hunting in New York City and may be planning to buy a duplex penthouse at 170 East End Avenue.
--Michael and Marlys Bromberg, who co-founded the Capitol Health Group in 2007, have bought a three-bedroom apartment at the Normandy for $2.275 million.
--via the NY Post, Arianna Huffington is reportedly searching for a pied-à-terre near her company's SoHo offices.
--Chris Noth and his girlfriend Tara Wilson have visited a two-bedroom apartment at 239 Central Park West that is currently on the market for $1.85 million.
--via Josh Barbanel, Publishing heir Robert Ziff has closed on the sale of his three-bedroom condo at the Trump International. The 41st-floor apartment had been on the market for $11.5 million when it went into contract last month. It sold for $10 million to Barbara Stiefel, a Democratic fundraiser from Florida.
--Anna Bulgari sold her apartment on East 79th Street last week and has paid $3.995 million for a three-bedroom apartment at 1040 Madison Avenue.
-- via the NY Post, the mystery buyer who paid $12.95 million for Gisele Bundchen's Barrow Street townhouse is reportedly R. Jerry Parker Jr., the founder of Chesapeake Capital Corp. [NYP]
--via Newsday, Former New York Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde has finally sold his Oyster Bay Cove, New York home. It was first listed for $6.995 million in October 2007 but sold for just $3.1 million.

--Movie producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori's 52nd-floor apartment at the Trump International is back on the market for $28.5 million.
--via the NY Observer, Eve Weinstein has finally closed on the sale of her four-bedroom apartment at 1133 Fifth Avenue. It was been sold to Chelsea Piers co-founder Tom Bernstein and his wife Andrea for $10.4 million.
--via the NY Observer, the former Park Avenue apartment of novelist Ira Levin has sold to philanthropist Dorothy Tananbaum for $2.05 million.
-- via the NY Post, the townhouse once occupied by literary agent Luke Janklow and his restaurateur wife Julie has finally found a buyer. The divorcing couple put it on the market nearly a year ago for $24.975 million and now real estate developer Ara Hovnanian and his wife Rachel have made a deal to purchase the home.
--Disgraced art gallery owner Larry Salander just can't seem to sell his townhouse at 63 East 82nd Street. It was once listed as high as $25 million but is now listed for just $14.995 million.

--Retired Pfizer exec Gary Jortner and his wife Cindy have gone into contract to sell their condo at 15 Central Park West. The one-bedroom apartment had been listed for $3.195 million since first hitting the market in September.
--Broadway producer Andrew Asnes and his wife, actress Anastasia Barzee, have paid $2.575 million for an apartment at 37 Riverside Drive.
--via the NY Observer, Eve Weinstein has finally closed on the sale of her four-bedroom apartment at 1133 Fifth Avenue. It was been sold to Chelsea Piers co-founder Tom Bernstein and his wife Andrea for $10.4 million.
--via the Real Deal, Ivana Trump's former home in Palm Beach has sold for $3.975 million.

From the NY Post:
--Two neighboring units at the Time Warner Center are on the market for a combined $57.5 million. Psychic Readers Network founder Steven Feder is selling his four-bedroom, 75th-floor apartment on the market for $34.95 million and his downstairs neighbor, venture capitalist Doug Von Allmen is selling his duplex for $18.45 million. They can be purchased separately or together. To buy both listings the buyer must pay a $4.1 million premium.
--Shania Twain has been spotted checking out a four-bedroom, $3.285 million condo conversion 254 Park Avenue South.
--Matthew and Henry Pincus, sons of the late Lionel Pincus, have put their father's former home at 733 Park Ave. on the market for $12.5 million.

From the Chicago Tribune's Elite Street:
--Chicago Bears kicker Robbie Gould has sold his two-story house in north suburban Gurnee for $336,500. He bought a home in Kildeer in early 2009 for $1.2 million. The house in Gurnee sold for almost $100,000 less than the $430,000 he paid in 2006.
--The longtime home of the late Rosemont Mayor Donald Stephens, who led the village for 51 years until his death in 2007 at age 79, has been sold to his grandson, Christopher Stephens, for $720,000.
--WLS-Ch. 7 anchor and reporter Kevin Roy has taken a big loss on his 2,943-square-foot house in Andersonville, selling it for $825,000. He bought the home in 2007 for $950,000.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen have paid $3,110,000 to purchase a four-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Brentwood neighborhood.
--via the Chicago Tribune, Chicago television legend Walter Jacobson has sold his five-bedroom, vintage mansion in Lincoln Park for $1.975 million.
--A game of what celebrity's house is this looks at a home in Studio City which sold in October for $2 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Real Estalker Mama takes a look at New York City's Carhart Mansion
--Rumor has it that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are picking up a new larger home in Pacific Palisades from producers Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy.
--Kenny Chesney has picked up a five-bedroom home in Franklin, Tennessee for a reported $9.2 million.
--Peter and Tara Guber have listed a home in the Bel-Air area for $16.25 million. The home is one of three adjacent properties the Gubers own. The listing doesn't include any pictures of the three-bedroom home on the 5.38 acre property.


From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--The new owner of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's Bel-Air home is hedge-fund manager Mark Spitznagel.
The four-bedroom, five-bath house was originally listed for $8.5 million in 2008 but sold for $7.5 million. The couple is also in contract to buy a three-acre estate in the Hidden Hills area that has a $10 million asking price.
--Daniel Mudd, who lost his job as chief executive of Fannie Mae in 2008, has bought a 15,000-square-foot home in Greenwich, Conn., for $6.45 million. Mudd will be commuting to NYC, he works for the Manhattan private-equity and hedge-fund firm Fortress Investment Group.

From The New Zealand Herald:
--RIchmond Hall,shown above, a Georgian-style manor in New Zealand that was used in the Peter Jackson movie, "The Frighteners" is for sale. The listing is here.

From The Sun:
Billionaire Lakshmi Mittal may be set to purchase a mansion in Kensington Palace Gardens, West London for £117 million He has denied being the buyer but has been looking to buy a home for his son and already lives in the area, having paid £67million for a 12-bedroom home four years ago.


From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen are now living in a brownstone in the West Village. They've rented a 10-room triplex apartment in the building with five bedrooms, three bathrooms and a terrace for $12,000 a month rent. They have dropped the price on their penthouse at Morton Square from $11.9 million to $10.495 million. The listing is here.
--Chef Bobby Flay bought a $1.4 million apartment 220 Riverside Drive for his father.
--Interior designer Nate Berkus has been seen looking at the three-bedroom, two-bathroom corner loft at 43 Clarkson in the West Village. The apartment is listed at $4.89 million. The listing is here. The listing agent Darren Sukenik has also reportedly shown a one-bedroom, three-floor townhouse to singer/songwriter Ryan Adams . That property listed at $2.495 million.
One half of Dolce & Gabbana, Domenico Dolce has bought a duplex apartment at 200 11th Ave. for more than its $17.5 million asking price.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Joy Behar paid $2,555,000 for a co-op in the building she already lives in and hasn't sold her old apartment.
--Once the home of Danceteria, 30 West 21st Street will now be luxury condos. Beck Street Capital is turning the building into 11 floor-through apartments, about 4,000 square feet apiece, that will go on the market next month for $5,895,000 to $7,950,000. There will also be a duplex penthouse (with six terraces and a rooftop pool) that costs $7,795,000, and a bigger townhouse apartment downstairs priced at $9.25 million.
--Russian fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin bought the duplex penthouse at the Curzon House on East 62nd Street for $5.7 million.
--Model Lily Donaldson picked up a home in the East Village for $2.2 million on Tompkins Square Park around East Eighth Street.
--Last summer, Rosie O'Donnell signed a $1.97 million contract for a two-bedroom pied-a-terre at the new steel-and-tinted glass condo called Platinum, on West 46th Street and now she has also bought the condominium's model apartment.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--A home in the Hollywood Hills once owned by jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty which was listed for $2 million, has sold.
--Actress Jaime Pressly has sold her house in Tarzana area for $1.27 million after it had been on the market for over a year.
--via the Observer, Howard Stern's newswoman Robin Quivers has paid $2.425 million for a condominium in 200 West End Avenue in New York City.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen have sold their oceanfront house in Malibu which had been listed at $16.75 million.
--Former KTLA Morning News co-anchor Giselle Fernandez-Farrand and her husband, John Farrand, have listed their 1924 Hancock Park house for $6.3 million. The listing is here.
--Tattoo artist Kat VonD as just leased a guesthouse above the Sunset Strip for $2,000 a month.
----A Palm Springs house that was once Cary Grant's getaway is on the market for $4,995,000. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--"Nip/Tuck" creator Ryan Murphy has put his gorgeous three-bedroom Midcentury Modern home in the Hollywood Hills on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.
--via the NYT's Big Deal, the swanky Wanamaker Munn House, a brick and limestone mansion at 17 East 90th Street near Fifth Avenue that was the home of Aimee de Heeren, an international socialite, has been bought by the Spence School, a private school for young women. The home was originally listed at $33 million but it sold in the high $20 millions.
--Jeff Lewis and Ryan Brown of Bravo's Flipping Out program are set to flip another one. They bought this home in Los Feliz for $1.710 million in 2007 and have now listed the three bedroom home for $2.995 million. The listing is here.
--Los Angeles restaurateur Greg Finefrock has put his Malibu property on the market for $8.999 million. The virtual tour of this three-bedroom home on a bluff in the Point Dume area is here.
--Actress Julie Kay Araskog has listed her Beverly Hills Post Office area house for $5.15 million. The property website is here.

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From the Real Estalker:
--Actors David Elliot and Nanci Chambers have put their Brentwood home on the market for $3.25 million. Have a browse at the virtual tour here.
--Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen have put their five-bedroom house in Malibu on the market for $18.5 million (shown above). Peep the restrained splendor at the listing here.
-- The Real Estalker Mama takes on the case of Kevin Federline and finds him renting in Tarzana. He was previously in five-bedroom home that rented for $7,000 a month. He has moved on to a seven-bedroom home that is on the market for $3.2 million.
--And then she moves on to the task of chronicling the whereabouts of Michael Jackson. Apparently he has been in Las Vegas in a 16,000 square foot home he was leasing, then he was rumored to be looking for a vacation home in Maryland, and then the Las Vegas Herald said that he moved into a Las Vegas property that belongs to Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei and may be worth $60 million.
--Nicky Hilton has bought a Hollywood Hills home that was listed for $2.995 million.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood has his house in Chicago for $1.525 million; Chicago Bears general manager Jerry Angelo has sold a Chicago condo for $762,500; Chicago Blackhawks right wing Martin Havlat has paid $835,000 for a condo in downtown Chicago and Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith has paid $655,000 for a condo on the north side of Chicago.
--Actress Cassandra Peterson, best known as horror movie host "Elvira," has paid $1.698 million to purchase a four-bedroom house in Silverlake. The virtual tour for this bright and beautiful home is here.
--Young actor Drake Bell has bought a 1929 Mediterranean home in Los Feliz which had been listed for $2,149,000. The listing is here. Lucky kid.
--Goran Visnjic has listed his Sherman Oaks home for $1.7 million. The listing is here.
--Actor/writer/director John Stockwell has sold his five-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Hancock Park for $3.55 million.
--Soap opera actress Michelle Stafford has paid $2.525 million for a home in Los Feliz.


From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Fashion photographer Mario Testino has signed a contract on a New York City condominium for close to $6.3 million (we first heard wind of this deal last September). His apartment is in 40 Bond, a downtown-Manhattan project being developed by Ian Schrager that will also be home to Ricky Martin.
--Billionaire fund manager Charles Johnson has bought a home on a small island just off Palm Beach for about $15 million.
--The Palm Beach home of the late sportscaster Curt Gowdy has sold for $19.5 million. We covered it a couple of years ago when it was listed at $25 million.
--Martha Stewart has sold her Westport, Connecticut estate for $6.7 million which is 26% below the asking price.
--Hockey star Eric Lindros has put his penthouse in New York City's West Village on the market for $6 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--The first buyer to officially close on an apartment at the Plaza is Giuseppe De'Longhi, the chairman of De'Longhi, the Italian manufacturer of fancy appliances. He paid $11.2 million in early June for a three-bedroom apartment on the 15th floor with sweeping park views.
--Moby has put his four-story tower apartment atop the El Dorado on the market for $7.5 million. It's our estate of the day later today.
--James Q. Whitman, the Ford Foundation professor of comparative and foreign law at Yale Law School has picked up the four-bedroom home owned by the actor Treat Williams for $5.7 million, 20 percent above the asking price.
--The highest sale in recent weeks was $29 million, paid by Daniel L. Nir, a hedge fund manager at Gracie Capital, and his wife, Jill E. Braufman for a 7,000-square-foot apartment, in one of the legendary Fifth Avenue prewar co-ops, at 4 East 66th Street.
--Guilliame Cuvelier, the creator of the Swedish vodka brand Svedka paid $13.4 million for a seventh- floor apartment at 30 East 71st Street, near Madison Avenue.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--John Cleese has put Stalloreggi (the King's Stables),his Montecito home on the market for at $28 million. Check out the listing for the 16-acre property here.
--Jamie Kennedy has sold his Sunset Strip house for close to its $1.01-million asking price.
--A Beverly Hills home built in 2004 with five bedrooms and 8 1/2 bathrooms in 13,000 square feet has been sold by one philanthropist and purchased by another for $13.5 million.