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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 06/27/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
"The X-Files" composer Mark Snow has listed his Venice, California home at $1.899 million. Snow bought in 2007 for $2.2 million. The Cape Cod-inspired house, shown above, is listed with Tina Stern of Ewing & Associates, Sotheby's International Realty.
--Actor David Boreanaz has sold his Hollywood Hills compound for $2.6 million. It was listed at $3.249 million when it was our estate of the day last year.

Gallery: David Boreanaz in Los Angeles

--The Santa Monica estate that the late film star and singer Kathryn Grayson called home for 65 years is listed for $8.995 million with Hilton & Hyland.
--Actress Alex Kingston and her husband, German writer Florian Haertel, have listed their Hollywood Hills home for $3.995 million. We first checked out this house in 2008 when it was listed for $4.75 million.The property website is here.

Gallery: Kingston in the Hills

--The longtime family home of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" actor Morey Amsterdam has come on the market at $6.495 million. The listing for the Beverly Hills Midcentury modern is with Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker Beverly Hills South and Gloria Benveniste of Coldwell Banker's Marina del Rey office.
--Celebrity photographer Firooz Zahedi has sold his Hollywood Hills home for $1.53 million.
--A longtime home of film comic Groucho Marx is listed in Beverly Hills. The Spanish-style estate is on the market for $6.995 million.
--"Gossip Girl" writer and executive producer Josh Safran and his husband, producer Ted Alexandre, have purchased a Hancock Park area property for $2.75 million.

From Move Trends:
--Actress Charlize Theron is renting out her 2,095-square-foot Malibu beach house for $50,000 a month. The listing is here.
--An A. Quincy Jones designed home originally made for actor Gary Cooper and his wife is on the market for $18.9 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--The former chairman and chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment, Tommy Mottola has listed his 324-acre ranch near Aspen, Colorado for $27.5 million.
--Singer-songwriter Carole King has relisted her 128-acre ranch in Stanley, Idaho $16 million. The listing is here.
--TV producer and executive Douglas S. Cramer, whose credits include "Dynasty" and "The Love Boat," has bought a Miami Beach house for $7.4 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Patrick Dempsey has picked up a three-bedroom Malibu home for $7 million.
--Blythe Danner has listed her Santa Monica condo for $1.86 million. The listing is here.

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The Custom $175K Shotgun Coveted by Pop Stars & Royalty

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Filed under: Celebrity Shopping, Sports

Recession or no, certain truly unique and exclusive handcrafted luxury items remain in very high demand. The Fall issue of WSJ., The Wall Street Journal's glossy magazine, reports that there's currently a five-year waiting list for the custom $175,000 shotguns made by Italian master Tullio Fabbri. Fabbri marries high-tech fabrication - the guns' locking mechanisms are coated in diamond dust to increase durability - with classic Brescian engraving on the metalwork that looks like embroidered lace. He has made guns for celebs like Steven Spielberg, Eric Clapton and King Juan Carlos of Spain, as well as Mexican-born pop singer Thalia, pictured above with her Fabbri 20-gauge. Fabbri's father began the business in 1965 in a small shop in the Valle Trompia, a legendary valley in northern Italy that has been home to gunmakers since the 16th century. Fabbri only makes 30 guns per year, hence the waiting list. Italian artisans spend 400 - 600 hours etching the metalwork on each gun, which can add $50,000 or more to the price. Thalia's husband, music mogul Tommy Mottola, tells the magazine that "Tullio's work is as good as a Picasso."

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Braden Keil reports that Las Ramblas, George Clooney and Rande Gerber's Las Vegas project is no more. Rumor has it that the land could be sold to a W Hotel partnership.
--A new price has been sent for a Hamptons rental. Anna Anisimova, a Russian socialite is renting a house in Water Mill for $635,000 over the summer. The home has six bedrooms, a media room, wine cellar, gym, pool with pool house, a tennis court and a two-bedroom guesthouse. Apparently the young Russian was swayed by all the flatscreen televisions in the house (ooo, shiny).
--Tommy Mottola and wife, Thalia Soto spent $9 million for a two-bedroom condop at 110 Central Park South but also have a contract on a three-bedroom duplex at the Peter Turino-designed 170 East End Ave., which has a price tag of over $6 million. As we've mentioned before the Turino building is designed for upscale families.
--James Nederlander has paid $13.5 million for a three-bedroom home at 838 Fifth Ave. Nederlander has done what is virtually impossible in New York, he paid about $200,000 less than what the previous owner paid. The apartment was originally listed at $17.9 million way back in December 2003.
--Equinox fitness center founder Danny Errico is hoping for a big score for his Amagansett estate. The home is listed at $35 million, an ambitious price for the home which is on 8 acres and next door to Howard Stern's former home, which just sold for more than $15 million.

From the NY Observer:
--Billy Joel has sold a 2,681-square-foot condo at the Hubert for $4.25 million. He bought the unit in 2004 for $3.9 million and moved out last July when he bought a three-story townhouse on Perry Street for $5.9 million.
--Us Weekly editor Janice Min and her husband, Peter Sheehy have sold their Porter House condo to Robert K. Futterman for $3.15 million.

From Forbes Movers and Shakers:
--As predicted the Hull, Massachusetts house that once belonged to Kennedy grandfather "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, did not come close to absolving the $2.3 million bank debt owed on the home. It sold for $950,000 on Tuesday to Ernesto Caparrotta, a developer of luxury condominiums.

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