tony danza

From the Real Estalker:
--Architect Benjamin Sohr and designer and day spa owner Genifer Goodman Sohr have put their fabulous modern log cabin, shown above, in Nashville on the market for $899,000. The listing is here.
--Jimmy Kimmel may have picked up a new contemporary home in Los Angeles which was listed at $6.35 million.
--Jeff Lewis of Bravo's "Flipping Out" is the "very motivated" seller for a home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles listed at $1.395 million. He bought the home for $1 million in June of this year. The home is listed as "looking for backup."
--Producer and screenwriter Walter Parkes and producer Laurie MacDonald have listed their loft apartment in the TriBeCa area of New York City for for $4.595 million.
--Michelle Branch has listed her Tennessee home for sale for $1.285 million. It was our estate of the day on Saturday.
--Tony Danza's Park City, utah ski home is available for rent.
--Rumor has it that Oprah is looking for real estate in Washington D.C.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Paula Redstone, the soon-to-be ex-wife of Sumner Redstone has picked up a Beverly Hills home for $4.15 million.
--Television producer Jeff Franklin, who produced such TV hits as "Full House," "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper" and "Malcolm & Eddie," is selling his Sunset Strip-area house, now listed at $6,.495 million as a tear-down. The listing is here.
--Beverly D'Angelo has listed her Beverly Hills home. It is our estate of the day later today.
Movie producer Donald DeLine has cut the price of his Hollywood home by $400,000. It is now listed at $4.35 million. The listing is here.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
-- Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly have sold their 18-room mansion in Brooklyn's Park Slope area for $8.45 million and have paid $6.92 million for a penthouse new co-op unit in Manhattan's TriBeCa area.
--Music producer Barbara Orbison, who is the widow of Roy Orbison, has placed her three-bedroom house in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills on the market for $2.795 million. The listing is here.
--Supermodel Shalom Harlow has sold her full-floor condominium unit in Manhattan's Nolita neighborhood for $1.9 million.
--via the Wall Street Journal, Anne Rice's former home in New Orleans is on the market. We'll be checking it on Tuesday as an estate of the day.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--Victoria Gotti has put her Old Westbury, NY home on the market again, we'll be checking it out as an estate of the day on Monday.
-The price has been lowered on La Selva, the 24.3-acre Upper Brookville estate owned by Sylvia Kumar, wife of imprisoned former Computer Associates chief Sanjay Kumar. It is now listed at $14.5 million. It was listed at $17 million when we covered it last year as an estate of the day.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Tim Blixseth, the former owner of the Yellowstone Club, is looking to sell his Caribbean island, Emerald Cay. He has advertized it in the Robb Report for $75 million but may accept a Gulfstream G550 jet or a New York apartment instead.
--Senior managing director Prakash Melwani of Wall Street's Blackstone Group has paid $27.5 million for an apartment on New York's Fifth Avenue owned by Christine Wasserstein, the former wife of financier Bruce Wasserstein.
--Writer John Ridley has cut the listing price of his apartment in New York's financier-filled 15 Central Park West condominium to $9.95 million which is still 50% more than he bought it for in July. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Frances Bean Cobain has been spotted checking out a $6.5 million penthouse condo at 115 Mercer St. Marc Jacobs has also looked at the three-bedroom unit.
--James Gandolfini was spotted looking at the Fairchild, a new condo project at 55 Vestry St. in TriBeCa. Prices there range from $1.965 million to $8.995 million.
--Italian producer Vittorio Cecchi Gori is looking for a buyer with a capable architect to purchase his gutted Trump International Hotel & Tower penthouse for $28.5 million.The listing is here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--A two-bedroom co-op on 834 Fifth's 13th floor, below Rupert Murdoch's penthouse, is about to go on the market. It belongs to the estate of Araxia M. Buckhantz, whose cousin was playboy oil magnate Nubar Gulbenkian. The listing price will likely be around $30 million.
--In 1981 Murray H. Goodman paid $1.41 million for a duplex at 960 Fifth Avenue, now he is putting it on the market for $32.5 million.
--One well-heeled buyer could pick up four units to make a triplex at 2 East 67th Street, a co-op controlled by Arthur Carter. In order to have all four you'd have to pick up the fifth floor spread for $39.5 million, the third floor at $43 million, and the two halves of the fourth floor for $22 million and $12.5 million. That would make three floors for $117 million with a monthly maintenance of $42,423 but it is unlikely that the building board would let any one buyer have all three floors.

From Pacific Business News:
--Fred and Annie Chan have put the former Kaiser estate in Portlock, Hawaii up for sale for $80 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Last year developer Harry Macklowe spent approximately $60 million for several apartments to combine into one huge residence at the Plaza. Now he's reportedly quietly looking for someone who might want to pick up the 10,000-square-foot expanse. A similar-sized pad in the building has reportedly been floating a $100 million price tag to brokers.
--Diana Ross is re-listing her Greenwich estate, known as Quarry Farm, for the same $39.5 million price.
--Investor Chris Knight has finally sold Shorewood, the former Shelter Island estate of ex-Gov. Hugh Carey. He originally asked for $33 million after buying for $10 million but it now looks like the selling price is in the mid $12 million range.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--As the Real Estalker predicted last week, Veronica Hearst is selling off her co-op at 4 East 66th Street for around $30 million.
-- Bear Stearns senior managing director Bill Bamber and his wife closed in February on their new apartment at Third Avenue around 92nd Street, paying $1,995,000 million for a new two-unit, four-bedroom condo with views of the George Washington Bridge, the Triborough, and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir five weeks before the firm collapsed.
--According to city records, 23-year-old Scarlett Johansson just sold her duplex loft at 66 Leonard Street for $1,898,000, even though she paid $1,950,000 back in January 2006.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Tony Danza has sold his five-bedroom home in Sherman Oaks area for an undisclosed price after it had been on the market for $6,150,000. It was our estate of the day last November.
--Eddie and Alex Van Halen sold their late mother's home in the Summit neighborhood in the Beverly Hills, CA postal area for $1.5 million; it was listed at $2.2 million.
--Actor Kyle Bornheimer has paid $1.25 million for a three-bedroom house in Los Feliz and has sold a home in Silver Lake for its $739,000 asking price.

From the Real Estalker:
--The charming contemporary Hollywood Hills house owned by Naomi Foner and Stephen Gyllenhaal, the parents of Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, has been reduced from a listing price of $4.2 million to $3.795 million. The listing is here.
--Sharon Stone has been trying to flip this Beverly Hills post office listing for a few years but now it's up for rent for $58,000 a month, the listing is here.
--Care to spend even more on a rental? The Beverly Hills home that has been rented by both Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe is now available for $100,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Rumor has it that P. Diddy is looking for a new house in Los Angeles.
--via the Globe and Mail, Rush lead guitarist Alex Lifeson has put his Toronto home on the market for $5.699 million Canadian. The listing is here.
-- via the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta Falcons owner, Home Depot co-founder and billionaire Arthur Blank has put his home on Tuxedo Road in Atlanta, shown above, on the market for $10.9 million. The listing is here.
----Ricky Martin has picked an island off the coast of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil for around $8 million. No word on which one but I'm hoping it's this former estate of the day.
--Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and family are in the south of France, reportedly holed up in Villa Maryland, Paul Allen's home in St. Jean Cap Ferrat.
--The Beverly Hills post office home of music mogul Ron Fair, has hit the market for $4.795 million. The property website is here.
--Actors John Ales and Wendy Gazelle have put their two-bedroom home in the Nichols Canyon area of the Hollywood Hills on the market for $1.247 million. The listing is here.

From WWD:
--Cornelia Guest is putting her historic family home Templeton in Old Westbury, N.Y., on the market for $20 million. The home is listed with Daniel Gale Sotheby's realty.

From UPI:
--Robert De Niro is planning to open a Japanese-themed condo and hotel complex in New York, Nobu Hotel. The building will ready in two to four years.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Actress Mel Harris has listed her home in Pacific Palisades. It's our estate of the day later today.
--Tom Arnold has listed his home in Tarzana for $2.275 million (he paid $1.95 million a couple of years ago). The property website is here.

Our Real Estalker Mama delivers the goods on this one, the home of Tony Danza, a man famous for playing Italian men named Tony on no less than three television shows from the 1970s through the 1990s and for having his own talk show for a season or so. Our Mama reports that the Danza and his wife Tracy have split. This five-bedroom home in Sherman Oaks was rebuilt from the bottom up in 1997 after being damaged in the Northridge Earthquake of 1994. Sources says that Danza bought the home from actor Robert Urich in 1986. The home is in a gated community in Longridge Estates and is 6,778 square feet. The listing says it is a Cape Cod traditional but as someone who grew up on Cape Cod I don't recall seeing too many of these around. Perhaps it's just that in Sherman Oaks anything that's not some variation on Spanish Mediterranean looks positively antique by comparison. The home seems comfortable rather than lavish and is done in a monochromatic warm beige color scheme with plenty of white bookshelves and cupboards. The kitchen is a bit small and we have to agree with the one of the Real Estalker Mama's commenters that mismatched baskets above the kitchen cupboards is rarely a good look. The home comes with some nice land, a full 2.3 acres. Room enough for a guest house, pool/spa area and pool house gym as well as a tennis court and a batting cage. The pool area looks in need of a redesign. It is listed at $6.15 million which is perhaps an ambitious price, even with that decent chunk of land. Zillow's "zestimate" is $2,979,066 which seems too low. I suspect this one will settle in the low $5 million range.