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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.

From the NY Post Gimme Shelter:
--Howard Stern's Hamptons rental has been sold for around $34 million, a record sale for Southampton Village.
--Lasata, the gorgeous East Hampton mansion where Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis spent most of her childhood has been sold for $24 million to Reed Krakoff, the president of Coach.
-- Lorraine Bracco has taken her Bridgehampton house off the market and is instead working on selling her three-bedroom Snedens Landing home which is on sale for $3.2 million. It is our estate of the day, later today.
--Treat Williams is selling the New York apartment he's lived in for 30 years and heading to Utah. The Upper West Side apartment is listed for $4.75 million. The listing is here, and as you can see above, includes pictures of Treat and his family at play in the home.
--Mario Batali's landlord, who's trying to boot out the Del Posto restaurant, is paying a record price for a Manhattan home located below Canal Street. Keith Rubenstein is paying $20 million for a 6,000-square-foot apartment at 101 Warren St.
--Rumor has it that the owners of Bob Guccione's former Upper East Side residence have an accepted offer on the house which has a $59 million asking price. Looks like me might have a record breaker here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Billionaire J. Christopher Flowers has put the East 73rd Street mansion he bough three months ago on the market back on the market for $6 million more than he paid. The 21-room limestone mansion is now listed for $23 million. The listing is here.
-- Luca Orlandi, the founder of the Luca Luca fashion line has bought a duplex penthouse co-op for $3.345 million.
--Vincent D'Onofrio has sold his East Village apartment for $2.6 million.
--Imagine Films co-chairwoman Karen Kehela Sherwood and her novelist husband, Ben Sherwood, have sold their 11th-floor loft at 684 Broadway for $2.45 million.

From The Rat and the Mouse, a London real estate blog
--Noel Coward's home between 1930 and 1956 is on the market for £4 million. A brochure can be downloaded here.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--Michael Hirtenstein who paid $15.7 million in cash a few years ago to buy a 4,825-square-foot penthouse in the north tower of the Time Warner Center recently sold for $27 million. Hirtenstein rented out the apartment for the last year and a half to Jay-Z for as much as $70,000 a month and then sold to Todd Wagner, the business partner of Mark Cuban. Hirtenstein closed a 27-foot-wide mansion on Gramercy Park last week which he plans to hold for a while and then resell.
--Thomas Sandell, an investor and hedge fund manager in Manhattan, has sold a Fifth Avenue apartment without the big profit he was expecting. It was originally bought as raw space by Lily Safra, the widow of the banker Edmond Safra, for $13.1 million then sold to Mr. Sandell in January 2005 for $13.6 million. He put it up for sale at just under $20 million but finally sold it for $15.8 million.
--The Christian Science church in the heart of Greenwich Village will soon be home to nine new 2,200-square-foot condominiums. The church is not leaving the space.

From The Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Bank of America's chairman and chief executive, Kenneth D. Lewis, and his wife, Donna are selling the South Carolina vacation home they share with another couple for $3.795 million. The listing is here.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actor Noah Wyle has officially sold his 5,149-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Los Feliz area for $4,225,000.
--Max Weinberg, from the Conan O'Brien show recently sold his Santa Monica house and is trying to sell or rent his home in the Brentwood area for $8.2 million. The listing is here but it says status pending so perhaps it is already sold.
--Singer Pat Benatar and her guitarist husband, Neil Giraldo, have paid $1,675,000 to buy 9.83 acres in Malibu.
--James Haven, Angelina Jolie's brother, has sold his two-bedroom condo in West Hollywood for $635,000.

From the Real Estalker:
--Britney Spears has put her latest home back on the market. She has listed it with the furniture that she also bought with the house for $7.495 million. The listing is here.
--Damon Dash is selling his Benedict Canyon home. It is listed at $3.795 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Posh and Becks, otherwise known as David Beckham and his wife, Victoria may have looked at more than 20 homes before returning to London basically checking out every Westside estate listed in the $18-million-to-$30-million range.
--Macy Gray has sold her Encino home for its last asking price of about $5.6 million.
--The last home of actress Bette Davis, an apartment-turned-condo, has come on the market at close to $2.3 million. The listing is here.