Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping
From the LA Times Hot Properties:
–Actor Christopher Lloyd has put his smaller house in Montecito, shown above, for sale for $3.6 million. The elegant home has two bedrooms, bamboo floors and a raised bamboo pergola overlooking the pool and spa. His other home in the area which was listed in 2007 for $11.27 million and was an estate of the day, has been taken off the market.
–Mark Wahlberg has listed his house in Beverly Hills at $15.9 million. The listing is here.
–Basketball player Elton Brand has sold his Hollywood Hills home for $4.55 million.
–Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon has listed his home in Brentwood. it’s our estate of the day later this day.
Another “Buffy” and “Angel” veteran, writer David Greenwalt, recently sold his house in the Pacific Palisades for $2.958 million.
From the NY Post’s Gimme Shelter:
–The asking price for the triplex penthouse at artist Julian Schnabel’s, pink Palazzo Chupi building in the West Village has been cut by $5.5 million to $24 million. It was our estate of the day earlier in the year.
–Quarterback Tom Brady has cut the price on his Time Warner Center apartment from $18.29 million to $17.75 million. We’ll be checking this one tomorrow.
–Cosmetics mogul Adrien Arpel and her husband, Ronald Newman, have paid $5.9 million for a seven-room co-op at 900 Fifth Ave.
–One of the Hamptons’ premier properties, Fordune, will be listed for rent next year. This might be the first time since Henry Ford II owned the 42-acre oceanfront Southampton property. it will rent for $600,000 to use it from August through Labor Day next year and has 12 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, a game room, a library, a large formal dining room, staff rooms and a commercial kitchen.
From Berg Properties Massive Time Listings:
–Cher has paid $1,400,000 to buy a two-bedroom, 1,455-square-foot house in West Hollywood,California. It may be a home for her daughter, Chastity.
–Regis Philbin has put his Greenwich, Connecticut home on the market for $5.4 million. It was our estate of the day on Friday.
–Brad Garrett finally has sold his 10,223-square-foot mansion in Hidden Hills, California. The most current listing price was $8.35 million.
–Little more than a year after he sold it for $2.9 million, the former house of fashion critic Steven Cojocaru in the Hollywood Hills is back on the market, for $3.695 million. The property website is here.
From the Wall Street Journal’s Private Properties:
–The home used to film ABC’s “Bachelor” shows is for sale and the price has been dropped to $8.75 million, down from just under $13 million. You can see listing pics from when the home was listed at $11.5 million here.
–Last month, philanthropist Carroll Petrie sold a Palm Beach, Fla., home for $3 million, $500,000 less than she paid less than a year earlier, to investor John D. Firestone, of the tire-manufacturing family. In May, she paid $7.45 million for a 6,700-square-foot, five-bedroom home about a mile farther south.
From Newsday’s Real LI:
– A 4.08-acre property on Meadow Lane in Southampton will be listed soon for $38 million. According to public records, the oceanfront mansion was owned by Virginia Salomon, who died last month. She was married to Citigroup’s honorary chairman William R. Salomon (and former managing partner at Salomon Brothers, Inc.) for more than 70 years. The 6,000 square foot house, built in 1992, has six bedrooms and eight baths, with a gunite pool and is located just west of designer Calvin Klein’s home.
–Hairspray actress Nikki Blonsky might or may not be leaving Great Neck. Her family’s home was recently seen on the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island for $649,000.
–Hilary Duff’s longtime boyfriend, New York Islanders center Mike Comrie has bought a condo in Garden City.
From the Real Estalker:
–Former Green Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre has listed his Wisconsin home for $475,000. It was our estate of the day on Saturday.
–Technology guru Halsey Minor isn’t only trying to sell his home in Bel Air, he is said to be spending $15 million to renovate Le Petit Trianon in San Francisco, which he purchased in 2007. The home was on the market for a while (I first got wind of it in 2005) and is said to be in some disrepair.
–The listing for the $24 million Goldwyn mansion has been temporary pulled from the market so that it can be renovated.
–Baseball player Tom Glavine and his wife Christine have put their home in Alpharetta, Georgia on the market for $3.75 million. We’ll be looking at this one as an estate of the day on Monday.
–Cameron Diaz is stated to be house shopping in Beverly Hills.
–More Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner real estate rumors, this time it is said that they’ve put their home in Brentwood on the market for around $8 million.
–Tae-Bo king Billy Blanks is getting a divorce and has put his Hidden Hills home on the market for $11.5 million. The listing is here.
From The Sun:
–Robbie Williams has picked up a seven-bedroom mansion in the Beverly Park community in Los Angeles for over $20 million.
From ONTD:
–Lauren Conrad of The Hills has been spotted home shopping in her home town of Laguna Beach.
From the NY Observer’s Manhattan Transfers:
– Kurt A. Locher, formerly a Lehman Brothers managing director recently bought a $5.25 million apartment at 500 West End Avenue. His old place on Park Avenue is still on the market for $2.495 million. We discussed this one earlier this week.
–According to numbers prepared for The Observer by research site StreetEasy, the days of easy luxury apartment sales are over. As of Monday, Manhattan had 168 super-luxury listings asking at least $15 million each which is nearly twice the number from autumn 2006.
–Former investment banker Jack Grubman has put his New York City townhouse on the market for $32 million. It was our estate of the day on Thursday.
–Sarah Allentuch, a former assistant to Woody Allen, and her husband, Greg Mottola, who directed Superbad recently bought a $2.6 million apartment at the new One York condo.
—-An East River mansion, 7 Sutton Square, has sold for $32.5 million, well above its $25 million asking price. The seller is William F. Reilly, a retired magazine mogul and the buyer is listed anonymously, though a billing address is given care of Wildenstein & Co., which recommends that the house now belongs to the art collector Guy Wildenstein.
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