A three-bedroom 1,582-square-foot town house in Marina del Rey, Calif. that is owned by actor Martin Sheen is on the market for $675,000.

In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the listing of the town house, which Sheen and his wife, Janet (who is the trustee on the deed owning the property) purchased in 2004 for $629,000, according to public records. Obviously, the town house is not their primary residence (they live in Malibu) and likely was purchased by them as an investment or for a family member.

Built in 1970, the town house is one of many properties that we had attributed in a post on July 4 to being owned by Charlie Sheen (who is pictured here with his father), when we published a round-up of his various past and present real estate holdings. However, after speaking with the listing agent for this town house, it became clear to us that Martin and Janet Sheen are the owners of this parcel.

The town house has three baths, a large and open floor plan, special designer touches throughout, stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors on the lower level, new carpeting on the upper level, and two outdoor spaces, according to listing information. The unit also has a private two-car garage with extra storage, according to listing information.

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Singer Rachel Sweet has placed her 6,205-square-foot mansion in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz area on the market for $9,995,000. In addition to being designed by architect Wallace Neff, the mansion has a tremendous recent celebrity provenance, having previously been owned by Madonna, Jenna Elfman and Katey Sagal, making it one of the most celebrity-intensive mansions (at least, recently speaking) around.

In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Sweet’s listing of the house, which is known as Los Pavoreales. The house hit the MLS on July 6.

Built in 1926, the five-bedroom house has five and a half baths, a master bedroom with a period bathroom, two junior bedroom suites and a family room, according to public records and listing information. Outdoor features on the 1.81-acre property include rolling lawns, a playhouse, an ascending garden with spectacular city views, a large motor court, a long private drive, and a detached guest house with two bedrooms, two baths and a kitchen, according to public records and listing information.

Obviously, Sweet is not as well known as the mansion’s prior owners. Records show that Sweet and her writer-producer husband, Tom Palmer, purchased the house in 2005 from Sagal for $5,510,000, and not for the hand-waving/let’s-punt-with-an-average-multiple-weighted-guess “close to its $5.9-million asking price” that the Los Angeles Times’ Ruth Ryon had reported in 2005. Sagal had purchased the house in 2004 from Elfman for $4,700,000, and Elfman had purchased it from Madonna (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/25/REGGJ6A6I81.DTL) in 2000 for about $4 million, according to public records and news accounts. Madonna appears to have purchased the house in 1995.

What other houses can match this one for past and current celebrity ownership? We can only think of two:

1) the house at 4875 Louise Avenue in Los Angeles’ Encino area, which we have written about many times and which Sagal herself had owned prior to purchasing Los Pavoreales in Los Feliz. Other owners/residents of the house at 4875 Louise Avenue have included Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, Kirstie Alley, Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler and Don Ameche;

and 2) the house in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz area that Natalie Portman recently purchased and that Dermot Mulroney and Catherine Keener had purchased from Chick Corea. Now-deceased musician Leroi Moore had owned the house later on as well.

We have no idea where Sweet and Palmer are off to. We will keep you posted on if the Sweet mansion in Los Feliz sells and if so, for how much. Stay tuned.

Celebrity artist Steve Kaufman has placed his four-bedroom, 3,579-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz neighborhood on the market for $1,597,000.

In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Kaufman’s listing of his house, which hit the market on June 19. Kaufman is Andy Warhol’s last surviving assistant.

Built in 1989, Kaufman’s house sits on the top of a promontory at the end of a cul-de-sac. Features in the house include four baths, a bonus room on a separate floor, soaring ceilings, a large cook’s kitchen, walk-in closet, and parking for eight cars, according to listing information. Outdoor features on the 0.40-acre (17,590-square-foot) property include downtown skyline views and plans for a pool, according to public records and listing information.

Kaufman (pictured on the left; on the right is artist Howie Green) purchased the house in 2004 for $1,630,000, according to public records.

We have absolutely no idea why Kaufman is listing the house, nor where he is off to. If it sells — and if so, for what amount — we’ll provide that information here. Stay tuned.

Comedian/talk show host/entertainment mogul Byron Allen has sold a 3,562-square-foot house in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $6,250,000, about two years after he first listed it for $6,995,000. Although the buyer is shown in public records as a San Francisco-based company called Nightingale Estates II LLC, the person behind that entity is Oracle mogul Larry Ellison’s daughter, Megan Ellison, who also paid $12,600,000 in early 2008 to purchase the 3,065-square-foot house immediately to the east, according to public records and the Real Estalker.

We’re continuing to chip away at our still-tall stack of items that others have written about in recent months but that we haven’t had the chance to address ourselves until now. This is an item that our friends over at the Real Estalker had broken the story on back on April 9, although Your Mama had not yet gotten the exact sale price at that time since the deal wasn’t done. Then, the Los Angeles Times’ Lauren Beale wrote on April 21 on the sale, providing the exact sale price. The deal closed on April 13 and was recorded with Los Angeles County on April 16.

As we noted back in March 2007, Allen purchased the one-story house, at 9262 Nightingale Drive, in 2005 for $4,350,000 and intended it as a dwelling for his mother so she could live close to him. Allen’s own 3,540-square-foot Hollywood Hills house, which he has owned since 2004, is about a block away from the one he just sold.

However, as Beale noted, Allen’s mother wasn’t interested in the house at 9262 Nightingale. “I originally purchased the home for my mother, but she elected to have a home in a gated community with more security,” Allen told Beale in April.

As a result, the house had sat vacant for the last three years.

Built in 1965, the four-bedroom house that Allen (shown here with wife Jennifer Lucas) just sold has three and a half baths, maid’s quarters, an open floor plan, walls of glass, head-on city views, and a large, 0.58-acre (25,453-square-foot) yard with a pool, according to public records and listing information.

As an aside, we’d note that Megan Ellison purchased that $12.6 million house next door from developer Steve Hermann’s A Walk in the Park LLC company, which transformed that house and enriched Hermann along the way, given that he only paid $2,375,000 for it in 2004, according to public records. In addition, in 2005 Allen himself had purchased the house that he just sold to Ellison from Hermann, according to public records.

Actress Khandi Alexander finally has unloaded her 4,126-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $2,750,000.

This is the latest in our never-ending quest to weigh in on items that others have written about but that we have not yet the chance to do so. The Los Angeles Times’ “Hot Property” column appears to have been the one to break the story back on May 11 of Alexander’s sale of the four-bedroom house.

We first wrote about Khandi listing the property back in February 2008, when she had it on the market for an eye-popping $4,495,000. After she reduced its asking price all the way down to $2,995,000, we wrote on April 16 that the house was in escrow.

Now, records show that Alexander, who paid $2,850,000 for the house back in January 2006, actually took a loss on the house. Alexander sold the house on April 6, with the deal being recorded on May 6, according to public records. The buyers are not celebrities.

Built in 1991, the house, which is at 8262 Woodshill Trail in the Hills, has four and a half baths, a two-story entry overlooking the Chateau Marmont, five fireplaces, two living areas, soaring ceilings in every room, a gym, a library, a formal dining room, an office, a three-car garage, and a separate guest apartment, according to listing information, according to public records and listing information. In 2008, the house was said (in listing information) to have been “completely redone.” Outdoor features on the 0.13-acre (either 5,865-square-foot, according to some public records, and 6,065-square-foot, according to other public records) property include views from downtown to the ocean, a lap pool, a spa and a grassy side yard, according to public records and listing information.

It’s entirely unclear to us where Alexander is off to. If we are able to find out, we’ll provide that information here. Stay tuned.

Casino magnate Steve Wynn has placed his full-floor condominium unit on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on the market for $25,000,000.

As we continue to work through our slowly decreasing backlog of items that others have written about but that we haven’t had the chance to weigh in on yet, we wanted to pay homage to Wynn — whose eponymous Las Vegas casino we stayed at in June 2006 — by writing about his onyx-floored apartment. Credit goes to the New York Observer’s Max Abelson, who broke the story back on June 23 of Wynn’s listing of the seventh-floor unit, which is in the building at 817 Fifth Avenue (at 63rd Street).

Wynn, who recently announced his split from his wife Elaine (shown here with him), paid $7,000,000 to purchase the unit in September 2000, according to public records, and not in 2001, as Abelson had reported. Wynn unsuccessfully tried selling his spread in 2003 for $15 million, but then a burst ceiling pipe and attendant flood in 2004 required Wynn to redo the unit top to bottom, which accounts for why the unit’s asking price is so much higher today than it was six years ago. In addition, Wynn is selling the unit furnished, and his listing agent (ambitiously) told Abelson that Wynn has told him that the furnishings are worth $4 million.

Features in the nine-room unit, which has views of Central Park, include a private elevator vestibule that is lined with leather, a large room that was created by combining the original unit’s living room and library, an eat-in media center that formerly was the formal dining room, and a huge master suite that was created by combining three of the unit’s four original bedrooms. The master suite has a dressing area and an infinity tub. Other features include a new formal dining room, a large guest bedroom with a bath, an “exquisite powder room” and a state-of-the-art electronics system, according to listing information.

The unit’s exact square footage is up for debate. Abelson attributed 3,900 square feet to the unit, while public records state that it measures 3,450 square feet. Listing information falls in the middle, estimating that it’s about 3,500 square feet.

Check out an online listing sheet for Wynn’s unit — complete with photos.

We’ll keep you posted on whether Wynn is able to get anywhere near $25,000,000 for this (admittedly wonderful) unit. We’re not holding our breath.

Retired basketball star Alonzo Mourning finally has unloaded his 10,121-square-foot mansion in Miami for $6,000,000, several years after he first placed it on the market for $10,000,000.

This is yet another in a long list of items that we’re trying to catch up on — items that others have written about but that we haven’t had the chance to get to until now. Blockshopper *appears* to have broken the story of the sale on May 5 (our apologies in advance to any bloggers — whom we’re sure we’ll hear from — who may have been a step ahead of Blockshopper). The Miami Herald provided its take on the sale on May 10.

We wrote about this listing back in May 2007, after Mourning had lowered the asking price to $9,500,000. He appears to have first listed the mansion in 2006.

Records show that on April 1, Mourning sold the mansion, with the deal being recorded on May 2. The buyers, an inventor and his wife, are not celebrities. The mansion had been listed for $8,750,000 at the time of its sale.

Located at 3525 Anchorage Way in the gated Anchorage subdivision in Miami’s Coconut Grove area, Mourning’s now-former mansion has five bedrooms, five full baths, one half bath, a rooftop deck, a four-car garage, a carport that can house six more vehicles, a double-height foyer and entrance, an elevator, a library, a family room with a wet bar, a master suite with a private balcony and sitting area, a gourmet kitchen, a covered patio, a dock, and a private boat harbor with three protected boat slips, according to listing information and news accounts. Other features include a pool with a Jacuzzi, impact windows and doors, built-ins, exotic wood cabinetry, expansive terraces, and balconies, according to listing information. The house sits on a 0.43-acre (18,583-square-foot) lot, according to public records. Mourning purchased the house new in 1996 for $3,200,000, according to public records.

Mourning sold the mansion because he and wife Tracy have new, bigger digs. They paid $12.75 million in late 2005, according to public records, to purchase a 13,086-square-foot bayfront mansion in Coral Gables, Fla. Built in 2004, Mourning’s new house has eight bedrooms and a pool and sits on close to an acre.

A five-bedroom, 8,275-square-foot penthouse unit on the “78th floor”* of Manhattan’s Time Warner Center has sold for $37,500,000 after being listed last year for $65,000,000.

We’re a little late to the party on this one, but as we clear out our backlog, we wanted to weigh in on this item before it gets too late. The New York Observer’s Max Abelson broke the story on June 30 of the sale of this unit. The transaction is Manhattan’s biggest apartment sale since July 2008, when a Fifth Avenue co-op sold for $48,836,000.

We had written a detailed post about this listing back on November 28.

Let’s talk more about who bought and sold this unit. The penthouse, with the address of 25 Columbus Circle #STPH7, was sold by Gerhard Andlinger, an Austrian-born, Princeton-educated investor who paid $25,028,220 for it in 2005 through his Vero Beach, Fla.-based 1954 Investments LLC company. The buyer is something called Southerndown, Inc., and no one yet — not Abelson, not us — has been able to crack the code of who was behind the purchase. We have to believe that the buyer’s identity eventually will leak out. Stay tuned.

Records show that the buyer went to contract to buy the penthouse on May 1, with the deal closing on June 16. The transaction was recorded with the city on June 29. A separate deed was recorded for a $82,500 storage unit that the buyer also purchased from Andlinger.

Features in the unit include a 41-foot-long living room with floor-to-ceiling windows, 14-foot ceilings, a red lacquered corner library/office, a dining room that looks out on the Hudson River, a screening room, a chef’s kitchen, four full bedrooms with en suite baths, and a master suite with an office, his-and-hers dressing rooms, his-and-hers baths, and a gym, according to listing information.

*We mock the unit’s status as being on the Time Warner Center’s “78th floor” since that level exists only through the magic of elevator renumbering. The Time Warner Center only has 54 floors (or 55 floors, depending on your source; we’ve been in the building many times, but we’ve never bothered to count).

Actor Alan Alda has sold a three-bedroom single-family house in Sag Harbor, N.Y. — where he had housed nannies and maids for the last few years — for $550,000.

This is another in a long line of items that we’ve meant to catch up on but haven’t gotten the chance to do so until now. The gang over at Newsday’s fine “Real LI” blog broke the story way back in February of Alda’s sale of this house. We had missed that at the time, though, and we separately ended up later running across in public records the fact that the house had sold and only after doing so realized that “Real LI” had scooped everyone with its report. So, we wanted to give props to “Real LI” for being first with the news of this sale.

Back in the summer of 2007, the immensely likable Alda and his wife, Arlene (whose name is on the deed to the house) placed the Colonial-style house, at 4538 Noyac Road (some public records inexplicably spell it Noyack Road) in Sag Harbor, on the market for $799,000. Obviously, that turned out to be an amount far above what the market would bear.

Indeed, the Aldas (pictured here) actually took one heck of a loss on this place, seeing as how they had purchased it in September 2004 for $680,000, according to public records.

The house, which is located just a few miles away from the Aldas’ estate on Olivers Cove Lane in nearby Water Mill, N.Y., has two and a half baths and sits on a 0.57-acre property, according to news accounts.