August 28, 2008
- Quarterback stud Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bundchen reportedly pay $11M-plus for a vacant lot in Los Angeles’ Brentwood area
New England Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady and his current squeeze, supermodel Gisele Bundchen, reportedly have paid $11,750,000 for a 3.6-acre vacant lot in the same guard-gated neighborhood in Los Angeles’ Brentwood area — and on the same street — where Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s house is.
The good people at TMZ.com broke the story yesterday morning [...]
August 7, 2008
- Model and actress Molly Sims lists her house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $2.999M
Model and actress Molly Sims has placed her 3,043-square-foot, Spanish-style house on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills on the market for $2,999,000.
We’re a little late to the party on this one, but we wanted to weigh in on Sims’ listing of her house, which is at 8600 Hollywood Boulevard. Our friends over [...]
July 7, 2008
- Olympic medalist and model Amanda Beard lists her three-bedroom house in Los Angeles’ Venice area for $1.045M
Continuing on with our effort to catch up on items that others have written on but that we have missed or neglected, we wanted to weigh in on the recent news that gold medal-winning Olympic medalist and model Amanda Beard has placed her small three-bedroom house in Los Angeles’ Venice area on the market for [...]
June 13, 2008
- Heidi Klum sells her penthouse in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village for $5.35M
Supermodel Heidi Klum has sold a penthouse she owns in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village for $5,350,000.
News of the off-market sale of Klum’s apartment, at 166 Bank Street in the Village, has been trickling out for the last week-plus. First, the New York Daily News reported on June 5 that Klum had sold the apartment for [...]
June 5, 2008
- Kimora Lee Simmons places her five-bedroom house in Beverly Hills, CA back on the market for $7.75M, less than a year after buying it
Retired model, fashion designer and occasional actress Kimora Lee Simmons has placed her five-bedroom house in Beverly Hills, Calif. on the market for $7,750,000—less than a year after purchasing it.
Our friends over at the Real Estalker broke the fine story yesterday of Simmons’ listing on June 3 of the country-style house, which is at 9551 [...]
March 11, 2008
- Vera Wang lists her late parents’ estate in Palm Beach, FL for $19M
Designer Vera Wang has listed her late parents’ oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach, Fla. for $19,000,000.
The Wall Street Journal’s “Private Properties” column on Friday wrote about the listing of the mansion, which is at 640 S. Ocean Blvd. in Palm Beach. Our friends over at the Real Estalker were the ones who, last November, [...]
March 5, 2008
- Fashion designer Kenneth Cole pays $14.5M for a co-op unit in Manhattan’s Sutton Place
Fashion designer Kenneth Cole and his wife, Maria Cuomo-Cole, have paid $14,500,000 for a co-op unit in Manhattan’s Sutton Place building.
The New York Observer’s Lysandra Ohrstrom broke the story about an hour ago of the Coles’ purchase of the co-op unit in the building, which is at One Sutton Place South in mid-town Manhattan, near [...]
February 29, 2008
- Tommy Hilfiger lists seven-bedroom mansion in Greenwich, CT for $27.9M
Tommy Hilfiger is asking $27.9 million for his seven-bedroom mansion in Greenwich, Conn.
The Greenwich Time broke the story on Wednesday of the listing, followed by the New York Post’s Braden Keil’s report yesterday.Known as Stone Hill, the mansion sits on four acres at 435 Round Hill Road in Greenwich. Features on the estate include [...]
February 27, 2008
- Model/heiress Lydia Hearst pays $1.49M for a two-bedroom condo in Mid-Town Manhattan
Model/heiress Lydia Hearst has become a first-time homebuyer, paying $1,490,000 for a two-bedroom condominium unit in the Sheffield57 Tower in Mid-Town Manhattan.
We’re still catching up on a few items dating back even as far as last week. The New York Observer’s Max Abelson last Thursday broke the story of Hearst’s purchase, which closed on [...]
February 22, 2008
- Los Angeles designer-developer Xorin Balbes sells a 5,200-square-foot, significantly rehabbed house in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $5.725 million
Designer-developer Xorin Balbes has sold a six-bedroom, 5,200-square-foot, significantly rehabbed house in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $5,725,000.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the recent sale of the house at 9248 Swallow Drive in the Hollywood Hills. Records show that on January 30, Balbes’ [...]
January 30, 2008
- Actress, model and ‘Top Chef’ hostess Padma Lakshmi pays $1.65M for a full-floor loft in the Alphabet City area of Manhattan’s East Village
Actress, model and current ‘Top Chef’ hostess Padma Lakshmi, who also is known for being author Salman Rushdie’s ex-wife, has paid $1,651,111 for a four-room, full-floor loft in the Alphabet City area of Manhattan’s East Village.
The New York Observer’s crack real-estate writer Max Abelson broke the story in today’s ‘Manhattan Transfers’ column (available online on [...]
January 23, 2008
- Designer Vera Wang reportedly selling her apartment on Manhattan’s Park Avenue for $30M-plus to billionaire Ira Rennert, who is buying it for his daughter
Designer Vera Wang reportedly is selling her 12-room (or 14-room, depending on which news account one references) co-op apartment in the exclusive 778 Park Avenue building in Manhattan to one of the two daughters of billionaire Ira Rennert for an amount that’s north of $30 million, and Rennert also is set to buy a duplex [...]
January 17, 2008
- Supermodel Carolyn Murphy sells her four-bedroom house in Los Angeles’ Brentwood area for $3.6M
Supermodel Carolyn Murphy has sold her four-bedroom, 3,386-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Brentwood area for $3,600,000.
First off, mad props to our pals over at the Real Estalker for breaking the story on December 10 of the $3,650,000 listing of Murphy’s now-former house, at 330 S. Medio Drive in Brentwood. Now, in a Big Time [...]
December 16, 2007
- Where in the world is…..? Celebrity #1: Kim Kardashian, who paid $850K in late 2005 for her condo unit in an area of Los Angeles that is next to West Hollywood
Today, we at Big Time Listings are launching a new feature, titled ‘Where in the world is….?’ This feature will profile a well-known, bold-faced celebrity who owns real estate (or perhaps does not, and is a renter), but whose residential living situation never has been written about by any celebrity real-estate gossip blog or [...]
December 10, 2007
- Supermodel and actress Kylie Bax asks $1.599M for her three-bedroom Mediterranean-style house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills — which singer Michelle Branch previously had owned
Supermodel and actress Kylie Bax is asking $1,599,000 for her three-bedroom, Mediterranean-style house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills — which she purchased in early 2004 from singer Michelle Branch’s Nelly Carroll Trust for $1,250,000.
Continuing on in our push this week to catch up on some items that others have reported on but not us, we’d [...]
December 9, 2007
- Stylist Rachel Zoe lists her two-bedroom house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $2.995M
Continuing with our pattern today of writing about properties that we have overlooked in the last few weeks, we’re weighing in on celebrity fashion stylist Rachel Zoe listing her two-bedroom house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $2,995,000.
Kudos to our friends over at the Real Estalker for breaking the story a month ago of the [...]
November 28, 2007
- Victoria’s Secret model Emma Heming is the latest celebrity buyer in the Broadway Hollywood Building in Los Angeles’ Hollywood area, paying an undisclosed amount (but probably less than $700K) with her then-fiance Brent Bolthouse for a unit in the building
Victoria’s Secret model Emma Heming is the latest celebrity buyer in the Broadway Hollywood building in Los Angeles’ Hollywood area, paying an undisclosed amount — but probably less than $700,000 — with her then-fiance, party promoter/DJ/nightclub guru Brent Bolthouse for a unit in the building that she no longer occupies.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, [...]
November 1, 2007
- Supermodels slash asking prices; Gisele (is a last name really necessary?) knocks her Manhattan apartment listing price from $10.9M to $9.2M, and Natalia Vodianova cuts the asking price of her TriBeCa penthouse from $11M to $9.9M
Today, the New York Post’s fine celebrity real estate columnist Braden Keil reports that supermodel Gisele Bundchen has reduced the asking price of her 1,704-square-foot triplex apartment in Manhattan’s West Village from $10,900,000 to $9,200,000, while supermodel Natalia Vodianova has discounted the listing price of her eight-room, sixth-floor penthouse in New York City’s TriBeCa area [...]
October 31, 2007
- Vera Wang buys her late parents’ duplex apartment in Manhattan for $23.1M
Here’s a new one: designer Vera Wang has paid $23,100,000 to buy a duplex apartment from her late parents and brother–and also from herself–in the building at 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan.
The New York Observer’s Max Abelson today broke the story of Wang, 58, buying the 10th and 11th-floor unit. The transaction was [...]
October 25, 2007
- Purchase price revealed for Kimora Lee Simmons’ new house in Beverly Hills, CA that is next door to Jessica Simpson’s house; Kimora Lee paid the $5.9M asking price for the 5,923-square-foot house
Public records have cleared for the purchase price that model/businesswoman Kimora Lee Simmons recently paid for her new 5,923-square-foot house in the Beverly Hills, Calif. postal area, and they reveal that Simmons paid exactly the $5,900,000 asking price for the house.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the amount that Simmons, 32, [...]
