July 13, 2008
- BBC exec lists 2,191-square-foot house formerly owned by comedienne Carol Leifer for $2.15M
A four-bedroom, 2,191-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills that currently is owned by an executive for the BBC — and that he purchased in 2006 from comedienne Carol Leifer — is on the market for $2,150,000.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the listing of the house at 2955 Briar Knoll [...]
July 9, 2008
- $65M listing on Carbon Beach in Malibu; seller is low-profile real estate financer William Chadwick (no, you haven’t heard of him)
Low-profile real estate financier William J. Chadwick has placed his six-bedroom mansion on Carbon Beach in Malibu, Calif. on the market for $65,000,000.
Credit the Los Angeles Times’ Ann Brenoff with breaking the story today on her ‘Hot Property’ blog of Chadwick’s listing of his house at 21804 Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, which has 150 [...]
June 6, 2008
- Where in the world is…..? Celebrity #8: Hilary Duff, who owns two houses in Los Angeles’ Toluca Lake neighborhood, which she purchased for $3,500,000 in 2004 and $1,650,000 in 2006
Today’s installment of “Where in the world is….?” involves 20-year-old singer and actress Hilary Duff, who owns two houses that are just a few doors away from one another in Los Angeles’ Toluca Lake neighborhood.
We’ve written many times about L.A.’s celebrity-heavy Toluca Lake precinct, including in April 2007, when we provided a roll call of [...]
May 29, 2008
- $90M for a resale at 15 Central Park West?
Today, the New York Post’s fine celebrity real estate columnist Braden Keil reports the shocking news that a condominium unit in the celebrated development at 15 Central Park West in Manhattan has gone on the market for $90,000,000 – the first true “mega-flip” in the high-profile, newly built development.
The asking price for the four-bedroom, 5,900-square-foot [...]
May 15, 2008
- Trump-owned mansion in Palm Beach, FL reportedly under contract to a foreign buyer for $100M
An 80,000-square-foot mansion in Palm Beach, Fla. that developer Donald Trump had listed for $125,000,000 reportedly has gone to contract to be sold to a foreign buyer for $100,000,000.
The Palm Beach Post reported yesterday that the mansion, at 515 N. County Road in Palm Beach, is under contract. Trump had had the mansion on [...]
March 4, 2008
- Former Bob Guccione mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side sells for $49M to hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone
The five-story, Beaux Arts-style mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that former Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione once owned has sold for $49,000,000 to hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone.
The New York Observer’s Max Abelson this afternoon wrote about the sale of the porn king’s onetime double-wide mansion on the paper’s ‘The Real Estate’ blog. Indeed, [...]
- Oceanfront estate in Southampton, N.Y. – once owned by producer Marty Richards – reportedly goes to contract after being listed for $65M
An oceanfront mansion on 5.9 acres in Southampton, N.Y. reportedly has just gone to contract after being listed for $65,000,000.
The New York Post’s Braden Keil broke the story last Thursday about the apparent deal for the mansion, which is at 104 Gin Lane in Southampton. Keil noted correctly that the sale of the property, [...]
February 25, 2008
- Game over for Veronica Hearst; socialite’s 28,000-sq-ft Villa Venezia mansion in Manalapan, FL sells at an auction for $22M, eight years after she bought it for almost $30M
It’s the end of the line for Veronica Hearst’s ownership of her 28,000-square-foot Villa Venezia mansion on 3.77 acres in Manalapan, Fla., which sold at a foreclosure auction in Florida today for $22 million.
The Dutch-born socialite had purchased the 52-room oceanfront estate, at 1100 S. Ocean Blvd. in Manalapan/Lantana in 2000 for $29,870,807, according to [...]
February 2, 2008
- Rupert Murdoch cuts the asking price of his Long Island, N.Y. house from $14.8M to $12.8M
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has taken $2,000,000 off the asking price of his Long Island, N.Y. mansion, reducing its listing price from $14,800,000 to $12,800,000.
Newsday’s crack real estate bloggers wrote about the price reduction on Wednesday. Murdoch and his wife, Wendi Deng, had purchased the mansion, at 302 Centre Island Road in the tiny [...]
January 18, 2008
- Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein closes on his purchase in Manhattan’s 15 Central Park West celebrity tower; honcho pays $26M for his unit
About a half-hour ago, New York City records show the recording of the deed for Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein’s purchase of a unit in the 15 Central Park West complex in Manhattan, and the deed shows that the financial executive paid $26,000,000 for his unit.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on [...]
January 11, 2008
- Buyer of former Georgia Frontiere mansion in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air area identified as Hilton Hotels CEO; purchase price also reported as “about $27.5M”
The Wall Street Journal today is reporting (link not yet available online) that the buyer of the former Georgia Frontiere mansion in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air area was Hilton Hotels Chief Executive Christopher Nassetta, and that the executive paid “about $27.5 million” for the mansion.
We exclusively wrote on October 9 about the massive mansion at 10410 [...]
- Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred pays $1.75M for apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
Celebrity attorney and radio talk-show host Gloria Allred has paid $1,750,000 for a 5.5-room apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
The New York Post’s fine celebrity real estate columnist Braden Keil yesterday broke the story of the purchase of the unit in the Barrington building (also known as The 203 Condominium) at 203 W. 81st Street [...]
November 28, 2007
- Socialite/singer/songwriter/actress/professional celebrity Anouska De Georgiou pays $1.18M for a four-plex in Los Angeles’ Grove area, just weeks after paying $1.167M for a newly remodeled, Spanish-style house in L.A.’s Fairfax/WeHo area
British socialite/model/telecom heiress/singer/songwriter/actress/professional celebrity Anouska De Georgiou has paid $1,180,000 for a four-unit apartment building in Los Angeles’ Grove area, just a couple of months after she paid $1,167,000 for a newly remodeled, three-bedroom, Spanish-style house in Los Angeles’ Fairfax/WeHo area.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the two purchases by the [...]
October 23, 2007
- $95 million listing for the 263-acre, former Sulzberger estate on the New York-Connecticut border
A 263-acre estate on the New York-Connecticut border that formerly was owned by the Sulzberger clan (the New York Times family) has come on the market in the last week for $95,000,000.
Coverage of the listing has been all over the news in the last few days, including in a piece on CNBC this morning. [...]
October 3, 2007
- Mystery buyer at Trump World Tower at United Nations Plaza identified; private-equity guru Chinh Chu (of the Blackstone group) paid $34.3M for three-unit spread on the 89th and 90th floors
The New York real-estate press has been atwitter over the last two days over the recent reported buyer of the final three units at Trump World Tower in New York, which paid $34,268,185 for the 34-room, 14,864-square-foot penthouse duplex.
Indeed, it had appeared that all that was known was that the buyer was CCHP Holdings LLC.However, [...]
September 24, 2007
- Former Citigroup Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sandy Weill closes on the purchase of his 6,744-square-foot unit at the newly built, Robert A.M. Stern-designed complex at 15 Central Park West in Manhattan; records show he paid $42,405,000 for the unit, with his closing occurring shortly after race car driver Jeff Gordon closed on his seventh-floor, $9,673,375 unit
Former Citigroup Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sanford I. “Sandy” Weill has closed on the purchase of his 6,744-square-foot unit in the newly built building at 15 Central Park West in Manhattan — which the New York Times is calling “the most expensive and perhaps the most celebrated housing development in Manhattan” — and records [...]
September 20, 2007
- News anchor Campbell Brown reportedly under contract to purchase house in North Haven, NY that had been listed for $1.999M
News anchor Campbell Brown reportedly is under contract to purchase a three-bedroom house in North Haven, N.Y. that had been on the market for $1,999,000.
The New York Post’s fine celebrity real estate columnist Braden Keil today broke the news that Brown, 39, and her husband, political strategist Dan Senor, have contracts out to purchase the [...]
September 15, 2007
- Paris takes out a mortgage (!) — again; records show that the heiress borrows $4.72M for her new house above Beverly Hills, CA, which is consistent with reports of a $5.9M purchase price (which is not available yet on public records), assuming she made a 20% down payment
Paris Hilton has borrowed $4,720,000 for her newly purchased house in the Mulholland Estates area of the Beverly Hills, Calif. postal area, which would seem to confirm widespread reports of a $5,900,000 purchase price, particularly given that a 20 percent down payment at that price would result in that amount borrowed.
In a Big Time Listings [...]
September 5, 2007
- New York City Mayor Bloomberg reportedly pays about $40M for a 10,821-square-foot mansion on Madison Avenue in Manhattan
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reportedly has paid about $40,000,000 for a 10,821-square-foot mansion in Manhattan that is next door to a Beaux-Arts mansion that he purchased last year for $45,000,000 for his future foundation.
The New York Observer’s Max Abelson today reports that Bloomberg purchased the mansion at 1014 Madison Avenue, which was built [...]
- Actress and heiress Liesel Pritzker pays $6.2M for monster-sized apartment in spooky-looking building on Manhattan’s Central Park West
Actress and heiress Liesel Pritzker has paid $6,200,000 for a seven-room, 4,146-square-foot condominium unit in a castlelike building on Manhattan’s Central Park West.
The New York Observer today broke the story of the purchase of the three-bedroom unit by Pritzker, 23. The actress/heiress, who won a reported $450 million several years ago after a dispute [...]
