Fashionistas

March 15, 2008

• Model/heiress Lydia Hearst pays $1.49M for a two-bedroom condo in Mid-Town Manhattan

March 14, 2008

• Tommy Hilfiger lists seven-bedroom mansion in Greenwich, CT for $27.9M

March 12, 2008

• Vera Wang lists her late parents’ estate in Palm Beach, FL for $19M

March 5, 2008

• Fashion designer Kenneth Cole pays $14.5M for a co-op unit in Manhattan’s Sutton Place

March 4, 2008

• Rachel Hunter and Jarret Stoll pay $3.645M for a house in Hermosa Beach, CA

March 3, 2008

• 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
• Supermodel Oluchi pays just over $1.7M for a two-bedroom condo unit in NYC
• Vera Wang buys her late parents’ duplex apartment in Manhattan for $23.1M

March 1, 2008

• 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

February 29, 2008

• Stylist Rachel Zoe lists her two-bedroom house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $2.995M
• 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
• 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

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

February 4, 2008

• Nicole Murphy unloads her 10-bedroom, 11,158-square-foot mansion in Granite Bay, CA for $6.1M, as first reported by the Real Estalker more than a month ago; the LA Times’ report that Eddie Murphy also was a seller is incorrect

December 27, 2007

• Rocker Slash (finally) sells his controversial mansion in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for an undisclosed price after it had been listed for just under $6M

September 12, 2007

• Kimora Lee Simmons sells 5BR, 5,818-square-foot Beverly Hills home for $5.655M

August 18, 2007

• Kimora Lee Simmons purchases seven-bedroom home in Beverly Hills, CA that had been listed for $5.9M and that is next door to singer Jessica Simpson’s house

August 10, 2007

• We’re late to the party on this one, but Vidal Sassoon has listed his renovated, 3,392-square-foot Richard Neutra-designed Modernist-style house on 5.23 acres in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air area for $19.995M

August 7, 2007

• Guess co-founder Maurice Marciano sells house in Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills, Calif. for $3.7M, and pays $1.6M for a 2,325-square-foot condominium unit in a full-service building in Beverly Hills

July 26, 2007

• Christie Brinkley reportedly in contract to purchase waterfront home in North Haven, N.Y. that is listed for $10.995M