Movers & Shakers

November 18, 2009

• White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel rents out his house in Chicago for $4,995/mo; also, Nancy Hughes, the widow of film director John Hughes, pays $5.2M for a mansion in Lake Forest, IL

November 7, 2009

• Former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lists his 2,604-square-foot home in McLean, VA for $1.075M

November 6, 2009

• Chewing-gum heir and Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Co. Chairman Bill Wrigley, Jr. lists Chicago penthouse for $14M and also just officially listed his Lake Forest, IL mansion for $14.5M; in April, he paid $11M for a mansion in North Palm Beach, FL and paid $11.53M in May for land in Aspen, CO

October 25, 2009

• Rolling Stone publisher and founder Jann Wenner reportedly pays $11.9M for a waterfront home on Old Montauk Highway in Montauk, NY, on Long Island’s South Fork

October 24, 2009

• Buyer of Bernie Madoff’s Montauk, NY beach house revealed: real-estate mogul Steven Roth, who paid $9.41 million for the 3,014-square-foot beachfront house

October 6, 2009

• Russian financier Andrei Vavilov sells duplex penthouse in the Plaza in Manhattan for $8.4M, closing the book on his misadventures in high-end New York City real estate

September 1, 2009

• Bernie Madoff’s four-bedroom, Long Island beach house to be put up on the market this week

August 22, 2009

• U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan quietly sells his house in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood for $525K; Chicago sportscaster Steve Kashul lists his house in Naperville, Ill. for $524,900

August 6, 2009

• Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter pays $510K for a new, 3,500-square-foot house in Hopkinton, NH

July 25, 2009

• Hef making a deal? Playboy founder Hugh Hefner appears to have a buyer for his mansion in Los Angeles’ Holmby Hills area, which is on the market for $27.995M
• Former presidential advisor Karl Rove places his five-bedroom, Federal-style house in Washington, DC on the market for $1.585M

July 8, 2009

• Casino magnate Steve Wynn lists his condominium unit on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for $25M

June 4, 2009

• Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher sells his 3,428-square-foot, Connecticut farmhouse-style house on Beverly Hills, CA’s Coldwater Canyon Drive for $2.15M to producer Fernando Szew

June 3, 2009

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner having trouble making a sale; he recently rented out his house near Larchmont, N.Y. after it had been listed for $1.575M

May 29, 2009

• Blago lists his condo; former Illinois Gov. Blagojevich places his Washington, DC condominium unit on the market for $570K

May 20, 2009

• Former Lehman honcho Dick Fuld quietly lists his 16-room apartment on Park Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side for around $32M

May 5, 2009

• Philanthropist Steven M. Hilton — yes, Paris’ uncle — lists a 3,796-square-foot house he owns in Malibu, CA for $2.96M

February 24, 2009

• Mansion in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air area hits the market for $53M
• Mansion in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air comes on market for $85M

February 7, 2009

• Don King lists his estate near Palm Beach, FL for $27.5M