Movers & Shakers

February 7, 2009

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

February 4, 2009

• President Barack Obama’s many dwellings over the years

December 23, 2008

• The skinny on Obama’s five-bedroom oceanfront Hawaii rental

December 13, 2008

• President George W. Bush buys 8,501-square-foot house in Dallas’ Preston Hollow neighborhood

December 12, 2008

• Former Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady reportedly sells his mansion in Washington, DC to the Polish government for $9.55M

December 11, 2008

• Former superagent Michael Ovitz lists his mansion in Los Angeles’ Brentwood area for $14.95M

November 28, 2008

• Two of New York’s biggest-money residential deals are contained in recent listing of $65M apartment in Manhattan’s Time Warner Center

November 26, 2008

• 24-room mansion in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz area that once was owned by long-ago LA Times publisher Harry Chandler is on the market for $6.799M

November 21, 2008

• $29.5M listing in Beverly Park area of Beverly Hills, CA; Robert Bisno’s 11,894-square-foot mansion on the block
• BBC exec fetches $2.05M for 2,191-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills that comedian Carol Leifer once owned; is the new buyer a celeb?

November 9, 2008

• Former bebe vice chaiman (and onetime wife of bebe founder) Neda Mashouf lists her solar-powered house in the flats of Beverly Hills, CA for $4.7M

November 6, 2008

• Building contractor Ron Tutor’s purchase price revealed in Beverly Hills, CA’s Beverly Park area; Tutor paid $32.2M — and not the $36.7M that the Wall Street Journal had reported — for his massive, not-yet-completed, 27,000-square-foot mansion

September 30, 2008

• The penthouse that Beanie Babies built; billionaire Ty Warner reportedly signs a contract to buy the penthouse at the Chicago Spire (the 141st and 142nd floors), which had been on the market for $40M

September 9, 2008

• Russian financier backs out of $53.5M deal for triplex penthouse in the converted Plaza hotel in Manhattan, wants his $10.7M deposit back plus $20M-plus in damages

August 14, 2008

• Donald Trump reportedly will buy Ed McMahon’s mansion in the Summit neighborhood in the Beverly Hills, CA postal area, which has been headed to foreclosure as it sits on the market for $4.6M

August 3, 2008

• Dylan McDermott lists his 4,000-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Brentwood area for $11M

July 13, 2008

• BBC exec lists 2,191-square-foot house formerly owned by comedienne Carol Leifer for $2.15M

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)

July 2, 2008

• Actress Denise Richards lists her five-bedroom, 5,651-square-foot mansion in Hidden Hills, CA for $4.25M

June 23, 2008

• Actress Tara Reid lists her 1BR, 1,087-square-foot condo unit in Los Angeles’ Hollywood area for $885K