Movers & Shakers
Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter pays $510K for a new, 3,500-square-foot house in Hopkinton, NH
By Bob Goldsborough at 6 August, 2009, 9:20 am
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter has paid $510,000 to buy a 3,448-square-foot house in Hopkinton, N.H. First off, we have to apologize to our readers for taking another extended break from this blog. Some of it involved us being on vacation, and some of it has involved lots of other writing projects [...]
Read More >>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
By Bob Goldsborough at 25 July, 2009, 8:55 am
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner appears to have a buyer for his 7,318-square-foot mansion in Los Angeles’ Holmby Hills area, which he has had on the market for $27,995,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the fact that Hef’s listing of the mansion, at 500 S. Mapleton Drive in Holmby Hills, now [...]
Read More >>Former presidential advisor Karl Rove places his five-bedroom, Federal-style house in Washington, DC on the market for $1.585M
By Bob Goldsborough at 25 July, 2009, 8:46 am
Karl Rove, the longtime George W. Bush advisor who now is a political analyst and writer, has placed his five-bedroom, Federal-style house in the Kent area of Washington, D.C. on the market for $1,585,000. Rove, 58, is spending less and less time lately in Washington, which is a city where a lot of Bush-era staff [...]
Read More >>Casino magnate Steve Wynn lists his condominium unit on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan for $25M
By Bob Goldsborough at 8 July, 2009, 11:05 am
Casino magnate Steve Wynn has placed his full-floor condominium unit on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on the market for $25,000,000. As we continue to work through our slowly decreasing backlog of items that others have written about but that we haven’t had the chance to weigh in on yet, we wanted to pay homage to [...]
Read More >>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
By Bob Goldsborough at 4 June, 2009, 7:44 am
Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher has sold his 3,428-square-foot, Connecticut farmhouse-style house on Beverly Hills, Calif.’s Coldwater Canyon Drive for $2,150,000 to a little-known movie executive producer named Fernando Szew. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Christopher’s sale price of his longtime home, which continues in our theme of [...]
Read More >>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
By Bob Goldsborough at 3 June, 2009, 5:23 pm
United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is having trouble unloading his five-bedroom, Tudor-style house near Larchmont, N.Y., after having listed it first for $1,635,000 early this year and then slicing its asking price to $1,575,000. His Realtor now is telling reporters that he recently rented out the house for $7,500 a month, although we’re guessing [...]
Read More >>Blago lists his condo; former Illinois Gov. Blagojevich places his Washington, DC condominium unit on the market for $570K
By Bob Goldsborough at 29 May, 2009, 12:47 pm
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has listed his two-bedroom condominium unit in Washington, DC for $570,000. This has been all over the newswires since Wednesday, so we have trouble pinpointing who wrote about it first. We would, however, like to highlight two particular stories that have been written about this listing. The Chicago Tribune’s Sara [...]
Read More >>Former Lehman honcho Dick Fuld quietly lists his 16-room apartment on Park Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side for around $32M
By Bob Goldsborough at 20 May, 2009, 10:04 am
Former Lehman Brothers Chairman and CEO Richard “Dick” Fuld has quietly placed his 6,200-square-foot, full-floor apartment on Park Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on the market for around $32,000,000, according to the New York Observer. The Observer’s Max Abelson broke the story on Tuesday of Fuld’s listing of the 16-room apartment, just a little [...]
Read More >>Philanthropist Steven M. Hilton — yes, Paris' uncle — lists a 3,796-square-foot house he owns in Malibu, CA for $2.96M
By Bob Goldsborough at 5 May, 2009, 9:40 pm
Philanthropist Steven M. Hilton — a scion of the notorious Hilton family and the uncle of Paris and Nicky Hilton — has placed a 3,796-square-foot house he owns in Malibu, Calif.’s Ramirez Canyon area on the market for $2,960,000. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Steven Hilton’s listing of the four-bedroom, [...]
Read More >>Mansion in Los Angeles' Bel-Air area hits the market for $53M
By Bob Goldsborough at 24 February, 2009, 12:20 pm
A nine-bedroom mansion in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air area that is owned by Iris Cantor, the widow of securities firm founder B. Gerald “Bernie” Cantor, came on the market last week for $53,000,000. Curbed LA broke the story on February 18 of the listing of Cantor’s La Belle Vie mansion, which is on Cloud Road in [...]
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