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February 27, 2009

• Michael Jordan and his Cuban-born model girlfriend Yvette Prieto pay $281K for a house in Miami, FL

January 7, 2009

• My New Chicago Political Blog

January 6, 2009

• Late photographer to the stars (and presidents) Wallace Seawell’s 3,184-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills (where Carol Channing spent lots of time) is on the market for $2.069M

December 4, 2008

• Actor Garret Dillahunt and his actress wife Michelle Hurd pay $1.35M for a unit in Manhattan’s new eco-friendly Riverhouse development and sell their co-op unit in NYC’s West Village for $875K

November 4, 2008

• Music producer and drummer Michael Blakey cuts the asking price for his 4,951-square-foot house in the Beverly Hills, CA postal area to $2.995M

October 21, 2008

• Actor and retired professional wrestler “Stone Cold” Steve Austin sells his four-bedroom house in Malibu, CA for $2.495M — three years after purchasing it for $3.1M; Austin now owns a house in Marina del Rey, CA

September 30, 2008

• Thanks to all……

September 24, 2008

• Hacked! …and coming back.

July 28, 2008

• Sayonara to the Los Angeles Times’ Sunday Real Estate section, after more than a century; “Hot Property” column now will appear in the Times’ new Saturday Home section

April 10, 2008

• An ignominious ending? Ruth Ryon’s next-to-last column in the Los Angeles Times – on the reported $7M Nicole Kidman purchase of a home in Los Angeles’ Brentwood area – turns out to be a dud; actress never wound up buying the house and is still looking for a home

April 7, 2008

• Welcome aboard the celebrity real estate beat, Ann!

March 13, 2008

• Actor/musician “Little Steven” Van Zandt pays $6M for a condo in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village area

March 5, 2008

• Ruth Ryon leaving the LA Times?

March 4, 2008

• Forrest Sawyer pays $3.81M for Manhattan condo
• Extra, extra (not really); three of the five items in tomorrow’s “Hot Property” column in the LA Times already have appeared here at Big Time Listings, including actor John O’Hurley listing his Beverly Hills, CA home, comedy director/creator James Burrows quietly selling his house in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air area and Madonna’s former Beverly Hills home being on the market for $17.5M

March 3, 2008

• The Malibu fires
• 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
• Odds & Ends: a smattering of small items, bundled into one blog post (Scary Spice, Kate Walsh, Natalie Portman, Chris Webber)
• Odds & Ends: a smattering of small items, bundled into one blog post (Natalie Maines, Nicole Murphy, Terry O’Quinn)

February 29, 2008

• The year of the $100M-plus sales; a quick review of the four nine-digit residential sales in 2007, plus the records they broke