March 3, 2008
- 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
- The correction finally appears; LA Times’ readers’ rep today issues a correction to Sunday’s “Hot Property” column, acknowledging that — as we had questioned over the weekend — actor Mark Harmon was *not* the buyer of the Villa Vista Oceano compound in Malibu, CA, which sold in September for $9M
- All I want for Christmas is….a scoop in the L.A. Times, or at the very least, some attribution for having come this way first; every single item in this coming Sunday’s ‘Hot Property’ column in the Los Angeles Times has been written about already in the blogosphere, either here at Big Time Listings or at the Real Estalker
