In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Lowe’s sale of the house and 1.13-acre lot at 735 Fuera Lane in Montecito, which is in Santa Barbara County. Records show that Lowe’s Profile Property Trust sold the house on May 11, with the deal being recorded on May 19. The buyers are not celebrities.

Built in 1929, the house that Lowe sold has five full baths and one half bath, according to listing information. Designed by William McCay, the house has been remodeled and “re-styled,” according to listing information, by Lowe. The house first had been listed for $12,398,000 and later was reduced to $10,995,000.

Records show that Lowe purchased the house in 2005 for an undisclosed amount. The Los Angeles Times’ Ruth Ryon reported in April 2005 that the amount was $6 million, and that the house was purchased as a “temporary house” until Lowe and his wife had finished building their dream house (see more on that below).

Lowe owns other property in Santa Barbara County. Records show that his trust owns the following:

–His principal residence, which is his house on 3.4 acres nearby, which he purchased in 2005 and on which he subsequently built a 9,860-square-foot (or 14,260-square-foot, depending on which plans one consults) house, according to public records. The property has ocean and mountain views, Ryon reported in 2005. That project incurred significant wrath from his neighbors.

–And another small parcel in Santa Barbara that he has owned since purchasing it for an undisclosed price in 2004, according to public records.

Lowe also famously had owned the mansion and 5.56-acre property at 771 Garden Lane in Santa Barbara, which appeared in Architectural Digest in July 2001. He and his wife sold that property to something called the 771 Garden Lane Trust in 2005. Ryon reported in 2005 that the individual behind the 771 Garden Lane Trust was Peter V. Sperling, the son of the founder of the Arizona-based University of Phoenix. She also reported that that property went to escrow for $25 million.

Actor Rupert Grint has found great use for his riches from his role in the fabulously successful “Harry Potter” franchise, sinking his fortune into British real estate.

Grint, 21, now has purchased two country mansions, and also owns a third home — all with no mortgages whatsoever. The Daily Mail recently reported that Grint on September 9 paid 5.4 million pounds to acquire an 18th-century, Hertfordshire manor house on 22 acres. The mansion (top picture) includes five reception rooms and six bedroom suites. Two cottages and a pool dot the grounds, the paper reported.

Grint (shown here with co-star Emma “Hermione Granger” Watson) owns another country house in Hertfordshire, where he has been living up to now with his parents, brother and three sisters. He paid 3.35 million pounds for that mansion (second picture), whose grounds have a lake and a putting green, in October 2006, the Daily Mail reported. As if all that weren’t enough, Grint also paid 495,000 pounds with his father to purchase a good-sized, detached house, also in Hertfordshire, the paper noted.

Grint’s parents have their own real estate as well, the Daily Mail noted, including a farmhouse just outside Hertford that the purchased in October 2003 for 2 million pounds.

Grint’s property portfolio vastly outshines those of his co-stars. The Daily Mail reported that “Harry Potter” himself, Daniel Radcliffe, owns property totaling an estimated 7 million in value (we would definitely question that figure, given the land-baron designs that Radcliffe seems to have), while Watson owns 4 million pounds worth of properties, the paper reported.

The reason we believe that the house, which had been listed for $1,990,000, has been purchased by a celebrity is because the buyer is shown in public records as being something called the Rowboat Trust. And the money manager whose name is on the deed representing the Rowboat Trust is one Bo Gardner. Frequent and eagle-eyed readers of this blog will know that Gardner also has represented other celebrities over the years in their real-estate transactions, including rocker Flea (Michael Balzary).

Built in 1924, remodeled and expanded in 1999 and known as Casa di Gennaio, the red oak-clad house on Linnie Canal in Venice has French doors, bay windows, rooms opening to a patio or balcony, a courtyard off the kitchen with a plumbed BBQ, oak floors, timbered ceilings, Ralph Lauren Thoroughbred paint, a canal-front great room with a built-in seating area overlooking the canals and a wood/gas fireplace, another great room that can be a second bedroom or studio plus an adjoining office/den, full bath and laundry room, according to public records and listing information. Other features include a gourmet kitchen with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, a wine cooler, a large walk-in pantry and an adjacent powder room, according to listing information. The second-floor master suite has a reading cove with a fireplace and built-in bookshelves, an oversized walk-in closet, a bath with a spa tub and separate shower and a balcony, according to listing information. Outdoor features on the 0.07-acre (2,850-square-foot) lot, which is four blocks from Venice Beach, include a one-car garage.

Check out an online listing sheet for the house — plus a photo — here.

The sellers are not celebrities.

So, dear readers, we ask you as we always do: which celebrity purchased the house at 437 Linnie Canal? Which bold-faced name is behind the Rowboat Trust?

Now teaching at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Tex., Gonzales, 54, was the U.S.’ Attorney General from 2005 until 2007 and prior to that was President George W. Bush’s White House Counsel. The Washington Post’s Reliable Source columnists appear to have broken the story earlier this week of Gonzales’ listing.

Built in 1966, Gonzales’ 2,604-square-foot, center hall Colonial-style house has video-monitored entrances and a safe room off the master bedroom, the Post reported. Other features include four baths, hardwood floors throughout, custom built-ins, a security system, two separate living areas, a fully finished walk-out basement, and a kitchen with granite, a gas range and top-of-the-line cabinetry, according to listing information. Outdoor features on the 0.35-acre (15,334-square-foot) lot include in-ground sprinklers and panoramic views, according to listing information.

Gonzales paid $1,050,000 through a trust (of which Timothy Schwartz is the trustee) to purchase the home in June 2005, according to public records.

Also featured: former Chicago Bears and current Houston Texans quarterback Rex Grossman reduces the asking price of his 2,437-square-foot, 36th-floor unit in Chicago’s Trump International Hotel & Tower from $2,350,000 to $2,295,000.

Our friends over at the Real Estalker wrote on Monday about Presley’s listing of her longtime California outpost, which contains a ranch house with a Long Valley Road address that has either 7,077 square feet large (according to public records) or 8,000 square feet (according to listing information, which we have no reason to doubt). Listing information tells us that there are three separate guest quarters on the property, which makes some sense, given that it’s actually a two-parcel spread that also contains a four-bedroom, 2,842-square-foot house with an Eldorado Meadow Road address as well.

Built in 1981, Presley’s main house has five bedrooms and five and a half baths and sits on a 3.07-acre parcel, according to public records and listing information. The adjoining 2,842-square-foot house that she owns on Eldorado Meadow Road (which was built in 1954) sits on a 1.47-acre tract. So in all, Presley (shown here with fourth husband Michael Lockwood) owns 4.5 acres, all of which butt up against the Santa Monica Conservancy/Ahmanson Ranch, which “ensures privacy,” according to listing information. Other features on the estate include a pool/spa with waterfall, barns/tack rooms, and extensive extra parking, according to listing information.

Presley purchased both properties in 1993 through the name of Fletcher Haaga, a Presley estate adviser. She paid $2,600,000 for the larger parcel with her main house, and $625,000 for the smaller one, according to public records. Presley then transferred the properties to her Promenade Trust in 2001.

Presley has owned some other noteworthy property in the past. In 1996, she purchased a large waterfront house at 1100 Osceola Avenue North in Clearwater, Fla. Presley sold that 5,200-square-foot house (according to news accounts; public records say it’s 6,556 square feet large) in May 2000 to actress Kirstie Alley’s True Blue Productions company for $1.5 million. Alley then turned around and sold that house in March 2001 for $1.6 million, but she then repurchased it in March 2008 for $1.6 million, according to public records.

In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on yet another recent real-estate transaction by Carter. A month ago, we provided what we had believed was a comprehensive post about Carter’s properties — headlined by his listing of a 4,209-square-foot house in Malibu, Calif. for $17,495,000. However, in the process, we missed the fact that Carter’s Lucklucky Trust also had paid $5,450,000 in March for a house in Picacho Lane in Santa Barbara.

Set on a 1.12-acre parcel, the house that Carter (shown on the right with some other familiar faces from the world of the X-Files) purchased has been completely remodeled and has four and a half baths, and a sitting room in the master suite, according to public records and listing information. Outdoor features on the property include a swimming pool and an attached, three-car garage

Records show that Carter’s trust closed on the purchase on March 13, with the deal being recorded on March 31. The house had been listed for $5,950,000.

Consult our September 28 post on Carter’s real estate portfolio for a list of the other properties that he owns in California. We have no indication that Carter plans to sell any of the other Santa Barbara-area real estate that records show that he owns, which includes three different lots — at least one of which has a house on it — on Hot Springs Road in Santa Barbara, and also a house on a 3.27-acre vacant on Jameson Lane in Santa Barbara. In fact, it appears to us that this newest acquisition basically backs up to Carter’s three lots on Hot Springs Road.