Actress Denise Richards has placed her 5,651-square-foot mansion in Hidden Hills, Calif. on the market for $4,250,000.

Our pals over at the Real Estalker broke the story yesterday of the clearly peripatetic Richards’ latest real-estate move, which involves turning around and trying to sell her current house, at 23726 Long Valley Road in Hidden Hills, just a year or so after she purchased it on June 29, 2007 for $4,395,000 through her Strudel Trust, according to public records. The house at 23726 Long Valley Road came on the market on Tuesday.

We have chronicled Richards’ many real estate moves many times in the past. The simple thing to know, however, is that if her current house sells for its current listing price, Richards would lose money on her second consecutive real estate transaction! That is because Richards sold her last house, which is just across the street at 23703 Long Valley Road in Hidden Hills, in October 2007 for $3,800,000 after having bought it in May 2006 through her Lucy Trust for $4,000,000, according to public records.

Built in 1991, Richards’ house at 23726 Long Valley Road has five baths, custom ceilings, dark wood floors, and a chef’s kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances, marble counters, custom cabinetry and a breakfast room, according to public records and listing information. The house also has a gym, an upstairs office, and a master suite that has an island spa tub, a steam shower, Carrera marble counters and a brick fireplace, according to listing information.

Check out an online listing sheet for Richards’ house at 23726 Long Valley Road — complete with photos.

There’s no word yet on where Richards is headed. We’ll of course keep you posted as we learn more.

Pro football player Carson Palmer has placed his four-bedroom house in Laguna Beach, Calif. on the market for $2,949,000.

In another in a long series of recent scoops, The Los Angeles Times’ ‘Hot Property’ columnist Ann Brenoff on Tuesday broke the story online of the listing of the house at 739 Nyes Place in Laguna Beach by the Cincinnati Bengals quarterback. We were out in Laguna Beach just last week, in fact, but didn’t unfortunately end up going past the Heisman Trophy winner’s pad.

Features in the 4,380-square-foot Mediterranean-style house, which was built in 2003, include five baths and a top level with an entry deck, a two-car garage and an ocean view office, according to listing information. The main level has a gourmet kitchen with granite counters, Viking stainless steel appliances, formal living and dining rooms, a guest room and a private laundry room, while the level just below has a master bedroom suite with a cedar-lined walk-in closet, an office with a private balcony, a sitting area with a fireplace, and bath with travertine and a bidet, according to listing information. The lowest level has two large bedrooms with a private and large ocean-view balcony, en-suite upgraded bathrooms with travertine, and cedar-lined closets, according to listing information. Other features include three fireplaces, a built-in aquarium, and white water views to Victoria Beach, according to listing information.

The property came on the market almost two weeks ago. Records show that the onetime USC star paid $2,850,000 to buy the house new in February 2004, with the deal being recorded in March 2004.

Check out an online listing sheet for Palmer’s place — complete with photos, and check out a property website for the house.

Palmer owns at least two other houses. His property portfolio includes:

–A 3,809-square-foot house at 355 13th Street in Del Mar, Calif., which he purchased new in early 2007 for $4,750,000, according to public records;

–A five-bedroom, 5,575-square-foot house on 5.0 acres at 8885 Whisperinghill Drive in Cincinnati, Ohio, which he purchased in August 2003 for an undisclosed price, according to public records.

Husband-and-wife country crooners Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood reportedly are the new owners of a house in Malibu, Calif. that just sold and that until recently had been on the market for $5,450,000 and later for $4,950,000.

The Los Angeles Times’ Ann Brenoff today breaks the story of Brooks and Yearwood’s purchase of the house, which is at 28020 Sea Lane Drive in Malibu. Records show that something based in Nashville called the 28020 Sea Lane Trust purchased the house on May 12, with the deal being recorded on June 24. Brenoff reports that the buyers behind the 28020 Sea Lane Trust are Brooks and Yearwood, and we have no reason to doubt that. Unfortunately, no exact purchase price is yet available; we should have one for you in the next few weeks.

Built in 1958, the three-bedroom Malibu house that the country couple purchased has three bedrooms (or two, according to public records) and three and a half baths. The house sits on a gated and wooded, 0.56-acre parcel that is wedged between the Pacific Coast Highway and the ocean, and that has beach access, according to public records. Features include a master bedroom with hardwood floors and an outdoor patio with a fireplace, Brenoff reported.

Brooks and Yearwood won’t be the only celebrities in the immediate area. Among Brooks’ neighbors is hockey legend Chris Chelios, who in 2003 paid exactly $6,000,000 for the 3,795-square-foot, oceanfront house immediately south, at 28026 Sea Lane Drive, according to public records.

Check out online listing sheets for the house here and here, and take a look at a website for the house.

Brooks and Yearwood also own a 2,400-acre ranch in Owasso, Oklahoma. Check out an aerial photo of their house in Owasso. And, Brooks’ longtime house in the Nashville area is a 5,551-square-foot house on 19.8 acres at 1250 Genelle Drive in Goodlettsville, Tenn., which he purchased in 1991 for $435,000 from former Nashville Mayor Richard Fulton, according to public records. After Brooks’ divorce from his now ex-wife Sandra, she quit-claimed him her share of the house in 2001, according to public records. Brooks owns that house in his real name. Finally, Brooks also owns some other scattered properties in Tulsa County and Oklahoma County in Oklahoma.

Actress Katherine Heigl has listed her three-bedroom, contemporary-style house in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz neighborhood for $1,750,000.

We’re the last to report on this, but we wanted to weigh in on Heigl’s listing of the house, which is at 4220 Parva Avenue in Los Feliz. Records show that Heigl paid $1,500,000 in April 2006 through her 4220 Parva Avenue Trust to purchase the 2,369-square-foot house on Parva Avenue, which recently became expendable last year when Heigl (shown her with her singer husband, Josh Kelley) moved into another house in the area.

The Los Angeles Times’ “Hot Property” columnist Ann Brenoff first wrote about this listing on her blog fully a week ago (and probably will stick that post in her weekly newspaper column this Sunday), and then our friends over at the Real Estalker wrote a characteristically excellent post on Heigl’s listing today. Heigl first placed the unit on the market on June 17.

Built in 1935, the house that Heigl is selling has been redone and has walls of glass with city, downtown and ocean views, according to public records and listing information. Other features include two and a half baths, a large master bedroom with French doors and a balcony with city views, a master bath with a large stone steam shower, hardwood floors, dual-zone air conditioning, recessed lights, and a kitchen with a SubZero refrigerator, a center island and granite countertops, according to listing information. One public records database tells us that the house sits on a 1.392-acre lot, but that’s clearly not true. As was the case with yesterday’s item that we wrote about Lisa Kudrow, we suspect that the public records database is off by a factor of 10, and that Heigl’s Parva Avenue house really sits on a lot measuring just 14/100 of an acre.

Brenoff’s post was kind of puzzling; in it, she didn’t once address what everyone else has written about ad infinitum: Heigl’s new house in Los Feliz. As we and others have written in the past, Heigl’s Poozer Loser Trust paid $2,550,000 in August 2007 to purchase the 3,690-square-foot house at 2226 N. Berendo Street in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz area.

Check out an online listing sheet for the Parva Avenue home – complete with photos – here.

Today’s installment of “Where in the world is….?” involves “Friends” star Lisa Kudrow, an extremely high-profile (and at one time, very well-paid!) actress who nonetheless has done an outstanding job over the years of staying out of the celebrity real estate gossip columns and blogs — until now. Kudrow somehow has managed to avoid the celebrity real estate gossip spotlight over the years, even as all five of her fellow “Friends” castmates have been the subjects of unending reports about their real estate travails here, at the Real Estalker, and in the Los Angeles Times’ ‘Hot Property’ column, among other places.

Now, Big Time Listings can provide the details of Kudrow’s real-estate portfolio. Records show that Kudrow’s Milval Trust paid $1,900,000 in August 1996 to purchase her six-bedroom, 6,397-square-foot house at 1273 Tower Grove Drive, high above Beverly Hills, Calif. Almost 12 years later, Kudrow continues to live in the house, which sits on a gated, 0.72-acre lot, according to public records (disregard erroneous Los Angeles County records that suggest that the property is 7.2 acres; that’s clearly a typographical error, and satellite photos clearly show that Kudrow’s property’s size is roughly in line with neighboring properties, all of which are between three-quarters of an acre and an acre).

In addition to the house, which was built in 1978 and has seven baths, Kudrow’s property also has a pool and a tennis court, according to public records and satellite images.

It’s not as if Kudrow has never discussed her house in print. However, the few times that she has, the details have been vague at best. In the August 1997 In Style, for example, the magazine reported that “Kudrow and her husband of two years, advertising executive Michel Stern, are preparing to move into a new house, still mired in renovations, high above Beverly Hills.” And in the July 2003 In Style, Kudrow discussed her mansion renovations, with the Tower Grove property only being referred to as a “hilltop home” (no town given). “It was supposed to be a small cosmetic job,” she told the magazine at that time, referring to her renovations. “We wanted to raise the ceiling in the bathroom, which meant raising a roof. But then we had to shore up the walls, which meant we had to update the earthquake protection. It ended up taking 10 months.” The few other reports mentioning Kudrow’s home have been more or less vague. In January 2006, the London Mail on Sunday newspaper observed about Kudrow that “even at the height of Friends, she and Stern, who live in a [pounds sterling] 3.4 million Beverly Hills mansion, were rarely seen in public.” And in September 2001, a People magazine article about the three female “Friends” stars being married referred only to Kudrow and Stern’s “home in Southern California.”

Kudrow’s same Milval Trust also paid $2,400,000 in November 2001 (recorded in 2002) to purchase a 4,396-square-foot house at 604 N. Canon Drive in Beverly Hills. However, Kudrow does not live in that house, and it’s unclear what her use is for that property. We suspect (although we don’t know) that that’s where Kudrow’s parents live, given that the July 2003 In Style reported that Kudrow’s “mom and dad live just five minutes away.”

Comedian Norm Macdonald has paid a reported $1,800,000 to purchase a condominium unit in Santa Monica, Calif.

We have to give serious kudos to the Los Angeles Times’ Ann Brenoff, who just broke the story of Macdonald’s purchase — through his STC Trust — of the second-floor unit at 212 Marine Street in Santa Monica. We actually had stumbled across this sale last week but had had no idea who the buyer was behind the STC Trust. In fact, given that Corey Barash, the money manager whose name appears on the deed, represents many celebrities, we had intended to put this property out to our readers this coming week as part of our ever-popular ‘Which celebrity’s house is this?’ feature in order to identify the buyer. Now, however, thanks to Brenoff, we all know that MacDonald was the buyer.

Records show that Macdonald’s STC Trust purchased the unit for an undisclosed price on May 22, with the deal closing on June 13. The unit had been on the market for $1,895,000.

Built in 2006, the condo unit that Macdonald purchased has either 1,630 square feet, according to public records, or over 2,000 square feet, according to listing information. Other features in the two-bedroom unit include two baths, a gourmet kitchen, white concrete floors, two large terraces, walls of glass and 14-foot ceilings, according to listing information.

Check out an online listing sheet for Macdonald’s new unit — complete with photos — here.

This isn’t the only Los Angeles-area property that Macdonald has owned over the years. In October 2000, his STC Trust purchased a 2,128-square-foot house at 209 S. Stanley Drive in Beverly Hills for an undisclosed price. He transferred ownership of that house to his ex-wife, Connie Vaillancourt, in late 2002, according to public records. And, his STC Trust paid an undisclosed amount in October 2002 to purchase a third-floor, 1,680-square-foot condo unit at 117 N. Gale Drive in Beverly Hills, according to public records. Macdonald continues to own that condo to this day.

On April 13, the Los Angeles Times’ Ruth Ryon led her farewell “Hot Property” column with the news of actor John Stamos having purchased a unit in downtown Los Angeles’ Art Deco-style Eastern Columbia building.

Ryon reported that reports were that Stamos had purchased a penthouse unit in the 13th-story building, on a floor where units ranged from $1,400,000 to $2,000,000.

Now, in a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report the actual details on Stamos’ purchase, which was just recorded a few weeks ago. The big takeaway: Stamos did *not* end up buying a penthouse floor unit, and instead ended on the building’s 10th floor, in a unit that he purchased for $900,000.

Public records show that Stamos’ Lorbil trust closed on the unit, at 849 S. Columbia Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, on April 17 (i.e., four days after Ryon’s item, but he undoubtedly went to contract long before Ryon’s swan song), and that the deal was recorded on June 13.

We previously had reported on September 14, 2007 about actor Johnny Depp’s purchase of a unit in the Eastern Columbia building. And we wrote about other buyers in the building on January 8.

There’s still no information in public records to confirm that actor Frankie Muniz, who is the other big-name celeb that Ryon had reported on April 13 was buying in the Eastern Columbia building, actually has done so (or at least, has had such a purchase recorded yet). We’ll of course keep you posted.