Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--One Madison Park is now home to two celebrity couples, Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts who are purchasing a four-bedroom apartment for around $6.5 million and Susan Sarandon and TIm Robbins who are purchasing a three-bedroom unit for around $3.5 million. So far the $35 million triplex penthouse is still up for grabs. --Sky --Sky --Sky Studios, the triplex penthouse that went through at least five different brokers, a $10 million price discount has finally closed for $17.5 million. We first fell for this one back in 2004 when it was listed at $20 million. Lucky owner, billionaire Ron Burkle is getting quite a place.
--Yup, here's one just about everyone called, Shorewood Manor, the former Hamptons estate of Gov. Hugh Carey's family is getting a discount. Investor Chris Knight bought if for $10 million and relisted it a few weeks later for $33 million. Now he has listed at $24.9 million. The listing, with new pictures, is here.
--Former TV anchor Forrest Sawyer has paid $3.81 million for a penthouse condo on Riverside Drive in the 90s.
--The price for Beechwood, the Astor mansion in Newport, Rhode Island has been bumped up to $18 million from $16 million.
--Environmental lifestyle guru Danny Seo is selling his eco-friendly Bucks County, Pa., bungalow for $425,000. The listing is here.
From the NY Post's Page Six:
--Gisele Bundchen has listed her two-bedroom New York condo for $10.9 million. The listing is here.
From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Real estate developer and Human Rights Watch board member David M. Brown has paid $8.4 million for a three-bedroom Beresford spread next door to the three-bedroom co-op he bought for $10.5 million in July 2004. And 10 floors down, hedge fund superstar Vikram Pandit and his wife, Swati, just paid $17.85 million for the late Tony Randall's 10-room sprawl, with 20 windows facing the park.
--South African gambling and resort magnate Sol Kerzner, was reported to have bought a $10.5 million penthouse at Philip Johnson's Urban Glass House for his daughter Beverley. Now records show that a holding company in the heiress' name paid $8.35 million for a colossal basketball court-turned-triplex at 213 West 23rd Street.
--Former Seventeen editor Atoosa Rubenstein her commodities-trading husband, Ari, paid $3.05 million for a 3,007-square-foot loft at Altair 18, a new condo on West 18th Street near Fifth Avenue.
From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Singer Jason Nesmith, whose father is the Monkees Mike Nesmith, has paid $500,000 for a condo in the Los Angeles' Valley Village area.
--British actress Anna Friel, who is appearing this fall on ABC's series 'Pushing Daisies,' has paid $1,195,500 for a home in the Hollywood Hills.
--Public records have cleared on the town home in Century City area that Lionel Richie purchased for Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, and reveal that Lionel paid $1,200,000 for the home.
--Public records have cleared for the mansion in Hidden Hills that Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne bought this summer. They paid $12,388,623 for the mansion.
[via the NY Times Big Deal column]
--Rosie O'Donnell has reportedly signed a $1.97M contract to buy a pied-a-terre in Manhattan's theater district
--Former Citigroup Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill has closed on the purchase of his 6,744-square-foot unit in the newly built building at 15 Central Park West in Manhattan for $42,405,000.
--Houston Astros outfielder Carlos Lee has sold his house in Burr Ridge, IL for $250K
--Two Chicago-area houses that were crime scenes sells for $3.7M and $768,600
--Former Chicago White Sox pitcher Donn Pall sells a house in Bloomingdale, IL for $680K and pays $875K for one that is just across the street.
--Eddie Murphy's ex-wife Nicole has listed the couple's longtime Sacramento area home for $6.5 million. The listing is here.
From the Real Estalker:
--You can rent Dan Aykroyd and Donna Dixon's Los Angeles home for $30,000 a month. And as a bonus it just might be haunted by the ghost of Mama Cass.
--Also for rent is New York Governor George Pataki's Adirondacks getaway for $4,000.
--Alexis Stewart has put her Tribeca penthouse, shown above, on the market for $12.4 million. You can peep the gray floors and all the gorgeous spareness at the listing here.
--Basketball star Cuttino Mobley has put his Beverly Hills home on the market for $3,995,000. It is our estate of the day later today.
From the LA Times Hot Property:
--As the Real Estalker reported back in August, John O'Hurley has put his home on the market for $6.2 million. He bought it in late 2004 for slightly more than $3 million. It was an estate of the day in August.
--James Burrows, the director and producer of "Cheers," "Will & Grace" and other NBC comedies has sold his Bel-Air home for close to its $12.9 million asking price.
--The Buddy Ebsen estate in Palos Verdes is on the market for $3.995 million. The listing for the French Normandy style home is here.
--Costume designer Greg LaVoi, has purchased a two-bedroom New Mexico retreat for less than its $479,000 asking price.