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From the Boston Globe:
–Tom Brady is selling two condos in the Beacon Street brownstone that he bought for $6.2 million last year. There is a three-bedroom unit listed at $4.59 million which has an outdoor deck and another unit with three bedrooms for $3.99 million. Brady is keeping the top two floor for himself so this is your chance to live under Tom Brady.

From the NY Post’s Gimme Shelter:
–Mariah Carey already owns a triplex in TriBeCa but now she has been renting a place at 15 Broad St., the Philippe Starck designed Wall Street condominium complex for around $8,000 per month.
–Fashion designer Arnold Scaasi has put his fabulously glamourous One Beekman Place co-op on the market for $9.85 million. The listing for the 12-room duplex is here.
–Lorraine Bracco has cut the price on her Snedens Landing property down to $2.9 million. The home first hit the market for $4.4 million in 2004 and was $3.2 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day earlier this year.
–It turns out that Ricky Martin paid $6.3 million rather than the $7 million originally reported for his apartment at 40 Bond Street.

From the NY Observer’s Manhattan Transfers:
– NASCAR driver named Brian Vickers has paid $4,636,800 for a penthouse at 92 Greene Street.
–Walter Yetnikoff, the 80’s-era CBS Records CEO famous for working with Michael Jackson, Billy Joel and Barbra Streisand, has paid $2.475 million for a 24th-floor condo at Philip Johnson’s Metropolitan on East 90th Street.
–Allen Grubman,the lawyer father of PR gal Lizzie Grubman has paid $3.07 million for a condo and two storage rooms at 200 Chambers Street, a new development in Tribeca.
–The parents of Harvard’s chick-lit plagiarist, Kaavya Viswanathan, have paid $3.21 million for a Fifth Avenue apartment.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
–Robert De Niro’s wife Grace Hightower officially sold her Trump Palace condo $2.45 million. It had been listed for $2.495 million.
–a Beverly Hills, Calif. house that actresses Rita Hayworth and Jean Harlow once lived in has sold for $3,960,000.
–Brad Pitt reportedly offered $8 million for the 5,883-square-foot former Will and Ariel Durant estate in Los Feliz. The owners didn’t accept the offer and so he is upgrading his current Los Feliz home.
–Gwyneth Paltrow fetched $13.65 million recently for her condo in TriBeCa which had been listed for $14 million.
–A reveal on the price that Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne paid for a house in the Hollywood Hills for their daughter Aimee. The home sold for $2.35 million, a full $350,000 above asking price.
–The official sale price for Josh Duhamel’s former Brentwood area home is $2.389 million.
–Joe Trohman, the lead guitarist for Fall Out Boy, has paid $516,000 for a newly converted condominium unit in Los Angeles.
–Official numbers for the recent real estate activity of former New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre. He paid $4.45 million for his new house in Hancock Park and sold his house in Los Angeles’ Venice area for $2.85 million.
–NCIS actress Lauren Holly has sold her house in North Barrington, IL, which had been listed for $1.1999 million.
–Chicago Bears safety Danieal Manning has paid $535,000 for a house in Libertyville, IL.
–Official numbers for Johnny Depp’s purchase of a penthouse in a turquoise Art Deco building in Los Angeles. Depp paid $2.1 million for his penthouse in the conversion of the Eastern Columbia building.
–Rev. Tim Storey,and his wife Roxanne have sold their Beverly Hills home which had been on the market for $4,700,000.
–Mr. Big Time reveal the deets on Paris Hilton’s mortgage. She has borrowed $4,720,000 for her new house in Mulholland Estates.

From the Real Estalker:
–Janice Dickinson is renting a home on Skyline Drive in Los Angeles for $5,250 a month.
–Britney Spears has sold her Malibu home to r, director/writer/producer Stephen Sommers for $10 million and may have purchased a new home in Malibu that has been listed at $9,350,000.
–Benjamin Bratt has listed his four-unit investment property in San Francisco for $1.858 million.
–Matthew McConnaughey is renting a Malibu mobile home.
–Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have purchased a home in Hidden Hills for $10 million.
–Actress Lori Loughlin is selling her Los Angeles home to move into her new Bel Air abode. The home is listed at $2.35 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
–Wayne Gretzky has sold his Lake Sherwood home for around $18.5 million. The buyer is retired baseball player Lenny Dykstra.
–As the Real Estalker mentioned back in August, Tommy Lee has bought in Calabasas. His new home was bought for close to $6 million.
–Brian Cook of the L.A. Lakers has bought a townhouse in Hermosa Beach for about $1.6 million.
– Kenyon Martin of the Denver Nuggets has bought a home in Woodland Hills for slightly more than $1.8 million.

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I couldn’t settle on a celeb house to feature for my Sunday estate so instead we are looking at one that might be a bit of candy for a celebrity with an architecture jones. The Wolff House was built by John Lautner in 1961 (you may remember the name from the recent sale of Courtney Cox Arquette and David Arquette’s sale of a Lautner in Malibu). This home a three-bedroom in the Hollywood Hills, is a a modernist treasure in wood and stone and glass. The house is on a private cul-de-sac and has an amazing view. Other features include a one-bedroom guesthouse and a beautiful pool. An article in Variety from 2005 indicates that the home was sold in 2005 for around $4 million. It is listed now at $5.995 million.

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The Turtle House a unique house in the Enchanted Forest of Big Sur is a beautiful, if small, home. The name comes from the design, a hexagonal center with four arms that stretch out into the forest next to a creek and a head that has a hot tub. Despite the sylvan location this home is wired with the latest technology including wi-fi, a security system, a home theater and a Lutron lighting system. There is also a hydraulic lift in the garage that holds four cars. The home has a warm floor heating system and uses a propane furnace. Water comes from a gravity, spring-fed water system. The home is just 1600 square feet and is furnished with pieces that were custom designed and built for the home by Morris Sheppard/Sheppard Design. The living room includes a wood stove on a granite hearth and the study/library has two desks back to back with views and a fax machine. The gourmet kitchen has a Wolf stove, All-Clad cookware, a microwave, dishwasher, and granite counters and the dining room is cantilevered over the creek. No need to bring your own bed, the master bedroom has a platform queen bed meant to match perfectly with the skylight above. It is listed at $8 million.

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The latest Belize resort is the massive Ara Macao Resort and Marina project. The project is a 582-acre planned community on the Placencia coastline. It will include a golf course, hotel, condominiums, villa, a large marina, restaurants and a casino. The resort has opened a Charter Member program that offers the next 50 purchasers a five-day trip to Belize. Prices for condo units start in the low $400,000s.

There has been some concern over the project’s grand scale but an interview with developer Paul Goguen says that Ara Macao is only a quarter of the new development planned for the area. He also says that the project will bring much-needed infrastructure to the area and is turning swamp land into a producing asset for the Belize government through taxes and jobs.

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This might be my favorite Jackson, Wyoming home yet. It’s a great modern riff on the log cabin. Glass and wood dominate the contemporary home which sits on five acres atop gated North Gros Ventre Butte. The home’s large glass windows offer gorgeous mountain views. The beige-on-beige color scheme isn’t the most thrilling I have seen but the spare design means that you can bring your modern furniture to your Wyoming home and it won’t look horribly out of place. This home is listed at $7.25 million.

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This huge country manor is so large that it could easily be pressed into business as a unique hotel. The estate is 150 acres that includes forests, a freshwater stream, cattle pastures, walking trails, gardens and a pond. The home includes a large living room, formal dining room, a large kitchen, 11 bedrooms and an indoor pool.

The home belongs to George Ross Eaton, a Canadian department store heir. It was designed by Thierry Despont and building of this expansive over 28,000-foot mansion began in the late 1980s but didn’t finish up until 1996 at a reported cost of $20 million Canadian. A few years later, facing tax problems, Eaton put the home on the market for that price but didn’t get any takers. He later took the house off the market. An article I found on Canadians For Properly Built Homes, details a fascinating saga in which Eaton alleges a number of problems with the home. Another piece, in the Toronto Star, reports on a lawsuit in which the Eatons claimed they suffered fatigue, headaches and respiratory problems while living in the home. They say they spent over $4 million repairing the home.

Now the home is on the market for an undisclosed price. It’s a rather particular home, heavy on the wallpaper and velvet, lavish certainly but old-fashioned and even a touch gloomy. Larger pics of this white elephant in the gallery or a all at once after the jump.

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This modern home is a new build that is designed to blend in with the red rock sculptures of Sedona, Arizona.The main level is an open floor plan with large glass walls. The home is full of playful custom sculptural details done in stainless steel, copper, glass and iron. The finishes are lavish, including exotic woods, granite, travertine, limestone and titanium. The estate includes a main house, two-bedroom guest house, pool house, a separate home theater area and a negative-edge swimming pool with a spa and waterfalls. Landscaping includes rock and sculpture gardens. The home comes with the custom furnishings and is listed at $13.5 million. After the jump or in the galley, up close pictures of the particular details including the distinctive metal stars, squiggles and glass spheres that echo Sedona’s new-agey reputation.

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South Florida hasn’t exactly been the hub of the green movement but an ambitious new project in the city of Plantation might help to change that. A 33-acre development called 321 North seeks to create a new green town center for the city of Plantation. The $350 billion project includes 600 residential units, office space and a revamped shopping mall all within walking distance. A local news station, NBC6, checked out the development which will be created with eco-friendly materials including zinc siding and green screens where plants can grow to create natural shade. On the interior the bamboo and palm wood and products made of recycled materials continue the green theme. The development also is part of a nationwide pilot program to expand LEED beyond individual buildings to creating entire eco-friendly neighborhoods. Construction is expected to begin next year.

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Another famous blockbuster estate has hit the market and it will most likely be the most expensive sale in Minnesota history. Southways is a huge mansion in the elite area of Brackett’s Point in Orono, Minnesota which has served as the summer home for the Pillsbury family. The estate includes seven structures including a caretaker’s cottage/greenhouse, garage, pool complex, smoke room and tea house on nearly 13 acres. It sits on Lake Minnetonka and has lovely views but the magic is on the inside on this one, the finishes and details are absolutely flawless. There are nine bedrooms in the 32,400-square-foot-main house. It was designed in 1916-1918 by Harrie T. Lindberg and was used by the Pillsbury family until the early 1990s. It has been lovingly restored by the Jundt family and played host to President Bush last summer. The Pioneer Press reports that according to real estate agent Bruce Birkeland, the family is downsizing. Can the Jundts get their price of $53.5 million? It sounds a bit optimistic but this lovely home will almost certainly be a record breaker.

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London’s Canary Wharf is the site of a bunch of new developments. The Sunday Times has an article on some of the most lavish development including the most lavish, the Pan Peninsula, a residential skyscraper that includes 20 penthouse apartments that range in price from £2.5 million to £12 million for 1,652 to 7,714 sq ft of space. What do you get for your cash? Penthouse owners get butler service as well as access to a cocktail bar on the 31st floor, a private cinema, spa, gym and restaurant. Penthouses will also be custom designed to the owner’s tastes. The model apartments for the development show off features like gray marble bathrooms with automatically-flushing toilets and heated walls to warm towels.

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