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By Kim Velsey 5/11/12 7:44pm

Red Carpet Real Estate

Playing fairy godmother again (Story Accents, flickr)

Oprah’s Penthouse Makes Broker’s Dreams Come True

Even when she’s selling her sprawling Midtown penthouse for $7.75 million, Oprah Winfrey manages to spread hope and joy. She even made a little profit in the process, having bought the penthouse for $7.1 million in 2008. How does she do it?

When we heard that Ms. Winfrey’s Place 57 condo on East 57th Street sold to hedge fund partner Mark Hillery (as reported by The Real Deal earlier this week), we thought that naturally Mr. Hillery would be happy. He got the high-ceilinged, big-windowed pad, listed with Corcoran broker Mark Schoenfeld, for a few hundred thousand under the $7.9 million ask. Read More

By Kim Velsey 4/20/12 2:06pm

Red Carpet Real Estate

She can't settle down (Chesi - Photos CC, flickr)

Jennifer Aniston Breaks Up With West Village Condos

Sometimes you have to say goodbye— relationships fail, love fades, and it comes time to leave the pair of West Village condos that you thought you’d be with forever.

Our favorite Friend Jennifer Aniston has sold her pair of apartments at 299 W. 12th Street for $6.5 million, the New York Post reports. And apparently she was somewhat desperate to be rid of them, letting them go at a $500,000 loss. Read More

By Michael Ewing 4/04/12 5:52pm

Red Carpet Real Estate

Smiling won't be as easy when the papers are served!

David ‘Destruction’ Schwimmer Hits Nasty Neighbor With Construction Debris

There has been a few rumbles in the East Village over Friends’ superstar David Schwimmer.

Mr. Schwimmer knocked down a historic building last year to build his dream mansion, ignoring several Landmarks Preservation Commission letters and annoying neighbors.

The conflict intensified as one passerby was innocently struck with a piece of debris, DNAInfo reports: Read More

By Kim Velsey 3/27/12 1:12pm

Red Carpet Real Estate

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A $4 million parlour?

J.Crew Style Maven’s House Sells For $4 Million

J.Crew is known for its upscale but largely affordable clothes, but when it comes to some items—like president and creative director Jenna Lyons’ Park Slope townhouse—people are apparently willing to pay above retail.

The fashion guru’s 7 bed, 3.5 bath, 4,400 square foot townhouse sold for $4 million to Vincent and Tracy Martin, according to Curbed — 7 percent more than the $3.75 million that Ms. Lyons listed the property for last November. Read More

By Michael Ewing 3/26/12 4:27pm

Red Carpet Real Estate

Oh, please, honey. I don't want one townhouse, I want TWO. (Courtesy Daily News)

Quintessential Villagers Moving to Brooklyn? Sarah Jessica Parker Eying Neighboring Heights Townhouses Asking $19 M.

The human embodiment of our very own Carrie Bradshaw might be moving to Brooklyn. Oh, how the times have changed since the writer lived in her rent-controlled apartment on the Upper East Side in 1994.

Now, the Observer has chased Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, her husband, around town tracking their real estate decisions. (It wasn’t that hard; the Observer created her mind.) The real estate desk might have even blown her cover with 88 CPW, but it appeared that she never really left the West Village. Read More

By Michael Ewing 3/23/12 5:10pm

Red Carpet Real Estate

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One word: amazing.

Collect Gian Enzo Sperone’s West Village Home for $10.9 M.

An art collector’s dream apartment has hit the market in the West Village.

The three story apartment at 43 Clarkson Street has been put on the market for $10.9 million dollars, according to Curbed. The 70-year old Italian art dealer Gian Enzo Sperone, the person that brought New York pop art to Europe in the 1970s, put his home on the market with Prudential Douglass Elliman earlier this week. That huge price does not include any of the stunning art inside—though make the right deal, and it could probably be yours. Read More

By Matt Chaban 5:07pm

Red Carpet Real Estate

Mad men! (Getty)

New York Jets, Scared of Scary New York, Tell Tim Tebow Not to Move to Den of Sin

So we’ve been toying with the idea of putting together one of those clever, linkbaity where-should-Tim-Tebow-move stories, but it turns out the exercise would be moot. Just as Jeremy Lin wound up in Westchester like so many of his teammates—but not all of them—the pigskin Jesus will almost certainly move to Jersey. Somewhere like Alpine or Short Hills or just maybe next door to his new intercity rival in Hoboken.

And that is exactly where the New York Jets—despite the team name—want him, according to a rather zany report from Fox News. Because New York is basically Sodom and Gomorrah in Rex Ryan’s eyes. Read More