John Legend Buys Downtown
• John Legend has picked up a new apartment in the East Village. The Grammy-winning singer—who is still looking to unload his former pad on East 3rd Street—has reportedly gone into contract to buy a one-bedroom condo at 52 East 4th Street, where Moby owns an apartment, too. [WSJ]
• SNL's Kristen Wiig has paid $1.5 million for a director Alan Taylor's SoHo apartment. The loft at 476 Broadway had been listed for $1.75 million. [NYO]
• The apartment that belonged to late Monster.com founder Andrew McKelvey has sold after seven months on the market. The six-bedroom home at 425 East 58th Street, which was first placed on the market in January for $7.9 million, sold for $5 million. [Cityfile]
• Spike Lee's former Brooklyn townhouse, which he sold in 1999, is on the market. The five-story home is listed for $2.75 million. [WSJ, Corcoran]
• Tom Ford's former townhouse in London has gone up for sale. The 3,705-square-foot home, which supposedly still contains the same furnishings it did when Ford sold it five years ago, is listed at £8.5 million. [Real Estalker]