30-fifth

Desperate Housewive Buys on Lower Fifth Avenue

cityfile · 11/05/09 08:55AM

• Actress Dana Delany has picked herself up an apartment in the Village. The California-based Desperate Housewives star has paid $1.8 million for a penthouse at 30 Fifth Avenue. The two-bedroom apartment, which went on the market for $2.35 million back in April, features two terraces and a separate solarium that serves as a home office or studio. You can check out the listing here. [Cityfile]
• Seven months after he put his 44th-floor apartment at the Trump International on the market for $18.45 million, pharmaceutical exec Richard Ullman has finally found a buyer. He's reportedly selling the four-bedroom condo for "around $17 million" to an undisclosed buyer. [NYP]
• Starwood Hotels founder Barry Sternlicht has raised the price of his Greenwich mansion. The 5.8-acre estate, which Sternlicht listed for $8.25 million in June 2008, is now priced at $5.95 million. [Bloomberg via Real Deal]
• A secretive Asian hedge fund exec is reportedly the mystery buyer who has gone into contract to buy investor Ephraim Gildor's 7,758-square-foot apartment at the Park Laurel on West 63rd Street. [NYP, previously]