• Russian financier Andrei Vavilov has already lowered the price of his notorious three-bedroom penthouse at Plaza (left). Just a month after putting it on the market for $12.5 million, it has now been reduced to $9.95 million. [Cityfile, BHS]
• Now that they're Washington-bound, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and his wife Carole have put their five-bedroom home in Larchmont on the market for $1.635 million. [NYP, CB]
• Gilt Groupe men's director John Auerbach and Andrew Black, an editor-at-large at Quest magazine, have paid $1.9 million for a fourth-floor apartment at 255 East 74th Street. [Cityfile]