• Blythe Masters, JP Morgan Chase's head of global commodities, has lowered the price of her 6,800-square-foot townhouse at 150 Reade Street, which she listed for $14 million just last month. It's now on the market for $11.9 million. [Cityfile, Warburg]
• Linda Formo Brandes, the ex-wife of billionaire investor Charles Brandes, has paid $10 million for a 42nd and 43rd-floor duplex at 515 Park Avenue. [Cityfile]
• Interior designer Thomas Britt has put his 5,000-square-foot, 8-bedroom home in Water Mill on the market for $13.2 million. [Real Estalker]
• Where can you safely buy given the current market turmoil? Try Jamaica, Queens, says Massey Knakal Realty's Robert Knakal. [AFB]

• Want to share an elevator with Rupert Murdoch? Today is your lucky day. Les Wexner, the CEO of Limited Brands (and onetime mentor to Jeffrey Epstein), has "discreetly" listed his five-bedroom apartment at 834 Fifth Avenue for $60 million with brokers Serena Boardman and Larry Kaiser. Wexner and his wife Abigail originally purchased the co-op in "fixer-upper" condition for $9 million back in 1997. [NYO]
• Christopher Pesce, a managing director at Steve Schwarzman's Blackstone Group and the former global head of prime brokerage at Bank of America, has paid $6.3 million for a condo at 101 Warren Street in Tribeca. [Cityfile]
• Who says the Hamptons real estate market is dead? John Veronis, a co-founder of the boutique merchant bank Veronis Suhler Stevenson, has sold his six-bedroom, oceanfront home on Meadow Lane in Southampton for $27 million. [Newsday]