• Good news for billionaire(?) Dan Loeb: His hedge fund may have seen better days, but he's $5.5 million richer now that he's successfully sold his carriage house at 7 MacDougal Alley to art gallery director Gordon Veneklasen. It's a tad less than the $7 million he was looking for back in October, but he still has that $45 million condo at 15 CPW, so you don't have to worry about Dan just yet. [Cityfile]
• So much for that rental at 40 Mercer: The Post now says the newly-engaged Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone may have picked up a 4,500-square-foot spread in the Robert A.M. Stern-designed Superior Ink development for $13 million. [NYP]
• Bruce Wilcox, an exec at Cumberland Associates, has put the townhouse at 125 East 62nd Street he bought for $8.5 million in 2005 on the market for $9.45 million. [Cityfile, Sotheby's]

• Former Refco chief Phillip Bennett's penthouse duplex at 1001 Park Avenue (left), which became the property of the U.S. government after Bennett pleaded guilty to bank fraud, conspiracy, money laundering and was sentenced to 16 years in prison, has gone on the market for $5.9 million. [NYO, PDE]
• Martin Payson, a former vice chairman of Time Warner, and his wife Doris, have paid $5 million for a 10th-floor condo at 170 East End Avenue. [Cityfile]
• Andy Warhol muse Jane Holzer has gone into contract to sell her apartment at 23 East 74th Street. The five-bedroom spread, which went on the market for $22.5 million last June, had most recently been listed at $16.9 million. [NYO]

• Robert Hytner, who founded the defense contractor Information Manufacturing Corporation before selling the company in 2007, has paid $8.5 million for a three-bedroom apartment at 25 Central Park West. The seller was media exec Adam Klein. [Cityfile]
• Kenneth Martin, who retired as the CFO of the pharma maker Wyeth in 2007, and his wife Christine, paid $2.575 million for a 14th-floor apartment at 455 East 86th Street. [Cityfile]
• Andrew Bares and Alla Kormilitsyna have lowered the price of their five-floor townhouse at 311 West 74th Street, which they purchased from jazz legend George Wein for $4.7 million in 2007. Originally listed in November at $11.995 million, it's now on the market for $9.985 million. [Cityfile, TE]

• It's good news/bad news for Alex Rodriguez: The injured Yankees slugger has finally unloaded his Trump Park Avenue apartment for $9.9 million, nearly six months after first putting it on the market for $14 million. But he's been forced to cut the price of his Coral Gables mansion once again. Origiinally listed for $14.9 million last fall, A-Rod dropped the price down to $12.3 million in January. It's now available for $11 million. [P6, CB]
• Retired Avon CFO Robert Corti and his wife Joann have paid $2.075 million for a 28th-floor apartment at 300 East 54th Street. [Cityfile]
• Investment exec Duke Buchan III has gone into contract to sell his four-bedroom co-op at 840 Park, which he purchased for $9.55 million two years ago and put up for sale for $13.95 million last October. It had most recently been listed at $12.95 million. [NYT]

• David Krell, who founded the International Securities Exchange and retired as the company's CEO in 2008, has paid $7.6 million for a 34th-floor apartment the Trump International on Central Park West. [Cityfile]
• I Trulli owners Astrid and Nicola Marzovilla have sold their six-story townhouse at 129 East 36th Street for $7.28 million. The buyer: The Republic of Chad on behalf of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Chad to the United Nations. [Cityfile]
• Artist Robert Wilson has put his one-bedroom duplex at 3 Great Jones Street, where painter Mark Rothko once lived, on the market for $2.75 million. [WSJ]

• Ravi Singh, who retired from Goldman Sachs late last year, appears to be having a tough time unloading the four-bedroom apartment at 15 CPW he picked up last March for $15.87 million. Since listing the home for $32 million in September, Singh has cut the price three times, and it now has an asking price of $22.5 million. [Cityfile, BHS]
• Hess Corp. chairman and CEO John Hess has paid $5.5 million for a condo at Tribeca's 101 Warren. [Cityfile]
• Ira Lipman, the head of the security firm Guardsmark, has paid $2 million for an apartment at the Sherry Netherland. [Cityfile]
• Folk artist Thomas Langan and his wife Penelope have put their waterfront home in Roslyn Harbor on the market for $2.9 million. [Newsday, PDE]
• Kimora Lee Simmons has lowered the price of the manse in Beverly Hillst hat she first listed for $7.75 million in June. It's now yours for $6.9 million. [BTL]

• Real estate magnate Murray Goodman has chopped more than $2.5 million off the price of his four-bedroom duplex at 960 Fifth Avenue (left), which he first listed for $32.5 million in January. He's is still set to make a handsome profit if he can sell it at the new price of $29.96 million: Goodman bought the apartment for just $1.41 million in 1981. [Cityfile, Sotheby's]
• Jason Epstein, a senior partner at the investment management firm Columbus Nova, and his wife Chloe, an agent at Stribling, have paid $4.6 million for a 17th-floor apartment at 255 East 74th Street. [Cityfile]
• Diane Keaton has put her 8,434-square-foot home in Beverly Hills on the market for $12.995 million. [Real Estalker]

• 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]

• Richard Fuld's daughter Christine and her husband Aaron Packles, a managing director at Merrill Lynch, have dropped the price of their co-op at 79 East 79th Street by more than $3 million. The five-bedroom, full-floor apartment is now listed for $9.8 million, which is just $50,000 more than they paid for the home in 2007. [NYT, ELC]
• Marc Ecko and his wife Allison—who are currently facing $2.1 million in liens in connection with the Bernardsville, New Jersey castle they've been renovating for close to three years now—are now selling the colonial home next door for $1.229 million. [NYP, CB]
• Former UBS exec Ramesh Singh has sold his 4,225-square-foot co-op at 860 Park Avenue, which he first put on the market for $13.4 million in 2007 and went into contract to sell in December '08, for $7 million. [NYT]
• Writer/director James Toback is putting his late mother's 15th-floor co-op at the Majestic on Central Park West up for auction. The 2,200-square-foot apartment, which first went on the market for $3.75 million in November, will be available for a minimum asking price of $1.999 million. [NYT]

• The mystery buyer who paid $30 million for a penthouse at 145 Hudson Street—and who the New York Times described as "not an investment banker or the manager of a hedge fund"—is none other than convicted felon William Duker, the attorney (and now private investor) who was sentenced to 33 months in prison in 1997 for falsely inflating legal bills to the federal government. [Real Deal]
• William and Pat Buckley's duplex at 778 Park, which was put on the market for $24.5 million last June, has been taken off the market. [NYM]
• Broadway producer Anita Waxman and her husband, Tom Dokton, the inventor of the ultrasound, have lowered the price of their 39-acre estate in Connecticut. It's now listed for $3.95 million. [WSJ]
• Former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays—who is reportedly being considered by President Obama to head the Peace Corps—says he'll be putting his waterfront home in Connecticut on the market "within a week." [GT]

• The massive penthouse at 895 Park that belonged to the late fashion tycoon and movie producer (Tootsie, Showgirls) Charles Evans has undergone its third price cut since it went on the market for $29.5 million in October 2007. The four-bedroom triplex, which was discounted to $25 million in May '08 and then lowered to $20 million in October, is now on the market for just $15.5 million. [Cityfile, Stribling]
• Matthew Bronfman has put his 9,000-square-foot mansion in Katonah, known as Treetops, up for rent. It's $28,500 a month, just so you know. [NYP]
• Gary and Charlotte DePersia, both senior vice presidents at the Corcoran Group, have sold their 5,000-square-foot, Celerie Kemble-designed home in Amagansett for $4 million. [Newsday]

After weeks of anticipation and confusion, the listing for Sting's duplex apartment at the Brentmore at 88 Central Park West has finally turned up online. The 6,600-square-foot spread, which is listed with Halstead's Mark Friedman, features five bedrooms, grand staircase, and no less than 23 closets. And it can be yours for just $19 million! Take a tour for yourself after the jump.

• Fox News entertainment correspondent Jill Dobson and her husband Jim Ornstein, a William Morris agent who counts Kelly Ripa as a client, have paid $1.995 million for a two-bedroom condo at 243 West 60th Street. [Cityfile]
• El-Ad is re-listing one of the Plaza's penthouse apartments that became the subject of a lawsuit after the "30-something hedge fund manager" who planned to buy it backed out of the deal. It's expected to go back on the market for an amount that is "astoundingly low" compared to its original $31 million price. [NYO]
• Energy exec Charles Price III paid $3.375 million for the late novelist Elizabeth Hardwick's three-bedroom duplex at 15 West 67th Street. [NYO]

• Got $75 million to spare? Edward Lee Cave says Courtney Sale Ross' massive duplex at 740 Park is still up for sale and he's willing to show the apartment to "qualified buyers." [NYO]
• Srinivas Modukuri, the former head of mortgage strategies at Lehman Brothers, paid $2.995 million for a three-bedroom apartment on the 10th floor of 74 Fifth Avenue. [Cityfile]
• Fashion stylist and V magazine editor-at-large Beat Bolliger paid $1.59 million for a two-bedroom apartment at 12 East 12th Street. [Cityfile]

It isn't clear she ever lived in the apartment—she may have just been gifted the pad as part of a publicity stunt by the building's developer—but Lindsay Lohan's former apartment at the Atelier on West 42nd Street is up for sale for $1.2 million. The listing says LiLo "put 100K worth of the finest upgrades into this apartment." Alas, no word on what these "upgrades" were specifically, but feel free to use your imagination. [Curbed]

• Kelsey Grammer is once again looking for a buyer for his 8,000-square-foot house in Bridgehampton. Grammer listed the seven-bedroom home last year for $15.9 million before taking it off the market when he didn't get an offer. It's now up for sale for $13.9 million. [Newsday, Sotheby's]
• Mike McNamara, the CEO of Flextronics International, and his wife Deborah, have dropped the price of their apartment at the Plaza. Previously listed for $12.5 million, the three-bedroom abode is now on the market for $10.9 million. [Cityfile, Stribling]
• Private equity exec Howard Romanow and his wife Jamie paid $3.1 million for a fifth-floor apartment at the Brompton on East 85th Street. [Cityfile]

• Software entrepreneur Peter Norton has gone into contract to sell his 45th-floor, 4,415-square-foot apartment at the Trump International, which had been listed most recently for $17.9 million. Norton probably won't have to worry about moving: He paid $6.8 million for a smaller condo on West 13th Street back in August. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
• Todd Waterbury, creative director of Wieden + Kennedy's New York office, paid $1.375 million for a ninth-floor, one-bedroom apartment at 180 West 58th Street. [Cityfile]
• The government of Iceland has put the four-bedroom home of its UN ambassador at 417 Park Avenue on the market for $5.6 million. [WSJ, SC]
• Gaetano Sallorenzo, the former CEO of Calvin Klein Jeans in Europe and Asia (and who now runs Italy's Fashion Box Group) has paid $1.645 million for a pied-à-terre at 133 West 22nd Street. [Cityfile]
• Retired Japanese soccer star Hidetoshi Nakata has cut the price of the apartment building he owns at 43 Crosby Street for the seventh time since first listing it for $22 million in January 2008. It's now on the market for $15 million. [WSJ, PDE]

• Financier J. Christopher Flowers is putting his Upper East Side townhouse—known as the Harkness Mansion—on the market. It's "quietly being offered" for $49.95 million, which is a few million bucks less than what Flowers paid for the 50-foot-wide townhouse when he bought it from Jacqui Safra and Jean Doumanian in 2006. [NYO]
• Former Revlon CEO Jack Stahl has paid $8 million for a 21st-floor apartment at 255 East 74th Street. [Cityfile]
• Equinox founder Danny Errico and his wife Vera have sold their six bedroom, oceanfront mansion at 71 Shipwreck Drive in Amagansett for $11.895 million. [NYP]
• Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson may be trying to back out of a deal to buy a three-bedroom penthouse at 200 East 66th Street. [NYP]

• Anthony Coniglio, a managing director in JPMorgan's financial institutions group, and his wife Tara have paid $6.2 million for a seventh-floor apartment at 170 East End Avenue. Other buyers in the building include Adam Bronfman, Johan Santana, Dominique Levy, and Michael Fascitelli. [Cityfile]
• Investment banker E. Stephen Benson has lowered the price of his penthouse at 885 Park Avenue for the fourth time since first listing it for $13 million in February 2008. The two-bedroom apartment, which was reduced to $9.5 million last month, is now listed for $8.25 million. [Cityfile, Sotheby's]
• New York Jets team doctor Kenneth Montgomery and his wife Leslie have put their six-bedroom home in Roslyn Harbor on the market for between $3 million and $3.5 million. [Newsday, PDE]

• Morgan Stanley exec Guy Metcalfe is finally on his way to unloading his five-bedroom apartment at 15 CPW, which he bought for $9.35 million in October and quickly re-listed for $16.5 million two-weeks later. After cutting the price to $13.75 million and then dropping it again to $12.5 million, he is now in contract to sell the 3,822-square-foot spread. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
• Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Thani of Qatar has lowered the price of his three-bedroom apartment at Trump Park Avenue, which he bought for $6.1 million in 2005 and listed for $14 million late last year. It's now on the market for $10 million. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
• It turns out Sting won't be listing his Central Park West duplex for $26 million with Claudine and Raphael De Niro after all. Halstead's Mark Friedman will be handling the honors, and the four-bedroom apartment will be offered for a much more modest $19 million. [NYT]