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The Janklows Find a Buyer; A Big Listing at TWC

cityfile · 01/07/10 09:49AM

• The townhouse once occupied by Luke and Julie Janklow has finally found a buyer. The divorcing couple put the home located at 16 West 12th Street on the market nearly a year ago for $24.975 million. Now real estate developer Ara Hovnanian and his wife Rachel, who sold their sprawling co-op at 820 Fifth Avenue late last year, have reportedly closed on a deal to purchase the 25-foot-wide home. The manse had been listed most recently for $17.95 million. [NYP, BHS, previously]
• Bankrupt gallery owner Larry Salander has cut $1 million off the price of his townhouse at 63 East 82nd Street. The 9,200-square-foot manse, which the alleged art swindler bought for $4.75 million in 2004, was originally listed for $25 million before it was was dropped down to $15.995 last April. It's now listed for the bargain basement price of $14.995 million. [Cityfile, LJG]
• Two neighboring units at the Time Warner Center have come on the market for a combined $57.5 million. Psychic company founder Steven Feder has put his four-bedroom, 75th-floor apartment on the market for $34.95 million (or $10.47 million more than what he paid for it in 2008). Meanwhile, his downstairs neighbor, venture capitalist Doug Von Allmen, his duplex pad on the market for $18.45 million. The apartments can be purchased separately. Or you can combine 'em for a $4.1 million premium. [NYP]

Pincus Duplex Discounted Once Again

cityfile · 03/24/09 07:04AM

• Lionel Pincus's 7,000-square-foot, 14-room duplex at the Pierre, which first went on the market for $50 million and underwent a $7 million price cut late last year, has been discounted again. It can now be yours for the low price of $35 million. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
• Ira Resnick, the founder of the Motion Picture Arts Gallery, paid $10.1 million for a 37th-floor condo at the Millennium Tower on West 67th Street. His new neighbors will include Alan Alda, Howard Stern and Beth Ostrosky, and Joy and Regis Philbin. [Cityfile]
• Ivan Kaufman, the CEO of Arbor Realty Trust, and his wife Lisa, are paying $9.26 million for a four-bedroom apartment at 823 Park Avenue. [Cityfile]

Pincus Duplex Gets a $7 Million Haircut

cityfile · 12/10/08 01:48PM

If the competition to close Manhattan's next mega apartment sale is heating up as the Observer's Max Abelson suggests, then Corcoran's Joan Kaplan looks like she's hoping to be a contender. The price of Lionel Pincus' 7,000-square-foot Pierre duplex, which has been on and off the market for more than a year, was just dropped from $50 million to a much more modest $43 million. The price cut comes on the heels of a recent court decision, which gave Pincus's sons, Henry and Matthew, the right to sell the duplex over the objections of Princess Firyal of Jordan, Pincus's former girlfriend. (Pincus was deemed mentally and physically incompetent in 2006.) The reduction also comes a week after it was reported that Pincus now owes over $10 million in property liens. A floorplan of the newly-discounted 30th and 31st-floor duplex is after the jump.

Avery's Slip of the Tongue, Britney's Big Day

cityfile · 12/03/08 07:05AM

♦ Hockey star/former Vogue intern Sean Avery was suspended from the NHL indefinitely yesterday following "inappropriate public comments" about ex-girlfriend Elisha Cuthbert. "It's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds," he said referring to Cuthbert's relationship with fellow hockey player Dion Phaneuf. [NYP]
♦ Britney Spears celebrated her birthday and album release yesterday by lip-synching her way through a performance on GMA and then heading off to Tenjune, where she partied with the likes of Heidi Klum and Lance Bass. The comeback may be short-lived: She's still abusing prescription drugs and is "plagued by insomnia and shaking fits," at least according to the Star. [The Sun, ThisIsLondon, Star]
♦ Blake Fielder-Civil, Amy Winehouse's estranged husband, just got out of prison. But now it looks like a return trip is in store. [Mirror, Daily Mail]

Downtown Artist Buys Downtown Loft

cityfile · 09/22/08 07:56AM

♦ Artist Sean Landers and his wife Michelle paid $2.467 million for a loft at 140 Sullivan Street. They purchased the apartment from the estate of the late art curator Marcia Tucker, who founded the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 1977. [Cityfile]
♦ Ravi Singh, who picked up a four-bedroom condo at 15 CPW for $15.87 million back in March, has relisted the 7th-floor apartment for $32 million. [Real Deal]
♦ Lionel Pincus' 7,000-square-foot duplex at the Pierre—which was tied up in a battle between Pincus' sons and his longtime girlfriend, Princess Firyal of Jordan—is back on the market. It's listed at $50 million, making it one of the highest residential listings on the market. You can see the listing here. [NYT]