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Annie Leibovitz has lowered the price of the highly personalized New York compound she created for herself, her family, and her photography from $33 million to $29 million.

The 10,000-square-foot home, which was originally listed in December, is comprised of three townhouses at the corner of New York's West 11th and Greenwich streets and surrounded by a private garden. Leibovitz bought the first two homes in 2002 and the third a year later. Since then, she's renovated and connected all three homes, which have seven bedrooms and 13 wood-burning fireplaces among them. Two of them now serve as living quarters; the third hosts a photo studio with its own kitchen and reception area.

"It's very rare to have something like this," said Paula Del Nunzio, the broker who's working with Leibovitz to sell the home. "She created it."

In 2009, Leibovitz put this home, another in upstate New York, and the rights to all the photos she's taken over the years up as collateral for a loan to repay $24 million in debt attributed to overspending. Those debts were later renegotiated and settled. Del Nunzio says Leibovitz is selling the home so she can move uptown to be closer to her three daughters' school.

A peek inside the home Leibovitz built, here in the gallery.

Photos via Brown Harris Stevens.

Footwear king Steve Madden and his wife have been buying up units of the historic Blacksmith House on New York's Upper East Side since 2006. Now that they own it all, they're ready to sell.

The home, which was listed just this week for $8,995,000, was originally built in 1860 and was subsequently cut up into separate apartments. Located on East 73rd Street between Lexington and Third Avenues, the house is spread over 6,000 square feet. Current floor plans feature seven bedrooms and 10 bathrooms, and the master suite opens onto a private garden. There are also three terraces — one on the parlor floor and another two on the top level of the house.

A look at the house and all that comes with it, here in the gallery.

Better than backstage passes to the Grammys, this triplex penthouse once belonged to Lenny Kravitz and is now being sold by Alicia Keys and her husband, Swizz Beatz.
With over 6,000 square feet of space — including five bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a private spa — it is a home worthy of music industry legends, but for a mere $15 million, it is available to lesser mortals.
Click through to take a peek at this luxurious SoHo apartment.

Turns out being the cofounder of one of the industry's coolest brands will buy you a whole lot of house. Rag & Bone's Marcus Wainwright and his wife, model Glenna Neece, are getting ready to move into a triplex in Brooklyn's Cobble Hill Historic District. The Greek revival mansion — which Curbed called the "Blogger's Brooklyn Dream House" — was originally built in 1844 and went through a top-to-bottom renovation between 2007 and 2010, when it was originally listed for $7 million. (Wainwright and Neece paid $6.75 million, according to the sales record.)

The freestanding home is one of three in its neighborhood that sits on a double lot, and has enough parking space for four cars. It actually features three separate dwellings: in addition to the main home, there are two rental units with separate entrances that bring in an estimated $56,400 a year.

But that's not the only thing that makes the home so attractive. It has garden space on all four sides, an art studio, plus details like mahogany floors, a roof-deck, and a patio off the kitchen paved in bluestone. A look at the home here in the gallery.

Photos via Brown Harris Stevens.

The shingle-style Summer home Kate and Andy Spade are selling in Southampton is almost as quirky and quintessentially American as the eponymous brands the couple once designed.

At nearly three acres, the property — whose asking price was recently reduced to $4.75 million from $5.45 million — is the largest in Southampton's Art Village, where artist William Merritt Chase founded a Summer painting school in 1892. Today, the estate includes a freestanding ballroom, a painting studio, separate servant's quarters, and a two-car garage in addition to the eight-bedroom main house.

The home's interior is filled with charming details like bead board and an apron-front porcelain sink in the kitchen. It also features three fireplaces, six bathrooms, a formal dining room, and three porches that overlook the gardens and sprawling lawns. Many of the walls are covered in bead board, and wide windows and a variety of wall sconces and chandeliers keep the place light. A look at all that, here in the gallery.


Photos via Saunders & Associates

The New York City apartment Proenza Schouler's Jack McCollough put on the market this Fall sold fast, but don't worry — Lazaro Hernandez's place is still up for grabs.

Both designers listed their homes for sale on the same day in October, and McCollough's two-bedroom West Village duplex just sold for $1,895,000. But Hernandez recently reduced the asking price for his apartment — which takes up the parlor floor of a townhouse in Chelsea — from $985,000 down to $950,000.

Why both places didn't sell immediately is a mystery: McCollough's light-filled, two-floor apartment has a modern, clean-lined sleekness to it that's warmed up with natural elements like a wall of wood cabinetry in the living room and dark gray stone countertops in the kitchen. There's even a small terrace just steps away from the study.

Hernandez's home is furnished and appointed a little more traditionally: there's a brick fireplace in the living room, which features wooden shutters on its windows. The terrace here is slightly larger than at McCollough's place, and accommodates a table, chairs, and an outdoor sectional.

Speculation has the couple pooling their resources and moving in together, but until then, here's a glimpse of both homes here in the gallery.

Photos via Corcoran.