For $30 Million You Can Be Rupert Murdoch's Neighbor
• Rupert Murdoch may soon have a new neighbor: The 13th floor two-bedroom co-op located directly below his penthouse at 834 Fifth Avenue is expected to hit the market shortly with a price tag of around $30 million. [NYO]
• Diandra De Morrell Douglas, the ex-wife of Michael Douglas, has closed on the sale of her townhouse on East 71st Street for $9.38 million, two months after it was first reported that she'd gone into contract on the property. [Cityfile]
• William Taft V, the great-great-grandson of President Taft, and his wife Begum, have paid $2.6 million for a 14th-floor apartment at 255 East 74th Street. [Cityfile]
• Shopping center mogul Murray Goodman has listed his apartment at 960 Fifth Avenue for $32.5 million, a mere 27 years after he first bought the fifth-floor duplex for $1.41 million. [NYO]
• Sylvia Kumar, the wife of the imprisoned former CEO of Computer Associates, Sanjay Kumar, has lowered the price of the couple's Upper Brookville mansion. The 40-room villa, which was put on the market for $17 million in June 2007, is now available for $14.5 million. [Newsday]