• Archibald "Archie" Cox, Jr., the former CEO of Morgan Stanley International who was appointed chairman of Barclays Americas in 2008, has paid $12 million for a 49th floor apartment at One Beacon Court. The three-bedroom pad (left), which had most recently been listed for $14.4 million, was sold by Muirfield Capital Management chairman John Chalsty and his wife Jill. [Cityfile, floorplan]
• Retired tech exec Lawrence Mueller and his wife Mary Kay have put their 25th floor condo at 15 CPW on the market for $16.5 million, or nearly three times more than what they paid for it back in December '07. [Real Deal, PDE]
• Real estate magnate Murray Goodman has dropped the price of his duplex at 960 Fifth Avenue for the second time since listing it for $32.5 million in January. The four-bedroom co-op, which Goodman bought for $1.41 million back in 1981, is now priced at $27.6 million. [Cityfile, Sotheby's]

• 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]

• 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]