Braden Keil

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HOLY HAMPTONS!

A former nunnery in the Hamptons is about to hit the market at a heavenly price. Sources say the owners of Villa Maria, a 15-acre estate in Water Mill, will...

'KINGS' ZINGED

The hottest neighborhoods in Brooklyn are cooling off as the sinking economy gives home buyers cold feet. The first shoe - total home sales - has already dropped. They're down...

DREAM HOLMES

The search for a high-end Manhattan rental continues for Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Wife-bot/actress Holmes recently showed up at Trump Park Avenue, where she spent over a half-hour perusing...

TURF WAR SET FOR CHRISTIE

There's a lot more than two kids at stake in the divorce war between Christie Brinkley and her cad of a hubby - there's also a fortune in real estate,...

CAROLINE: IT'S NOW MY TIME

It's "her time" to get into the family business. Caroline Kennedy's high-profile appointment to Barack Obama's vice-presidential search team was orchestrated in a deal brokered by her famous uncle, Massachusetts...

HEARST NEWS

EMBATTLED blueblooded widow Veronica Hearst has gotten a (Citizen) Kane's ransom for her Upper East Side co-op. Sources with knowledge of the sale say she's just closed on two apartments...

MANHATTAN HIGH ROLLERS' HIGH-RI$E HEAVEN

As housing values in the rest of the country plummet, Manhattan real-estate continues to soar - thanks to a shortage of apartments only multimillionaires can afford. Prices for condos and...

DISH ON TISCH

Newly married hotel executive Jonathan Tisch and his wife, Lizzie, have found a new starter home. Sources say the Loews Hotel chairman and CEO, who is also a co-owner of...

CIOFFI'S HAMPTONS HIDEAWAY

Indicted former Bear Stearns hedge-fund manager Ralph Cioffi has used his homes in New Jersey and Naples, Fla. to secure a $4 million bond, but did not use his toniest...

CIOFFI'S HAMPTONS HIDEAWAY

Indicted former Bear Stearns hedge-fund manager Ralph Cioffi has used his homes in New Jersey and Naples, Fla. to secure a $4 million bond, but did not use his toniest...

W. SIDE LANDMARK TO GO CONDO

The state has given the famed Apthorp apartment complex the go-ahead to undergo a billion-dollar condo conversion. The application for the 99-year-old Upper West Side landmark, which takes up the...

HOUSE OF 'VAIN'

CARLY Simon is making it no secret that selling her West Village co-op is the right thing to do. The legendary pop star is listing her two-bedroom, two-bathroom duplex in...

TOMATO SURPRISE!

The tomato is bouncing back. Restaurant chains in New York started putting the fruit back on their menus yesterday, a week after pulling it amid warnings of salmonella contamination. Chipotle,...

GETTING SPIRITED OUT EAST

The East End of Long Island is already established as a wine-producing region. But now one of its humbler, more abundant crops is hoping to steal some of the grapes'...

HEATHER'S TICKET TO STRIDE INTO $5M VILLAGE CONDO

Heather Mills is about to become a jaded New Yorker. The hotheaded, newly rich ex-wife of Sir Paul McCartney who says she's weary of the London press has just gone...

HEIDI, HO!

Heidi Klum is strutting down a new hallway after selling her West Village penthouse. According to city records, the supermodel/mother of three sold her six-room duplex co-op on Bank Street...

WHAT UP, HOLMES

Katie Holmes is on the prowl for a Manhattan rental. The actress/wife-bot of Tom Cruise, who will co-star in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" this fall,...

$90M FLIP OUT

The first mega-flip of an apartment at the much-ballyhooed 15 Central Park West could happen, now that one of its pricey condos has officially gone back on the market for...

TWIN PEEK

For the sector of people who care where Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen went after abandoning their overly reported apartment at One Morton Square, we can now disclose that they're living...

CAVETT COVE

We never realized that Dick Cavett was a land baron. But the former talk-show host is now selling 77 acres of prime oceanfront property in Montauk for $30 million. "It's...