Janna Bullock

The 13,137-square-foot limestone mansion at 9 East 67th Street will never again have dramatics as grand as that episode a few years ago, when a convicted sex offender living in California quibbled with his siblings over the family property. After a judge stepped in, the comely, slightly-mysterious, Russian real estate investor Janna Bullock (pictured) finally bought the house in April 2005 for $10 million.

By that November, it was on again for $29 million.

High-end Upper East Side brokers, the kind with pristine Palm Beach tans and Aspen ski-slope condos, can’t match the bickering of felonious heirs, but they have their own kind of drama.  read more »

Rising real estate titan Janna Bullock has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Ms. Bullock, who made a name for herself flipping Upper East Side townhouses (including the one that used to house this newspaper), is the founder and president of RIGroup, a real estate investment and development group.

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Recently, it seemed that almost every townhouse on the block of East 67th Street between Fifth and Madison avenues was up for grabs.

Last month (yes, now that we've moved down to the Flatiron District we don't get up there as often as we should), The Real Estate strolled the tony block and found four townhouses currently on the market, with the least expensive located at No. 9. Since November, that limestone mansion had been listed for $29 million, with Shel Joblin and C.B. Whyte at Stribling and Associates.

But now the 12,400-square-foot residence has been temporarily taken off the market, according to a source with knowledge of the listing.

At the center of it all (isn't she always?) is the Upper East Side's notorious Showhouse Flipper.  read more »

Before Johnny Damon heads down to Tampa in two weeks for spring training, the formerly scraggly cent  read more »

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In today's Observer: In Manhattan Transfers, Russian developer Janna Bullock wants to flip an Upper East Side townhouse for a profit--a profit--of $19 million. Marketing strategy? Offer the place up as a "designer showhouse" for charity! Get the place looking snappy and charge for the open house!

Matthew Schuerman profiles Richard Lipsky, the self-styled David responsible for running giant Big Box stores like Wal-Mart and BJ's out of town.

Matthew Grace looks at proposals to make the streets around Union Square less of a death-trap for pedestrians; the locals want “Barnes dances” around the square, where signals at intersections periodically give pedestrians the right of way in all directions.  read more »

The sale of the Edmond and Lily Safra collection at Sotheby's, Brook Mason reports, pulled in $48.9 million for the auction house. That's the highest total ever achieved at a decorative-arts auction in Manhattan, and it may be just the beginning. (Third item.)