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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Jake Gyllenhaal searches in SoHo; Walker Tower gets Cameron Diaz; Wolf of Wall Street apartment on the market; a South ‘Burg penthouse may break Brooklyn records.

Actor/indie heartthrob Jake Gyllenhaal recently viewed a two-bedroom penthouse at 65 Thompson Street in SoHo. The condo, on the market for $3.55 million, offers a fireplace, walnut wood paneling and private roof space for entertaining (NYPost).

Rihanna's $39,000-a-month rental roost at 129 Lafayette Street is in the news again; apparently the pop star has put a few of her bedrooms to work as huge closets for her equally sizeable wardrobe (PageSix).

Walker Tower, the hot new Chelsea condo conversion at 212 West 18th Street continues to attract buzz as well as boldfaced names. In addition to getting a recent thumbs-up from the pretty (makeup mogul Laura Mercier purchased a two-bedroom apartment for $5.9 million) and the punk (Brit Michael Thorne, the A&R man behind the Sex Pistols, bought a $9.8 million three-bedroom unit) camps, A-lister Cameron Diaz just dropped $9 million on a 3,022 square-foot, three bedroom home in the 1929 Art Deco building (NYO, TRD, TMZ).

Nick Loeb, fiancé of Sofia Vergara (Modern Family) was recently seen moving into his new apartment in the Milan at 300 East 55th Street (pictured), also the location of the opulent penthouse where Martin Scorsese and Leonardo ¬DiCaprio filmed The Wolf of Wall Street; the apartment was the fictional home of high-roller Jordan Belfort, played by DiCaprio. That unit is currently on the market for $6.5 million. Episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Gossip Girl have also been filmed in the building (Page Six, CurbedNY)

Imogen Lloyd Webber (daughter of theater impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber) recently purchased an apartment at 310 East 53rd Street in East Midtown. The young TV personality (she has a regular Fox News gig among several others) paid $1.6 million for the one-bedroom loft duplex condominium with 17-foot ceilings (NYO).

Big Tickets

A loft in South Williamsburg’s Gretsch condominium building at 60 Broadway is on the market for $6.5 million. If the 3,800 square-foot 4.5 bedroom unit with knockout Manhattan and river views sells for anywhere near that amount, it will be the new record-holder for highest-priced apartment sale in Brooklyn. The current record is $5,100,000 (Brownstoner).