TriBeCa swaps Stipe for Diddy; be Ira Glass’s neighbor or Bret Easton Ellis’s tenant.

This American Life radio show host Ira Glass and his wife recently bought a 1,020-square-foot one-bedroom apartment in Chelsea’sCarriage House condo at 159 West 24th Street for $1.265 million (eight percent below the $1.375 mil ask); if anyone wants dibs on being a neighbor to the lovable, geeky Glass, there are still six units available in the intimate boutique condo building (CurbedNY).

Producer/rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs is on hunt for more NYC real estate. Diddy–with a net worth of more than $500 million–owns a condo in the Park Imperial at 230 West 56th Street in addition to property in Miami and New Jersey, and was spotted having a look at a $19.95 million penthouse duplex at 35 North Moore Street atop the Merchants House condo conversion in TriBeCa. The six-bedroom apartment covers 6,800 square feet of living space, as well as 3,000 more square feet outdoors and two garages (NYPost).

Seminal 20th century alt- and art-rocker Michael Stipe is moving out of his three-bedroom duplex penthouse at 533 Canal Street in TriBeCa to make room for his current art career. The R.E.M. frontman may leave with a tidy sum: The apartment, which he bought for $5.75 million in 2007, is on the market for $10.95 million. The spacious duplex, which previously belonged to Casey Affleck and director Gus Van Sant before him, features a 2,500-square-foot terrace and a Mario Batali-designed kitchen (WSJ).

American Psycho novelist Bret Easton Ellis is offering a chance to rent his East Coast pad in the American Felt Building at 114 East 13th Street. For $5k a month you can pen your own controversial ennui-fueled zeitgeist chronicle from a 950-square-foot “open loft” condo with 14-foot ceilings, oversized windows and a prime location near Union Square (NYObserver).