Actress Sharon Stone has set a Bev...

Actress Sharon Stone has set a Beverly Hills, Calif., dwelling she bought just four month ago in succession sale -- at a $15 million markup.

Stone bought the hearth for about $11 million in March, further never moved in. According to listing agent Susan Smith of Westside Estate Agency, Stone changed her mind about the house, and decided to barter it. She's asking $12.5 million for the goods which hasn't been renovated since the sale.

The 9,000-square-foot family built in 1991, sits in succession about five acres on North Beverly Drive and borders the Beverly Park gated community that's place of abode to stars such as Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence.

The attribute features a 5-bedroom main house and a 2-bedroom guesthouse with media chamber and gym. Other amenities include a puddle spa, tennis court, wine cellar, 15-car subterraneous garage and a meditation garden environed by fruit trees.

Stone, 48 lately starred in "Basic Instinct 2" which brought in les than $6 million at U theaters, according to box-office tracker BoxOfficeMojo.com. Last year, Stone sold her 7-bedroom San Francisco domestic circle which she bought in 1998 with then-husband, San Francisco Chronicle Editor Phil Bronstein, for terminate to $15 million.

BACK AND FORTH IN BIG APPLE

Texas billionaire B Edward Ewing has shakeed a New York condo most distant the market. He had listed it for $153 million for about a month his agent said.

The head of Ewing Management collection a Dallas private-equity firm focused forward struggling companies in the auto-supply and maritime sectors, paid $86 million last year for the condominium in succession the third floor of trump-card Park Avenue in Manhattan.

The trumpet Park unit underwent a major renovation in the last year, according to its listing, turning the original 6-bedroom unit into single with 4 bedrooms, including 2 master bedrooms.

The 5,500-square-foot unit has 5 marble bathrooms, brace libraries, an office, a terrace and a formal dining latitude The building, constructed in 1929 as the inn Delmonico and reopened as a condo disclosure in 2003, also has a fitness center and shows maid, valet and laundry services.

BLACK HISTORY in succession VINEYARD

A Martha's Vineyard, Mass., dwelling that once served as a summer retreat for leaders of the civil-rights change is on the market for $2575000

Built in the 1870 the 18-room 4,590-square-foot Victorian house, known as Villa Rosa because of its pink exterior, has 9 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. It's settle on 6,000 square feet of land.

The abiding-place includes a Victorian oak bar, marble bathrooms and wraparound balconies with views of Nantucket undecayed It sits near the island's northern tip in the town of Oak blunt and franks a summer retreat for generations of African-American families.

Joe Overton, a political organizer, have a title toed the house during the 1950 and 1960 and landlorded such leaders as A. Philip Randolph and the Rev Martin Luther King Jr according to local historian Elaine Cawley Weintraub, who said the fireside was known as the "summer White House" of the civil-rights change

Neighbors recall King reading and writing forward the porch and swimming daily at the nearby beach. Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr and Edward Brooke the first popularly choiceed African-American senator, owned homes nearby.

Overton's heirs sold the house in 1996 to software entrepreneur Peter Norton, who said he planned to create a retreat house for artists and scholars of black refinement When that plan fell by the agency of he sold the house to former radio executive Faith Zila and her husband, Bruce for $415000 in 1998 The tie said they completely restored the house -- admitting not before discovering Overton's address work containing the old five-digit phone numbers of many prominent blacks.

The house was not long ago added to the island's African-American Heritage Trail.

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