Shaq Aims Higher
For a Selling Price

Miami Heat center Shaquille O'Neal is looking to sell his Miami Beach home for $35 million -- $3 million more than when he first listed it in 2005.

The eight-bedroom, nearly 20,000-square-foot home is on Star Island, a private, artificial island in Biscayne Bay. The Mediterranean-style home, on a 2.5-acre waterfront lot, has an indoor basketball court, gym, steam and sauna room and a two-bedroom guest house, according to the property listing. An outdoor Jacuzzi, swimming pool, tennis court and dock are also on the property.

The home was built in 1992 by another Heat center, Rony Seikaly, who sold it in 1995. Mr. O'Neal, who owns the home through a trust, bought the property for $18.8 million in 2004, shortly after being traded to the Heat by the Los Angeles Lakers. He listed the home for $32 million in 2005, less than a year after he bought it, and reportedly looked at properties in Fort Lauderdale before pulling the Star Island house off the market.

In addition to leading the Heat to their first-ever NBA championship last season, Mr. O'Neal, 34 years old, has also won three championships with the Lakers and an Olympic gold medal in 1996.

The home is listed with Colder Banker's Jill Hertzberg and Jill Eber, who also represented Mr. O'Neal when he bought the property.

Flipping a Historic Manhattan House

Johnson & Johnson heiress Elizabeth Ross Johnson is asking nearly $16 million for a Manhattan townhouse she bought from actress Meryl Streep just over a year ago for $9.1 million.

Ms. Streep and her husband, sculptor Donald Gummer, bought the property in 1995 for about $2.2 million. They put it on the market in 2004 for $12 million and cut the price twice. Ms. Johnson bought it in October 2005, public records show. Paula Del Nunzio, who's listing the property with Brown Harris Stevens colleague John Burger, wouldn't discuss the current owner, but says the home hasn't been renovated since it sold. She cited a rising market for townhouses and a "scarcity factor" for the higher price.

Built in the 1840s, the five-story brick home is on West 12th Street in Greenwich Village. The house's layout can be configured for up to eight bedrooms, including a garden-level apartment with a small kitchen and a separate entrance and a third-floor master suite with a dressing room and office. There is also a two-tier garden, a roof deck and formal living and dining rooms, both with wood-burning fireplaces.

Ms. Johnson, known as "Libet," is the great-granddaughter of Johnson & Johnson co-founder Robert Wood Johnson, and the sister of philanthropist and New York Jets owner Robert Wood Johnson IV.

Reeve Home Finds a Buyer

The New York State home of the late Christopher and Dana Reeve has apparently found a buyer.

The three-acre property in Pound Ridge, about 45 miles northeast of Manhattan, is labeled "under contract" on the Web site of the listing agent, Ilyse Bauer of Sotheby's International Realty. According to the online listing, the seven-bedroom home has a theater with surround sound, a staff or guest wing and "an expansive gourmet country kitchen." Ms. Bauer declined to comment.

The Reeves bought the home 14 years ago for just under $1 million, records show, and renovated it to accommodate Mr. Reeve's wheelchair after the actor, best known for starring in the 1978 film "Superman" and its sequels, was paralyzed in a 1995 horseback riding accident. Mr. Reeve died in 2004 at age 52. Ms. Reeve, an actress who became a high-profile advocate for the disabled after her husband's injuries, died in March at age 44. The home went on the market shortly after Ms. Reeve's death, with an asking price of $2.95 million, which was later cut to $2.595 million.

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