77 Park Avenue, Rachel Uchitel and Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods’ former mistress Rachel Uchitel is now renting out her three-bedroom, three-bathroom condo at the Griffon, 77 Park Avenue at the corner of 39th Street, for $10,600 a month, Curbed reported. Uchitel originally paid $1.625 million for the unit, which was asking only $7,999 in June before she bought it. Before anybody moves in, Uchitel plans on renovating the space by adding a new black granite fireplace, new bar, gold grills on custom radiator covers and a bigger master closet, according to the Daily News. Uchitel is renting the space out since she is studying in Los Angeles and isn’t ready to move in yet. [Curbed]

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Days after rumors swirled regarding Tiger Woods’ purchase of a Hudson Street apartment, his former mistress Rachel Uchitel has purchased a three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment on Park Avenue, TMZ reported, though the address was not immediately known. The unit was asking $2 million, but Uchitel — who reportedly has an extra $10 million in her bank account from a deal with Woods — secured a “pretty sweet deal” for the place, according to TMZ. The apartment features a fireplace, as well as “white-glove service,” including a doorman and security. Though there were rumors that the homeowners association didn’t want Uchitel to move in, sources told TMZ that the process was “pretty easy.” [TMZ]

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Tiger Woods and 421 Hudson Street

Though Us Weekly first reported that golfer Tiger Woods had moved into an apartment downtown — the Printing House condo at 421 Hudson Street, according to Curbed and the Daily News — real estate insiders say it’s either wishful thinking or a stunt pulled by a landlord to promote his building. “No way Tiger would live there,” a broker told The Post. If it really was Tiger who had been seen moving boxes into the building — a run-down 1980s conversion with leaky ceilings — maybe he was helping out a girlfriend, brokers told the Post. “If he does live there, it means his wife took every penny he has and he’s at the end of his rope,” another broker said. Non-real estate sources are also skeptical that Tiger actually lives there, noting that he has always tried to avoid the city by staying on his yacht. [Post]

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From the South Florida website:
Elin Nordegren, the soon-to-be ex-Mrs. Tiger Woods, was spotted
house-hunting in Boca Raton with a price range of $5 million, Real
Estalker reported. Nordegren is reportedly poised to gain control of
the couple’s primary residence in the divorce, a suburban mansion in
Windermere, near Orlando, plus a home around the corner, an apartment
in Stockholm and a recently-purchased farmhouse on Faglaro Island in
Sweden. Woods is expected to hold onto the under-construction complex
he’s building on Jupiter Island, as well as a property in Newport
Beach, Calilf. [Real Estalker]

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From left: Tiger Woods, his home in Jupiter (Source: Palm Beach Post), and his homes at 9724 Green Island CV and 8934 Conroy Windermere Road near Orlando

From the South Florida Web site: Tiger Woods may be mastering Augusta after a tormented layoff from golf, and has slowly worked to master Florida real estate in Orlando and Palm Beach.

The record-breaking golfer has been based in Florida as a professional, but mainly for the weather and plethora of golf courses. Woods has been very active in Florida real estate, purchasing two homes near Orlando, with two currently under construction in Jupiter. The homes are worth more than $50 million combined.

Woods has made a few purchases in Orlando, where he lives primarily, and another in a massive knockdown and rebuilding of an 11,000-square-foot home on tony Jupiter Island, at the north end of Palm Beach County, the latter apparently influenced by his wife’s Swedish heritage and a bustling local Swedish community.

According to Orange County, Fla. property appraiser records, Woods owns two homes in Windermere, Fla. at the Isleworth development, with one listed under his original (though since formally changed) name Eldrick Woods with his wife, Elin, and another listed jointly for himself and his late father, Earl Woods. [more]

Elie Hirschfeld

Elie Hirschfeld is the president and CEO of Hirschfeld Properties, where he worked with his late father, parking garage titan Abraham Hirschfeld, for more than 20 years. A triathlete and an avid theatergoer (he’s been a voter in the Tony Awards every year since 1996), Elie Hirschfeld and his company were behind such projects as New York’s first open-air garage, the Hotel Pennsylvania and the Manhattan Mall. This week, The Real Deal talked to the developer, who is reportedly worth more than half a billion dollars (he wouldn’t comment on his wealth), about his portfolio, the Hamptons home he’s selling, the shocking scandal that rocked his family, and the Hirschfeld legacy.
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A Las Vegas underwear model who claims to be Tiger Woods’ fourth mistress, Jamie Jungers, told The Real Deal in an exclusive interview that she is apartment hunting in Manhattan today. “With all the things that have happened,” plus a desire to pursue her modeling career, she said, “it’s probably in my best interest to move up here.” She said she plans to move to the Big Apple within the next couple of weeks and has not decided whether or not to give up her home in Las Vegas. Jungers is heading out to see a 750-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment at One Irving Place, also known as Zeckendorf Towers, owned by Elie Hirschfeld, CEO of Hirschfeld Properties. The unit rents for $3,000. The 26-year-old, who has friends in the city, said she plans to live on her own. Jungers said she has been “bombarded” with calls from real estate agents. “My phone has not stopped [ringing],” but she is not working with an agent at this time. Comments

From the South Florida Web site: When golf great Greg Norman
decided that the sale of his Jupiter Island estate had hit an iceberg
and was sinking at the asking price of $47.5 million, he did more than
rearrange the palm trees in his front yard. The “Great White Shark”
hired contractors, filed the necessary legal work for massive
renovations and hiked the price of his Jupiter Island spread to $60
million. Apparently, Norman is trying a new pricing strategy for his eight-acre seaside hacienda, listed in 2007 for $65 million. It languished
unsold on the market for almost a year, even after a drastic 27 percent
price cut of $17.5 million to $47.5 million. If Norman gets anywhere
near his asking price, he will outdrive the record price for a property
on the island: the $44.5 million that neighbor and golf superstar Tiger
Woods set in 2006 when he bought 12 acres and began building a family
compound. [more]