CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien has put her downtown Manhattan loft up for sale for $4.6 million.

The former "American Morning" co-host says she's shopping for a home that's a shorter walk to school for her kids and is larger: "[I] had no idea I was having twins when we bought the place. Quite a surprise."

The 41-year-old anchor has four young children with her husband, Brad Raymond, an investment banker, and designed the roughly 4,000-square-foot co-operative apartment to be child-friendly. The seven-room, full-floor apartment, with a custom open kitchen, is in Chelsea and has a 42-foot-long living room, 11-foot-high ceilings and a double home office.

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Ms. O'Brien and her husband bought the apartment four years ago -- she declined to give the price -- and completely renovated. Mary Beth Flynn and Russell Miller, of Brown Harris Stevens, have the listing.

Ms. O'Brien now reports on the presidential election and is at work on a six-hour documentary on the state of blacks in America.

Plot Twist: Sheldon's Widow Sells, Cuts Price

The widow of best-selling author Sidney Sheldon, Alexandra, has sold one of the Palm Springs, Calif., properties she listed earlier this year and cut the price of the others by 30%.

In the Old Las Palmas section, a midcentury modern, four-bedroom home known as the "playhouse" and used for entertaining sold for $1.425 million, slightly less than its asking price, to a pair of enthusiasts of the style. The 1954 house has an indoor pool and a miniature golf course. The buyers plan restorations.

Ms. Sheldon is now asking $2 million for the adjacent main house -- a seven-bedroom 1959 single-story home on 0.62 acre, where Mr. Sheldon did much of his writing -- and $2.3 million for a guest house. Earlier, she'd listed both those houses together for $6.5 million. A second guest house, across the street, now sells for $3 million, down 25% from its original asking price of $4 million. That five-bedroom home on 0.8 acre has a pool and gym.

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Ms. Sheldon cut the prices because she's now a motivated seller, according to listing agent Scott Palermo, of Prudential California Realty's Estates division, who shares the Sheldon listings with Prudential's Jim Sanak and Brook Ashley. Lisa Casey of Greater Palm Springs Realty represented the buyers. The novels of Mr. Sheldon, who died last year, include "The Other Side of Midnight."

Enquirer Founder's Widow Lists Ranch

Philanthropist Lois Pope, widow of National Enquirer founder Generoso Pope Jr., is asking $36.5 million for her ranch in Colorado.

Courtesy of Joshua & Co.

The 12,800-square-foot European-chateau-style house, with a stone exterior, was built in 2001 on 200 acres in Snowmass, near Aspen. There are six bedrooms, two elevators and a gym. The property is next to a 200-acre ranch bought for $36 million last month by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. That contemporary-style house is roughly the same size.

After Mr. Pope's death in 1988, the tabloid and its sister Weekly World News were sold for more than $400 million. Ms. Pope used her share of proceeds to establish two foundations to help the needy. In 1996, she gave $10 million to the University of Miami for neurological research. Joshua Saslove of Joshua & Co. in Aspen has the listing.

Write to Christina S.N. Lewis at christina.lewis@wsj.com and Sara Lin at sara.lin@wsj.com

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