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Raphael De Niro, Star Broker and Star’s Son, Ditches Soho Loft

As a broker, it must be hard to stay in love with just one apartment. Every day, you see so many stunning views, so many living rooms that flow gracefully into open chef’s kitchens, so many spa deep soaking tubs and rain showers. It must be especially difficult when you have two brokers living under the same roof, like Raphael and Claudine De Niro, who’ve shared a Soho loft since 2009.

Indeed, something else has must have caught the couple’s wandering eyes, as they’re leaving their three-bedroom, 2.5-bath loft at 497 Greenwich Street. City records show that the couple sold their seventh-floor spread to Alexander Lasry for $3.45 million. Not bad considering that the De Niros paid $2.9 million, but we’d expect no less from a pair of brokers (it was listed at $3.7 million). Read More