Manhattan Transfers

The kitchen is also faultless.

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

Red Carpet Real Estate

No close-ups, please! DeNiro's house requires a full renovation.

Robert DeNiro’s West Village Townhouse Sells For $9.5 Million

Celebrity connections may draw some buyers like moths to the flame, but it seems that Robert DeNiro’s townhouse at 14 St. Luke’s Place lacks that kind of magnetism.

The five-story house has sold for $9.5 million, Curbed reports, a good deal less than the $14 million that Mr. DeNiro was asking when it hit the market a year ago. The buyer, 14 St. Luke’s LLC., is clearly not a fan of the spotlight, so we doubt that was a selling point. But the star seems to be having a streak of bad housing luck lately—taking a big hit on his asking price, setting fire to his Central Park West apartment building. Read More

The Goldilocks Listings: When $28 M. Post-Lehman Seems Just Right

Even though luxury real estate brokers are all horribly optimistic by nature, this summer there was a lot of stoic head-nodding about Manhattan’s fall from absurd exuberance back to reality. They called it the adjustment.

“Everybody likes to make money,” the broker A. Larry Kaiser IV sighed last month, “but you become realistic.”

So the Read More