Alexis Stewart is re-listing her TriBeCa apartment at the same price but with a new broker.
The Sirius radio personality and offspring of Martha Stewart is now selling the two-level penthouse condo at 27 N. Moore St. with superbroker Dolly Lenz for $12.4 million. It had been off the market for several months.
“It sings to me,” says Lenz. “It explodes with light and character.”
The mostly white, three-bedroom, three-bath spread, located in the former refrigeration building known as the Ice House, has almost 4,000 square feet of space. That doesn’t include the 14-by-34-foot terrace with Hudson River and city views.
The downstairs bedroom, with its own full bath, is configured as Stewart’s office with custom bookshelves and a built-in desk.
Stewart, who is said to be moving to 165 Charles St., previously listed the apartment with Brown Harris Stevens broker Kathy Sloane.
No taking for the Fifth
The largest price cut we’ve seen yet comes from the city’s most affluent thoroughfare.
A 16-room duplex at 1030 Fifth Ave. has been reduced by a whopping $13 million since it first went on the market last June for $47.5 million.
It had previously been chopped to $39.9 million in September.
The owners of the now $34.5 million spread are hedge-fund queen Karen Fleiss and her doctor husband, David Fleiss, who reportedly paid $2 million for it in the 1980s.
According to the Corcoran Group listing, the eight-bedroom, eight-bath apartment is “a grand and glorious 24- into 16-room duplex residence in a highly sought after prewar cooperative designed by renowned architect J.E.R. Carpenter.”
Included in the commodious co-op are a drawing room, a formal dining room, a library, a master suite with a study, two kitchens and a double staff room. There are prewar details, four wood-burning fireplaces, high ceilings and a curved staircase.
Corcoran Group broker Sharon Baum has the co-exclusive listing with ritzy Brown Harris Stevens agent Fritzi Kallop.
Big Citi living
Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit found someone who could get a mortgage – or has enough cash on hand – to buy one of his spare apartments. And (surprise!) it was one of his Citigroup employees.
According to city transfers, Pandit sold a four-bedroom, four-bath co-op at 300 E. 85th St. to Pantelis Apessos, an executive with the embattled banking giant, for $2.25 million. And Apessos seems to have gotten a pretty good deal from his boss. Pandit first listed the place for $2.795 million in February, then lowered it to $2.65 million in July.
Joyce Yan Zhang of Halstead Property had the listing.
Pandit, who has multiple residential properties throughout Manhattan, is ensconced in a 10-room co-op in the Beresford on Central Park West, which we first reported he purchased from Tony Randall’s widow for $17.9 million last year.
Hamptons hedging
John Paulson, the hedge-fund manager who pocketed as much as $3 billion last year on bets against subprime mortgages, just had a buyer with a signed contract walk away from his $16.9 million listing on Ox Pasture Road in Southampton. Paulson listed the 6,800-square-foot home with seven bedrooms and 7½ baths in April for $19.5 million, then lowered it to its present price a few months later.
Prudential Douglas Elliman has the listing. Paulson has since shelled out more than $41 million for a 10-acre estate down the street known as Old Trees, which includes a 15,000-square-foot main house, two guesthouses and two pools on Lake Agawam.
But Paulson needn’t sweat the small stuff, since he bought the Ox Pasture place from European Esprit co-founder Juergen Friedrich for just $12.75 million in 2006.
The gated, 3-acre property includes an indoor pool, a sauna and gardens.
Friedrich has another estate on Ox Pasture for sale for $67.5 million (any interest, John?).