A four-floor townhouse in New York's Brooklyn Heights neighborhood has hit the market for $40 million, making it the most expensive ever listed home in Brooklyn.
It unseats Brooklyn’s previous most expensive home — a $35 million, 25,500-square-foot townhouse in Williamsburg — by $5 million.
The mansion is nearly 17,500 square feet with 9,000 square feet of garden space. It has 16 bedrooms, 16 bathrooms, and a whopping 50 rooms.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, retired banker and former president of Republic New York Corp Jeff Keil bought the property back in 1991 for $2.3 million. The WSJ reports that he wants to spend more time at his Florida home, but that “he’ll miss the large Thanksgiving gatherings — 34 people around a table — in their Brooklyn apartment.”
Time will tell if the mansion is able to sell at its staggering price point. A home in Brooklyn’s Mill Basin area that was built by a mobster and owned by a Russian heiress was ruthlessly price chopped from $30 million to $17 million after being unable to find a buyer.
Vicki Negron of Corcoran Group Real Estate has the listing.
Welcome to 3 Pierrepont Place, the new most expensive home listed in Brooklyn at $40 million.
The mansion is nearly 17,500 square feet and has four floors.
The view from the townhouse is described as cinematic with sweeping vistas of New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty, the Financial District, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, and Governor's Island.
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