Real Estate

Leo’s latest looker

MAD WORLD: Leo takes look at One Madison Park condo.

MAD WORLD: Leo takes look at One Madison Park condo. (Zandy Mangold)

SOLD: Pavarotti pads sells for just under $1M. (
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Leonardo DiCaprio is slowing down his NYC house hunt as the city heats up and he spends more time crashing with pals at the beach, but he’s still on the hunt for a downtown trophy property.

Following the lead of his ex-girlfriend Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady, who looked at the building earlier this year, DiCaprio checked out a luxurious condo at One Madison Park. We can also report exclusively that Related Companies will officially launch its sales office in the building, which has traded units for upwards of $3,000 per square foot, after Labor Day.

A majority of the apartments in the 60-story tower are full-floor residences with 360-degree views. After taking on the project, which had a disastrous beginning and faced foreclosure proceedings and lawsuits despite its prime location, Related redesigned the building’s layouts, finishes, amenities, lobby and 22nd Street entrance. Closings for the apartments Related is putting on the market are expected to begin in the first quarter of 2014.

Pavarotti’s low range

She sold it for a song.

Nicoletta Mantovani, the widow of opera legend Luciano Pavarotti, unloaded his apartment for $999,990, far less than its $1.3 million asking price — according to city records.

The buyers are society couple Alexander and Marina
Balanevsky.

The one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment, in the Hampshire House co-op building at 150 Central Park South, is one of three units Pavarotti owned on the same floor of the building. Mantovani had already sold one of the units to the Balanevskys for $999,999 last year, down from its $1.15 million asking price.

Hampshire House has been a magnet for opera stars: Pavarotti’s Three Tenors cohorts Plácido Domingo and José Carreras have also lived in the building.

There’s no place like Cone

Former Mets and Yankees pitcher David Cone, who has five World Series rings and is now a YES Network commentator, is renting a summer estate in Bridgehampton.

The five-bedroom, 5 1/2-bathroom home was listed at $140,000 for July 1 through Labor Day. The 5,000-square-foot Traditional mansion includes a chef’s kitchen, spa, sauna, media room and billiards room. The home sits on 2 acres that include a pool and a putting green.

The quiet property on Mitchells Lane is surrounded by farmland — it backs up to 30 acres of agricultural reserve and is near Madonna’s horse farm. Cone, we hear, loves the privacy.

Douglas Elliman’s Cynthia Barrett, who brokered the deal, declined to comment.

Case closed

Legal eagles Margaret Ayres Case and Stephen Case — a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell — just sold their penthouse at 4 E. 70th St. The new owners, Luke and Fabien Bertrand, paid more than the $5.525 milion asking price for the two-bedroom, 2 1/2-bathroom unit atop the 13-story Art Deco co-op building that’s across the street from the Frick Museum. The home includes a wraparound terrace and great Central Park views.

We hear . . .

That Bon Repos, the estate owned by the late philanthropist Page Morton Black — in New Rochelle’s gated Premium Point community — may be up for sale soon. Black, who died Sunday at the age of 97, was a cabaret performer who sang the Chock full o’Nuts coffee jingle for the company owned by her late husband, William Black. Despite many offers, she always refused to sell the estate no matter what the price, says a longtime friend, publicist Sy Preston. The late billionaire John Kluge was a neighbor, as was LVMH billionaire Bernard Arnault, who donated swag for gala gift bags for the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, founded by William and run by Page . . . That New Jersey Devils star Ilya Kovalchuk has sunk more than $15 million into the 24,000-square-foot mansion under construction at 18 Frick Drive in Alpine. He bought the 2 acres of land for $4.5 million a few years ago through broker Dennis McCormack of Prominent Properties Sotheby’s International Realty.