Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are house hunting together in NYC. The cozy couple recently toured a condo duplex loft at the Lion’s Head building in Chelsea.
“They were quite impressed,” says our source.
The West 19th Street unit has three bedrooms, two baths and 16-foot ceilings. JT and JB apparently were ‘N Sync over the outdoor Finnish sauna, which Timberlake referred to as “smooth.”
The 2,224-square-foot pad in the Alchemy-developed doorman building is listed at $2.9 million. That price includes chandeliers and five TVs (see story and more images on page 44), and the owner will throw in all his furnishings for $100,000.
We’re told that both Jimmy Fallon and Lauren Weisberger have also looked the place over. And Chelsea Clinton was supposedly interested, but her security required that the building have a concierge.
If JT and JB do buy here, Justin might have a drinking buddy when Jessica is getting her beauty rest, since limoncello producer/quaffer Danny DeVito has a pad in the building.
Pierre pressure
Happy birthday, $70 million Pierre Hotel penthouse triplex listing. Next week is four years since you went on the market.
It seemed a rather absurd price back in October 2004, when Martin Zweig listed his 16-room co-op residence on the 41st to 43rd floors. Now it’s not even the city’s most expensive listing – which officially belongs to a far less impressive nine-room penthouse condo at 15 CPW with an $80 million asking price.
So, why hasn’t anyone (especially prior to the recent Wall Street crisis) come up with the scratch? The highest price paid for a New York apartment has been sitting at around $60 million for some time. Maybe it’s the nearly $39,000 monthly maintenance charge – versus the $5,400 for the penthouse across the park. Or, perhaps more likely, the people willing to part with that kind of cash (i.e., sheiks and oligarchs) couldn’t get into the building.
Financial gains
Despite the Wall Street meltdown, there appears to be a new apartment record for the Financial District.
Platinum Properties has just signed a $7.82 million contract for the penthouse at the Setai at 40 Broad St., which the brokerage firm assures us is the most expensive sale for a single unit in the area. A European entrepreneur is taking the 3,424-square-foot unit with three bedrooms, 3½ baths and 12-foot ceilings.
The residence features two walk-in closets, a two-sided fireplace, a retractable wall of glass windows, stone flooring, a sauna and Jacuzzi, wine storage, and an electronics package that includes six LCD TVs with Blu-ray DVD players.
Puckin’ outta here
Eric Lindros is following Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen out the door of One Morton Square.
The retired hockey great has just listed his West Village condo for $6.3 million.
According to the Corcoran Group listing, the three-bedroom, 3½-bath residence features a living room with a wall of windows facing Hudson River Park and a private, planted rooftop terrace.
The vacated, 12-room Olsen penthouse, listed for $9.995 million, is just a slap shot away. Lindros, who played for the Rangers from 2001 to 2004, closed on the 2,300-square-foot new-construction spread in September 2004 for $2.495 million. Broker Lee Zimmerman has the listing.
Place your ‘Order’
S. Epatha Merkerson is shopping for some new digs in Harlem. Sources say the “Law & Order” star stopped by the Kalahari building on 116th Street last week and checked out a couple three- and four-bedroom condos with private terraces.