SLASHED: Duckovny and Leoni lower price to $8.5M. (
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David Duchovny and Tea Leoni are eager to sell their triplex maisonette at 170 E. 78th St. The actors, who got divorced in 2011, have just lowered the price on their five-bedroom, 4 1/2-bathroom co-op to $8.5 million. It was previously listed at $9.25 million in January.
The home is the combination of what were three separate artist’s studios, and the residence now feels like a “30-foot-wide townhouse” in a doorman building, according to the listing. The co-op has 13-foot ceilings, a paneled living room, a family room, woodburning fireplaces, a “state of the art” kitchen, a garden and a separate office.
Duchovny, formerly in “The X Files” and current star of “Californication,” now lives across the park on Central Park West. He and Leoni bought the apartment for $6.25 million in 2008. Stribling & Associates has the listing.
Miami heat
Infomercial mogul Ajit Khubani, creator of the “As Seen on TV” empire, is the record-breaking buyer of the triplex penthouses at Ian Schrager’s Residences at the Miami Beach Edition.
Khubani, sources say, plunked down $34 million in cash to grab the two penthouses from the clutches of Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, who had been in talks to buy the apartments. The combined deal is the largest condo sale ever in Miami.
Khubani is getting nearly 10,000 square feet indoors, plus more than 6,000 square feet of outdoor space.
‘Modern’ move
“Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson is renting an apartment at the Lucida on East 85th Street, our spies say. The move comes as the Emmy-nominated Ferguson, engaged to lawyer Justin Mikita, gears up for another starring role in Delacorte Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. This year, he will act alongside Hamish Linklater in “The Comedy of Errors” from May 28 to June 20.
The glassy, LEED-certified Lucida building comes with a spa, gym, pool, lounge and Kidville-designed indoor playground.
Hay there, neigh-bor
Whoa! Matt Lauer and Madonna are known for having massive Hamptons horse farms, but an even bigger one has hit the market.
The 70-acre Shelter Island property, known as Hampshire Farms and located at 60 Smith St., is listed for $5.85 million. It has four barns, the largest of which features 11 stalls and a spacious riding ring.
The majority of the acreage is preserved land that could be used for agricultural purposes such as a vineyard. The property also includes more than 4 acres that could be developed, with ample room for a farmhouse, pool and tennis court.
Brokers Penelope Moore of Saunders & Associates and Dana Trotter at Sotheby’s International Realty have the co-exclusive listing.
Latch on
Southampton’s historic Village Latch Inn, which could be turned into a new boutique hotel or condos, is back on the market for $23 million. The property had reportedly been in contract for $27 million in 2009, but the buyer walked away from the deal.
It includes the main hotel, built in 1911, which is 8,000 square feet with 25 bedrooms on 4.49 acres. There’s also a smaller parcel, the Terry Cottage, that is 5,000 square feet with 10 bedrooms. Hotel guests have included Al Gore and Anne Hathaway.
The space, within walking distance to town and the beach, is prime for a boutique hotel with a spa/restaurant, a la Tom Colicchio’s Topping Rose House hotel and restaurant in Bridgehampton, or it could be transformed into a hotel-condo or a residential-only development, says Corcoran Group listing broker Esther Paster.
We hear . . .
That the $10.5 million penthouse with its own dome and rotunda in the American Thread Building at 260 West Broadway also comes with its own custom kimono storage system, designed to store its mystery European owner’s massive kimono collection flat. “And no, she’s not Japanese,” listing broker Melanie Lazenby of Douglas Elliman says. Past residents in the building include Isabella Rossellini, Gisele Bündchen and Naomi Campbell . . . That Douglas Elliman broker Michael Bolla will lead a Lower East Side walking tour on Sunday. Visitors will go inside the Jarmulowsky Bank site that’s becoming a boutique hotel, and they will also see an apartment in the landmarked Forward Building. The walk, “The Past Becoming the Future: Repurposed Historic Sites on the Lower East Side,” is presented by the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy.