Want the rare opportunity to buy an 8,000-square-foot high-floor condo at the Time Warner Center? It’s now available for $57.5 million — if you buy two apartments and then pay about a $4 million premium for the right to combine them.
The fantabulous residence would be the combination of a four-bedroom, 4,500-square-foot apartment, 75CE, and a three-bedroom, 3,500-square-foot apartment, 74/75B. The apartments are listed separately for $34.95 million and $18.45 million, respectively.
That adds up to $53.4 million — $4.1 million less than the cost of the combined listing. The thinking is that the right buyer might pay extra for this one-of-a-kind combo.
The owner of the bigger pad is alleged psychic swindler Steven Feder — who was once persuaded to forgive $500 million of bills to customers charged by his now defunct Psychic Readers Network for dialing what they thought were free calls to Miss Cleo. Feder bought the unit for $24.4 million in 2008 after selling another Time Warner Center condo (which he had bought for $9.7 million from pop star Ricky Martin in 2006) for $15.8 million.
The second unit, a duplex, is owned by Doug Von Allmen, a venture capitalist who was reportedly burned by Ponzi scamster Scott Rothstein. That apartment has a 45½-foot living room, which could become a gorgeous master bedroom if the units are combined.
Dynamic duo brokers Elizabeth Sample and Brenda Powers of Brown Harris Stevens could not be reached for comment.
The combined pad is listed for more than $7,000 per square foot — sky-high even for the ultra-pricey building. Last June, an 8,300-square-foot penthouse (once listed for $65 million) sold for $37.5 million, or about $4,500 per square foot.
Come on over
It’s darn hard to impress country/pop star Shania “That Don’t Impress Me Much” Twain, but she seems high on a four-bedroom, $3.285 million pad at condo conversion 254 Park Avenue South.
Twain, who has the best-selling country-music album ever, was recently in town looking at apartments. And we’re told she liked 254 Park Avenue South’s prewar feel and 14-foot ceilings, which provide fabulous acoustics. The 2,120-square-foot unit Twain visited also has a small balcony and two entrances.
Nyet loss
A Russian family that signed a contract to buy an $18.5 million, 5,500-square-foot penthouse at the Trump International Hotel and Tower, in what seemed to be the city’s most expensive deal on a foreclosed property ever, has just walked away from their 10 percent deposit. The unit is up for auction again on Jan. 27.
We hear that the family, who signed a contract last June and whose name has been cloaked behind the veil of a limited liability company, was spooked by how much they’d have to spend to fix the place up.
In the Pincus
Brothers Matthew and Henry Pincus, sons of late Wall Street lion Lionel Pincus, have put their father’s former home at 733 Park Ave. on the market for $12.5 million. The six-bedroom co-op is on the 24th and 25th floors and is listed by the Corcoran Group’s
Joan Kaplan. Lionel Pincus, founder of private equity firm Warburg Pincus, lived in the apartment until he died last October at age 78.
His sons were embroiled in well-publicized court battle with their father’s foxy companion, Princess
Firyal of Jordan, for a 7,000-square-foot Pierre Hotel duplex that Lionel also owned. The princess had been his companion since 1996.