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De Blasio to rent family’s home while living in Gracie Mansion

While taxpayers give the de Blasios a free ride at Gracie Mansion, the mayor wants to double down and collect top-dollar rent for his home in tony Park Slope, The Post has learned.

Hizzoner can fetch up to $6,500 a month for the 11th Street town house — and he maximized his potential profit on Tuesday by refinancing at a lower interest rate, sources said.

De Blasio’s 30-year, 4.25 percent interest loan from Power Express will shave “a couple hundred dollars” off his current monthly mortgage payments of $3,650, the sources said.

“Renting, I would say that he could probably get, conservatively speaking, at least $5,000 a month for the house. Add on another $1,500 because he’s the mayor,” said a veteran Brooklyn real-estate agent.

“ ‘I’m living in the mayor’s house, that would be cool,’ people would think, depending on your politics,” she said. “The cachet would be cool.”

De Blasio and the family expect to complete the move to the Upper East Side by September — and he has been talking to confidants about renting the three-bedroom, one-bath home while they are away.

“It’s still being decided,” said mayoral spokeswoman Rebecca Katz.

The house has an assessed value of $1.4 million, but the agent said it could easily fetch nearly $1 million more than that if he ever wanted to sell because of soaring demand in Park Slope.

“I would say that it would probably sell for $2.2, $2.3 [million], and that’s a conservative guesstimate,” the source said. “This is the center of the universe. We’re our own planet now, here in Brooklyn.”

De Blasio just refinanced the home last September, borrowing $650,000, property records show.

The mayor and wife Chirlane McCray initially secured a $360,000 mortgage in 2000 to buy the 11th Street house.

De Blasio and McCray also owe more than $600,000 on a two-family rental down the block on 11th Street where de Blasio’s mother lived before she passed away.

Their rental income on that property shot up from $47,500 in previous years to $52,000 in 2013 — a hike of about 9.5 percent — tax returns showed.

Additional reporting by Yoav Gonen