Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been looking in the Hamptons. (AP)
Eighteen-year-old Nick Jonas wants fancy grown-up digs.
The youngest of the Jonas Brothers has been spotted apartment hunting around Lincoln Center. Sources say he has his eye on a unit at 15 Central Park West, the ultra-pricey condo building that’s been home to Denzel Washington, Sting, Alex Rodriguez and Lloyd Blankfein.
The two-bedroom, 2 1/2-bathroom residence the pop star covets is priced at $6.85 million and is also for rent for $26,000. We’re told that Jonas, who will be starring in the Broadway revival of “How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” (taking over for Daniel Radcliffe), is looking to rent.
The apartment is 2,719 square feet and also has a terrace that overlooks a reflecting pool and courtyard.
Fashion Atelier
“Project Runway” star Eric Sauma, who runs designer go-to’s like Mood Fabrics and Preview Textile Group, has his 45th-floor, two-bedroom condo at West 42nd Street’s Atelier building on the market for $1.65 million.
The corner unit with 11-foot ceilings is 1,042 square feet. It has river views through its floor-to-ceiling windows. The building includes tennis and basketball courts, a driving range, pools, parking and a roof deck.
Broker Silvette Julian of Nest Seekers International has the listing.
Ghost story
An East Hampton house that has been billed as haunted has just sold for the ghostly sum of $9.2 million — far less than the 11-bedroom mansion’s asking price of $19.5 million in 2006. It was most recently listed for $10.495 million. The house at 52 Middle Lane, on the same street where financier Ted Ammon was murdered, is where wealthy antiques dealer Barton Kaplan was found face down in his pool after drowning.
According to Kaplan’s former partner, Sam Wagner, Kaplan’s ghost then haunted the house, where lights and faucets mysteriously went on and off. Wagner, who is now writing a screenplay about a haunted house, tells us that he hopes the new owners, an unnamed Canadian family, will find peace at the home and restore it to its former glory.
‘Hot’ off the press
Michele Kleier and daughters Sabrina Kleier Morgenstern and Samantha Kleier Forbes, stars of HGTV’s “Selling New York,” have just published their first novel, “Hot Property,” which lets readers past the doormen of the city’s most fabulous buildings.
While the book is a novel, it is based on real life and some rather appallingly hilarious behavior by rich and famous New Yorkers. The book stars a real-estate mother/daughter trio who bear striking similarities to the Kleiers. Other characters, however, are tougher to identify.
HarperCollins bought the novel, Michele Kleier tells us, based on one anecdote: A well-known billionaire, about to purchase a $20 million apartment, demanded that a broker give him a sexual favor as part of the transaction.
“Buying real estate brings out the worst in some people and the best in others,” she says. “No one would believe these stories. Only in New York do you find these types of people and apartments.”
Twin peek
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been looking for a full house of their own in the Hamptons.
They were in serious negotiations to buy a Contemporary beach home at 478 Wainscott Harbor Road in Sagaponack, but they walked away without making a deal, sources say.
The Hamptons house, priced at $2.495 million and located on 1.3 acres, was completed by developer Joe Farrell, who is better known for creating mega-homes on the East End. This more modest but striking three-bedroom, three-bathroom house is part of a development of similarly designed homes.
We hear . . .
That New York-based DIY home/craft maven Erica Domesek, of P.S. — I made this. . ., will offer design tips at the Waldorf Astoria Orlando over Columbus Day weekend … That L&L Holding Company and the New-York Historical Society held a reception Wednesday for the Here is New York installation of 9/11 photos at 195 Broadway, the old AT&T building. The exhibit runs through Sunday … That the Centurion condo building at 33 W. 56th St. is hosting today’s fashion show for designer Laura Smalls, a favorite of Michelle Obama.