Real Estate

Leo looks at $30m manse

Leonardo DiCaprio (Dave Allocca/Starpix)

LEO ON THE PROWL: Actor eyes this Upper East Side townhouse.

LEO ON THE PROWL: Actor eyes this Upper East Side townhouse. (
)

PHOTO OP: Fotog sells his West 54th Street home to the Richard Avedon Foundation. (
)

Leonardo DiCaprio is taking time off from hosting bikini-clad babes on yachts in the South of France. Along with being on the prowl for beautiful women, the talented thespian is now on the hunt for a beautiful home.

DiCaprio, we hear, has varied tastes that are transporting him between upscale uptown townhouses and lofty downtown penthouse pads — all in the $25 million and up range. Along with checking out many penthouses in Nolita and SoHo, he also checked out a $30 million Upper East Side townhouse at 45 E. 74th St.

The mansion, built in 1879, is done in a Renaissance style, with hand-crafted bronze and leather banisters, a marble façade from Italy and “honed millwork panels.” Oh, it also includes fireplaces, a swimming pool and a “terrace spa.”

Listing brokers Jason Karadus, Brett Miles and Robson Zanetti of Town Residential declined to comment.

Reiner comes and ‘Goes’ in Westport

Hollywood glam has come to the ’burbs.

Director/producer Rob Reiner is renting interior designer Linda Heinzelman’s Westport, Conn., country home through late July, while he’s here filming the new feature “And So It Goes,” with Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton, in parts of Bridgeport and Southport. Reiner also appears in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

Heinzelman’s Clifford Lane home is a 4,300-square-foot spread on 1.2 acres with five bedrooms, six bathrooms and includes a large backyard and pool.

White out

Celebrity photographer Timothy White has sold his carriage house — which doubled as his Manhattan home and studio — to the Richard Avedon Foundation for $6.85 million. White bought the five-story building at 451 W. 54th St. for $3.2 million 10 years ago.It will now house Avedon’s collection of prints and negatives.

White’s renovated carriage home appeared in many magazines over the years because of its unique style and because he housed some of his car and motorcycle collection here.

White will now be living full-time in Los Angeles and at his Westhampton Beach mansion.

“I’m very excited that this building that has meant so much to me will continue its photography tradition by housing another photographer who has had so much influence on my own career,” White told Gimme Shelter.

Water Mill-ionaires

French-born hedge-funder Raymond Svider, co-managing partner and co-chair of BC Partners, and his wife have just bought a $14.4 million new luxury property at 178 Bay Lane in Water Mill.

The turn-key traditional home was built by celebrity developer Joe Farrell’s Farrell Building Co.

The sale closed last week.

For the season, the manse has been rented to Sun Capital co-founder Marc Leder for $900,000.

Leder (who hosted the fund-raiser where Mitt Romney made his infamous “47 percent” comments) is having parties every Saturday night — with huge spreads of food and about “75 percent of all guests young women in bikinis,” according to one attendant.

While guests describe 51-year-old Leder as charming, the parties are driving the neighbors, like Mitch Steir — CEO of Studley, who just bought a $15 million Farrell-built home — “insane,” according to one of our many spies.

Leder now has valets parking guests’ cars at a nearby farm, but the scantily clad young ladies walking up and down the road are not always as, um, appreciated, by the families that share the street with him.

Sighting

Philanthropist Jean Shafiroff breakfasting at the Southampton Inn with the hotel’s owner, Dede Gotthelf; Shafiroff stayed there while post-Sandy repairs to her East End beach mansion neared completion.