Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are close to ending their aggressive apartment search. The Hollywood power couple, who have been scouring downtown for a new home after getting married in June, are set to buy a three-bedroom, three-bathroom condo at 20-26 Greene St. in SoHo. The 4,350-square-foot apartment was listed at $11.5 million and taken off the market last week.
In addition to 2,000 square feet of outdoor space, Craig, now appearing in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and working on the next James Bond film, and the Oscar-winning Weisz might appreciate the apartment’s media room with a woodburning fireplace. Another dramatic entertaining space is the private roof garden with its own kitchen.
Brokers involved in the deal declined to comment.
Hedgie ready to deal
John Thaler, who runs New York hedge fund JAT Capital, had such a good year that he wants to sell his Upper East Side apartment and upgrade his living situation. We’re told that Thaler, who has listed his five-bedroom, 5 1/2-bathroom condo at the Cielo building on East 83rd Street for $6.4 million, is looking for bigger digs.
His Cielo apartment is already plenty impressive, with about 3,500 square feet and floor-to-ceiling windows with city and river views.
While some hedge funds took a beating in 2011, JAT Capital Management was up 12.7 percent in 2011 even though it took a sizeable hit with its big stake in Netflix.
We hear . . .
That Derek Jeter has moved back into his penthouse at Trump World Tower now that his neighbor’s noisy renovation has ended. Jeter had leased a smaller unit in the building to avoid the renovation noise, and that lease is now up . . . That Corcoran Group broker Wendy Sarasohn threw a book party for “Unreal Estate” author Michael Gross last night . . . That there’s a psychic for everything these days: Dr. Nikki, on psychic Web site oranum.com, claims to be able to help real estate aficionados figure out whether the time is right to buy or rent in the Hamptons.
$110M for ‘One’ penthouse
Less than five months after we broke the news that the One57 condo building (right) was asking $98.5 million for preconstruction penthouses comes word that foreign buyers are making huge purchases at the development near Carnegie Hall. And those two units that were $98.5 million are now listed for $110 million and $105 million.
We hear that a Chinese buyer has agreed to buy four units for more than $20 million each. In addition, an unnamed Russian oil tycoon has signed a contract to buy a unit for $28.8 million. Broker Victoria Logvinsky of Prudential Douglas Elliman, who worked on the $28.8 million deal, declined to comment. Developer Gary Barnett of Extell also had no comment.
One57 is slated to be the city’s largest residential tower at 90 floors.
Lim’s whim
Fashion designerPhillip Lim has stitched together an impressive residence at 19 Greene St. Lim has purchased a $1.85 million loft in the condo building, giving himself two apartments on the same floor to use or combine as he pleases. The boutique,five-story building in SoHo is only seven units, so Lim now owns an entire floor.
His new unit, which Lim purchased from finance executive Craig Sedmak, has 11-plus-foot ceilings, columns and exposed brick and looks to be about the same size as the 1,700-square-foot apartment he bought for $2.28 million in 2007.
Lim and his reps did not return phone calls.