Alex Rodriguez and the Rushmore

Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez has inked a deal to buy a four-bedroom, full-floor spread at Extell Development’s Upper West Side condominium, the Rushmore. According to the Wall Street Journal, Rodriguez, who has been renting a $30,000-a-month condo at 15 Central Park West and has been spotted apartment and townhouse hunting all over town in recent months, will pay between $5.5 million and $6 million for his new digs. Given that a Rushmore apartment on a higher floor recently sold for more than that, the Journal suggested that it’s possible Rodriguez got a so-called “celebrity discount,” though he did pay more than the buyer of a similar apartment one year ago. [more]

From the South Florida Web site: The New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez is reportedly close to contract on a $12 million house on North Bay Road in Miami, according to the New York Post. The third baseman, who calls a 2,367-square-foot apartment 15 Central Park West home for $30,000 per month while in the city, also toured a 30,000-square-foot $57 million waterfront mansion on posh Indian Creek Island during his South Florida house hunt. Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima and her husband, basketball player
Marko Jaric recently bought a $9 million pad on Indian Creek Island,
which is also home to Carl Icahn and Julio Iglesias.
Last year, A-Rod slashed $5 million off the listing price of his $14.9 million waterfront Coral Gables estate.

Alex Rodriguez (left) chopped the price on his Coral Gables mansion (right).

New York Yankees slugger Alexander Rodriguez is opting for a major buzz cut on his ritzy ranch in Coral Gables. A-Rod listed the waterfront estate for $14.9 million last October and just dropped the price to $9.9 million, a local broker said. And if he can’t find a buyer, he’ll take a renter willing to pony up $25,000 a month. In yet another sign of sunny Miami’s downwardly spiraling real estate
fortunes, Rodriguez is hawking the Biscayne Bay mansion for less than
the $12 million he and his estranged wife, Cynthia, paid in 2004. Comments

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