Developer Aby Rosen has sold his 11,700-square-foot, six-story townhouse at 3 East 94th Street to a finance honcho for $18.5 million, a large reduction from its earlier $24.75 million asking price, the Post reported. The house, which last sold for $8.8 million in 2005, features a 50-foot pool in the basement, a jacuzzi, a sauna, an elevator, five woodburning fireplaces and a 1,000-bottle wine cellar. Rosen and his family live in a limestone townhouse on East 80th Street. Rosen also has an additional property on the market — another limestone townhouse designed by C.P.H. Gilbert, which is asking $59 million, down from its 2008 original asking price of $75 million. [Post]

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From the October issue: The ranks of Manhattan’s super-high-end listings may have shrunk over
the past year, but the city still boasts a number of properties with
sales prices north of $30 million. It’s no surprise that few of these mega-listings have traded in the
last year, with the global financial crisis paralyzing potential
buyers. But now, very high-end listings are beginning to generate
interest again, albeit at smaller price tags. (Case in point: Madonna’s
new $32.5 million Upper East Side townhouse, originally listed for $42
million in October of 2008). This month, The Real Deal looked at five of the city’s
priciest listings — some new, others market fixtures — along with
other noteworthy properties generating buzz this fall.

Real estate developer Janna Bullock is putting her house at 14 East 82nd Street on the market

Now that she’s unloaded 9 East 67th Street, Russian beauty and real estate developer Janna Bullock is set to put another one of her townhouses on the market. The house, at 14 East 82nd Street, will hit the market tomorrow with a price of $20 million, according to listing broker Nikki Field, a senior vice president at Sotheby’s International Realty. Bullock — well-known for successfully renovating and flipping Manhattan townhouses — purchased the house in 2005 for $12.2 million, according to city records, and hosted the Kips Bay Decorator Show there in 2007. Bullock first put the 21-foot-wide Beaux Arts mansion, designed in 1903 by C.P.H Gilbert, on the market for $25 million in the fall of 2007. She had offers for $23 and $24 million, Field said, but decided instead to take it off the market in February 2008 and remove the show-house remnants. [more]