Grammy Award-winning singer John Legend has listed his East Village condominium, at 52 East 4th Street and Bowery, for $2.95 million, the New York Post reported. The two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment is in a 15-story building with 18 units, a landscaped roof deck, a swimming pool and interiors by Andres Escobar. The 1,359-square-foot condo has 14-foot ceilings, as well as a private elevator landing. Legend, who shared the apartment with long-term girlfriend Christine Teigen, is ready to upgrade, the Post said. He purchased the apartment for $1.9 million in 2009. Prudential Douglas Elliman broker Jason Walker has the listing. It seems Legend likes working with Walker; the Elliman broker also helped sell his previous East Village pad. [Post, 1st item]

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From left: 79 Laight Street exterior (source: PropertyShark), hip-hop exec Damon Dash and the interior of his apartment

A year after finding a buyer for one foreclosed Damon Dash Tribeca apartment, Eastern Savings Bank finally found a suitable taker for the hip-hop producer’s second such apartment at 79 Laight Street. Curbed, citing the Manhattan Loft Guy blog, said the 2,888-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom triplex was snapped up for $2.85 million.

Combine that purchase with the $5.5 million the first apartment, a 5,200-square-foot duplex in the Atalanta at 25 North Moore Street, garnered, and the bank appears to have recouped the entire $7.3 million Dash took out on the properties in 2006. [more]

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter John Legend is in contract to sell his two-bedroom East Village condo for $1 million, trading it in for a 1,300-square-foot apartment in a new 15-story tower at 52 East 4th Street on the corner of the Bowery, which he purchased for $1.9 million. The Bowery spot, which has 14-foot ceilings and views to the north, south and west, isn’t “cookie-cutter,” according to Legend, and was listed for $2.3 million when he signed the contract in August. Legend was asking $1.2 million for the two-bedroom condo, for which Jason Walker of Prudential Douglas Elliman had the listing. [WSJ, 2nd item] and [Curbed]

Singer John Legend has signed a contract for an East Village apartment
listed for $2.3 million. The 1,300-square-foot, one-bedroom,
two-bathroom apartment is on East 4th Street and the Bowery. The
final sales price is unknown, but a similar apartment in the building
sold for $2.5 million in June. Frederik Eklund of Core Group Marketing represented the
building. Jason Walker of Prudential Douglas Elliman represented Legend
and has the listing for Legend’s current East Village condo, on the
market for $1.2 million. Legend said he plans to move into the
apartment in November. [more]