Bernard Madoff and his former penthouse apartment at 133 East 64th Street

Bernie Madoff’s Upper East Side penthouse may be close to finding a buyer. Brokers asking to show Madoff’s former
home at 133 East 64th Street have been told that there is an accepted
offer on the property, sources said. The seized co-op,
which is being sold by the United States Marshals Service, is
currently listed by Sotheby’s International Realty brokers Anne Corey
and Serena Boardman for $8.9 million after a $1 million price chop in November. The property was listed as having an accepted offer in at least one
brokerage’s internal listing system Thursday afternoon. But Roland Ubaldo, a spokesperson for the US Marshals Service, said
the brokers are negotiating with potential buyers and that the
property is still being shown. Corey and Boardman were not immediately available for comment. Madoff’s former Montauk home recently sold for $9.4 million.
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From left: Steven Roth, Bernard Madoff, the Montauk property

The buyer who paid $9.4 million for Bernie Madoff’s four-bedroom, three-bathroom Montauk home was Steven Roth, chairman of Vornado Realty Trust, the Wall Street Journal has learned. The original asking price of the 3,000-square-foot beach-front property, which was on the market for two weeks and which closed last Friday after bringing in four bids, was $8.75 million. The sale will go toward repaying the victims of Madoff’s Ponzo scheme. Joan and Richard Hegner of the Corcoran Group had the listing, and Roth was represented by Sotheby’s International Realty’s Ed Petrie. [WSJ] [more]

Madoff and the Montauk property

Bernard Madoff’s beach-front Montauk vacation home has sold, approximately two weeks after it hit the market. Although the Corcoran Group’s spokesperson Anne Lacombe wouldn’t provide the name of the buyer or a specific selling price, she said that the 3,000-square-foot home was under contract for more than the $8.75 million asking price. The property has attracted a flurry of attention since listing broker Joan Hegner of Corcoran was selected to market the site.