Extell’s Gary Barnett and 535 West End Avenue

Extell Development President Gary Barnett has listed his duplex penthouse at Extell’s 535 West End Avenue for $37.5 million, which, if it closed for that price, would rank it among the top 20 apartments ever sold in Manhattan, according to the Wall Street Journal. The apartment features 11 full bathrooms, two half-baths and 2,400 square feet of terrace.
“The residence is one of a kind in New York City,” Barnett said. “At one point we were thinking we would perhaps live there. Whatever plans there were have changed. We are not moving.” [more]

The Real Deal checked out Robert and Cortney Novogratzes’ 400 West Street townhouse at a party last night for brokers and the media. The five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom home, originally listed for $25 million, is now on the market for $19.95 million with Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Raphael DeNiro. The Novogratzes built the 22-foot-wide West Village residence from the ground up and currently live there with their seven children. It will be featured in Bravo’s upcoming reality show about the family, “9 By Design,” which premiers April 13.

Clockwise from top left: Cortney and Robert Novogratz, a living space at 400 West Street, a dining area in the same property, Raphael De Niro of Prudential Douglas Elliman, the kitchen at 400 West Street

Cortney and Robert Novogratz, the stars of the upcoming Bravo reality TV show “Design Sixx,” have switched real estate brokers in their attempt to sell the townhouse where they live and the show was filmed. The family’s current home, located at 400 West Street, originally went on the market for $25 million in June with Brown Harris Stevens’ Wendy Maitland and Susan Green. This weekend, it was re-listed at the same price with Raphael De Niro, a managing director at Prudential Douglas Elliman. Under the auspices of their Manhattan development and design firm, Sixx Design, the Novogratzes specialize in renovating and flipping abandoned Manhattan spaces, and have moved 11 or 12 times in the past decade, living in houses they flipped. And the couple has seven children — the last one was born in January — which is what prompted Bravo to announce a reality series based on their lives. The show is slated to air this coming January. Reality show or not, brokers have speculated that the house — which comes with a private basketball court — is priced too high, the New York Post reported. [more]

Raphael DeNiro and his wife Claudine just bought a home at 497 Greenwich Street

Actor Robert DeNiro’s son Raphael DeNiro, a managing director at Prudential Douglas Elliman, paid $2.9 million for a 2,541-square-foot
condominium at 497 Greenwich Street in Soho. It was the first apartment the younger DeNiro has bought in New York City, he said. DeNiro, who leads Elliman’s DeNiro Group, and his wife Claudine, a
senior vice president in the group, had been renting in the same area
but decided to buy after seeing prices fall. “This is a historic opportunity to buy and we decided to take advantage
of it,” he said. “Prices have not been this reasonable since 1998. In
my opinion it is the best time to buy since 1998.” [more]