We hear that presidential son-in-law, adviser and developer Jared Kushner is in contract to sell a pricey townhouse at 27 Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights; it was on the market for $16 million. While the buyer is not a boldface name, we’re told, Matt Damon’s wife Luciana Barroso did look at the property last year.
Kushner Companies bought the townhouse from Brooklyn Law School in 2014 for $7.41 million. The five-story home, built in 1844, is 7,000 square feet and 25 feet wide.
It comes with five bedroom suites, six bathrooms and three powder rooms. As we previously reported, during his house hunt Damon also looked at 3 Pierrepont Place — which, at $40 million, was Brooklyn’s most expensive listing until it was pulled off the market after 631 days, according to Streeteasy.
Damon and Barroso continued to scour Brooklyn for a stately mansion big enough for their brood even after posh school St. Ann’s refused to bend its rules and let their kids in last fall, past deadline.
The smart-wired home at 27 Monroe includes a cellar, an elevator and radiant-heated floors.
There’s also a chef’s kitchen and a dumbwaiter to the parlor floor butler’s pantry, according to the listing. The home features lots of entertainment spaces and terraces. The listing brokers were Leslie Marshall and James Cornell of The Corcoran Group.
We also hear that on the East End, oil hotshot Robert Belfer and his wife Renee Belfer have sold their 12 oceanfront acres — consisting of three properties on Gin Lane in Southampton — for more than $125 million. The properties, at 56, 72 and 88 Gin Lane, were purchased by the couple for $13.9 million in 1994, according to the New York Times, making for a tidy profit.
The Belfers’ three-property compound consists of a main house, a guest house and stables.
The buyer, we hear, is a mystery Russian couple.
Belfer is the founder of Belco Oil & Gas Corp., and the chairman of private investment firm Belfer Management LLC. Belfer also founded the Robert A. and Renee E. Belfer Family Foundation in 1990, which funds arts, education, health and Jewish causes in the New York City area.
He is the son of a Polish immigrant who came to the US in the 1930s and sold down-stuffed sleeping bags to the US Army before founding an oil empire, according to the Inside Philanthropy website.
At one point, he took “a big financial hit … losing somewhere in the neighborhood of $700 million because of shares he held in Enron,” the site also notes.
Belfer did not return calls for comment.