Billy Joel put his mansion on Long Island, east of New York, up for sale for $49 million. It is a property of 1,900 square meters, which even has a heliport and a floating dock.
According to the specialized real estate portal mansionglobal.com, the sale of the mansion occurs because Billy Joel, his wife Alexis Roderick and their two children now spend most of the year in Florida, a preferred destination for the great New York fortunes.
The operation will be very profitable for the author of Piano Man, since at the time, in 2002, he acquired this mansion and then paid 22.5 million dollars; It subsequently went on the market once in 2006 (with a price of 37.5 million), but was withdrawn for unknown reasons.
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Joel's property is located just 60 kilometers from Manhattan and very close to Hicksville, a town in Oyster Bay where the singer was born, 74 years ago. In addition to a large number of bedrooms, it has marble floors, a games room, a wine cellar and a space conditioned as a spa and even a hairdressing salon.
It also has an outdoor pool, while an indoor one was renovated and conditioned as a music studio due to the excellent acoustics, and at the request of the artist.
The property is divided into two buildings. The main house of 810 m2, was built in 2005 and has seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms. The guest house has two bedrooms.
How many properties does Billy have? That's a mystery, especially knowing that bricks would be one of his preferred investments. It is not known for sure, but in 2015 he also made headlines for selling his luxurious mansion of Mediterranean trace located in Miami Beach, for 13.75 million dollars.
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According to One Sotheby's International Realty, real estate responsible for that sale, the palace was acquired by an Italian businessman, who is also a majority shareholder of Saks Fifth Avenue, paying in cash the total amount of the mansion located in a select enclave of La Gorce Island, where figures of the stature of Cher and Shakira also knew how to live.
It took Billy Joel a year to sell the property built in 2004, with 825 square meters of living space.
The heritage of the "piano man"
The New York songwriter, winner of six Grammys, would have a net worth of 225 million dollars, according to Celebrity Net Worth. He is one of the best-selling musical artists of all time and sold over 150 million records worldwide.
It transpired that he can earn up to three million dollars per show. At his 2019 Christmas Eve recital, for example, he pocketed $4.6 million.
Billy owned several impressive mansions in his country, many of them in Florida and New York.
It emerged that he paid $5.9 million for a house in New York, and that his ex-wife, Katie Lee, received that property in her divorce. He also sold a house to Sting and another to Jerry Seinfeld. Joel jokes that he proclaims himself the "real estate agent of the stars."
Source Agencia EFE
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