It didn’t just take extensive for an eager buyer to scoop up the longtime condominium of late musician David Bowie. The four-bed room, 4.5-rest room condo, located on Lafayette Street in the Soho-slash-Nolita location of New York, is now in deal, significantly less than a thirty day period after it was very first outlined for $16.8 million.
The iconic English rockstar, who passed away in December 2016, owned the home for just about 20 a long time, as he procured the 5,090-square-foot aerie for $3.81 million back in 1999.
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Bowie and his wife, supermodel Iman, owned a selection of other residences about the a long time, but finally utilised this Nolita abode as their key New York home.
David Bowie’s longtime apartment presently marketed. Ebet Roberts/Getty Images
An elevator opens straight into the entry gallery of the condominium. There are 11-foot ceilings and hardwood floors throughout the loft, as well as three personal terraces that span a full of 1,025 square feet, for each the listing held by Corcoran broker Stuart Moss.
The excellent space is composed of a residing and dining location, with lots of major windows as nicely as a hearth. There is also an adjacent library with its individual en-suite rest room. The open kitchen is fitted with stainless metal appliances, wooden cabinetry and a big island with breakfast bar seating.
The owner’s suite encompasses above 1,000 square feet, with a hearth, dressing place and an outsized lavatory with a double vainness and a freestanding soaking tub. It also has access to the largest of the terraces.
It is not clear precisely how considerably the buyer is paying out for Bowie’s former property, which was taken off the industry just 27 times immediately after it was publicly stated. The listing broker, Stuart Moss, declined to remark.
David Bowie and Iman have been married for 24 decades.
Right after Bowie’s death in December 2016, lovers gathered about the Lafayette Street home and left notes, candles and mementoes as a memorial to the famous musician. It’s been the web site of various tributes to the British rocker in the decades considering the fact that he passed absent.
Scroll by means of the slideshow above to get a peek inside of Bowie and Iman’s New York residence.