Bruce Willis' latest optimistic ask: 50% more than he paid last year for NYC co-op
Update: The apartment sold within days of its listing, the New York Post reported. The sale price was undisclosed but presumably was near or more than the asking price, given how quickly it sold.
Movie star Bruce Willis' asking price on his Central Park apartment is pretty audacious, considering that his real estate listings lately have been less yippee-ki-yay and more ay-yi-yi.
He bought the three-bedroom, four-bath co-op unit from U2 bassist Adam Clayton in March 2013 for $8.85 million.
Now, less than two years later, he has put it on the market for $12,995,000 -- a markup of nearly 50 percent.
Willis has a track record of dangling optimistic price tags from his homes. He recently had to take $5.5 million less than he'd originally sought for his Beverly Hills hacienda -- a discount of 25 percent.
But that's nothing compared to the Idaho estate he's been trying to sell for three years. He has chopped the price on the Sun Valley ski property five times. It's now less than half its initial asking price.
Willis' Manhattan apartment has undergone a "meticulous two-year renovation," the listing says. The listing agent, Ann Cutbill Lenane of Douglas Elliman, told Zillow Blog that Willis and his wife, Emma Heming, "took it back to the studs."
Photos and floor plans from the current listing and the 2013 listing indicate that Willis knocked down walls between the dining and living rooms as well as between those two rooms and the foyer, but the layout doesn't appear to have been otherwise altered. The current listing mentions that the "fabulous kitchen was created from two maid rooms" -- but 2013 pictures and floor plans show that Clayton executed that overhaul.
Willis and Heming installed a kitchen island, new cabinets and new countertops, though not new floors or wall tiles.
Is it worth a 50 percent markup in less than two years? Take a look at the photos and see what you think, then let us know in the comments.
And if you're wondering why they're selling after such a short time: They just had their second daughter (Willis' fifth) in May, so "now they need something bigger," Lenane told the New York Post. The listing doesn't mention square footage, but Yahoo Homes' back-of-the-envelope calculations based on floor plans find that it's about 2,400 square feet without bathrooms or small closets (but including the roughly 90-square-foot dressing room).
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