After years of swings and misses, the Yankees legend Derek Jeter has lastly discovered a purchaser for his compound in Orange County, N.Y. — after it was re-listed for lower than half of its authentic asking worth.
The four-acre lakefront house in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., generally known as Tiedemann Fort, went into contract on Might 25, two years after it didn’t promote at public sale, and 6 years after the Corridor of Fame shortstop initially advertise for greater than $14 million. The asking worth was slashed to $6.3 million this yr, and the sale is presently pending.
The itemizing agent, Diane Mitchell of Wright Brothers Actual Property, declined to touch upon the specifics of the deal, however mentioned that she is “thrilled” that it’s lastly underneath contract. The property contains three completely different parcels, in response to the itemizing, together with a most important home, guesthouse, pool home and boat home. At greater than 12,500 sq. ft, it has six bedrooms and 13 bogs.
Constructed greater than a century in the past, the house’s distinguishing options are huge and lavish. There are 5 kitchens (4 indoor, one outside), a lagoon, an infinity pool formed like a baseball diamond, a recreation room and turrets. It has been in comparison with a medieval fort.
Mr. Jeter purchased the property within the early 2000s, on the peak of his baseball profession. He initially listed it for $14.25 million in June 2018. In 2022, it went to public sale, at which level Ms. Mitchell, who was the itemizing agent then as properly, mentioned in an announcement that “the proprietor is severe about promoting as a result of the proprietor spends most of his time at different family-owned houses.” The public sale, which had a minimal bid of $6.5 million, was unsuccessful, and the property was listed once more final month.
Lately, Mr. Jeter has been reshaping different elements of his actual property portfolio as properly. In 2020, he listed his custom-built, 30,875-square-foot mansion in Tampa, Fla., for $29 million. It bought the next yr for $22.5 million, changing into the area’s costliest house sale on the time. Final yr, The Tampa Bay Instances reported that the house was set to be demolished and changed with new mansion.
Within the village of Greenwood Lake, which is round 50 miles north of Manhattan, the median itemizing worth is $475,000, in response to Realtor.com.
For Mr. Jeter, who was born in Pequannock Township, N.J., and grew up in Michigan, the property holds sentimental worth. His grandfather, William “Sonny” Connors, was the adopted son of John and Julia Tiedemann, who beforehand owned the house, and the longer term Yankee captain spent summers there, in response to Ian O’Connor’s 2011 guide, “The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter.” On the time, Mr. O’Connor wrote, he “was not searching for an opportunity to swim as a lot as he was searching for a associate in a recreation of catch.”
