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Big Ticket | Sold for $17.5 Million

By: Robin Finn
Published: 9/30/2012Source: The New York Times

763 Greenwich Street

Apparently bulletproof when it comes to investing in antique West Village real estate in need of renovation, Kiefer Sutherland, a k a the infamous Jack Bauer of “24” and presently starring in “Touch” on Fox television, has sold his five-story brick town house at 763 Greenwich Street for $17.5 million, in the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.

Mr. Sutherland, a practiced dabbler in the art of buying, enhancing and divesting himself of properties, bought the 1838 Greek Revival-style town house for $8.25 million in 2008. He promptly secured the design services of Steven Gambrel, who transformed nearly 5,000 square feet of raw space — the building had done duty as a six-unit apartment house in a previous life — into a five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath residence of rugged elegance.

 As a result, Mr. Sutherland received his full asking price even as the town house was in the process of being formally listed by Meris and Kenny Blumstein of the Corcoran Group.

The initial bid held up, with the anonymous buyer of this distinctive residence protected by a limited-liability company with a relatively unimaginative name, 763 Greenwich. Then again, the entire real estate blogosphere seems hip to the fact that the Beverly Hills-based Dave T. Doglas Trust is a pseudonym for Mr. Sutherland, who is said to have been advised early on by his father, the actor Donald Sutherland, to invest the fruits of his Tinseltown labors in real estate rather than less tangible assets. Obviously the son has an eye for feathering special nests: he previously scored a nice profit when he sold his two-bedroom condominium at 134 West 10th Street.

The town house is rife with character. It has multiple old-fashioned wood-burning fireplaces, as well as a roof deck with a summer kitchen and an outdoor shower, a basement sauna, and a patio surrounding a fire pit (modern touches, but rustic). An internal elevator makes floor-to-floor ascension a snap. There are four bedrooms, each with an en-suite bath; in addition, the master suite takes up an entire floor and, naturally, offers his-and-hers baths, for the ultimate in privacy.

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