Keys to the fortress: The singer (inset) and hubby Swizz Beatz are offloading their gated Jersey property.
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Grammy-winning energy couple, singer Alicia Keys and producer Swizz Beatz Dean, are in contract to promote their 5-acre gated property in Englewood, NJ.
However the hitmakers are taking a serious hit on the sale. The property — which they purchased from Eddie Murphy in two separate transactions for a $12.1 million sum almost a decade in the past — was final asking $9.9 million.
We hear it's in contract for even much less.
Keys and Dean first paid Murphy $10.42 million for his 32-room mansion at 191 Brayton St. in a deal that closed in 2013.
A 12 months later, Murphy bought them an adjoining empty lot for $1.7 million at 286 Johnson Ave. Keys and Dean additionally spent a reported $2 million to construct an artwork gallery to deal with their exte
nsive assortment, which incorporates Kaws, Maya Hayuk, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.
However by 2015, they put each heaps in the marketplace for a mixed $14.9 million — however nobody grabbed the bait.
The property went again in the marketplace final 12 months on the diminished value of $9.9 million.
The six-bedroom unfold, with 10 full loos and 5 powder rooms, is a Colonial-style brick dwelling was constructed within the early Nineteen Eighties. It options an indoor pool, a bowling alley, a movie show and knowledgeable recording studio.
Whereas the client has not been revealed, sources say that actual property developer Ben Ashkenazy, founder and CEO of Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. — whose father and sister dwell close by — toured the property twice.
Keys, Dean and their two children, Egypt and Genesis, now dwell primarily on the West Coast.
In 2019, they paid $20.8 million for Razor Home, a modernist cliffside mansion in La Jolla, Calif., crafted by architectural designer Wallace E. Cunningham that has been dubbed “America’s coolest dwelling.”
Additionally it is rumored to be the inspiration for fictional Tony Stark’s “Iron Man” cliffside digs.
Itemizing dealer Christopher Boel, of Christie’s Worldwide Actual Property, declined remark.
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