The most expensive home sale in the Hamptons — and one of the largest in the USA for that matter — is underway, the Post has learned exclusively.
The massive, 42 acre compound at 90 Jule Pond in Southampton is now in contract — selling for more than its asking price of $145 million and above the East End’s previous $147 million record.
Bespoke, a brokerage firm that shares the listing with Sotheby’s, announced the deal through its social media. The firm’s execs Zach and Cody Vichinsky could not be reached at press time
The property was originally asking $175 million, back in 2017.
“It claims to be oceanfront but it is really set back from the water,” a top broker told the Post.
The seller is Brenda Earl, a former partner at Zweig-Dimenna, who paid around $22 million for it in 2002, as The Post originally reported.
The previous record was set by activist investor Barry Rosenstein, who paid $147 million for 18 acres on Further Lane back in 2014, as we revealed exclusively.
The Jule Pond mansion comes with a sweeping staircase and a 48-foot-long living room with French parquet floors. Details include high-molded ceilings and Italian marble fireplaces.
The manor dates to 1957 and was built by Henry Ford’s grandson, and known as Fordune. It also features a 12-bedroom main house, a pool and tennis and basketball courts.
The deal dwarfs the top pandemic era trades in the hot Hamptons real estate market, where hedge fund manager Ken Griffin bought Calvin Klein’s Southampton oceanfront castle estate, at 650 Meadow Lane, for $84.4 million.