Two Manhattan Penthouses With a John Legend Past Are Priced Like a Palm Beach Lakefront

The two penthouses at the Brewster Carriage House in Manhattan that John Legend and Chrissy Teigen once owned are back on the market, and the pair together carries a price of $22.5 million. The listing is structured for two kinds of buyer at once: the units can be bought as a single combined residence, or separately, with the individual homes starting at $10 million. That flexibility is the real story here, because a carriage house sold as one home and a carriage house sold as two are different propositions to anyone who has ever stood in a Palm Beach kitchen debating whether to take the guest house too. Readers along South Ocean Boulevard will recognize the arithmetic; this is roughly the neighborhood of a serious lakefront estate, traded for a doorman and a winter coat. Naples will note, politely, that no one up there is talking about a boat slip. Miami will simply recognize the instinct, since attaching a famous former owner to a floor plan is a time-honored way of making a listing read like a story. Whoever buys the whole thing, or half of it, inherits an address with a musician's name already in its history.

With reporting from Robb Report.