Adam Neumann has been performing some downsizing.
For a number of years, the maverick co-founder of what was as soon as probably the most invaluable American start-up, WeWork, has been offloading luxurious estates virtually as prodigiously as he as soon as stockpiled them.
Gone is the 12,000-square-foot manse on 27 Marin County acres with the guitar-shaped lounge and three-story water slide. Gone is the Greenwich Village townhouse. Gone, too, are no less than one of many chateaux in Westchester County and no less than one of many Hamptons getaways. Mr. Neumann owned the properties together with his spouse, Rebekah Paltrow Neumann.
His pockets has shed some bulk as nicely. His Forbes web value, adjusted for inflation, is down 54 % since 2019 — regardless of Mr. Neumann’s receipt of a severance package deal value a whole lot of tens of millions after he left WeWork, the co-working firm he led to the brink of collapse. (He’s nonetheless, nevertheless, value a decent $2.3 billion, up from $1.4 billion in 2022.)
Final week, he dropped a bid to reacquire WeWork, which had filed for chapter reorganization final fall and whose inventory worth has tumbled greater than 99.999 % from its 2021 peak.
And now, for no less than the third time, the Neumanns have listed their marquee New York Metropolis dwelling, a 6,630-square-foot, three-story-plus-rooftop perch atop a fortresslike house constructing that friends down at Gramercy Park. The asking worth is $24,995,000.
The four-bedroom penthouse, on the fifth, sixth and seventh flooring of 78 Irving Place, is a testomony to Mr. Neumann’s wealth and style.
“We’re taking a look at basically only a townhouse within the sky,” mentioned Eleonora Srugo, one of many Douglas Elliman brokers dealing with the itemizing.
“It’s very Parisian-inspired, crammed with a ton of quiet luxurious, however then there are pops of a little bit bit extra over-the-top magic,” mentioned her colleague Jordyn Taylor Braff.
The nautilus-cious spiral staircase. The 30,000-watt starlight set up depicting the Milky Method, suspended above a customized mattress so many light-years throughout that Ms. Braff deserted the normal mattress measurement hierarchy and decreed it “ginormous.”
The riotously pink child’s toilet. The opposite child’s toilet designed to resemble the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, full with porthole home windows. The playroom partitions lined with embossed patterns of leaves and vines.
Many of the steel fixtures — taps, doorknobs and the like — are made from silver. “There’s like marble wainscoting within the bathe,” Ms. Braff famous.
The architectural redesign is by Pietro Cicognani. The inside is by Windsor Smith. The chandeliers are by John Rosselli and Associates. If you must ask who any of those persons are, you in all probability can’t afford it.
The 955-square-foot roof terrace, which already has a barbecue zone, has hookups for water and electrical energy in order that the customer can “create their little wonderland on a roof,” Ms. Braff mentioned. Or go the opposite method and “make it this jungle oasis,” she added, increasing upon the present boxwood plantings by Audrey within the Backyard. Or each!
The penthouse could also be a little bit of a discount. Adjusted for inflation, the value is 40 % under the $27.5 million the Neumanns paid for the area in 2017 earlier than doing in depth renovations. It has been listed together with both a duplex on the primary ground or a carriage home subsequent door for as a lot as $37.5 million. However based on Douglas Elliman, that is the primary time the penthouse has been marketed individually. The taxes on it are $163,400 per yr.
Douglas Elliman mentioned in a press release that Mr. Neumann sought to half with the penthouse as a result of his household had not lived in it since 2019.
If the penthouse lastly sells, it is not going to depart the Neumanns and their six kids homeless. They look like hanging on to Linden Farm, their 60-acre property with a waterfall and a horse-riding ring in Pound Ridge, N.Y.
And someday after 2021, The New York Publish reported, the Neumanns moved right into a “palatial new house” in “an unique personal neighborhood in Miami” alongside 360 ft of waterfront with a number of marina slips, on property for which that they had paid $44 million.
Mr. Neumann, 45, has additional plans to rebuild his wealth, too. In 2022, he based an actual property firm referred to as Move. Its mission is to construct rental developments that foster a sense of possession and group.
