Billionaire's Greenwich WOW House Is On the Market

Computerized stock trading pioneer and billionaire Thomas Peterffy has placed his 80-acre backcountry Greenwich estate on the market.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, listing broker David Ogilvy of David Ogilvy & Associates, an affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, said he is marketing the estate internationally. The house and several outbuildings were originally built in the early 1900s as part of a country estate, according to the report.

Peterffy, 70, renovated the main house of about 8,000 square feet, with eight bedrooms and eight bathrooms, when he purchased it in 2004, according to the report. The property includes three guest cottages, one of which now serves as a home office for Peterffy, the founder of Interactive Brokers, whose worth is estimated by Forbes to be $15.4 billion.

The estate, that is part of Conyers Farm, also has a 22-stall horse barn, a tennis court and pool. Ogilvy told The Journal that the estate is no longer Peterffy’s primary residence.

The price? A cool $65 million … $20 million more than what Peterffy paid more than a decade ago.

The Wall Street Journal article can be found here.

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