Matt Damon Buys Brooklyn's Most Expensive Property At $16.7M

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Matt Damon didn't just move to Brooklyn Heights this week, he set a record while doing so.

The actor and his wife finally closed on a deal for the borough's most expensive property, a $16.7 million penthouse, according to the New York Post. The price tag was well over the current $15.5 million record.

There were rumors Damon would move into the building for over a year, but property records show the deal just went through last week.

His new condo is at The Standish, a well-known luxury complex that was home to Clark Kent's fictional apartment in DC Comics and mentioned in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman." The real-life building was first built in 1903 and was later owned by the Jehovah's Witnesses, until they sold it in 2007.

Developers DDG and real estate firm Westbrook Partners took over the building and turned it into the most recent slate of condos, which went on sale in September 2016. By February this year, 85 percent of the units had already been sold.

Damon broke the record held by two other celebrity homeowners. Jay Maisel's townhouse in Cobble Hill and Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany's Brooklyn Heights townhouse were previously tied for the $15.5 million record, the Post reported.

The Post predicted, though, that Damon might not hold the record for long. A $20 million sale for another Brooklyn Heights condo at The Quay is reportedly in the works.

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