• The NYC townhouse where Bob Dylan lived quietly with his kids from the 1980s to 2005 is for sale.
• The enclave, with only 20 homes and a shared garden, remains a favorite haunt of actors and musicians.
• It's just a coincidence that the movie about his life is in theaters now, the listing agent said.

A New York City home where Bob Dylan lived quietly for years is for sale.

The legendary singer-songwriter rented the townhouse on East 49th Street in Manhattan in the 1980s — then loved it so much that he bought it under a business associate's name in 1990 for an undisclosed amount.

In 2005, he sold it to the current owners for $4.45 million; they have put it on the market with an asking price of $7.25 million.

The five-story home is in Turtle Bay Gardens, a landmarked enclave of 20 1860s-built townhouses on East 49th and East 48th whose backyards lead to a shared garden for residents only.

Dylan, one of the best-selling music artists of all time, had young kids at the time and liked the privacy, "Dylan's local fix-it man at the time" told real-estate news site Curbed.

Turtle Bay Gardens has long attracted creative types, including Hollywood and Broadway greats. Previous renters of Dylan's home, at 242 East 49th Street, included Mary Tyler Moore.

Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim called No. 244 home for 60 years until his death in 2021; it sold for $7 million in 2023, according to property records. Katharine Hepburn lived next door, at 244 East 49th Street. Child actor turned fashion designer Mary-Kate Olsen and her ex Olivier Sarkozy owned 226-228 East 49th Street from 2024 to 2022.

The current owners of Dylan's home used it as a pied-à-terre, according to Sotheby's International Realty agent Lisa Larson, who has the listing with her colleague Angela Wu.

"They just weren't coming to New York very often, so they rented it out, and now they've just decided to sell it," Larson told Business Insider.

It hit the market on December 5. The Bob Dylan biopic, "A Complete Unknown," with Timothy Chalamet as Dylan, is released in theaters on Christmas Day, December 25.

Larson said that the timing is a happy accident.

"I didn't even know there was a new Bob Dylan movie," Larson said. "It was totally coincidental, because we were just waiting for the last tenant to move out."

Take a look inside Dylan's former house, which has a mix of old-school features and modern amenities, and the secret garden on which it sits.

A house Bob Dylan lived in from the 1980s to 2005 is on the market for $7.25 million.

Starting in the 1980s, Dylan rented the home from a married couple: screenwriter Garson Kanin and his wife, actor Ruth Gordon.

He started out renting, then liked it so much he bought it.

The home is located in a somewhat hidden micro-neighborhood called Turtle Bay Gardens.

"It's got a pretty esteemed history," Larson said. "It has a lot of playwrights, writers, actors, and musicians who have lived in this enclave of 20 homes."

Owners of the 20 townhouses on East 49th and East 48th Streets can access a residents-only shared garden via their private backyards.

Turtle Bay Gardens was named a historic district by New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966. It was built with a fountain modeled after the Villa Medici in Rome.

"It's got this unique feeling of being this special little enclave in the middle of a whole bunch of hustle and bustle and high rises," Larson said.

The current owners bought the home from Dylan for $4.45 million in 2005 and then renovated it.

"They did a more modern kitchen, they redid all the bathrooms — they did a lot of capital improvements," Larson said. "It's got all the conveniences of a modern house, but yet it still retains a lot of its old-world characteristics."

According to Larson, Dylan had installed a lot of mirrors around the townhouse that didn't survive the renovation.

The current owners used the home as a pied-à-terre and visited New York City less than five times a year.

The owners had rented out the townhouse for the last year, Larson said.

The ground floor features a patio and garden that lead to the shared garden.

The parlor level also has a terrace that leads to the lower level.

"It's not super unique to have necessarily a small terrace or a balcony on the parlor floor, but for you to be able to walk out onto it and then walk downstairs to access the garden below is pretty unique and pretty special," Larson said.

A unique feature of the home Dylan owned is the brick staircase from the private patio that leads to the shared garden.

"In my opinion, the backyard is one of the prettiest in all of Turtle Bay Gardens because it has that bi-level aspect to it, and just beautiful brickwork and stonework," Larson said.

The five-bedroom, 5½-bathroom home has around 5,400 square feet of interior space.

The library has a fireplace — one of seven in the home.

The archways throughout the five-story home are original. The elevator, though, was added on after Dylan sold.

Larson said the home is 19 feet wide.

"Some 19-footers have elevators and some don't," she added. "Having an elevator is huge."

• Michael Jordan has sold his mansion in the Chicago suburbs after 12 years on and off the market.
• Jordan, who hasn't lived there in years, listed it for $29 million in 2012. It sold for $9.5 million.
• The massive home has custom nods to Jordan throughout, which might be why it took so long to sell.

Michael Jordan's mansion in the suburbs of Chicago, which has sat abandoned for years, has a new owner.

The legendary basketball star has officially sold the nine-bedroom home, which has been on the market on and off since 2012, for $9.5 million, according to property records.

Fourteen years ago, the former Chicago Bulls shooting guard listed the Highland Park, Illinois, mansion for $29 million. In 2015, he reduced the price to $14.855 million — whose digits add up to 23, the number on his Bulls jersey.

The mansion's sale price is a 67% discount from its original asking price.

Listing agent Katherine Malkin, of Compass, told The Wall Street Journal that after buying the property in 1991, he spent about $50 million building the home.

The house is full of nods to Jordan's basketball career, including the 23 on the front gate. His famous Air Jordan logo adorns the full-size indoor basketball court, and flag sticks on the putting green.

Even after various gimmicks, like offering a complete set of Air Jordans with purchase and marketing the home via videos in Mandarin to Jordan's fans in China, the house sat abandoned.

Jordan splits his time between his home state of North Carolina and Jupiter, Florida.

Below, we take a closer look at a house once considered basically unsellable. Most images are from footage taken by Concierge Auctions, which held an unsuccessful auction for the house in 2013.

The 56,000-square-foot compound sits on 7 acres.

The front gate is emblazoned with 23, for Jordan's number.

Jordan himself lived in the main house for 19 years.

One outdoor amenity is an infinity pool with a grass island in the middle.

The putting green outside the house comes complete with Jordan-branded flag sticks.

An indoor-outdoor entertainment space perfect for watching basketball.

Inside are multiple sitting areas and entertainment rooms. This one is the "great room."

This sitting room has a piano.

The centerpiece of the home is a full-size basketball court with a center ring that bears the name of his three children: Marcus, Jeffrey and Jasmine.

The home also features a locker room, trophy room, and a full gym.

Jordan's Chicago Bulls teammates used to work out there every morning, according to an interview shared by Concierge Auctions.

There is also a cigar room with card tables, where we're guessing Jordan has played some high-stakes poker games.

There's also an expansive wine cellar.

Some other fun details: The set of doors seen below are from the original Playboy Mansion in Chicago.

There is a large aquarium built into the wall in one of the dining areas just off the kitchen.

The library upstairs, which features a drop-down movie screen, was said to be Jordan's favorite room.

There are media rooms throughout the house. Even seemingly random nooks have TVs.

Even though it is widely considered abandoned, the house was at least at points occupied by staff Jordan hired to keep it looking fresh.

Jordan has other homes. In 2013, he spent $2.8 million on a North Carolina lake house located in a golf-course community.

The house is in Cornelius, about a 30-minute drive from the Charlotte Hornets' arena. Jordan bought the team for $275 million in 2010 and sold it for $3 billion in 2023.

Jordan also reportedly bought a house on a golf course in Jupiter, Florida, for $4.8 million in 2013 and spent $7.6 million on renovations. The Wall Street Journal reported in April that Jordan bought another mansion in Jupiter for $16.5 million.

He also owns a full-floor condo in downtown Charlotte, in the same building as NFL quarterback Cam Newton. Condos there reportedly went for between $1.5 and $3.5 million.

In 2019, Jordan listed his 10,000-square-foot home in Park City, Utah, for $7.5 million. Agents think it will likely sell faster than the Chicago compound.

Cork Gaines, Rachel Askinasi, and Tony Manfred contributed to this post. It was last updated on December 13, 2024.

• Robert Redford has listed his Tiburon, California, home for $4.15 million.
• The actor, 88, and his wife want to spend more time in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• The couple has recently offloaded a wine-country estate in California and two Utah properties.

Robert Redford and his wife have put their secluded home outside San Francisco on the market for $4.15 million.

The actor, who starred in films "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Way We Were," was born in California and still owns property there but said in an email that he wants to spend more time in other parts of the West.

The roughly 2,824-square-foot home is located in Tiburon, California, a town across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. The median listing price for homes in Tiburon is $3.3 million, according to Realtor.com.

Redford and his wife, artist Sibylle Szaggars Redford, bought the home in 2020 for $3.1 million, public records show. The couple also own another home in California, Sundance, Utah, and Santa Fe, New Mexico — where they primarily live.

"Sadly, we are not able to spend as much time in Tiburon as we would like, as we are now spending more time in Santa Fe, New Mexico," the Redfords said in an email. Santa Fe is home to Szaggars Redford's fine art gallery and an arts and conservation nonprofit the couple runs called The Way of the Rain.

Redford, who has said over the years that he values privacy, added that the Tiburon house appealed to him in part because of its location "on a quiet, unpaved cul-de-sac, which does not experience a lot of traffic."

In 2014, he told the Hollywood Reporter that he wanted to leave the congestion of his hometown of LA.

"I wanted to be away from Los Angeles because I felt it was going to the dogs," he said. "I was just getting more and more anxious about wanting out."

The couple has offloaded several properties over the last five years.

In 2019, they sold a Napa Valley home on 10 acres of wine-country land for $7 million. They still have another property in California, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Redford, who cofounded the Sundance Film Institute in Utah, has also sold two properties in the state: the 2,600-acre Sundance Mountain Resort and Horse Whisper Ranch. Szaggars Redford listed a separate cabin in Utah for $3.99 million earlier this year. Redford still owns a ranch near the resort.

The four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom home is nine miles from the Golden Gate Bridge.

The wood-shingled home was built in 1968.

The Redfords, who bought the house for $3.1 million in 2020, have put it on the market for $4.15 million.

The Redfords remodeled the interior of the home to give it a more coastal feel.

According to Compass, the brokerage representing the Redfords, the home's furniture and artwork are not included in the listing price but can be negotiated.

The house has 2,824 square feet inside and more than 1,000 square feet of outdoor decking.

The home has views of San Francisco Bay, Angel Island, Raccoon Straits, and the East Bay.

The home's lush surroundings make it feel like an oasis.

The home is surrounded by redwood trees, according to listing agent Steven Mavromihalis, and the gardens are perfect for lavender, jasmine, and succulents.

The split-level home is located on a quiet cul-de-sac off an unpaved dirt road.

The cottage is a short walking distance to the beach, hiking trails, restaurants, and three yacht clubs.

Even though it feels secluded, the house is not too far from San Francisco.

Tiburon has a population of under 10,000 residents, but the property is only a 40-minute car ride — or a 30-minute ferry ride — away from San Francisco.