Lawyerly Lairs: Columbia Law Professor Now Wants $30 Million for His Mansion
One year ago, we wrote about how Columbia law professor Hans Smit was trying to unload his 12,000 square foot home — the only freestanding single-family mansion in Manhattan — for a cool $29 million.
One year later, the good professor’s home is still on the market. Its white-marble-clad facade greeted us when we visited the New York Times homepage this morning (screencap and link to listing below).
The only difference from last year? The asking price, now up to $30 million.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. And up your asking price by a million!
(In all seriousness, Professor Smit’s decision to round up to $30 million probably isn’t as crazy as it might seem. Despite the weak real estate market in the rest of the country, the market in New York City — especially at the high end — continues to be strong.)
Magnificent Mansion [Brown Harris Stevens]
Earlier: Lawyerly Lairs: Professor Smit’s Uptown Mansion
(17) Comments
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First!
ROAR!
Kleine Eisbar!
Ich moechte das Haus kaufen. Deutschland ueber alles!
You two idiots should repost those in Dutch, since Smit is from Holland, not Germany.
Riverside Drive. Pfft.
Danku Mister!
Smit is despised by 1Ls whom he terrorizes. It's only when they're 2 and 3Ls that they realize he's just toying with them because they take law school way too seriously.
Ik kak Nederlandse herenhuizen.
does anyone else think it's ridiculous that I donate millions of dollars to miami athletics? i'm pretty sure they dont need the money. maybe i should find a real charity.
old news, its been 30 mil for months. nice house tho...
Too bad. So sad.
Wow, I had no idea law professors were so well paid ;)
I've been there. It's a ridiculously nice house. Prof. Smit loves to show it off.
Whatev.
You could get 12k square in the historic prairie district (10 blocks from the loop)for under $10 mil, and you wouldn't have to live in Manhattan.
Ah, Professor Smit. He used to tell us that (1) He gives the same final exam every year; (2) It's always true/false questions; and (3) Only the correct answers change from year to year.
That's Sir Smit (check out the bio)
CLS gossip has it that Smit kicked a nursery school out of the bottom floor of that building.
Hans Smit threw chalk at Karena Gore the year I had him for civil procedure (later, when he figured out who she was, he gave her appeasement chocolate). He used to brag how he didn't give his wife enough room in bed but she had to live with it. He also bragged about his house, his water polo playing, and his ability to testify as an expert witness on any side of any subject so long as he was paid ungodly sums of money for the testimony.
Too bad so sad, indeed; the guy gave me my lowest grade in law school.