What does lawyer and art collector Aaron Fleischman have against President Barack Obama? A few weeks ago, we reported on how the Obamas plan to move to D.C.’s tony Kalorama neighborhood after leaving the White House, and now Fleischman’s mansion at 6 Kalorama Circle is up for sale. Here comes POTUS, there goes the neighborhood?
Actually, based on his past political giving, it looks like Fleischman is a Democrat. And his Washington mansion has been on the market since April, prior to the world learning of the Obamas relocating to the area. Per Redfin, 6 Kalorama Circle hit the market on April 18 at $6.2 million, then got marked down to $5.75 million on June 2.
Why is Aaron Fleischman putting the house up for sale? It appears that the Harvard Law School graduate and successful telecom/transactional attorney has retired — his firm, Fleischman and Harding (formerly Fleischman and Walsh), got absorbed by Edwards Angell back in 2011 — and presumably he’ll spend more time in his homes in Miami and New York (a duplex in the celebrated River House building).
Aaron Fleischman’s D.C. mansion is on the market for less than half the price of his River House apartment, which he bought for $14.5 million back in 2014. But it’s still nothing to scoff as; as the tipster who alerted us to the listing accurately said, “It’s a stunner.”
It’s no surprise that one of the world’s top art collectors has good taste and an eye for the beautiful. Let’s take a tour of his soon-to-be-former home, shall we?