One-time NBA celebrity — and offshore fishing league owner — Ben Simmons is reducing the asking value to bait a purchaser for his pad at Brooklyn’s Olympia Dumbo.
The previous Brooklyn Nets guard relisted his unit at 30 Entrance Avenue for $15 million, Realtor.com reported. The asking value is a discount from the $17 million he sought at Fortis Property Group’s trophy improvement when he listed the condominium greater than a 12 months in the past.
Simmons bought his five-bedroom duplex on the twenty first ground of Olympia Dumbo for roughly $14 million in 2023, whereas the property was nonetheless in improvement. It was an funding in his future in Brooklyn, which carried a whiff of potential after an injury-laden flameout in Philadelphia.
However issues didn’t work out within the borough both, resulting in a buyout and a deal throughout the nation with the Los Angeles Clippers in February 2025, a month earlier than he listed the apartment. Simmons turned a free agent on the finish of final season and hasn’t been within the league since.
However he may nonetheless safe a victory within the borough with a sale of his apartment. The 5,300-square-foot unit incorporates a residence theater, a pool desk, a online game middle, a moist bar and a show case. Simmons additionally had house for a health club and an workplace, in addition to a shoe closet and a walk-in dressing room within the major suite.
The house additionally has a 300-square-foot terrace with views of the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty.
After it was initially listed with M. Monica Novo of Douglas Elliman, Carl Gambino and Marta Maletz of The Gambino Group at Compass have taken management of the advertising and marketing.
Simmons as soon as had a house in Los Angeles’ Hidden Hills space, a newly constructed mansion which he bought in 2021 for $17.5 million. He sold that property at auction for $12.1 million, earlier than his profession took him again to the Metropolis of Angels.
Regardless of among the controversy on the 76-unit, sail-shaped tower close to the riverfront, massive offers have emerged on the undertaking. Final month, a restricted legal responsibility firm bought a full-floor penthouse on the constructing for $16.3 million, a document sale for Brooklyn year-to-date (although under each the preliminary and final ask).
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