Alexander Rovt, the billionaire and fertilizer czar, is offering a Rolls Royce with his 11,400-square-foot Upper East Side townhouse currently listed for $22 million, reports The Real Deal.
The property was originally put on the market for $27 million May 2011, and has witnessed a number of price chops since then.
The 61-year-old business tycoon has changed his agent twice. Originally listed with Matthew Lesser at Leslie J. Garfield & Co., the apartment was handed over to Pamela Marcus and Leighton Candler at Corcoran in April 2013.
The place is now in the hands of Benjamin Benalloul, CEO and founder of Portman Realty, and Oren and Tal Alexander of Douglas Elliman, who are arranging funds for the Rolls Royce that will come free with the 25-foot-wide, red-brick Georgian townhouse.
"We decided to go very out of the box with this one," the report quotes Benallous as saying. "To diversify our marketing strategy and take advantage of the private garage that comes with the house, we will be throwing in a Rolls Royce Phantom into the purchase price at our own expense."
The property listing on Zillow describes this six-story building as offering "unprecedented luxury." It includes five bedrooms and 12 bathrooms and comes with an underground spa floor consisting of a swimming pool with an aquatic therapy resistance feature and adjoining hot tub, flat screen televisions, gym, massage room, sauna and steam room, and a penthouse entertaining floor.
In addition, it features a movie house cinema and a gold-leaf detailed billiard room with a wood-burning fireplace and cigar patio topped by an open-roof garden with a state-of-the-art grilling station.
Rovt, whose fortune has been estimated at $1.2 billion by Forbes, has owned the property since 2005, when he bought it from restaurateur Rocky Aoki for $4.6 million. He then proceeded to demolish and rebuild the townhouse from scratch.
Rovt owns several other properties in New York and is the main owner of a commercial building at 14 Wall Street. He acquired the stake for $303 million in 2012.
