The Hamptons home of Anderson Cooper, the famous anchor of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360," has reportedly hit the "for-sale" market for $2.99 million.
Cooper's residence was offered for rent last year. It was asking $30,000 for the month of June, $60,000 for July and $80,000 for Aug. 1 to Labor Day. However, rent was upped to $150,000 for Memorial Day through Labor Day.
But that was last year. This year, you can become a permanent neighbor of Cooper because he also owns the house sitting right next to the one he is selling.
According to the New York Post, the home, which Cooper purchased for $1.7 million, once belonged to Oscar-winning screenwriter Budd Schulberg. Budd had apparently written the script for "On the Waterfront" while living there.
The house is a 3,654-square-foot, single-family residence with six bedrooms, five full and one half bathrooms. Interiors of the home feature vaulted cedar ceilings, peg hardwood flooring and French doors and windows.
The 2.4-acre property is loaded with amenities like a Jacuzzi, a chef's kitchen, central air conditioning and a cozy den. Outside, the home boasts of water views, a large swimming pool, a garage and rolling greens.
The listing lies with Douglas Elliman and the home is described as, "Elegant and appealing at every turn." You can take a look at the photos of the home here.
Cooper lives in a renovated firehouse in Greenwich Village with his boyfriend Benjamin Maisani. Cooper bought the house in September 2009 for $4.3 million, reports Daily Mail.
Cooper has been having some privacy issues at his Greenwich Village apartment. A stalker has been freaking the anchor and his partner out for quite some years now. Once, the stalker apparently walked up to Cooper's house at night and started banging on the door, which irked the anchor.
The stalker Alex Hausner, a 38-year-old Queens resident, is reportedly a self-proclaimed "gay, Jewish white supremacist" and although he admitted to the incident in front of a Manhattan court judge Tuesday, he claimed that causing a menace to Cooper was never his intention, reports the New York Post.
