Pete Dawkins reduced the selling price for his Rumson estate, seen here in 2008, from $29.9 million to $19.5. (Click to enlarge)
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
Seems there is something Pete Dawkins can’t do bigger and better than everybody else on the planet: find a buyer for his mega-estate at a price that could fund a small country.
Well, the Heisman Trophy winner, Rhodes scholar and one-time Republican U.S. Senate contender has re-entered the stratosphere. Kinda.
Dawkins has reduced the price for his River Road pad a sprawling five-bedroom, seven bathroom abode to a price that let’s be honest here is a bargain at $19.5 million. He wanted $29.9 million for the Rumson home back in March.
“The price was reduced dramatically, yes,” said Valerie Fraser, a real estate agent for Turpin Realtors, which lists the property.
Even with the $10 mil shave off the price tag, a sale would still shatter any regional record for property. A home on the other side of the Navesink River went for $13.2 million in 2005.
A buy might be imminent, though.
There are now three agencies involved with the property, a sign that somebody is looking to buy the place, a plugged-in real estate agent told redbankgreen. Rumor mill said last week it’s Jon Corzine, but nobody can back that one up, and the blog that reported it later backed down from the scuttlebutt.
Attempts to reach Dawkins and Corzine were unsuccessful.
Fraser wouldn’t dish, either, but said it isn’t sold.
“I don’t know what’s going on right now,” she said. “As far as I know, nothing is going on right now.”
