Barbara Corcoran is ready to swim with new sharks.
On Thursday, May 8, the Shark Tank personality announced on Instagram that she is selling her New York City penthouse. The home, which Corcoran originally paid $10 million for when she purchased it in 2015, per The New York Times, has been listed for $12 million.
According to an Instagram post from the Corcoran Group — the real estate firm Corcoran founded —the home on Fifth Avenue is an 11-room duplex that includes four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and two half baths and is described as “what dreams are made of.”
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In her announcement referencing The New York Times‘ May 6 report, Corcoran explained that she and her husband, Bill Higgins, “have decided a one-story home would better suit us, and it’s time to begin our next chapter.”
She also passionately recalled the story of when she first visited and first fell in love with the two-story property.
“33 years ago when I was working as a messenger to keep my company afloat and delivered a package to the previous owner,” she began. “I told her, ‘If you ever decide to sell this place, would you please give me a call?’ She told me she’d be buried there. But more than 20 years later, my phone rang. I completed a gut renovation of the apartment and swore they’d bury me here, too.”
In an April 2018 conversation with PEOPLE about purchasing the home, Corcoran said she felt it “was all meant to be.”
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“I think that fate intervened several times, but the engine that drove the fate was my sheer desire and my inability to get rid of the dream in my head. I never forgot the apartment,” she said. “I compared everything else I ever saw to it. I was smitten.”
She told PEOPLE that she spent two years renovating the property. One of the things she did was create her dream greenhouse.
“The greenhouse was a bathroom. There was a urinal on the wall. Talk about the prettiest spot in the apartment for the worst use,” she said. According to its listing, the home has been “meticulously renovated.”
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“The renovation was completed with great care, preserving the grandeur of the penthouse’s original prewar details, while introducing modern upgrades like multi-zone central air conditioning, restored fireplaces, custom lighting, and bleached hardwood floors throughout,” the listing explains.
The “beautiful palace in the sky” is something Corcoran further expressed in a separate Instagram post that she “never thought I’d say goodbye to.”
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“I’m just hoping the special person who buys it cherishes it as much as I do,” said Corcoran.
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