Bob Dylan's Longtime NYC Retreat Lists For $7.25 Million. The Singer Lived There During The Height Of His Career

Unlike a rolling stone, when raising his children in New York for two decades, troubadour, folk hero and poet Bob Dylan lived quietly in a Midtown Manhattan town house that has recently gone on the market for $7.25 million. 

Dylan – named in Business Insider as one of the bestselling artists of all time and now immortalized in a blockbuster film, “A Complete Unknown,” starring actor Timothy Chalamet – lived quietly in a classic New York row house on East 46th Street in Manhattan for a large chunk of his adulthood. He initially rented the home in the 1980s before purchasing it for an undisclosed amount in 1990 under a business associate’s name. 

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Located on a quiet, leafy street in the Turtle Bay section of Manhattan, the five-story home enjoys a shared private garden with other close-knit community residents. Dylan sold the house 20 years ago, in 2005, for $4.45 million to the current residents, who have listed it through Sotheby’s International Realty. 

Mega Deals With Song And Universal Music

Dylan won’t be ruing the lost equity. According to NBC and other news outlets, the legendary artist sold his entire back catalog to Sony Music for $200 million in 2022.

Said Dylan at the time:

“Columbia Records and Rob Stringer have been nothing but good to me for many, many years and a whole lot of records. I’m glad that all my recordings can stay where they belong.”

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This deal followed another megabucks deal for the reclusive rock star two years earlier. According to Variety, he sold his songwriting catalog (not to be confused with his recorded music catalog) to Universal Music Publishing for $400 million. The New York Times speculated then that it was possibly the “biggest acquisition ever of a single act’s publishing rights.” With such huge deals under his belt, it’s unsurprising that Celebrity Net Worth estimates Dylan’s worth at $500 million.

Real Estate

Dylan made an astute purchase in 1979, buying a Malibu home for $105,000 – long before Malibu became the playground of the Hollywood elite. Since buying the original home, he has bought contiguous properties around his 6,000-square-foot, six-bedroom main mansion and today, it is more like a grand Malibu estate.

In 2006, Dylan purchased a Scottish estate, Aultmore House, reportedly with his brother, for £2.26 million. Mansion Global reported that he used a limited liability company linked to his late business manager for the purchase. However, Dylan and his brother sold the home – which sits on the vast Cairngorms National Park and is close to the village of Nethy Bridge – in 2023. Although they were keen to entertain offers over £3 million ($3.72 million), they sold it for far more – £4.257 million (US$5.35 million).

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Touring

Dylan has consistently toured over the decades on what has been dubbed “The never-ending Tour,” playing around 100 shows per year in the 1990s and 2000s. The tour culminated in the 3,000th show in 2019 in Innsbruck, Austria. In 2021, this morphed into the “Rough Ways And Rowdy Ways Tour,” named after his recently released album, which is still going strong. Online speculation is that Dylan makes upward of $1 million per show.

Although the details of what Dylan was paid to allow his portrayal in “A Complete Unknown ” have not been made public, the movie’s success and Oscar buzz for Chalamet will ensure a late-in-life bout of Dylan mania, guaranteeing sold-out shows and a sales and streaming music boost.

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