Derek Jeter Finds a Buyer for His New York Castle (Finally)

In 2018, the legendary player for the Yankees listed the compound for $14.25 million. The asking price was $6.3 million this time.

In addition to six bedrooms and thirteen bathrooms, Derek Jeter’s long-term residence in Greenwood Lake, New York, features a boat dock and a lagoon.

Derek Jeter, a Yankees great, has finally found a buyer for his Orange County, New York compound after years of hit and miss sales. The property was relisted for less than half of its original asking price.

Tiedemann Castle, a four-acre lakefront property in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., went into contract on May 25, two years after the Hall of Fame shortstop first listed it for more than $14 million and six years after it was unsuccessfully auctioned. This year, the asking price was cut to $6.3 million, and the deal is still pending.

Although Diane Mitchell of Wright Brothers Real Estate, the listing agent, declined to comment on the facts of the transaction, she expressed her excitement that it is now under contract. The listing states that the estate consists of three separate parcels, with a main home, guesthouse, pool house, and boat house. It boasts thirteen baths and six bedrooms spread over more than 12,500 square feet.

The Yankees’ all-time hit leader, Derek Jeter, has been attempting to sell the home for the past six years.

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The house’s expansive and opulent features, which date back more than a century, are what set it apart. A game room, turrets, a lagoon, an infinity pool fashioned like a baseball diamond, and five kitchens—four indoor and one outdoor—are all present. It’s been compared to a castle from the Middle Ages.

At the height of his baseball career, in the early 2000s, Mr. Jeter purchased the property. In June 2018, he put it up for $14.25 million on the first listing. The listing agent at the time, Ms. Mitchell, stated in a statement that “the owner is serious about selling because the owner spends most of his time at other family-owned homes” when the property went up for auction in 2022. With a $6.5 million minimum bid, the auction was unsuccessful, and the property was put up for sale once more last month.

Mr. Jeter has also been modifying other facets of his real estate holdings in recent years. He put his 30,875-square-foot, custom-built estate in Tampa, Florida, up for sale in 2020 for $29 million. The following year, it sold for $22.5 million, making it the most expensive house transaction in the area at the time. The Tampa Bay Times revealed last year that a new mansion was planned to replace the house, which was scheduled to be demolished.The median listing price in the village of Greenwood Lake, around fifty miles north of Manhattan, is $475,000, as per Realtor.com.

Mr. Jeter, who grew up in Michigan and was born in Pequannock Township, New Jersey, finds sentimental value in the estate. Ian O’Connor’s 2011 book, “The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter,” states that the future Yankee captain spent summers at the house because his grandfather, William “Sonny” Connors, was the adopted son of John and Julia Tiedemann, the previous owners. He “was not looking for a chance to swim as much as he was looking for a partner in a game of catch,” according to Mr. O’Connor’s writing at the time.