Amid Mounting Legal Woes, Alec Baldwin Cuts Price on His Longtime Hamptons Home
The actor, who is now facing involuntary manslaughter charges over the fatal shooting on a movie set, just trimmed the price to $24.9 million
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Actor Alec Baldwin dropped the price of his Hamptons estate by more than $4 million last week, just days before it was announced that he will be charged with involuntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie “Rust.”
On Thursday, prosecutors in New Mexico announced that Mr. Baldwin, a producer and lead actor in the Western film, will be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. He was handling the gun that discharged, killing Hutchins and wounding the movie’s director, Joel Souza, on Oct. 21, 2021.
Mr. Baldwin’s multi-acre compound in Amagansett first hit the market in November with a $29 million sticker price. Last week, the ask was trimmed to $24.9 million.
At the centre of the estate is a more than 10,000-square-foot modern farmhouse. “Every detail of this impeccable two-story cedar shingle retreat has been curated to maximise indoor/outdoor space and utilise natural light throughout the year,” said the listing with Scott Bradley of Saunders & Associates.
The four-bedroom home boasts features including an eat-in kitchen, a movie theatre, a wine tasting room and a wood-panelled library. Plus there’s covered porches and two balconies that overlook the surrounding nature reserve.
Outside, a custom pavilion with a fieldstone fireplace is joined by a gunite pool and spa, as well as a fenced vegetable garden.
“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to own an iconic 10-acre Amagansett estate,” Mr. Bradley told Mansion Global over email. And for potential buyers in need of a little more space, they “have the right to build another home, creating an uncompromising multi-home compound which is unheard of anywhere in the Hamptons today.”
Mr. Baldwin, 64, has called the pastoral spread home since 1996, when he purchased it for $1.75 million, listing records show.
In addition to charges against Mr. Baldwin, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the film’s armorer, will also be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. Like Mr. Baldwin, she denies any wrongdoing in the incident.
Dave Halls, the assistant director who handed Mr. Baldwin the gun, signed a plea agreement “for the charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon,” the district attorney’s office said Thursday.
“This decision distorts Halyna Hutchins’s tragic death and represents a terrible miscarriage of justice. Mr. Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun—or anywhere on the movie set,” Luke Nikas, a lawyer for Mr. Baldwin, said in a statement. “He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. We will fight these charges, and we will win.”
The Emmy award-winning Mr. Baldwin, who couldn’t immediately be reached for comment, is best known for his role in films like “The Hunt for Red October” and “The Departed.” His TV resume includes a starring role in the sitcom “30 Rock” and most recently he regularly portrayed Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live.”
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As interest rates, inflation and market sentiment fluctuate, investors are being urged to focus on data, not panic.
Australia’s housing affordability crisis is being fuelled by chronic undersupply, planning delays and rising development costs, as politicians continue to focus on the wrong solutions.
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Australia’s housing crisis will not be solved by first-home buyer incentives or tax changes alone, with leading property figures warning governments must tackle supply constraints if affordability is to improve.
Speaking at the Kanebridge Quarterly Property Leadership Summit in Sydney last week, expert project marketing specialist Sam Elbanna, property investor and fund manager Paul Miron and property consultant Karla McNeice said that a lack of housing supply remained the central issue facing the market.
Elbanna, Director of CPM Realty with more than 30 years’ experience in project sales, argued that successive governments had focused too heavily on stimulating demand rather than addressing the barriers preventing new housing from being delivered.
“The misconception is that politicians think the way to solve the housing crisis is to drive demand,” he said.
“The reality is that’s not the way. This is a supply-side problem, and it needs to be solved on the supply side.”
Drawing on his experience in project sales, Elbanna said policies designed to help first-home buyers often had unintended consequences, pointing to previous grants that ultimately flowed through to higher property prices.
Instead, he said developers were facing increasing red tape, approval delays and rising costs, which were discouraging new housing supply.
“In the absence of stock, demand exceeds supply,” he said.
Miron, a Co-Founder and Fund Manager of Msquared Capital, said the housing debate had become overly focused on tax policy while overlooking broader structural issues.
He argued that affordability challenges stemmed from a combination of factors, including planning constraints, supply shortages, migration levels and interest rates.
“No-one can be 100 per cent certain on the real reason for property prices is going up,” he said.
“The reason why property prices are higher is a combination of interest rates, lack of supply, migration, vacancy rates and maybe taxes play a role.”
Miron was critical of recent federal housing policy changes, warning they could reduce the number of new homes being built and further constrain supply that was even highlighted in the budget.
He also highlighted the importance of the property sector to the broader economy, noting that residential real estate and related industries employed more than one million Australians.
McNeice, who advises developers on sales strategy and market intelligence, said understanding buyers had become increasingly important as affordability pressures intensified.
While affordability remained a major consideration, she said today’s buyers were focused on value rather than simply price.
“People are looking for value for money,” she said.
She said buyers were increasingly evaluating factors such as transport connections, walkability, nearby amenities and flexible living spaces that could accommodate changing family needs.
“What infrastructure is going on? Can I walk to the shops? Can I meet people at the local cafe?” she said.
The panel also discussed the mounting pressures facing developers, with Elbanna arguing that many projects become financially unviable from the moment a site is purchased.
“The viability of a development happens at the moment the site is bought,” he said.
He said rising construction costs, higher interest rates and overly optimistic feasibility assumptions had left some developers exposed as market conditions changed.
While acknowledging the growing number of smaller and first-time developers entering the market, Elbanna said property development required expertise across finance, construction, marketing and legal disciplines.
“It is actually a business that requires a level of expertise,” he said.
Looking ahead, the panel agreed opportunities remained in the market despite current challenges.
Miron said property should continue to be viewed as a long-term investment and cautioned against trying to time short-term market movements.
McNeice said success would increasingly depend on identifying projects that genuinely met changing buyer expectations.
Elbanna said affordable housing remained achievable, but developers needed to deliver more than just homes.
“We can provide affordable housing in this country,” he said.
“But we’ve got to wrap that affordable housing with the things that people want.”
As Australia’s housing affordability debate intensifies, the panellists agreed on one point: without a meaningful increase in housing supply, demand-side measures alone are unlikely to solve the nation’s property challenges.
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