Potter Ponders Witch $4M House to Haunt

Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET

STABLE HOME Radcliffe Like so many other foreign buyers blessed with favorable exchange rates, British born Daniel Radcliffe continues to pour his Potter pounds into the still scorching Manhattan real estate market. First, D-Rad dumped nearly $4.3M on a 2-bedroom condo in the Jean Nouvel designed 40 Mercer in SoHo which he quickly put up for lease at $20,000 per month.

Now he's reportedly forked over another $4.9M to purchase a 2,450 square foot corner condo at the considerably less architecturally dignified Morton Square in the far West Village. Real estate scuttlebutt says that the teenage tycoon intends to live in the three-bedroom three and a half-bathroom condo while he struts his naked stuff on Broadway's upcoming Equus. With views over the Hudson River to New Jersey, a three-zone, in-wall sound system and a 500 bottle wine cellar he's too young to stock, the 18-year-old is all set to entertain all the theater groupies who will collect outside the stage door each night.