Joy Behar has finally managed to sell her Hamptons mansion for about half of her original asking price.
Behar, who is now The View’s longest-serving panelist, purchased the four-bedroom Sag Harbor spread in 2016 for $4.75 million.
The 83-year-old TV personality began efforts to vacate the house in November 2024, forking out a whopping price of $10.95 million.
On August 28, she finally managed to close a deal with a buyer who paid $5.65 million, which is $5.3 million less than what she initially requested, via Broker.
With 4,500 square feet of living space and 4.5 bathrooms, the estate was built in 1903 and now features amenities such as a guesthouse.
‘This house is over 100 years old – I’m almost as old as this house!’ she joked in 2021 Hedges. “But it’s a beautiful house, it’s got bones and it’s got history.”
The Daily Mail has contacted a representative for Behar for comment.
Joy Behar has finally managed to sell her Hamptons mansion for about half of her original asking price
Behar purchased the four-bedroom Sag Harbor spread in 2016 for $4.75 million
The 83-year-old TV personality began efforts to vacate the home in November 2024, setting a whopping price of $10.95 million.
Built and decorated to exude an atmosphere of classic North East elegance, the property now also boasts a heated swimming pool.
The walls of the house feature many windows that allow natural light to flood into the building, which sits in a summer playground for New York’s elite.
Behar’s own love affair with the Hamptons dates back to her college days in the 1960s, when she and her sorority sisters rented a vacation home there one summer.
“I love the Hamptons,” she enthused. ‘There is no better place. To me it’s more like Provence than any other place I’ve been, and I like it more than Provence.’
When the time came for her to get her own piece of Hamptons real estate, she had already been starring on The View for almost two decades.
However, the mansion she was hoping for wasn’t the one she eventually bought, but a neighboring house that she discovered was out of her price range.
‘I looked at the house next door, a brand new big house, that was too much money. I asked the real estate agent: “Can you find out if he wants to sell this house?” The owner said, “Only at top dollar and as is.” I took it,” she admitted.
Behar, who married her second husband Steve Janowitz in 2011 after a 29-year romance, began her attempt to sell the house eight years after purchasing it.
On August 28, she finally managed to close a deal through Realtor with a buyer who paid $5.65 million, which is $5.3 million less than what she initially asked.
With 4,500 square feet of living space and 4.5 bathrooms, the estate was built in 1903 and now features amenities such as a guesthouse
‘This house is over 100 years old – I’m almost as old as this house!’ she joked to Hedges in 2021: “But it’s a beautiful house, it’s got bones and it’s got history.”
The property has been built and decorated to exude an atmosphere of classic North East elegance and now also boasts a heated swimming pool
The walls are lined with many windows allowing natural light to flood into the building, which sits in a summer playground for New York’s elite
“I love the Hamptons,” Behar raved, adding, “There’s no better place,” noting, “To me it’s more like Provence than any other place I’ve been, and I like it more than Provence”
When the time came for her to get her own piece of Hamptons real estate, she had already been starring on The View for almost two decades.
However, the mansion she was hoping for wasn’t the one she ended up buying (pictured), but a neighboring house she discovered was out of her price range
I asked the real estate agent: “Can you find out if he wants to sell this house?” The owner said, “Only at top dollar and as is,” she confessed, “I took it”
Behar, who married her second husband Steve Janowitz in 2011 after a 29-year romance, began her attempt to sell the house eight years after purchasing it.
Her agents Ed Gaetjens and John Wines have now admitted the initial asking price of $10.95 million was too high
They gradually lowered the price until it reached $5.95 million in December 2025, but three months later they went up again to $6.995 million.
“We started much higher, at an ambitious price, and then settled on a realistic number,” Wines explained of the $6.995 million decision.
Her agents Ed Gaetjens and John Wines have now admitted that the initial asking price of $10.95 million was too high.
They gradually lowered the price until it reached $5.95 million in December 2025 – but three months later they went up again to $6.995 million.
“We started much higher, at an ambitious price, and then settled on a realistic number,” Wines explained of the $6.995 million decision.
Wines and Gaetjens explained that the $1 million price increase was driven in part by the sale of a nearby home valued at $11.25 million, albeit one that had been updated with more extensive renovations than those Behar had performed on her home.
“The neighbor, that house, cost a lot of money, much more than any of us expected,” Gaetjens revealed.
‘We told Joy that we don’t just take [her listing] to take it again; we want to think out-of-the-box in this. We just have to be a little more proactive, a little more visual, a little more telling about what it could be.”
Their tactic was to ensure that the new owners paved the way for a modernization of the renovation, without Behar having to renovate the house itself.
Wines and Gaetjens drew up plans together with architects, obtained the necessary building permits and determined the price tags for the renovations.
Their tactic was to ensure that the new owners cleared the way to begin a modernization renovation, without Behar actually having to renovate the house himself.
Wines’ contention was that “if we went ahead and actually did the renovations, the price would not be $6.99 million, it would be $12 million.”
‘Many people don’t have a vision, they don’t see what the house could be like. What we’re trying to do is make it tastier. We just do it all [the renovation] for them it’s really what it comes down to,” Wines said.
“At $6.99 million, it’s still a bargain because there’s so much space in it. We have a legitimate company next door that allows us to say, “This is what a turnkey house is worth.” We know this home will provide a buyer with a lot of equity, we’re just trying to find the easiest path for someone to achieve that.”
However, he added that in the event that “there is no buyer at this price, I think we will probably find an opportunity to have it renovated and sell it at the higher price.”
Wines’ contention was that “if we went ahead and actually did the renovations, the price wouldn’t be $6.99 million, it would be $12 million.”
