Real estate in brief

Actor and director Mel Gibson reportedly sold his 75-acre Old Mill Farm estate in Greenwich for $24 million.

Gibson bought the property for $9.3 million in 1994, according to the Greenwich Time, and had most recently listed an asking price of $29.7 million through Sotheby”™s International Realty.

The property includes a Tudor mansion measuring 16,000 square feet, built in 1926 for financier George Lewis Ohrstrom, and designed by architect Charles Lewis Bowman.

The purchase was transacted through an entity called Cosette Property L.L.C., the Greenwich Time reported, and additional information on the company was not immediately available.

 

Robert H. Schaffer & Associates L.L.C. took a lease for nearly 8,000 square feet at 707 Summer St. in Stamford. Brokerage company Choyce Peterson Inc. scouted a dozen locations in Stamford on behalf of RHSA, a management consultancy that currently has offices at 30 Oak St. in Stamford.

 

 

Health and beauty retailer Boots Retail USA Inc. is relocating its Stamford office to Norwalk, buffing up nearly 3,000 square feet of space at MerrittView for a six-year lease.

 

United Kingdom-based Boots sells makeup, bath and skin care products through CVS, Target and Shoppers Drug Mart.

MerrittView is owned by New York City-based Malkin Properties. The company recently installed a steel sculpture in MerrittView”™s plaza dubbed “Coiffure” by local artist Carol Eisner, the work weighing 2,500 pounds and standing more than 10 feet tall.

 

Separately, Malkin Properties announced a 3,600-square-foot, five-year lease for Narragansett Asset Management at the company”™s Metro Center building in Stamford.

 

Narragansett Asset Management was founded in 1998 by Joseph Dowling III. Until 2006, the company managed institutional funds for financial companies, pension funds and university endowments. Since then, it has focused on managing Dowling”™s own personal money, at times leading syndicates involving other institutional investors and family offices.