When Hillary Clinton-backer Kathy Hammer offered up her Astor Courts estate for Chelsea‘s wedding, it also presented a great opportunity to sell the palatial pad, which has been stuck on the market since last October with a $12 million price tag. Chelsea’s wedding tomorrow to Marc Mezvinsky “was like manna from heaven for Kathy,” a friend said, because she and her real-estate hubby, Arthur Seelbinder, are desperate to sell.
PHOTOS: CHELSEA CLINTON AND MARC MEZVINSKY
They paid $3.2 million for the five-bedroom manse in 2005 and poured in $9 million more to restore it. Rhinebeck real-estate agent Julie Mayer of Century 21 told us there’s a strong chance the mansion could attract a buyer among the 500 wedding guests, although more likely for about $10 million. But Anita Ferri Realty’s Chuck Ferri said even the Clinton cachet can’t sell it in a tough market. “If George Washington himself came back from the dead [and stayed there],” Ferri said, “that house is still gonna sit there.”