You can rent Billy Joel's old Gold Coast estate for $100,000 per month
Billy Joel's former estate, seen in 2005, sold in February for $28.75 million — a Long Island record outside of the Hamptons. Credit: Newsday /David L. Pokress
Billy Joel sold his Centre Island compound last month, but slow down, you crazy child — it's back on the market, this time to rent.
Listings on Zillow and Multiple Listing Service show the property is available as a rental for $100,000 a month. The MLS listing states that the property is available through March 31.
Listing agent Tyler Mattson, of Hedgerow Exclusive Properties, could not be immediately reached for comment.
The Piano Man purchased the property in 2002 for $22.5 million, according to property records. Joel's estate was on the market for almost three years.
The sale closed last month for a record-breaking $28.75 million. This is the most expensive real estate sale in Long Island's history, outside of the Hamptons, Emmett Laffey told Newsday. Laffey, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Laffey International Realty, handled the transaction.
The estate features a 20,000-square-foot main house with five bedrooms and 11 bathrooms. There is also a guest house, beach house and maintenance house/six-car garage on site. The gate house (an additional 5,500-square-foot home) sold for $7 million in May 2025.
The new rental listing reads: "Set on 14.6 extraordinary waterfront acres with nearly 2,000 feet of private sandy beach, this exceptional compound offers rare scale, privacy, and sweeping panoramic views."
Joel still owns properties in Sag Harbor and East Hampton, property records show.
Rachel Weiss joined Newsday in 2016. As a real estate/living multimedia reporter, Rachel writes feature stories and contributes to and appears in on-camera video packages. She was the lead reporter on Newsday’s LI Acts of Kindness series.
