Daniel Radcliffe (Harry potter) buys a Manhattan penthouse for 2.2 million
He occupies a box room at his parents' London home and has hardly touched his estimated £25million fortune.
So it is hardly surprising that Daniel Radcliffe has decided the time is right to enter the property market.
The Harry Potter star has spent £2.2million on a newly-built bachelor pad in Manhattan.
But he has no immediate plans to live in it, and it is available for rent by well-heeled New Yorkers at £10,000 a month.
Radcliffe gained full control of his earnings after his 18th birthday in July.
Along with the other teenage Potter actors, he received personal consultations from Coutts, bankers to the Queen, on how best to invest his fortune.
The 1,843 sq ft fifth-floor apartment is a 13-storey, glass-walled condominium in trendy SoHo.
Designed by architect Jean Nouvel, it has been dubbed the "sexiest new development" in the area. It has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and floor-to-ceiling windows to make the most of the Manhattan skyline.
The building - which contains 40 flats - also has a 50ft swimming pool, a steam room and concierge.
It would provide a convenient base for Radcliffe when he makes his Broadway debut next September in a repeat of his controversial West End performance as a disturbed young man in Equus.
However, Chris Pomeroy, from the U.S. property firm Halstead, said that it was available for rent "for at least a year", which would keep it occupied until after the scheduled opening of the production.
Property records reveal the flat was bought by Gilmore Jacobs, the company set up by Radcliffe's parents just before the first Potter movie's release in 2001, when he was 11.
Since then he has appeared four more times as the quidditch-playing wizard and has signed up to play Harry in the final two films of the series.
Radcliffe has denied that he is particularly extravagant, adding: "The things I like buying are things that cost about £7 - books and CDs and DVDs."
