Actress Meg Ryan is giving Hamptons home buyers the opportunity to say, “I’ll have what she’s having,” as the “When Harry Met Sally” star discreetly listed her Bridgehampton farmhouse for $15.25 million last week, The Post has learned.
The nearly 5,000-square-foot dwelling sits on 1.5-acres and takes a traditional approach, with brown wooden shingles, a covered porch and white pillars that recall a time when the Hamptons were a summer colony of clapboard houses and rolling hills.
The residence includes five bedrooms, an equal number of fireplaces, and a five-zone heating and cooking geothermal system that draws its power from inside the earth. A full-property security system keeps an eye on things.
Ryan, an animal lover, put her imprint on the place by providing her pups with a hot and cold running shower. She carries her affinity for animals to the Third World Dog Trust she uses in effort to buy and sell high-end luxury real estate under the radar.
In New York, Ryan used the trust to purchase a 4,100-square-foot Soho loft in 2014 for $8 million from actor Hank Azaria who voiced Kwik-E-Mart operator Apu and other “Simpsons” characters. After redesigning the home, She sold it for $10 million in 2017.
The same year, she bought a $9.4 million condo in Tribeca’s celebrity-studded 443 Greenwich building known for its very private, “Paparazzi-proof” entry. A-listers flocked to the former book-binding factory when it launched in 2017, with past and present residents including Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, who owned a penthouse. Harry Styles, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal and Jennifer Lawrence have also all been linked to the property.
Ryan is coming off last year’s sale of the Montecito, Calif., estate she bought for $9.5 million in 2021. The 8,352-square-foot enclave, set on nearly 2 acres, underwent a massive renovation. She originally listed it for $22.5 million, hoping for a more than 200% return. Getting no takers, she cut the price to $19.5 million, and it subsequently sold for $16.8 million last June.
Perhaps chastened by the nearly $6 million in price chops the Montecito property underwent, Ryan is not following the Hamptons trend of listing homes with stratospheric markups no matter how long they have been owned. Ryan paid $13.5 million for the Bridgehampton estate two years ago, property records show, and with its current $15.25 million price tag, she’s looking at a $1.75 million, or 11%, gain on the sale.
It sits off a cul-de-sac and features vaulted ceilings, a sunken living room, a formal dining room and a library with its own bathroom. An open kitchen with adjacent seating areas is nearby.
Four bedrooms on the second floor include a primary suite that contains a sitting area, a steam shower and a porch overlooking the grounds — including a 20-by-50-foot heated Gunite pool and a covered porch with an outdoor fireplace.
A secondary living area with a large bedroom, a kitchenette and a fully equipped gym furnishes the lower level.
Efforts to speak with Ryan about the home were unsuccessful.
Ryan is best known as the 1990s rom-com superstar who remains an A-lister to this day.
The most memorable scene in “When Harry Met Sally,” comes when Billy Crystal’s Harry challenges Ryan’s Sally to effectively fake an orgasm as they eat lunch in Katz’s Delicatessen, prompting the lady at the next table (played by Rob Reiner’s mother) to tell the waiter, “I’ll have what she’s having.”
Ryan’s most recent feature film is the 2023 romantic comedy, “What Happens Later.”
