Selling Oyster Bay House Can Cause a Heart Attack-Ack-Ack-Ack; So Billy Joel Turns To Dolly Lenz

The Piano Man is good at writing charmingly saccharine and enduring karaoke standards, but isn't as gifted at selling his real estate. Maybe his luck will change now that nearly a year and a half after listing his 14.2-acre waterfront estate in Centre Island for $37.5 million with Daniel Gale/Sotheby's International Realty, Mr. Joel has turned to the omnipotent Elliman broker Dolly Lenz to sell the estate, according to a listing on her Web site.

Mr. Joel spent $15 million on the estate in 2002, but was most recently asking $32.5 million for his shoreline stretch along Oyster Bay Harbor, where his 14,000-square-foot house features five bedrooms, a wine cellar, eight fireplaces, a gym, a bowling alley, tennis courts, three staff quarters, a guest cottage, a beach house, and an outdoor pool. Previous reports have said that his indoor pool room was converted for his grand piano, but Ms. Lenz's listing says "an indoor pool provide for hours of in home entertainment."

The listing also mentions a dock, although Mr. Joel has been publicly frustrated over not being able to build docks on his property for his "$2.5 million commuter yacht, Vendetta; a fishing boat, Alexa; and a pontoon landing craft." Oyster Bay Harbor is a national wildlife refuge.

So what's the current cost? Ms. Lenz's site says, "Price Upon Request" but it's probably around that $32.5 million mark. Ms. Lenz had no comment, and Daniel Gale/Sotheby's, which seems to have lost the listing late last year, did not return a call.