Billy Joel has taken his $29.9M waterfront Long Island mansion off the market

The Piano Man seems to be taking a new tune regarding the sale of his longtime home.

Billy Joel has yanked his sprawling Oyster Bay, Long Island compound from the market after a revamped sales plan — and a subsequent price chop — failed to seal the deal, The Post has learned. It’s unclear if Joel will put the home on the market at a later date, or if he plans to hold onto the home for the time being. The Post has reached out to Joel’s reps for comment.

The 21-acre North Shore spread, dubbed MiddleSea, has been through more costume changes than one of Joel’s arena tours. 

Joel first tried to unload the entire estate in 2023 for just under $50 million while the property was still deep in a massive renovation. But the overhaul dragged on for more than five years, scaring off buyers.

“At the time, ‘it was … a construction scene,’” Emmett Laffey, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Laffey International Realty, which handled the listing, previously told The Post. “As an unfinished property, you can never sell this magnitude of a home.”

With the sale stalled, Joel’s team shifted gears last year, carving up the estate into three separate pieces — the way the Grammy winner originally assembled it.

“When [Joel] bought this 20 years ago, he bought the main house,” Laffey said. “And then as he lived there, he bought the adjacent two lots, which are buildable lots, and he purchased a gatehouse. Now we’re selling it like he bought it — in pieces. The smartest way to sell this incredible land and property is the way he purchased it.”

Under the new configuration, the 14-acre main residence asked $29.9 million, while two neighboring 3-acre buildable parcels were listed at $4.95 million apiece. The gatehouse portion had already sold for $7 million to a North Shore couple last year.

Still, the restructuring didn’t spark a bidding war. The price on the main house was eventually reduced to $25 million — but even that wasn’t enough to land a buyer.

“The sale,” Laffey added, “was going nowhere.”

There was interest, though — particularly from Joel loyalists.

“You do have some extreme fans,” Laffey said. “It is very special. It’s a very famous home to everyone on the North Shore of Long Island.”

The centerpiece mansion clocks in at roughly 20,000 square feet, with five bedrooms, eight bathrooms and soaring 30-foot cathedral ceilings framing panoramic views of Long Island Sound. 

The property also boasts a spa, a ballroom, a wine cellar and a guesthouse outfitted with its own bowling alley — along with a beach house, a pool, a dock, a tennis court, a helipad and a six-car garage tucked into the maintenance building.

Joel bought the core of the estate in 2002 for a reported $22.5 million. During the lengthy renovations, he never moved back into the main house, instead staying in the gatehouse — before it sold — “or the guest house near the main home,” Laffey said.