Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are leaving NYC after selling two Brooklyn townhouses for $16M

They have no more time to stay.

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz have sold their prized Cobble Hill brownstone for $11.8 million in an all-cash deal. The sale nearly doubled what they paid for the fire-damaged property less than a decade ago as the couple redirects their lives toward England, where they plan to raise their child full-time, sources told The Post. 

The sale of 22 Strong Place, which went into contract late last year in an off-market deal, according to the Real Deal, caps a complete exit from the Brooklyn block the couple had quietly made their New York base. 

Records obtained by The Post show the home closed on March 31. 

Combined with the $4.05 million sale of the neighboring 20 Strong Place in February 2025, the pair has now pulled roughly $16 million out of the borough, minus the gut-renovation costs. 

Photos obtained by The Post show the townhome’s condition before Craig, 58, and Weisz, 56, got their hands on it. The damage was significant.

A New Year’s Eve 2016 fire had torn through the top floor of the 100-plus-year-old detached brownstone, leaving what brokers at the time described as a blank slate waiting for the right buyer to finish the job. That buyer turned out to be the couple, who swooped in through an LLC called “On the Rows” in 2017, paying $6.75 million to author Martin Amis and his wife, Isabel Fonseca, who had already relocated to a Downtown Brooklyn apartment.

The landmarked, 6,600-square-foot property on a 24.5-by-109-foot lot came with a brand new roof, Landmarks Preservation Commission-approved renovation plans and wall studs still intact. The couple proceeded to transform the four-story brownstone into a thoroughly finished family home complete with a west-facing backyard anchored by a sprawling mulberry tree. However, since the sale took place off market, there are no images of its current look.

Sources told The Post that Weisz is currently on a work hiatus, and separate source said the couple has made clear that London is now their primary focus. The couple welcomed a daughter, Grace, in September 2018.

In a 2024 interview with the New York Times, Craig revealed that he was more focused on home life these days as opposed to his career.

“I’ve got a 6-year-old at home,” Craig previously said of his daughter, who is now 7. “I don’t want to be away from home as much as I have in the past.”

The Post has reached out to their reps for comment. 

Their north London base, a five-bedroom Grade II-listed Victorian townhouse dating to 1840, has itself been the subject of some drama. 

The pair won approval in early 2024 to upgrade the property after a conservation area dispute with locals over a proposed rear extension, ultimately agreeing to a revised plan that preserved the character of the historic building.  

And it is not the first time the couple has fought for their London residence. Back in 2017, they successfully blocked a neighbor’s attempt to cut down a 65-foot tree behind the property, with the council ultimately slapping a protection order on it.

When they weren’t in London, the couple had made Cobble Hill their Brooklyn village. They were regulars at Chez Moi, the charming Carroll Gardens French bistro beloved by the neighborhood’s literary and creative set. They also frequented Colonie, the farm-to-table staple on Atlantic Avenue that recently shuttered after more than a decade as a Brooklyn dining institution.

Overall, Cobble Hill’s townhouse market has gone stratospheric. The average townhouse in the neighborhood fetched $5.2 million in the first half of 2025, up 14% year-over-year, according to data from Leslie J. Garfield, a townhouse specialty brokerage. Just this February, a renovated Brooklyn Heights home at 307 Hicks St. traded for $14.99 million, setting a new borough record for a single-family home.

For Craig and Weisz, Brooklyn was always something of an adopted home rather than a permanent one. Before landing on Strong Place, the couple had kept a sleek $11.5 million Soho penthouse, which they purchased in 2012 before selling and heading to the borough. 

They are not abandoning New York entirely, however. The couple still holds onto their upstate retreat, a four-bedroom, 2,443-square-foot stone farmhouse on 124 acres in Marbletown in Ulster County, which Weisz purchased for $2.1 million in 2008. Built in 1785, the home features original hardware, wide-board floors, multiple fireplaces and a Dutch barn, and offers a rural lifestyle.