Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany bought one of Brooklyn’s priciest townhouses

The couple also sold their Tribeca penthouse for $9 million

Actors Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany, who've had plenty of New York real estate adventures over the years, have purchased a $15.5 million Brooklyn Heights townhouse—a price that makes the transaction one of the priciest sales ever in the borough.

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According to the Wall Street Journal, the couple also sold their Tribeca penthouse—which first hit the market all the way back in 2012—for a cool $9 million. This isn't the first time they've picked up real estate in Brooklyn; before purchasing that Tribeca pad, they lived in a stately Park Slope mansion, which then sold for $8 million in 2008. (It's currently on the market for $13 million.)

The couple's new Brooklyn Heights home is on one of the neighborhood's more secluded blocks; the 8,000-square-foot spread is a stone's throw from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, and comes with stellar views of the Manhattan skyline. They purchased the home from a Goldman Sachs exec and his wife.

The sale, which closed earlier this week, ties the record for the priciest townhouse sold in Brooklyn so far; the other home, located on Pacific Street in Cobble Hill, sold for $15.5 million in 2015 to Jay Maisel, the photographer who previously owned the once-mysterious graffiti-covered mansion at 190 Bowery.

But there's another contender for the borough's priciest sale; Matt Damon is reportedly in contract to purchase a $16.645 million penthouse atop the Standish, DDG's condo conversion of the former Standish Arms hotel, just a few blocks from Connelly and Bettany's new house.

• Actors Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany Sell in Tribeca and Buy in Brooklyn [WSJ]