Feds raided it. Now it’s sold. Raleigh’s most infamous mansion changes hands
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- Raleigh mansion tied to 2017 FBI raid sold for $4.4 million in July 2025.
- Former owner Tatyana Teyf listed the 8-bedroom estate for $10 million in 2023.
- Sale followed price cuts and a canceled no-reserve auction attempt in late 2024.
Seven years after federal agents stormed past its steely cast-iron gates, one of Raleigh’s most infamous mansions has changed hands.
The 16,856-square-foot estate at 6510 New Market Way — tucked behind the fairways of North Ridge Country Club, overlooking the 18th green — sold for $4.4 million on July 31, according to Wake County deed records.
Triangle Business Journal first reported the sale.
Built in 1998, the mansion sits on a 1.8-acre lot with “Texas-cream limestone” columns and “Brazilian cherry-wood doors,” behind which once lived the Russian couple Leonid and Tatiana Teyf.
In 2012, they bought the home for $4.2 million. Four years later, the FBI raided the estate, indicting the couple on charges that included money laundering, plotting a murder-for-hire, and defrauding the Russian government out of tens of millions of dollars.
The Teyfs eventually surrendered $6 million in assets, The News and Observer reported.
But they got to keep the house.
In July 2021, Tatyana Teyf became the sole owner after now ex-husband, Leonid Teyf, deeded her the property.
It boasts eight bedrooms, 14 baths, two elevators, a sauna, gym, saltwater pool, and a remodeled bank-vault wine cellar.
In 2023, she listed the estate for $10 million, one of the priciest listings at the time. After a $1 million price drop, it almost went up for sale in a “live, in-person” auction with no reserve. But the sellers withdrew just hours before it was scheduled to take place.
Hodge and Kittrell Sotheby’s Int. relisted the property for $5.75 million in May.
The total assessed value is slightly more than $7.839 million, records show.
This story was originally published September 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM with the headline "Feds raided it. Now it’s sold. Raleigh’s most infamous mansion changes hands."
