Taylor Swift is on the hunt and this time it's not for a man — but a Manhattan address.
The “I Knew You Were Trouble” singer has been viewing apartments in Greenwich Village, looking to buy a downtown crash pad, Confidenti@l has exclusively learned.
Renowned man-eater Swift, 24, spent Wednesday viewing a number of properties including a $12 million Leroy St. townhouse that was previously owned by “West Side Story” writer Arthur Laurents.
The playwright died in 2011, and his estate sold the property the following year for $10 million. It’s now back on the market for $2 million more, and our spies caught Swift walking through the 1850s four-bedroom redbrick beauty accompanied by a young mystery man.
“She was well dressed and seemed in good spirits. She was being driven around with this good-looking guy who looked about her age,” said our spy.
Huge vines encircle the 4,400-square-foot home, providing privacy that’s perfect for the pap-pursued pop star.
The house is on a block known as St. Luke’s Place, around the corner from Robert De Niro’s old home and the brownstone that served as the exterior shot for the Huxtables house on “The Cosby Show.”
Swift also checked out more modest digs at nearby 22 Charlton St., where the owner is asking $6.25 million for the four-bedroom, 2,900-square-foot townhouse. Like the singer — whose father is a third-generation bank president — the 1820s house comes from serious money, having been built by none other than John Jacob Astor.
Swift, who earned more than $55 million last year, now splits her time between a penthouse in Nashville and a cottage in Beverly Hills. She also owns a summer home in Rhode Island.
The country pop darling was being shown around the prospective homes by one of the top-grossing brokers in the city — Corcoran’s Sharon Baum, who is famous for driving a Mercedes with the license plate SOLD 1.
Swift has dated a series of boldface names, including Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Conor Kennedy and Harry Styles.
“I apparently buy houses near every boy I like — that’s a thing that I apparently do,” Swift joked in an interview with Vanity Fair after she bought a Cape Cod property near Kennedy’s home. “If I like you, I will apparently buy up the real estate market just to freak you out so you leave me,” she said.
We hear neighbors may soon be singing their own version of her hit: “We Knew You Were Trouble ... When You Moved In.”
A rep for Swift declined to comment.
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