If the walls could talk in a sprawling house in Ridgefield, CT, they’d have a lot to say.

But instead of talking, they’d probably sing about the adventures that unfolded in the home of musician, composer, and producer Jim Steinman.

“I think as Realtors®, we toss around words like ‘one-of-a-kind,’ but this house really is Jim Steinman’s unique personal vision for how he wanted to live and how he wanted to create,” says listing agent Laura Ancona, with William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty.

Steinman, who died in 2021 at the age of 73, produced several albums for Meat Loaf, including “Bat Out of Hell.” He also wrote chart toppers for Bonnie Tyler (“Total Eclipse of the Heart”), Air Supply (“Making Love Out of Nothing at All”), and  Celine Dion (“It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”).

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The list price is $5,555,569—and that number has a story behind it.

“We knew the value of the construction of the home that is there, but we really don’t know the value of the contents. We wanted to come up with a number that would be compelling, and 555 is a divine number. It’s representative of new beginnings,” Ancona explains. “Then Jim was Class of 1969 of Amherst College, of which he was extremely proud, so his creative assistant asked if we could have a 69 in the number, so we ended up with $5,555,569.”

Proceeds from the sale will support Steinman’s foundation and its philanthropic projects.

Steinman bought the 1.56-acre property and the 1920s cottage that was on it in 1993, and began a huge expansion project, costing at least $6 million.

The result is a mostly one-story, 6,183-square-foot home with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and plenty of creative spaces.

“You just feel like you’re in another world. It’s really hard to explain how otherworldly and transformative this house is,” Ancona says. “It feels very heavenly; that’s the only way I can describe it.”

Steinman had names for many of the rooms in the home.

“The studio where he created and all these people came and worked with him, that was the great room. But then he had a room that most people would call the living room that he called the ‘good room’—because if the other room was a ‘great room,’ this was the good room,” she says.

Ancona says the perfect buyer is probably someone creative who wants to surround themselves with Steinman’s legacy.

“We’re not only selling the house, we’re selling the contents, which is all of his art and curated collection. I’ve actually never represented a sale where we’re including everything, even down to the clothes in the closet,” Ancona says. “Jim was so beloved, and he had fans all over who just adored him, so the opportunity to buy his piano that he created all of his hits on, and the gold records in the house, and jackets that he wore to award shows—everything’s there.”

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