Serial Buyer Taylor Swift Eyes Storied Village, Soho Townhomes

Pop songstress Taylor Swift is notorious for becoming romantically entangled witha string of bold-faced names—and subsequently writing irrepressibly catchy songsabout them. The same could be said for real estate, minus the serving-as-muse bit. The Pennsylvania-born hitmaker currently splits her time between a predictably quirky apartment in Nashville, a Beverly Hills clapboard colonial, and a palatial Rhode Island waterfront estate.

A New York home might be next on the list. The News reports Swift was spotted house-hunting in the West Village/Soho/Hudson Square area on Wednesday with Corcoran's Sharon Baum, touring at least two historic townhouses with some impressive provenance: West Side Story playwright Arthur Laurents' 4BR/5BA onSaint Luke's Place that dates to the 1850s (pictured above and below) and is asking $12 million; and then 22 Charlton Street, a much-hyped John Jacob Astor-built 1820s Federal home with four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a backyard decked out with fanciful animal sculptures that wants a comparably more affordable $6.25 million. Serial dater, serial buyer... it's all the same, right?