Posted on 01/26/2019 12:44:13 PM PST by freddy005
An apartment on Central Park just sold for $238 million. That's the highest price ever paid for a home in the US Most expensive home in US sold for $238 million (CNN) — The most expensive home in the country sold in New York for $238 million. Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin closed on the Manhattan property at 220 Central Park South on Wednesday his spokesperson said. The nearly 24,000 square foot apartment takes up several floors at the top of a tower designed by architects Robert A.M. Stern This sale is the most anyone has paid for a home in the United States. The previous record was set in 2014, also by a New York property. That home in the Hamptons sold for $137 million, according to statistics compiled by Miller Samuel Inc., a real estate and appraisal consulting firm that tracks highest sales of single residences over $50 million. The company's CEO, Jonathan Miller, cautions that tracking the most expensive homes sold in the country is not an exact science. "There aren't as many as you think," Miller said. "The banner year was 2014. In 2013 and 2014 I started noticing every couple of weeks there was a story that said, 'this was the highest asking price in the country,' or 'this was the highest in California.' In 2015 I started looking back and realized that many of those hadn't sold. It was the pocket listings, the ones that weren't splashed everywhere, that were selling." The 79-story skyscraper that contains the apartment is under construction and is right on Central Park in an area often referred to as New York's billionaires row. It has sweeping views of the iconic park. Other big names at that building include singer Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, according to...
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We’ll get you tippy-tops!
ImVho, I wouldn’t give 15 cents for ANY apartment in NYC, IF I had to live there.
Yours, TMN78247
24,000 sq. ft.? He could park his doublewide on the top floor, subdivide the rest, and turn a tidy profit.
They paid that much...for air.
Really. Just air.
Sheesh.
Really? $238 million for an apartment? I saw one for 85 million dollars https://tranio.com/usa/adt/1781266/ still looks super luxury.
Don’t forget all the toilets to be scrubbed!
The nearly 24,000 square foot apartment
I feel bad for the owner. They will be exhausted just trying to vacuum that place and keep it clean.
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LOL!!!!
Probably a rounding error on this guys wealth...
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$238,079,543.09 :)
I remember when $238 million was a lot of money.
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It still is but apparently not as much as we thought it did.....
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