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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I feel bad for the owner. They will be exhausted just trying to vacuum that place and keep it clean.
Probably a rounding error on this guys wealth...
It doesn’t even have a yard or trees.
What is property tax?
I bet Governor Cujo is salivating at all the taxes he is gonna get outs that sale.
The More Money Than Brains Club has a new leader...
I remember when $238 million was a lot of money.
Well if he’s on the 79th floor, the pizza will get cold before it’s delivered.
The City of New York used to maintain a website maintained by the Property Assessors Dept at which you could enter a specific address e.g. "221 Park Avenue Apt 34G" and get incredible info...owner,sales price,tax assessment amount and lots of other interesting stuff.
I assume they still have it but it's possible that they don't. I've read that some cities/towns/counties that used to have them did away with them because they were being used by crooks for various kinds of fraud and robbery.
Nice, but you still have to live in NYC.
Eh, if you have the wherewithal to spend over 50 million on a dwelling in NYC, I would assume you are part of the in-crowd and will be insulated from the 99%, and from most of the criminal city govt. Unless, of course, you are connected to the Trump.
24000 square feet - that’s over a half-acre.
The lowest of the three floors is probably a dormitory for the help.
I wonder how much fertile land with water on it and natural beauty you could buy for $238 million.
That’s a starter home compared to this....
Antilia, a 27-story skyscraper on the pricey Altamount Road in Mumbai, is the most expensive home in the world, valued at upwards of $1 billion. Mukesh Ambani, an Indian business tycoon and multibillionaire, moved into the 400,000-square-foot mansion in 2012 with his wife and three children.The modern property was designed by Chicago-based architects Perkins & Will.
Antilia, which was named for a phantom island in the Atlantic, features a multistory garage with space for 168 cars, a ballroom, three helipads, gardens, a temple, guest suites, a health level and a home theater that seats 50.
https://www.cbsnews.com/media/10-of-the-worlds-most-expensive-homes/
And Zuul lives in the fridge.
Still not as expensive as Bezos side piece of arse.
This may have something to do with the price.
I would never live in those things. They look like death traps.
It's probably a mistake for so many of them to live in one place because it makes it easier for Robin Hood de Blasio to get to them.
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