In the building where I live a two bedroom apartment (co-op) goes for over 750,000. That's an ordinary, unrenovated 60 year-old apartment with no parking and about $1500 a month in maintenance charges on top of your 15 year mortgage payments.
But I do pray for the suffering people of Zimbabwe. Seems their situation just gets worse every day.
I had a co-op in Manhattan...1986...1500 sq feet on west 85th right next to the YWCA dorm between riverside and west end....it sold for 330K then
I picked up classifieds NYT at my docs office last week and it looked like prices have tripled at least