From left: Former Deputy Mayor Robert Lieber, Stribling's Inez Wade, the interior of the 1 Central Park West unit and the exterior of the building

Having found a buyer for his six-bedroom unit in pre-war Fifth Avenue co-op 1030 Fifth Avenue last month, cellular communications mogul George Blumenthal has already found a new pad. Blumenthal has purchased a 2,094-square-foot, three-bedroom apartment at Trump International Hotel and Tower for $11.5 million, according to public records filed with the city today. [more]

From left: 1 Central Park West and Linda Mirels

A trust affiliated with Philip Kirsh and Linda Mirels, the son and daughter of South African businessman Nathan Kirsh, bought their fourth unit in the Trump International Hotel & Tower, paying nearly $6.5 million for an apartment adjacent to one they already own.

With the purchase of the 44th floor unit, revealed in city property records filed today, the NY APT Trust, managed by trustees Mirels and Philip Kirsh, has spent at least $56.45 million acquiring apartments at the building at 1 Central Park West between 60th and 61st streets. [more]

From left: 18 East 68th Street, 321 East 43rd Street (photo source: PropertyShark)

The priciest Manhattan home to hit the market this week is the Sloane Mansion, according to Streeteasy.com, a six-story, 18,267-square-foot home at 18 East 68th Street in Lenox Hill listed for $37.9 million. The building, once listed for as much as $64 million, has a limestone facade and includes an elevator that provides access to a rooftop garden that overlooks Central Park. Peter von Der Age, Seth Glasser and Scott Edelstein of Marcus & Millichap have the listing. The cheapest Manhattan unit to come online this week is a studio co-op at 321 East 43rd Street in Turtle Bay. Orsid Realty’s Jude Dayani lists the unit for $199,000. Click here for more. TRD [more]

Countess Sharon Sondes of the Lehman banking family has sold her Trump International Hotel & Tower unit for $1.45 million, to a buyer hidden behind an LLC, One CPW 408. The 1,016-square-foot apartment, at 1 Central Park West, is described as “the perfect pied-a-terre,” in the listing; its former owner has been living in Palm Beach, Fla. for the last few years. Doug Russell of Brown Harris Stevens has the listing. [NYO, 1st item]

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The 5,500-square-foot penthouse at 1 Central Park West, sold for $33 million, including closing costs, to financier Taek Jho Low, has taken its spot as the priciest single-unit residential foreclosure sale ever in New York City, the Post reported. Donald Trump purchased the apartment in 1997 for $5 million and flipped it one year later to film producer Vittorio Ceechi Gori for $10.4 million. Gori tried to renovate place, but was foreclosed upon in 2008, with as much as $30 million in debt to lender Fortress Investment Group, plus $62,000 to the condo board and $69,000 in back taxes. The apartment was sold for $18 million at auction last July to a Russian family who wound up famously walking away from their $1.8 million deposit after discovering the high costs of renovation. [Post] [more]

Turns out Robert Ziff’s $10 million purchase at the Trump International Hotel and Tower at 1 Central Park West wasn’t the only big New Year’s deal. Two other deals filed this week cracked that $10 million mark, one at 25 Central Park West and another at 1133 Fifth Avenue. The first, a penthouse unit listed by Stribling & Associates’ Cathy Taub, closed at $10.05 million, about $1.5 million under the asking price, the Observer reported. The second, sold by Eva Weinstein, ex-wife of movie studio chairman Harvey Weinstein, was bought by Tom Bernstein, president of Chelsea Piers, for about $3 million less than the original asking price.