Barbara Corcoran and 1192 Park Avenue

Barbara Corcoran and her husband, William Higgins, have purchased a $900,000 two-bedroom apartment on the ground floor of her prewar Park Avenue co-op at 94th Street, which they plan to use for a home office, according to the New York Times. The Corcoran Group founder-turned-media mogul bargained the price down from $975,000, which was what listing brokers Steven Parrino and William Blind of Brown Harris Stevens were asking for the unit. According to the listing, it “needs TLC, but has great potential.” Corcoran’s apartment upstairs, on the 14th floor of 1192 Park Avenue, is a 3,500-square-foot, three-bedroom spread with two maids’ rooms that she bought for $3.5 million in 2000. Corcoran also owns a condo at 163 East 71st Street, which she bought with her husband in 2008 for $4 million. [NYT]

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400 West 12th Street and Showtime’s Matthew Blank (Building photo source: PropertyShark)

A limited liability company affiliated with Showtime Networks chairman and CEO Matthew Blank paid $11.2 million for a condominium unit at the new West Village building Superior Ink at 400 West 12th Street near the West Side Highway.

The purchasing company, identified as Superior 10C LLC, went into contract on the four-bedroom sponsor unit October 2007 and closed on the purchase Nov. 30, city property records published yesterday show.
Blank, the head of the cable media company based in Midtown, paid about $3,463 per square foot for the 3,234-square foot unit. The transfer was made without a mortgage, indicating an all-cash purchase. [more]