At left: 610 Park Avenue; Top center: Nautica founder David Chu; Bottom center: Listing broker Carrie Chiang, of the Corcoran Group; At right: Penthouse 16E

The duplex penthouse at the former Mayfair Hotel, which belongs to Nautica founder David Chu, officially hit the market yesterday at $32.8 million — roughly $4,260 per square foot. The price tag makes it one of the top 10 most expensive condo listings in the city, according to data from Streeteasy.com.

The penthouse is one of two in the 15-story, prewar limestone and brick building, now known as 610 Park Avenue. Investment firm Colony Capital purchased the property for $15 million in a 1996 foreclosure sale and teamed up with Donald Trump in the condo conversion project, which was designed by architect Costas Kondylis.

Chu, the Taiwanese-American apparel mogul, and his wife, Gina, a philanthropist and trustee at the non-profit Asia Society, purchased penthouse 16E at 610 Park Avenue in 1999, city property records show. It had been combined with the unit below, and while sale prices for apartments before 2003 are not publicly available, the pair took out a $5 million mortgage at the time to pay for at least some of the home, according to the records. [more]

The Real Deal has ranked the top listing agents of the week based on the highest priced residential deals filed with the city.

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Since seizing Bernard and Ruth Madoff’s apartment at 133 East 64th
Street on July 2, federal marshals have been considering brokers’
proposals to market the unit. The proceeds of the sale will go to the
victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Broker John Burger, senior vice
president and managing director at Brown Harris Stevens, offered to
sell the unit pro bono, foregoing a commission that could be 5 or 6
percent of the unit’s sale price. But Burger said he was told
government rules prevented the marshals from accepting pro bono offers.
Burger said the apartment would go on the market for about $7 million. Comments

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The Real Deal has ranked the top listing agents of the week based on the highest priced residential deals filed with the city.

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The Real Deal has ranked the top listing agents of the week based on the highest priced residential deals filed with the city.

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A second D-line apartment at 15 Central Park West is available for resale within several weeks of the first one going on the market. The three-bedroom, 3,173-square-foot unit 35D is on the market for $26 million, according to Streeteasy.com. Donald Opartny, a partner at Goldman Sachs, purchased the unit in January 2008 for $11.6 million. Brown Harris Stevens’ John Burger, a senior vice president and managing director, and Richard Wallgren, a BHS vice president, have the listing. Burger declined to comment on the unit, saying he is under a confidentiality agreement for the listing. [more]

Carrie Chiang beat out Dolly Lenz in The Real Deal’s top agent survey

From the May issue: In a surprise upset, Corcoran’s Carrie Chiang beat out Prudential Douglas Elliman super broker Dolly Lenz in The Real Deal’s first top Manhattan agent survey, based on total dollar value of listings. According
to the survey, which ranked agents from the largest 15 firms, Lenz had
81 active exclusive listings to Chiang’s 67. However, Chiang, a senior
vice president at Corcoran and director of the firm’s international
division, has exclusives worth some $472.8 million, topping Lenz’s
$426.7 million. The survey data were collected in mid-April from
active residential Manhattan listings, updated within the last 120
days, from the OLR listing portal. Townhouse specialist Paula
Del Nunzio, a senior vice president and managing director at Brown
Harris Stevens, came in third, with 23 exclusives worth a total of
$351.1 million, followed by Brown Harris Stevens’ John Burger and
Serena Boardman of Sotheby’s. [more]