One Beacon Court and the Pierre (credit: Property Shark)

Last week, news broke that Steven Cohen, founder of the hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, would list his duplex penthouse at One Beacon Court, the condominium tower at 151 East 58th Street in Midtown, for $115 million. That figure would have marked a record high asking price for a New York City home, but it was soon eclipsed by the reported $125 million asking price for a triplex penthouse at the Pierre at 795 Fifth Avenue, formerly owned by the late financial analyst Martin Zweig. And while those listings would make just about anyone’s jaw drop, real estate insiders were almost blasé about the price tags. [more]

From left: Elizabeth Sample, Brenda Powers, Serena Boardman and the top of the Pierre

Speculate no longer: the asking price for late stock market pundit Martin Zweig’s penthouse at the Pierre Hotel has been decided, and it’s $125 million, making the home the most expensive on the market in New York City, the New York Times reported. [more]

Alfonso de Angoitia and 1030 Fifth Avenue

Alfonso de Angoitia, the director and executive vice-president of Grupo Televisa S.A.B., the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, has paid $16.5 million for a co-op in 1030 Fifth Avenue, the New York Observer reported. De Angoitia and his wife, Maria de la Concepcion de Angoitia Legoretta, paid full ask for the 10-room corner apartment, in a deal brokered by Serena Boardman of Sotheby’s International Realty. It overlooks the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park, and contains aluminum windows that were the subject of a lawsuit in the early 1990s…. [more]

From left: 781 Fifth Avenue and 660 Saint Nicholas Avenue

Serena Boardman of Sotheby’s International Realty has the priciest listing to hit the Manhattan market this week, according to Streeteasy.com. The unit is a co-op at the Sherry Netherland, located at 781 Fifth Avenue at 59th Street, and has two bedrooms and three bathrooms. The week’s least expensive home is located at 660 Saint Nicholas Avenue in Hamilton Heights. Listed at $239,000, the 534-square-foot co-op home has hardwood flooring and wood cabinetry. See these listings and more after the jump.

From left: Serena Boardman, Meredyth Smith and 730 Park Avenue

Hedge funder Daniel Benton has purchased the whisper-listed duplex penthouse at 730 Park Avenue for a cool $39 million, the New York Observer reported. Meredyth Smith and Serena Boardman of Sotheby’s International Realty, as well as an unnamed Stribling & Associates broker, handled the sale. [more]

From left: Serena Boardman, the exterior and interior of 26 East 73rd Street and Meredyth Smith (both of Sotheby’s)

An Upper East Side townhouse owned by a noted Dutch writer has sold for $21 million, after being listed last at $23 million, city records and Streeteasy.com show. The five-bedroom, five-bathroom mansion at 26 East 73rd Street hit the market about two years ago, and was at one pointed being scoped by none other than Jerry Seinfeld, according to previous reporting from Curbed.com.

Kees van Beijnum, the seller, is a Dutch novelist whose books have been made into films in the Netherlands. He bought the apartment for $18 million in 2007, according to city records. The buyer was identified only as East 73rd Street LLC. [more]

From left: Ted Forstmann, Laure Sudreau-Rippe, Serena Boardman and Meredyth Smith of Sotheby's International Realty, and 2 East 70th Street (credit: PropertyShark)

The widely reported sale of the late Ted Forstmann’s 2 East 70th Street penthouse finally hit city public records — not only confirming the deal but also and revealing the name of the purchaser. Bloomberg News reported that Laure Sudreau-Rippe, a lawyer and minority holder in the Amsterdam-based Louis Dreyfus Holding BV, one of the world’s largest agricultural and trading companies, purchased the home for $40 million — 11 percent above the asking price. [more]

From left: Charles Bronfman, Serena Boardman and the interior of the sixth-floor unit

Perhaps hoping to cash-in on the current momentum of the high-end real estate market, Seagram heir Charles Bronfman is trying a new strategy to market his full-floor apartment at 810 Fifth Avenue.

Bronfman, the former co-chairman of Seagram, has ditched brokers Bonnie Chajet and Ronnie Lane of Warburg Realty Partnership — who have had the listing for over a year — in favor of Sotheby’s International Realty power-broker Serena Boardman, according to data from Streeteasy.com. Boardman has, in turn, lowered the asking price to $21.5 million, down from $23 million. [more]

From left: Eyal Levy and the unit at the Millennium Tower

Financier Eyal Levy has listed his five-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom spread on the 53rd floor of the Millennium Tower at 101 West 67th Street for $27 million.

Levy listed the aerie—a combination of units 53C, D and E — yesterday with Eva Mohr and Serena Boardman of Sotheby’s International Realty, according to Streeteasy.com. [more]

From left: the Sherry Netherland and Serena Boardman, an agent with Sotheby's

The wife of television mogul Herbert Siegel has sold her apartment in an exclusive Fifth Avenue co-op for $7.7 million, according to records filed with the city.

The Richard Meier-designed two-bedroom unit at the Sherry Netherland co-op, which sits across the street from the Plaza at 59th and Fifth, was purchased by philanthropist Joanne Sorensen Siegel for $7 million in 2008, according to city records. It first hit the market last August with Brown Harris Stevens, asking $11.5 million. [more]