Daphne Guinness and the interior of the Stanhope spread

Beer heiress and fashion muse Daphne Guinness has finally found a buyer for her four-bedroom apartment at the former Stanhope hotel, just two months after she settled a lawsuit with her neighbors at the building, The Real Deal has learned.

The deal for the 4,118-square-foot spread closed earlier this month for $11.3 million, listing broker Daniel Neiditch of River2River Realty said today. That represents a loss for Guinness, who bought the apartment for $11.73 million in 2008. While the identity of the buyer was not immediately clear, Neiditch said the person was not well-known. The deal has not yet hit public records. [more]

Sotheby's broker Nikki Field and the apartment at 995 Fifth Avenue

The last remaining sponsor unit at 995 Fifth Avenue, a cond-op situated in the former Stanhope Hotel, has found a buyer after lingering on the market since 2007.

The sale marks a victory for Sotheby’s International Realty broker Nikki Field, who took over listing the unit in March. It had previously been marketed by the Corcoran Group and Gumley Haft Kleier. Gumley had the exclusive on the property for two years prior to Field’s taking it over. [more]

From left: Nikki Field of Sotheby's, the interior and exterior at 995 Fifth Avenue and Daphne Guinness

A New York family has purchased the final sponsor unit at Extell Development’s 995 Fifth Avenue cond-op, after a five-year stretch where three brokerages attempted to sell the 8,360-square-foot apartment. The full-floor, seven-bedroom unit was last listed with Nikki Field of Sotheby’s International Realty for $30 million. The apartment was first listed for $35.5 million, when Extell was in the process converting the 26-unit former Stanhope Hotel into a cond-op. [more]

Top row, from left: Joy Browne, the kitchen at her apartment at 21 South End Avenue, and the kitchen at 146 Central Park West.
Bottom row, from left: Howard Michaels with his listings: an exterior and interior shot of the Lucida at 151 East 85th Street, and the Stanhope at 995 Fifth Avenue.

Radio psychologist Dr. Joy Browne has two things in common with the fictional Frasier Crane. One, she answers callers’ on-air questions about life and love. And two, she has a fabulous apartment. Now Browne’s 2,600-square-foot riverfront duplex at the Regatta condominium in Battery Park City is on the market with L.G. Fairmont Group’s Derek Lee for $3.4 million, or $18,000 per month to rent. In addition, Howard Michaels, the chairman and CEO of international real estate investment banking firm the Carlton Group, last week put his 5,200-square-foot Lucida spread on the market with Corcoran’s Carrie Chiang for $11 million, along with his Stanhope apartment, which is priced at $11.5 million. Also, a 6,000-square-foot apartment is up for grabs at the San Remo, the iconic twin-towered co-op which Bono, Rita Hayworth and Steven Spielberg have called home. Unit #6E6F at 146 Central Park West hit the market over this past weekend for $24.75 million with Bellmarc’s Dan Fishman. Click here for more.

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From left: 995 Fifth Avenue, 535 West End Avenue, the Lucida and Michele Kleier

Gumley Haft Kleier, the boutique New York City brokerage made nationally famous by HGTV’s “Selling New York” last year, is “very seriously considering opening up a division to represent new developments,” co-president Michele Kleier told the New York Times. The television starlet has been getting lots of business from Gary Barnett’s Extell Development lately, including trophy listings at 995 Fifth Avenue, 535 West End Avenue and the Lucida. Four or five listings in another new development are also coming her way soon, she said, declining to identify the property. “I would love to represent a whole building,” Kleier said. “Truthfully, we have never been set up for it.” [NYT]… [more]

From left: Claude Wasserstein, the former Stanhope Hotel

The 7,000-square-foot duplex penthouse at 995 Fifth Avenue, Extell Development’s Stanhope Hotel conversion, is being quietly shopped around for $65 million — around $30 million more than what it traded for in 2008 — according to the Observer. The former sponsor unit belongs to Claude Wasserstein, the third wife of the late Lazard head and New York magazine owner Bruce Wasserstein, who purchased it for $34.8 million in 2008 and remodeled it. … [more]

A full-floor apartment at Extell Development’s conversion of the former
Stanhope Hotel at 995 Fifth Avenue into luxury residences sold for $17
million, a savings of 45 percent from the original asking price of $31
million. The 8,360-square-foot cond-op unit has six bedrooms and eight and a
half baths, a listing on the Web site of sales and marketing agent
Corcoran Group Marketing says. The 14th-floor sponsor unit in the 17-story Rosario Candela-designed
building was originally offered for $31 million early last year,
according to Streeteasy.com. City property records published today identify the buyer as Stanhope 14 LLC. The buyers apparently don’t plan to hold on to the property for long.
The apartment has been listed for nearly three months with an asking
price of $25.5 million with Prudential Douglas Elliman’s DeNiro Group,
Streeteasy.com shows…. [more]