15 Central Park West

From the January issue: More than any other new building, 15 Central Park West represents the crème de la crème of Manhattan’s high-end real estate market. Developed by brothers William and Arthur Zeckendorf, the Robert A.M. Stern-designed condo has lured the city’s wealthiest buyers since its inception. All of its 202 apartments were sold — for approximately $2 billion — before the doors opened in late 2007.

In March 2008, The Real Deal published a unit-by-unit breakdown of buyers at the limestone behemoth. At the time, purchasers included Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon, Oscar winner Denzel Washington and musician Sting.

This month, The Real Deal revisited 15 CPW to see who’s closed on apartments there in the last year, using city data, published reports and the listings aggregator StreetEasy. [more]

The unit at 15 Central Park West

Deutsche Bank’s Kay Haigh has sold his two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom unit at 15 Central Park West for close to $9 million, The Real Deal has learned.

Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Andre Rouach had listed #24B, a 1,736-square-foot, park-facing unit, for $9.5 million in October. The deal has been listed as “in contract” on Streeteasy.com since late November, and sources said it closed today.

Haigh is Deutsche Bank’s head of trading for emerging market debt. He purchased the unit for $5.4 million (including transfer taxes) in a deal that closed in April 2008, according to city records. [more]

15 Central Park West, 25D

The first of 15 Central Park West’s coveted D-line is available for
resale, according to listing broker Andre Rouach, a vice president and associate broker
at Prudential Douglas Elliman. The 2,434-square-foot home, 25D, is on the market for $16.5 million,
or $6,778 per square foot, nearly three times the $5.99 million the
owners paid when they closed on the unit in December of 2007, according
to city data. Rouach said the leap in price reflects the fact that the current owner
bought the three-bedroom unit from a floorplan in 2005, though it
didn’t close until two years later. [more]