Sixth Avenue tower selling for record

The Aston, a luxury rental apartment tower at Sixth Avenue and 29th Street, is in contract to be sold for $195 million or, about $800,000 per unit. That’s the most ever paid in the United States for a residential building on a per-unit basis, according to the New York Post. The buyer is reportedly Archstone-Sith, an Englewood, Colo.-based REIT that bought the Sonoma in Murray Hill in 2004.more [Post]