Biggest buys of 2005 elicit debate

As the clock runs down on 2005, debate remains about which were the biggest New York City real estate purchases of the year. Rupert Murdoch’s $44 million buy of the late Laurence Rockefeller’s Fifth Avenue penthouse was definitely the year’s biggest co-op purchase at least, for a single sale. For condos, it was probably the $29 million purchase of a spread at the top of the north tower of the Time Warner Center by Sandra Tillotson, an executive with Nu Skin cosmetics company. more [NYT]