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Korean heiress buys 212 Fifth pad
Lee Seo-hyun will join Jeff Bezos, Charlie Kushner at property
A South Korean heiress is the latest notable buyer at 212 Fifth Avenue.
Property records indicate that Lee Seo-hyun, the youngest daughter of the late Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee, closed on a three-bedroom, 3.5-bath apartment for $10.5 million.
Seo-hyun signed the contract in May and closed on June 14 after a relatively short 66 days on the market.
She is the 11th-richest person in South Korea with a net worth of $3.4 billion, according to Forbes.
Parties involved in the transaction would not confirm that the Lee Seo-hyun who bought the unit is the same one as the Korean heiress. Lisa Lippman at Brown Harris Stevens had the listing.
The 3,000-square-foot home, which overlooks Madison Square Park, has high ceilings, oversized windows, a marble-floor gallery, an open kitchen with milled wood cabinets and a temperature-controlled wine closet. Monthly taxes and common charges total $9,600.
The project was developed by a partnership between Robert Gladstone’s Madison Equities, Building and Land Technology and Joe Sitt’s Thor Equities.
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Jeff Bezos adds to spread at 212 Fifth with $16M buy
One of Seo-hyun’s prominent neighbors will be Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who bought his fifth apartment at the building last August. Overall, Bezos spent more than $119 million for nearly 25,000 square feet at the building.
Though Bezos is, by far, the wealthiest resident of the NoMad building, Seo-hyun will have several other noteworthy neighbors. Texas billionaire Ed Bass paid $28.2 million for two units in 2017. That same year, Charles and Seryl Kushner spent $12.3 million for three units for their grandchildren, and ESPN host Mike Greenberg bought a single unit for $6.6 million.
Lisa K. Lippman (Brown Harris Stevens NYC)
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