There were 173 transactions totaling $326 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 10.
🏆 Residential: The top home sale to hit records was at 220 Central Park South along Billionaires’ Row, where Leon Falic, co-owner of Duty Free Americas, sold a four-bedroom condo for $37.3 million. The buyer was an LLC. Falic paid $26.5 million for the 3,700-square-foot unit in 2018, and its last asking price was $39 million. The latest sale works out to more than $10,000 per square foot. Corcoran’s Manju Jasty Curry had the listing.
🏆 Commercial: The top commercial deal recorded in the Big Apple was in the Financial District. The Metropolitan College of New York offloaded four commercial condos at 40 Rector Street for $40 million. The buyer was the City University Construction Fund, which is part of the City University of New York. The Metropolitan College of New York had owned the units since 2014, when the institution purchased them for $44.6 million. One unit spans about 6,700 square feet on the first floor, while the other three full-floor units measure about 24,400 square feet apiece, covering the sixth, seventh and eighth floors.
📊 Commercial: In Flushing, a six-story hotel near LaGuardia Airport at 133-43 37th Avenue, known as the Sky Hotel, traded for $14.5 million. The seller was Hung Yuen Holdings, led by Nicholas Ryan Huang, which acquired the property in 2011 for $7.4 million. The buyer was an LLC tied to Ravinder Chopra.
📊 Residential: A penthouse at 147 Waverly Place in the West Village changed hands for $16.2 million. The duplex spans just under 4,000 square feet, pricing the sale at roughly $4,100 per square foot. The unit has a more than 1,000-square-foot terrace, a key-locked elevator entrance and a double-sided fireplace. Sotheby’s International Realty’s Stan Ponte and Matthew Fox had the listing, representing seller Nock Point Ventures, LLC. The unit last sold in 2012, for $14.9 million, and its last asking price was $16.5 million. The buyer in the latest sale was 147 Waverly PH LLC.
📊 Residential: Kristen Fournier, an attorney, picked up a condo at 1 Great Jones Alley at 688 Broadway in Noho for $9.8 million. The seller was a trust tied to Thomas Ho Lee that had bought the unit in 2020 for $8.2 million. The full-floor pad spans just over 3,300 square feet; the deal works out to nearly $3,000 per square foot.
📊 Residential: Hans P. Nesvold, founder of Nesvold Capital Partners, and Elizabeth Bloomer, an investment banker, parted with a townhouse at 144 East End Avenue in Yorkville for $6 million. The buyer was an LLC named after the address. The three-story property, which last sold in 2012 for $3 million, sits across the street from Carl Schurz Park.
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