Somerset’s Keith Rubenstein asking $84.5M for UES mansion
What would the South Bronx think? Somerset Partners’ Keith Rubenstein, whose “Piano District” project in Mott Haven unleashed a...
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Carlos Slim asking $80 million for Duke-Semans Mansion
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, formerly the world’s richest man, is asking $80 million for the Upper East Side mansion...
NYC’s priciest townhouse hits market for $63M
New York City’s newest priciest townhouse, a six-story mansion at 24 East 81st Street, has hit the market asking $63...
Foreigners opting for townhouses over condos
Wealthy foreigners are starting to look past glitzy condominiums and instead opt for older townhouses, a move that brokers...
J. Christopher Flowers’ ex-wife takes $3M hit on UES co-op
The ex-wife of billionaire private equity giant and avid real estate speculator J. Christopher Flowers sold her tony Upper...
How much does townhouse width affect sales?
At first glance, Manhattan’s toniest townhouses would seem to have little in common with mobile homes. But, in fact, both types of real estate share a metric for measuring value: the wider the better....
Johnson & Johnson heiress responsible for this year’s priciest residential sale to date
Libet Johnson, heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune and the sister of Jets owner Woody Johnson, has been exposed as the buyer of...
Upper East Side manse goes for $47M-plus
An Upper East Side townhouse has just gone into contract to an anonymous buyer for upwards of $47 million, which would make for the priciest single-family home sale in New York City since the...
Harkness Mansion increasingly unlikely to shatter its own record
J. Christopher Flowers, the private equity magnate who, in 2006, logged the city’s priciest residential transaction ever with his...