New York apartment sells for US$190m
[NEW YORK] In one of the priciest sales in New York real estate history, a four-bedroom penthouse apartment overlooking Central Park was purchased for US$190 million, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The seller, scandal-tainted American billionaire Daniel Och, bought the apartment only two years ago for half the price at US$93 million, according to the Journal.
The 900 sqm apartment, located at 220 Central Park South in the heart of Manhattan, was one of the most expensive sales ever in New York, according to the Journal.
The paper said it went to an anonymous buyer.
A different unit in the same skyscraper was purchased in 2019 by American hedge fund manager Ken Griffin for US$238 million - the highest amount ever paid for a private home in the United States, according to the paper.
Och, 61, has a net worth estimated by Forbes to be around US$4.1 billion.