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Erin Callan Cashes Out of 15 CPW

cityfile · 10/02/08 08:14PM

Erin Callan, who served as Lehman's chief financial officer until she was ousted in June, is saying goodbye to 15 Central Park West. According to the WSJ, she's selling her condo for $11.8 million, just below the asking price of $12 million. Callan made a tidy profit: She agreed to pay $6.48 million for the apartment three years ago—back when the building was under construction—although she only closed on the purchase in April, which is when she first put it on the market for $14 million. One unusual footnote to the story: The 2,400-square-foot apartment is located on the 31st floor, the same floor she occupied when she worked at Lehman.

The Spielvogels Want Out of 720 Park

cityfile · 10/01/08 07:20AM

♦ Democratic fundraisers Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel are reportedly in contract to sell their apartment at 720 Park for $37 million, or $17 million more than they paid for the place just two years ago. [NYO]
♦ Jeffrey Walker, the chairman of CCMP Capital Advisors, has purchased a second-floor unit at 15CPW for $3.6 million. It'll go along with the 14th-floor spread they bought late last year for $21 million. [Cityfile]
♦ Former Lehman president and COO Joe Gregory has sold his two-bedroom apartment at 610 Park for $4.4 million, or $50,000 less than the asking price. Now he just has to find a buyer for his Bridgehampton mansion. [NYO]

Will & Grace Co-Creator Sells, Kimora Buys

cityfile · 09/30/08 11:40AM

Will & Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick and his partner Erik Hyman have sold their two-bedroom pied à terre at 15 West 11th Street for $4.1 million. Mutchnick originally bought the sixth-floor co-op for $2.59 million in 2005. [Real Estalker]
♦ Scott Latham, executive director of Cushman & Wakefield and one of the highest-paid commercial brokers in the country, has sold the three-bedroom at 269 Broadway that he shares with his wife for $4 million. [Cityfile]
Kimora Lee Simmons has reportedly picked up yet another mansion in Beverly Hills. This time she's paying $11.5 million for a 9,405-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa. [Real Estalker]
♦ The 15 Central Park West owners who listed their ninth-floor apartments jointly for $21.5 million this summer have already lowered the asking price by more than $2 million. The two can now be yours for $19.495 million. [Curbed]

Downtown Artist Buys Downtown Loft

cityfile · 09/22/08 07:56AM

♦ Artist Sean Landers and his wife Michelle paid $2.467 million for a loft at 140 Sullivan Street. They purchased the apartment from the estate of the late art curator Marcia Tucker, who founded the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 1977. [Cityfile]
♦ Ravi Singh, who picked up a four-bedroom condo at 15 CPW for $15.87 million back in March, has relisted the 7th-floor apartment for $32 million. [Real Deal]
♦ Lionel Pincus' 7,000-square-foot duplex at the Pierre—which was tied up in a battle between Pincus' sons and his longtime girlfriend, Princess Firyal of Jordan—is back on the market. It's listed at $50 million, making it one of the highest residential listings on the market. You can see the listing here. [NYT]

More Flipping at 15 CPW

cityfile · 09/18/08 07:04AM

♦ Brian France, the chairman of NASCAR, has flipped his 34th floor condo at 15 Central Park West. He sold the apartment for $18.8 million, $8.2 million more than he paid for the three-bedroom apartment just three months ago. [Real Deal, NYP]
♦ Freddie Mac CFO Anthony Piszel has put his three-story waterfront vacation home in Easton, MD, on the market for $5 million. [NYP]
♦ Jets head coach Eric Mangini sold his home in Garden City for $2.225 million, $75,000 less than what he paid for the property in 2006. [Newsday]

Flaherty Penthouse Hits the Market for $43 Million

cityfile · 09/12/08 07:15AM
  • A couple of days ago, people were wondering when Bill and Tina Flaherty's penthouse apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue would hit the market and how much the listing price would be. (It was expected to be upwards of $30 million.) Now we have the answer: It's listed with Corcoran's Leighton Candler for $43 million. [Cityfile]

The $45 Million Club

cityfile · 08/18/08 07:30AM

The Post has spotted a new real estate trend: apparently quite a few people have paid more than $45 million for apartments and townhouses recently. This "new stratosphere" includes Harry Macklowe ($60mm), J. Christopher Flowers ($53mm), Phil Falcone ($49mm), Dan Loeb ($45.8mm), Jon Tisch ($48mm) and Len Blavatnik, who paid $50 million to acquire a 15,000-square-foot townhouse from "Seagram's president Edgar Bronfman Jr." Bronfman hasn't served as the president of Seagram for about a decade now. But let this slip-up serve as a lesson to us all! If you take over your father's immensely valuable liquor empire and then sell off the pieces to fund your misguided investments in the music and film industries—and lose billions of your family's money in the process—you may be forced to downsize.

Developer Sells Ritz Residence for $28.5 Million

cityfile · 08/11/08 11:39AM
  • Real estate developer Christopher Jeffries, whose Millennium Partners turned the St. Moritz on Central Park South into a Ritz-Carlton with 277 rooms and 11 full-floor condos, has sold his 29th floor, 5,954-square-foot apartment in the building for $28.5 million. [Cityfile]

Mitch Minskoff Buys From Dad

cityfile · 08/07/08 09:54AM
  • Mitchell Minskoff, co-owner of the 33 Bond gallery, has paid $3.02 million for a seventh-floor apartment at 101 Warren Street, the new 35-story building developed by his dad, Ed Minskoff. [Cityfile]

Jamie-Lynn Bids Goodbye to Tribeca

cityfile · 08/04/08 09:29AM
  • Jamie-Lynn Sigler of Sopranos fame has sold her two-bedroom loft at 25 Leonard Street for $2.9 million. [Cityfile]

On the Inside at 15 CPW

cityfile · 08/01/08 08:40AM

Architecture critic Paul Goldberger took a look around inside 15 Central Park West for the September issue of Vanity Fair. And what did he find? It's not easy dealing with the city's wealthiest tenants, some of whom are already complaining about the walls and the light switches in their new homes. Also: In addition to notables like Sandy Weill, Dan Och, Dan Loeb, Sting, Denzel Washington, and Bob Costas, a handful of mega-rich foreigners also call the building home, like Beijing real estate developers Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi. [VF]

Costas Is Out at TWC

cityfile · 07/31/08 08:50AM
  • Now that he's moving into 15 Central Park West, Bob Costas has unloaded his 61st-floor condo at the Time Warner Center for $8.5 million. [NYO]

Rachael Ray Expands in the Village

cityfile · 07/30/08 10:42AM
  • Rachael Ray and her husband John Cusimano paid $1.25 million for apartment 6G at 49 East 12th Street, the Greenwich Village building they already live in. The couple had previously purchased units 6E and F back in 2004. [TRD]

Jon Tisch Sets Co-Op Record, Overpays?

cityfile · 07/28/08 11:27AM
  • A month ago, it was rumored that Jonathan Tisch set a record for the most expensive co-op in NYC history when he bought an 11th floor apartment at 2 East 67th for $48 million. The Times confirmed the price tag over the weekend, but today the Observer suggests that the Loews heir overpaid, since the property was listed for about 20 percent less in 2007. [Observer]

Ann Dexter-Jones Finds a New Home

cityfile · 07/22/08 11:45AM
  • After living out of the Bowery Hotel for months, Ann Dexter-Jones has finally found her new home. The socialite mom of Sam, Mark, and Charlotte Ronson paid $1.795 million for a four-bedroom West Village duplex at 42 West 9th Street. The 2,200-square-foot apartment features four fireplaces and stained glass doors. [Cityfile]

UES Townhouse Sells at a Discount

cityfile · 07/17/08 03:22PM
  • The Stanford White-designed townhouse at 127 East 73rd Street has sold for $32.5 million; it had been listed for $38 million with broker Carrie Chiang. Back in February, former Goldman Sachs exec Thomas Montag had been rumored to be the buyer. The home features an elevator, indoor basketball court, steam bath, and climate-controlled wine cellar. [CF]

The Wildenstein Townhouse to Brooke Astor's Butler?

cityfile · 07/16/08 02:30PM
  • More news on the sale of the Wildenstein mansion at 11 East 64th Street. Although there's still no word on who the mystery buyer is—earlier rumors had suggested it was Len Blavatnik—the address listed on the deed belongs to Christopher Ely, Brooke Astor's former butler. [NYO, photos]