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Interior Designer Sells Bank Street Townhouse

cityfile · 12/03/09 08:58AM

• Interior designer James Huniford (left) has sold his townhouse at 26 Bank Street. The 3,822-square-foot home, which Huniford bought for $5.18 million in 2005 and listed for $8.2 million in June, sold for $7.25 million to Jocelyn C. White and Annabel Catherine White. [Cityfile]
• Former Dateline co-anchor Stone Phillips has put his 4,100-square-foot apartment at 8 West 19th Street on the market. The three-bedroom spread, which comes with library and soundproof media room, is listed for $4.995. Phillips paid $4.45 million for the place back in 2005. [NYP, Corcoran]
• Shopping center mogul Murray Goodman isn't giving up on his duplex at 960 Fifth Avenue. The 5,300-square-foot co-op, which Goodman first listed for $32.5 million in January, has since gone down in price four times since then. It's now down to $25.6 million, although that's still $24.2 million more than what Goodman paid for the place back in 1981. [Cityfile, Sotheby's]

Ex-Bank of New York CEO Scores a Deal on Fifth

cityfile · 11/04/09 08:58AM

Thomas Renyi, who retired as chairman and CEO of the Bank of New York last year, has picked up an apartment at 920 Fifth Avenue. And he got a good deal, too. Renyi and his wife, Elizabeth, paid $7.55 million for the three-bedroom apartment, which is $2.55 million less than what it was first listed for in April 2008. [Cityfile]
• Software mogul Marty Sprinzen has found a buyer for his 4,552-square-foot apartment at 838 Fifth Avenue. The ninth-floor residence, which Sprinzen bought for $15.8 million in 2007 and put on the market for $24.5 million in May, went into contract to sell late last week. [NYO, BHS]
• The Hampshire House apartment once owned by the late Wall Street titan Zalman Bernstein is back on the market at a hefty discount. The 25th-floor residence, which became the subject of a lawsuit between Bernstein's daughter and the co-op's board in 2007, first went on the market for $17.5 million that same year. Now, after two years and four price chops, the apartment is once again for sale and is now priced at $11.5 million. [Cityfile, BHS]

Software Exec Looks For a Buyer at 838 Fifth

cityfile · 05/15/09 07:44AM

• Marty Sprinzen, the founder of Forte Software, which was sold to Sun Microsystems for $540 million in 1999, has put his 4,552-square-foot apartment at 838 Fifth Avenue up for sale. The ninth-floor residence, which was once owned by Lily Safra and is one floor below the apartment Jimmy Nederlander bought in 2006—is now on the market for $24.5 million. [Cityfile, BHS]
• Seymour Zises, founder of the investment advisory firm Family Management, and his wife Cathy, have gone into contract to sell their second-floor apartment at 1016 Fifth Avenue. The five-bedroom co-op had most recently been listed for $10.95 million. [Cityfile, Stribling]
• William Little Jr., the chairman of George Little Management, the trade show production company founded by his father, has paid $6.64 million for a 16th-floor apartment at 170 East End Avenue. [Cityfile]