An apartment sold for 190 million dollars in the heart of Manhattan

Nearly $190 million for a penthouse apartment above Central Park: thereal estate very big luxe at New York again close to records with this sale unveiled Thursday by the Wall Street Journal. Almost 900 m2 for this “penthouse” – a very luxury apartment on the top floor of a building usually with a terrace, also called an attic apartment – with four bedrooms and located at 220 Central Park South, in the heart of Manhattan.

A Manhattan penthouse overlooking Central Park has sold for close to $190 million, roughly double what the seller paid just over two years ago https://t.co/4y2K75mwcO

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 13, 2022

According to the WSJ, it was the American billionaire Daniel Och who sold it for almost 190 million dollars after having bought it in 2019 for half the price: 93 million dollars at the time and two million for an additional room in another floor of the building.

A fortune valued at $4.1 billion

The newspaper believes that this sale to an anonymous buyer is “one of the most expensive ever concluded in New York”. In this same Skyscraper of 220 Central Park South, recalls the American economic daily, the American fund manager Ken Griffin had paid in 2019 some 238 million dollars for an apartment. An absolute record for the sale of a home in the United States, according to the WSJ.

Daniel Och, 61, has a personal fortune estimated today by Forbes at 4.1 billion dollars and is the founder and former CEO of the New York investment fund Och-Ziff Capital Management, since renamed Sculptor. In September 2016, this fund, which at the time managed 40 billion dollars in assets, was sentenced by the American authorities to a fine of 413 million for having set up a vast network of corruption in African countries. such as Libya, Chad or the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Another “penthouse” estimated at $57.5 million

When he bought this “penthouse” in 2019, Daniel Och had exiled himself to Florida for tax reasons and thought of making it his “pied-à-terre” in New York. The American media also recalls that the billionaire has another “penthouse” estimated at 57.5 million dollars, at 15 Central Park West, one of the four arteries that surround the green lung of Manhattan.

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