A Central Park penthouse in New York City just sold for $238 million,more than doubling the preceding record for New York real estate, reports The New York Times. It is the highest price ever paid for any domestic in the United States.
The buyer, or a hedge-fund billionaire named Kenneth Griffin,also holds the city records for real estate purchases in Miami with a $60 million purchase in 2015 as well as $59.7 million in Chicago in 2018. A recent $122 million purchase in London, however, and failed to set a record there. Griffin is the founder of the investment firm Citadel with a net worth estimated at just under $10 billion. He started the firm in 1990 shortly after graduating from Harvard.
His record-shattering New York purchase is made up of two units with a combined 24000 square feet of space at the top of 220 Central Park South,which is still under construction. The apartment spans four floors of the building.
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Source: inquisitr.com