Real Estate Highlights
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The glassy 57th-floor getaway that doubles as the bottom level of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s four-tier vertical compound at the pinnacle of One Madison, the slender 60-story tower on the southeast side of Madison Square Park, sold for $14.927 million and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.
The monthly carrying charges for the 3,310-square-foot floor-through unit, No. 57A, are $8,148.
Mr. Murdoch previously acquired One Madison’s undisputed trophy apartment, the 6,850-square-foot triplex penthouse with a vertiginous 568-square-foot wraparound terrace, for $43.01 million and requested that it be delivered in white-box condition so that his design team could customize finishes to his personal specifications. Unlike the penthouse, No. 57A was delivered fully embellished, with interiors by Yabu Pushelberg; Mr. Murdoch added the 57th-floor unit after determining that an aggregate space of 10,000 square feet was required to accommodate his lifestyle and provide a proper setting for his extensive art collection.
When he closed on the five-bedroom penthouse in March, Mr. Murdoch’s broker, Dolly Lenz, said One Madison was the only property that satisfied her client’s nonnegotiable wish list. “This apartment was the star,” she said.
Leslie Wilson, a senior vice president of sales for the Related Companies and the director of sales for One Madison, again represented the sponsors, Related, the CIM Group and the HFZ Capital Group. The three developers had teamed up to rescue a moribund One Madison from a fiscal-collapse-induced coma, and CetraRuddy completed the distinctive bronze glass skyscraper. According to Ms. Wilson, Mr. Murdoch will soon enjoy “infinity-pool views of every iconic landmark in Manhattan.”
The week’s runner-up, at $12.8 million, was a stylish 5,198-square-foot loft at 145 Hudson Street, the Annabelle Selldorf-designed TriBeCa enclave also known as the Sky Lofts. The three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath apartment has 12-foot ceilings, steel casement windows and dazzling views of the downtown cityscape. The monthly carrying costs of No. 11A, the first of the Sky Lofts to be sold in 2006, are $5,954. The sellers, Jason Bland and Malindi Fickle, paid $4.2 million and had previously listed the unit for $12.95 million in 2009 before removing it and waiting for more robust market conditions.
The most recent asking price was $13.5 million. The buyers, represented by Thomas Di Domenico of the Corcoran Group, are Douglas Buckminster, an executive at American Express, and his wife, Dianne. The listing brokers were Glenn Norrgard and John Tenore of Sotheby’s International Realty.
Big Ticket includes closed sales from the previous week, ending Wednesday.