The glass-covered new improvement at 200 Amsterdam, on Manhattan’s Higher West Facet, has bagged a purchaser for its $17.5 million penthouse—one among 20-some flooring the now-famous challenge was almost ordered to deconstruct.
The contract signed Monday is the most recent instance of New York City’s luxury real estate market renaissance and marked the primary sale of a full-floor penthouse on the soon-to-be-completed constructing, Mansion World has discovered.
“As rapidly as many individuals left New York Metropolis on the onset of the pandemic, they’re now returning, able to buy a house and recommit to metropolis life,” Jill Mangone, gross sales director of Brown Harris Stevens Improvement Advertising and marketing, which is dealing with gross sales within the challenge, mentioned in an e-mail.
“We now have been seeing great curiosity within the constructing, which aligns with the surge that is been occurring on the prime finish of the market,” Ms. Mangone added. “In lots of instances, consumers now need a bigger house than they had been beforehand in search of. We now have had two consumers improve to bigger items within the constructing, and this can be a pattern we’re seeing throughout many new developments. Folks right this moment have a special relationship to their properties than they did 18 months in the past.”
The three-bedroom penthouse occupies all the forty seventh flooring of the 52-story constructing and has floor-to-ceiling home windows, views of Central Park and two massive balconies.
Spanning near 4,000 sq. toes, the house additionally has an open plan dwelling and eating room with a fuel fire, an eat-in kitchen overlooking the Hudson River, a research and a sprawling major bed room suite with two walk-in closets, in keeping with the itemizing.
Final month, a four-judge state panel ruled in favor of the building, overturning an order that will have pressured the builders to knock down as many as 20 or extra flooring from the highest of the event, following complaints that the constructing’s peak violated native zoning guidelines.
The consumers of this explicit unit have been long-time renters on the Higher West Facet for years, and had been in search of a “dwelling of this caliber for fairly a while,” in keeping with Ms. Mangone. “The expansive and considerate structure of the house completely suited their wants, and they didn’t request a single modification.”
A last sale worth for the unit and data concerning the consumers received’t be accessible till the deal closes and property data change into accessible.
The constructing itself is provided with a number of facilities, together with a devoted spa, a saltwater pool, a personal membership, and when it comes to location, 200 Amsterdam is “unbeatable,” Ms. Mangone mentioned.