Saudi Retail Magnate Lists NYC Penthouse For $225 Million
Fawaz Al Hokair is planning to list the 96th floor condo for nearly twice what he paid for it in 2016.
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Saudi retail and real-estate magnate Fawaz Al Hokair is planning to list his penthouse at 432 Park Avenue—one of New York City’s most luxurious condominiums—for as much as US$170 million (A$225 million), according to three people familiar with the situation.
That price point is nearly twice what Mr. Al Hokair paid for the property in 2016. If it sells for close to that sum, the property would be among the most expensive ever sold in the country.
The news coincides with an overall uptick in the city’s luxury market, which was decimated by the Covid-19 crisis but has rebounded significantly. Two condos at nearby 220 Central Park South recently sold for a combined US$157.5 million in one of the priciest residential real-estate sales in the city.
Mr. Al Hokair’s apartment, which is on the building’s 96th floor, is over 8,000 square feet and has six bedrooms, according to an offering plan for the building filed with the New York Attorney General’s office. Marketing materials show a lavish home with panoramic views of the city and decked out in designer finishes. A chandelier hangs over a custom onyx dining room table, and a sculptural grand piano sits by the window. There is also a library. The property is dotted with accessories from designers like Hermès, Louis Vuitton and Bentley.
Real-estate agent Ryan Serhant of Serhant has been tapped to market the home. He declined to comment on the seller’s reasons for listing.
Developed by Macklowe Properties and CIM Group, 432 Park Avenue is one of the most notable additions to the New York skyline in recent years. Until recently the slimline tower was the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere. (It was beaten out by Extell Development’s nearby Central Park Tower.)
Notable residents of 432 Park Avenue have included Jennifer Lopez and her ex-boyfriend, the former Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez.
The developers of the building have said that issues of leaks and elevator malfunctions at the building recently documented by the New York Times are being addressed.
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A 110-year-old Colorado estate that has hosted Frank Sinatra and Lyndon B. Johnson just slashed $10 million off its price tag.
The 12,000-square-foot manor house—with 25 rooms—and its five accessory dwelling in the alpines of Evergreen was relisted on Friday asking $16.8 million, down from its initial $26.8 million price in 2023.
The sellers, Richard and Pamela Bard, who paid $1.3 million for the “legacy property” named Greystone Estate in 1992, have shopped it around on and off for the past 20 years, according to agent Jessica Northrop at Compass Real Estate.
Richard Bard, CEO of his own private equity firm, has “hosted many corporate events and retreats where important business is discussed but they are also able to relax,” Northrop said. “Greystone has a special way of making people feel at ease.”
Bard said “it’s not a casual effort” to sell. He said it’s difficult to find a buyer with the facilities to “take care of it.”
The Bards intend to move closer to their children in Denver.
Before the Bards, Greystone Estate had several eras—as a summer house, a guest ranch and a business base—since it was built in 1915 by Genevieve Phipps, an industrialist’s daughter.
Phipps, who spent her inheritance on the land, built the 54-acre summer escape with the “elegance and feel of a fine Adirondack mansion combined with a mountain rustic style,” according to an online record of the estate’s history.
Its heyday, arguably in the 1940s to 1980s, saw Sinatra, Johnson and Groucho Marx come through its doors, when its owner William Sandifer, a socialite and one the Empire State Building’s architects, operated a guest ranch out of the place.
The Bards, who used a carriage house on the property as their company headquarters, completed Greystone’s full modernization in 1997. They also opened up the living and dining areas to receive more light, raised the ceiling on the upper level and combined several rooms to create a primary suite.
They replaced an outdoor pavilion and its helipad with something more suitable for their daughter’s wedding in 2001, according to Northrop.
The main 25-room manor includes a wine cellar, bar, gym and library.
The additional structures, which include a cottage, a log cabin, a pool house, a carriage house and a pavilion and guest house, surround the pool area and overlook acres of aspen groves and mountains.
Rising along the line where eastern and western Europe divide, a forested mountain range is home to shepherds, villages and plenty of bears.
Renovations in Yorkshire included the revamp of a 30-room wing where a descendant of the estate’s builder still lives.
