These mystery buyers just left a big mark on downtown Manhattan.
On tony West 11th Street in Greenwich Village, a double-wide single-family townhouse has traded hands off-market for $72.5 million — blowing past the former $58.5 million record to take the crown for most spent on a downtown townhouse, the Wall Street Journal first reported.
More broadly speaking, the $80 million that Jeff Bezos spent on a 212 Fifth Ave. condo in 2019 remains the highest downtown residential sale; the $90 million purchase of an Upper East Side townhouse, though commercial in its use, in 2018 takes the cake for highest townhouse sale in Manhattan.
This 45-foot-wide abode’s new owners are currently remaining anonymous, but Compass’s Clayton Orrigo, who represented them, described them to the Journal as an out-of-state couple who are retired and will be using the historic address as a pied-à-terre.
The seller, meanwhile is an entity tied to Dexter Goei, former CEO of telecommunications company Altice USA, which purchased the property for $30.9 million in 2016, the Journal found. However, as the home wasn’t publicly marketed for sale, not much else is known about it.
Goei himself bought the approximately 12,000-square-foot compound for less than half what it has just sold for. In 2016, he bought it for $31 million from SJP Properties executive Enrique Alonso, who in turn had spent only $19 million for it in 2014.
Back then, a decade ago, it was an 11-unit apartment building that Alonso had planned to convert into two homes after its two rent-stabilized tenants left, the Journal previously reported.
Before Alonso could renovate, though, he received multiple unsolicited offers and chose to sell.
The brick property dates to 1855, when it was built as one of an eight-house row of Italianate-style homes all boasting cornices and stoops, according to a Greenwich Village historic district designation report.
Today, the home sits along a stretch known for attracting extremely deep-pocketed buyers and celebrities, earning it the reputation of being lower Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row equivalent.