This NYC apartment comes with luxury cars, space trip
Would you ever want to buy a luxury apartment worth $85 million (roughly Rs. 600 crore)? How about if the deal included a Lamborghini, two Rolls Royces, and a space trip for two , all free of charge? If your answer is a 'no' to both of those, then you're probably dead broke... Like me. HAHAHAHAHAHAH (please read on so I don't get fired).
No one has bought the apartment in six years
Good! You're still reading. So, that apartment that you can't afford is a 15,000-square-foot property located in the Atelier Building in Manhattan, The New York Times reports. Since the asking price is an outrageous $85mn, nobody has bought it since it went on the market six years ago. And hence, the broker Daniel Neiditch is offering various incentives, which are pretty impressive.
Here are all the perks included with the apartment
Apart from three luxury cars- two Rolls-Royce Phantoms, one Lamborghini- and space trip, the deal includes a house in the Hamptons for one summer, a $1mn yacht with five years' docking fees, dinner at the two-Michelin-star restaurant Daniel, a private chef for a year, a butler, season tickets to Nets, and a construction allowance of $2mn for renovations. Seriously? Just lower the asking price.
Atelier apartment only the third-most expensive in NYC market
The weird thing is, the property is still only the third-most expensive listing in New York. According to Curbed, the Woolworth Building's penthouse worth $110mn and an Upper East Side mansion worth $88mn (down from $114mn) are also on the market. However, according to Census Bureau data, the Atelier penthouse is still around 92 times more expensive than an average New York City home.
Inequality between rich, super-rich and obscenely rich widens
The Atelier apartment is one among several properties aimed at ultra-rich buyers. "You're seeing the results of the incredible growth of inequality between the rich, the super-rich and the absolutely ridiculously, obscenely rich," Philip Kasinitz, a sociology professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY, told NYT.
Neiditch says he's selling an immersive NYC experience
However, Neiditch maintains that he is selling an "immersive" New York experience, saying, "Dinner at Daniel's gives them a place they can go to." "Courtside seats to the Nets gives them sports. They'll have cars. They'll be able to go out to the Hamptons without having to look for a place," he said, adding that they could also take the yacht to the Caribbean.
Definition of 'luxury' has changed over the years
Jonathan Miller from Miller Samuel, a real estate appraisal firm, defines the top 10% of the market (properties above $5.8mn) as luxury. "In the 50s, you had mid-rise buildings that were called 'luxury' because they had an elevator and a doorman," he said. "Now you're on the 96th floor, and you have a pool and a slew of amenities in the building."
