$80 Million Property For Sale In New York

SELLER: Carlos Slim Helú

LOCATION: New York City, NY

PRICE: $80,000,000
SIZE: (approx.) 20,000 square feet, 8 bedrooms, 10+ bathrooms

Carlos Slim is selling his New York City mansion for $80MM which, if it sells, would become the most expensive townhouse ever sold in NY. The mogul bought the Fifth Avenue palatial home for almost half the amount ($44MM) only five years ago and used it whenever he was in town for business or vacation. The 20,000-square-foot Beaux-Arts building is a landmark of its own. So much so, that it goes by the elaborate name of Benjamin N. and Sarah Duke House, the Duke–Semans Mansion, or the Benjamin N. and Sarah Duke House.

With eight stories, approximately 20,000 square foot, eight bedrooms and ten full baths as many as 10 half bathrooms and 11 fireplaces with high ceilings, hand-carved wood paneling, and gold-leaf trimmed fixtures, and plaster friezes, the townhouse is one of the last private mansions on Fifth Avenue. So far, we’d only been able to see the outside, we got a glimpse into the dream home. The residence presides over a busy corner directly across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art with 27-feet of Fifth Avenue frontage and a 100 foot depth along East 82nd Street where a wrought iron and glass canopy marks the main entrance. Property taxes ring up to just over $200,000 per annum.

The townhouse was built and designed by the firm of Welch, Smith & Provot from 1899-1901. “Exceptionally grand and remarkably beautiful 1009 Fifth Avenue was constructed in the Beaux-Arts style and is rightfully regarded as an architectural tour de force.”

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