Decades after decades and even century after century, New York never ceases to fascinate. “Capital of the world”, “the city that never sleeps”… there is no shortage of superlatives to describe the Big Apple. It is also the richest city in the world with 105 billionaires out of 8.4 million inhabitants, a record.
With such a clientele, real estate prices in New York continue to rise. For “Exclusive Survey”, journalist Lætitia Kretz visited one of these luxury apartments in the company of Michel, a French real estate agent specializing in this very selective market.
10,000 euros of condominium expenses
Together they visited an apartment with a sublime view of the city’s emblematic skyscrapers. Sale price: 15.9 million dollars (15.7 million euros), or 63,000 euros per square metre, to which must be added over 10,000 dollars (9,800 euros) in monthly fees.
For Michel, this price is justified because the apartment overlooks High Line Park, a 2 km long urban park built on an abandoned portion of the old overhead railway lines. Nicknamed “the line of billionaires”, this garden inspired by the Parisian Coulée Verte is lined with buildings displaying prices of around tens of millions of euros.
150,000 euros per sq m
And again, it’s nothing compared to Central Park Tower, located at 217 West 57th Street on the edge of New York’s famous park. In addition to holding the record for the tallest residential tower in the world, this construction has become the most expensive building in Manhattan with a price per square meter that has now reached 150,000 euros. Something to make you dizzy…
“New York: The Big Apple’s Incredible Rebirth”, a documentary by Lætitia Kretz (LF Prod) for “Enquête Exclusive”, this Sunday July 10 at 11.05pm on M6.
