Piece by piece, Amazon billionaire founder Jeff Bezos has been buying units at 212 Fifth Avenue, spending about $ 80 million on several adjacent apartments on the top floors of the luxury apartment building. Now, The New York Post He reports that he has purchased another $ 16 million unit on the 20th floor of the building, to complete the so-called "dream home" in the city.
Bezos' latest real estate acquisition is a three-bedroom unit next to two other apartments on the floor just below the building's three-story penthouse, which, you guessed it, also belongs to Bezos. That means Bezos owns virtually the entire top four floors of 212 Fifth, and his eagerness to complete the set is evident by having paid "more than the market value" for the unit, according to Dolly Lenz of Dolly Lenz Real Estate, cited in the Send. She says the purchase "makes a lot of sense" due to the unit's convenient position among properties in the building that Bezos had already purchased.
And then it put a positive light on Bezos' decision to buy more properties in New York City, even during the coronavirus pandemic:
"I think it is a confidence boost that the world's richest man is clearly doubling the world's largest city, despite being the coronavirus capital."
Bezos paid $ 58 million for the 212 Fifth Ave penthouse in 2017, a bargain compared to its starting price of nearly $ 74 million. He then paid another $ 22 million for two units below him. With the most recent purchase of $ 16 million, she has invested around $ 96 million in her apartments in the building, and now the work to combine them into a massive house will begin soon.
That means if you're not a friend of Bezos's, you may have to wait a while to see what his "dream house" will look like. But you can check out the penthouse 212 Fifth Ave in the following Open House TV video: