57TH STREET—Closings have started at Midtown behemoth One57 and with them comes the first flip attempt. Tao Liu of Shanghai has listed his $3.5 million 39th-floor 1BR with Sotheby's for $6 million. He is also willing to rent it for $18,000/month. And so it begins. [The Real Deal; previously]
THE INTERNET—BOND New York has announced that it will become (it believes) the first real estate firm in the United States to accept Bitcoins as payment. "We are accepting Bitcoin as a service to our customers who prefer to use the digital currency as a matter of convenience. We are always looking for ways to serve our customers through technological advancement. In addition we have agents who would like to be paid in bitcoins if their customer pays us in bitcoins," said BOND agent Brian Dusseau. [CurbedWire Inbox; previously]
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