Relatives Buy Top 6 Floors of UES Condo Building for $59M

An unidentified buyer and his unidentified relative have purchased the five condominium units that make up the top five floors of Upper East Side building The Charles, with the intention of creating two enormous penthouses. One buyer paid $37.94 million for the 29th, 30th, 31st, and 32nd floors, while the other paid $20.695 million for the 27th and 28th. "The penthouse was supposed to be the top two floors," the CEO of developer Bluerock Real Estate told the Journal, "but the buyers said that's not enough space." The buyers sound very chill. The five units represent 18.5 percent of the overall units in the building.

· Top Six Floors of New York Condo Fetch Almost $59 Million [WSJ]
· 1355 First Avenue coverage [Curbed]