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The double-wide mansion that made life on West 69th Street miserable for the better part of a decade has finally traded — for barely half of what its owners were holding out for.
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48-50 West 69th Street sold for $45 million, according to public records reported by The Real Deal. That’s a roughly 47 percent haircut off the $85 million the sellers were asking as recently as this spring, when the home entered contract as the priciest deal signed anywhere in Manhattan that week. Even at the discount, it’s now the most expensive townhouse ever sold on the Upper West Side, eclipsing the $26 million record set by 248 Central Park West in 2022.The buyer’s identity is hidden behind an anonymous LLC called MI8787 — the same entity that picked up a penthouse and parking space at 505 West 19th Street in Chelsea for $21 million earlier this year. Compass brokers Jim St. Andre, Trevor Stephens and Michael Maniawski represented the sellers.
Those sellers, French investor Pierre Bastid and jazz singer Malou Beauvoir, bought the two original townhouses for a combined $24.5 million in 2011 and 2012, tore them down in 2018, and spent years fusing them into one enormous residence — a project that left neighbors airing grievances about dust, fumes, endless noise and dead plants. Some of them gave up and moved. The couple, who have since divorced, listed the finished house in March 2024 and never lived in it.
Photo: Bobby Panza
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What $45 million buys: roughly 20,000 square feet across eight levels, with double-height ceilings in the living and dining rooms, multiple wood-burning fireplaces, a terrace off the primary suite, and a garden level housing a fitness center, a yoga studio and a 55-foot indoor lap pool — one of the rarest amenities in any Manhattan townhouse.The sale still falls well short of the city’s high-water mark for a single-family home: the Wildenstein mansion at 19 East 64th Street, which went for $90 million in 2018.
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