NY coops and cooperative apartment sales: prices, buyers, sellers, details, and deals

Newly retired Dunn & Bradstreet CEO Steve Alesio and wife Luana Alesio paid $6.6 million for their 7-room Upper West Side co-op apartment in the San Remo

The 145 Central Park West co-op has 3 bedrooms, a home office that was formerly a maid’s room, and 3½ bathrooms rooms. Monthly maintenance totals $4,733 on this luxury UWS apartment.

The sellers were John Boyd and Penny Alper Boyd, a couple with decades of management consultancy experience.

John Boyd is the head of Boyd Operating Alliances, LLC

Stribling brokers Cathy Taub and Catherine Harding had the exclusive for the Boyds.

The co-op came on the market for $6.4 million in early May, and appears to have generated a bidding war since it sold for $200,000 over the original asking price.

In addition to a washer and dryer, the apartment has through-the-wall air conditioning.

Standard common shareholder amenities in the San Remo include basement storage bins for each apartment, a bike room, and a gym.

An enormous 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom Tribeca loft just sold for $3.6 million, a 10% drop from the original $3.95 million list price when the apartment came to market at the end of January this year.

The downtown loft is located at 20 North Moore between Varick and Hudson Streets.

The modern loft kitchen has a stainless steel Sub-Zero refrigerator, flame-throwing professional stove.

Of course, for the price of this co-op loft, you get to use a washer and dryer in your downtown apartment too.

The seller was Amy Katz. The buyers were Rifat Baran Tekkora, managing director at Riverstone Holdings, LLC concentrating on energy and power industry investments, and Nicole Anne Tekkora, a Bank Examiner at the Federal Reserve.

Neighbors in the building include:

David Letterman, who paid $1.65 million for his Tribeca loft in 2005.

Eric Eyken-Sluyters, a Vice President at Salesforce.com, and Amy Nickin, an entertainment lawyer and partner at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, who paid $2.825 million for their loft in July 2009.

Ashot Ordukhanyan, a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, and Margarit Ordukhanyan, who paid $2.5 million for their loft last month.

Glen and Lisa Levy who paid $3.2 million for their loft in June 2007

Jeff Tabak of Tabak Real Estate had the exclusive.

Contractor Isaac Fhima sold his 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom co-op apartment at 233 East 69th Street to physician Jan Boublik and Pfizer Director Jennifer Whiteley for $1.7 million.

Without disccounting renovation costs and broker’s fees, that’s approximately a 71% return on his investment. That’s a Not a bad return, considering that Fhima paid $995,000 for the cooperative on April 1, 2009, just 16 months ago, a much better return than either the Dow Jones Index (35.7%) or NASDAQ Composite (48%) during the same time period.

When he bought the apartment for just under $1 million, Fhima cleverly avoided paying New York’s dreaded mansion tax on buyers of co-op and condo apartments selling for $1 million or more.

Halstead agents Charles Glatter and Therese Corriente had the exclusive for Fhima.

Glatter may have gotten the listing by knowing Fhima through the Manhattan Sephardic Congregation where both are members.  Fhima is also on the synagogue’s Board of Directors.

Jan Boublik is a German-educated anasthesiologist who completed his residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

The sale price was 11.5% less than the original list price of $1,895,000 when Fhima put the apartment back on the market in October 2009, only six months after he bought it.

The apartment has lots of high-end appliances kitchen has high end appliances including a SubZero refrigerator and Viking appliances.

Tragically, the co-op’s kitchen appears to have beeen remodeled using Wenge and Zebra woods, threatened species of hardwoods in their native West African habitats, according to Rain Forest Relief.

The co-op is pet friendly.

A bonus: for $1.7 million, it appears that you get a legal washer and dryer in the unit, if the floor plan does not contradict provisions in the co-op’s proprietary lease and House Rules.