Category — Co-op Apartment Brokers

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.

Doug Valenti and Terri Valenti just bought a Soho loft co-op at 12 Wooster Street for $2.15 million using a living trust.


The Valenti’s make their home in Silicon Valley. Doug Valenti is the Chairman and CEO of QuinStreet, a performance marketing and media company.

Terri Valenti is an adjunct economics professor and an experienced college football linesman.

The 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment is located on the fringe of southern Soho between Canal and Grand Streets.

The stylish loft kitchen has the standard luxury tools: a Sub-Zero fridge, silent Miele dishwasher, along with a Viking stove and oven.

It appears that a portion of a rainforest was destroyed to make the loft’s custom storage cabinets: they listing described them as being “harvested from South American woods”

Sotheby’s brokers Camille McKinley and Mark Thomas Amadei had the exclusive for the sellers.

Neighbors in the building include:

• Photographer James Dee and wife Saralah Dee
• Wesley Wang a founding Managing Director of Phoenix Partners Group, a derivatives brokerage firm.

Julian Setian, the COO at privately held SOS International, a U.S. Defense Department contractor, just paid $2.495 million for a 2,377 sq. ft. 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom duplex co-op loft apartment in the West Village.

Monthly maintenance is $2,315.

The sellers were David A. Willmott and Catherine S. Willmott. The couple will celebrate their 12-year wedding anniversary this summer.

David is currently the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Blount International, a worldwide manufacturing company based in Portland, Oregon.

According to public disclosures, David is an 11-year veteran of now downfallen and bankrupt Lehman Brothers where he was a partner in the investment firm’s private equity division. Before joining Blount, Willmott was a co-founder and partner at the New York based private equity firm Collins Willmott & Co. LLC.

Halstead’s Susan Goldman had the exclusive.

Neighbors in the building include:

• Morgan Stanley Executive Director Beverly Israely, and Frederick Kelly, who paid $1.916 million for their apartment in 2005.
• Jason McCoy and Lisbeth Rassmussen-McCoy, who paid $1.55 million for their co-op.
• Underground art mavin Jacaeber Kastor and Althea Kastor who paid $1.35 million for their co-op loft in 2006;
• Gregory Blatt, CEO of Match.com and former General Counsel for Martha Stewart Living, who paid $2.36 million for his co-op in Dec. 2005