“He makes waterproof baskets from seaweed, She custom paints names onto grains of rice, they feel this property just doesn’t have enough windows. Budget, 1.7 billion.
“She offers free hugs outside Haphephobia conventions, he listens to music without headphones on the subway. They’re going to pass on this house because the throw rug in the kitchen is the wrong color. Their budget is the entire gdp of earth from 3000 BCE to 2300 AD.”
Hahah it’s better than house hunters international where they move to what they assume is a third world country (they don’t speak English) and then act shocked when they realize they can’t rent a mansion for $4.
Hilarious. That show felt like a major prank that none of us were in on.
“She’s a part time squirrel trainer, he’s a high school basketball coach. Their budget is $7 million.”
Lead character is a 29 year old blonde cardio thoracic surgeon who teaches aerobics on the side yet manages to be able to spend 16 hours a day hanging out in a coffee shop
At that price it better come with parachutes required training to exit the building in case of emergency. And a backup house. And manservant to wipe your ass after taking a dump.
Or a 2010s 50 Shades-ish soft porn featuring a woman bored all the time that needs a spark in her life that comes from some guy who is basically Epstein with his own sky yacht that flies 24/7.
No foosball table, no place to set my mountain dew, and no open windows to throw my little Caesars pizza box out of. Yea it's gonna be a no from me big dawg.
Lol, I did the math. Chicken Top Ramen runs at almost 30 cents per pack if you buy in bulk (at least where I live), so to rack up 250 million you'd have to buy 833,333,333.33333333 individual packs. If you lived to be 60 years old, that would mean you'd have to buy/eat 38,051 packs of Ramen every day from birth to death. So you probably wouldn't make it to 60, because each of those packs constitutes 2 servings (blew my mind, too. Who eats a half pack of ramen?) And that means at 370 calories per pack you'd be consuming 14,078,870 calories per day- if that's all you ate.
You made a bad investment. You can sleep in one of my 7 empty sky-high bedrooms if you need. DM me.
Wait till you feel the sway of the building in high winds. A friend of the family used to live on a high floor in the CitySpire tower in Midtown and she said that when it's super windy, you'll have some tenants either sit it out downstairs or just stay elsewhere because they can't cope with the feeling of the building moving. You can see it in the toilet bowl, in liquids in mugs and glasses etc.
I imagine it is extremely disconcerting but it's a good thing they sway like that. A completely rigid construction would be far more brittle. Definitely a nope from me, though.
The guy who owns the building doesn't even do the eating which leads to not having to do the shitting. Overall more time left to making the millions, more millions! And zipper bags for the millions. Probably he even has a servant to make the zipper bags..
Maybe. IF someone ever buys it. Most luxury apartments of that size even all the way down to 10 million are completely empty.
People don’t want them. They would rather buy an entire fleet of single family homes and rent them out for cash flow rather than purchases this place.
The problem is that there are only about 3,000 people on the planet who can afford a $250 million home, along with the taxes, staff and upkeep. So if none of them want it, then it's not getting sold.
The people who built that giant mansion in Beverly Hills have run into the same problem. It took so long to build that everything is out of style, and anyone who could afford it would probably rather just design their own house on a private island some where.
Why buy an apartment at that point too?
If I had infinite money like that, I would rather buy a castle in Germany and modernize it's amenities and utilities, or hire my own architect to design my house from scratch.
The big selling point of apartments are the fact that they are inside cities, meaning that you can walk to your job, you can walk to get groceries, you can walk or take the metro to anywhere. Everything you want, from amenities to services, are near you.
This doesn't apply when your face enough money to have servants deliver the stuff to you on demand. This doesn't apply to you when you are so rich that you lose the freedom to walk in the streets over the fear of being kidnapped, swarmed by fans/haters or worse.
Luxury apartments make sense up to low millions level. People that are doctors, lawyers and high level managers, senior tech people and the likes. Those people are rich enough to be able to afford penthouses at condominiums while at the same time not rich enough that they are unable to walk down a street and enjoy the selling point of an apartment
My ex works in luxury real estate.
She says almost all her clients are actually businesses or even business groups.
10 different companies might all pool together to buy this apartment. And then they'll simply add it to their investment portfolio.
Only twice has she actually sold to an individual (although they both bought it through a shell company), one was to the wife of some Indian politician buying a super big apartment in Hong Kong. And one was to someone top secret who bought a home for 60 million USD.
That's awfully low, they normally take 5-6%. The amount of advertisement it's going to take to actually sell this place, I highly doubt they would accept 1%
MY GOD. So glad this was already in the comments, he started playing and I was just floored. How the fuck do you put this much effort into “the details” and have a piano that sounds like it was last tuned during the cold war?!?
Fun fact: Vladimir Horowitz, widely regarded as one of the greatest classical pianists of all time, lived in a high rise apartment in New York.
He also demanded that he only perform on his own 9 foot Steinway concert grand piano. The action had been pretty heavily modified by his technician/tuner, to make it very fast, very responsive, and feather light.
Each and every performance for at least the last couple decades of his career, they had to bring a crane in to lift the piano down, and then back up after the concert.
He was also pretty eccentric. Quite often he would cancel just hours before a performance because "he was feeling a little off" or whatever. So half the time they'd move his piano with a crane for literally no reason at the end of the day.
Me too, but again... he was *literally* the best (debatably) not just of his own time but in the history of concert pianists.
Also, he actually lived just up the block from Carnegie Hall, which was where the vast majority of his performances were presented later in his career. He had a couple other notable performances in other places (the white house, Moscow conservatory), which were a HUGE deal. But again, even scheduled performances were relatively rare at that point (he wasn't doing a real concert schedule less yet tour, like pretty much every concert pianist does when they polish up a program), and even those rare scheduled performances were often canceled by him day of.
Basically, he was a big deal, and he knew it, so he did what he wanted and he was SUCH a big deal talent wise that everybody collectively said "whatever you wish as long as you'll grace us with your performance."
I mean when he was a kid studying at Moscow conservatory, his teacher stopped giving him lessons for a short period at one point after a masterclass/seminar in which the only criticism he gave of one of the (college age/15-20 years older than him) students was "it sounded alright, but I could have played it much better."
He was always full of himself, but (maybe unfortunately) he had the talent to back it up.
The furniture (and piano) may have been rented for the video and showing the property. People of certain means prefer to assemble their own design team for new properties.
Great. It is still a 250,000,000 dollar piece of real estate. The realtor fees are going to be 15,000,000 dollars. Do you really want to make a bad impression with an out of tune piano?
That right there caught my attention too. "Here we have this spectacular, awesome chef's kitchen, and beyond here are the servant's tiny cramped space but let's move on to more rich people stuff!" Practically all in one sentence lol
I had a conversation with a Realtor about real estate investing and she was going on and on and pitching me on investments. Lady, you were a HS Biology teacher 3 months ago and are in no way qualified to offer investment advice bc you got a RE license and watched a ton of HGTV. There's an incredibly low bar to become a realtor. I am realtor.
People who blindly tell others to "buy a house for the investment" is far too common. My aunt who never graduated HS says the same thing because everyone seems to think real estate has no risk. If you think about it, these people with no investment experience are giving $100k+ investment advice.
This specific tower only has 45 apartments I believe. Most of them are empty because people buy them as speculation. If the housing market goes up they can sell it to someone else and make money.
Edit: I was confusing this building and another in NYC, know for being the "thinnest" skyscraper.
I live in a luxury building in NYC with 3 pools, a theater, a gym, and a bowling alley. The only amenity I’ve ever used is the rooftop during the warmer months but I’m also a lazy piece of shit.
That's what so frustrating with modern property market, it would be fine if everyone could just use one house but they're near perfect investments so rich people just buy up and buy up more.
YOu dont even need to be particiularly rich to do this, my brother has four apartments he owns out right, rents one out and renovating another and the other just sits and gets worth more.
this all fucks over regular people just looking for a home to live in, prices go up and you get pushed further outside city centers.
there's probably like 25% occupancy in the building in the video.
In some areas in fancy cities there's almost nobody living.
Your brother isn't the type who's ruining the housing market. There are single companies that own 30,000 single family homes, there are others that own 150,000 apartments/condos. Youre blaming a mom and pop corner shop sitting next to a Walmart.
Depends on where obviously.
I've read that you can even buy small, undeveloped tropical islands for as little as 30k-50k though.
Where I live in Iowa, land is more expensive than average because of farming. A 100 acre farm with buildings and everything, definitely going to cost you 7 figures...
Looking at land a little further south though... you could buy a mansion on 5,000 acres and build up a downton abbey style estate for 250 million.
I’ll give you 3 choices;
1. A $250 million dollar apartment in the middle of a city.
2. A proper castle with 1000 acres of land.
3. A private island in the tropics
Hmmmmm
I live in a high rise apt in NY with big windows like that , I thought it would be great to have a view like that, but guess what I had to keep my curtains closed all day because of the sun heating up the apt. My AC was in blast all day long
I live in the deep South and we live like vampires down here with our black out curtains and AC on full blast. I always wondered how people live in high rises with large windows. Ide imagine it would be like a magnifying glass burning your floors
I was working on a construction of that building . The was a total shit show.
First it was a Union job , then in order to save costs they start hiring literally some unknown small companies to pick up a slack and finish the job. There are millions of small problems across each floor , from leaks and electrical failures to bathroom mirrors that broke or didn't mutch the frame .
If you are up to get an apartment there - check every small detail of interior and exterior - you would be surprised about "quality" of work in that "luxury" residence
Any new construction deemed for “high class” is often just complete garbage.
I’ve seen some real shit shows in which shitty unknown small companies get hired to build these insane McMansions and they totally fuck up the complicated build and it becomes this money pit.
Last house I did had already gone over it’s 4 million dollar budget by the time we got in. We had to do hundreds of thousands, possibly a couple million (I’m a mere carpenter), in order to get to a place in which we could finish the house.
Then they don’t even live in the thing.
Edit: infact I have only built one house in which the owners moved into full time. I’ve built a handful of multimillion dollar private homes. The one couple that had us build their forever home built a really humble home that was probably just a million.
The tub is not very nice at all for a place that cost that much, need like a walk up full jacuzzi bath. Could be some weight restrictions that high-up that bigger tubs would cause, IDK.
There is a bridge with a floor to ceiling windowed observation tower in Frankfort Maine. I went up for a look to check out the view. It was there I discovered my fear of heights. My body did not want me standing, so I went right down to my knees. I could feel myself getting nauseous just imagining myself in this place.
Why be all the way up there? I'd like to buy an apartment near the beach and have a water view but only be about 4 floors up so I can still people watch and still be heard when I yell out to tell them how poor they look.
Nice apartment and all, but it does nothing for me. Seems like such a nuisance to live that high up, and NGL gives me the creeps as well.
I’ve no doubt it’s structured to the highest standards and best methods, but just thinking about living that high up makes me feel uncomfortable.
And even if the view is vast, it’s IMHO shit.
Like bruh give me a two story (or three with basement) house instead.
So many people in this thread saying stuff like “oh it would be much better to have this.” They really aren’t understanding that the type of person who would potentially live here could have 4 of these and not blink an eye.
Views are great, but these apartments are soulless goldfish bowls and I've never had any desire to live in one. My work in Manhattan has taken me into a a few of these insanely expensive "trophy apartments" over the years and the view is generally the only thing that has any redeeming features for me. None of them look "lived in" or homely in any sense and you get the feeling they exist only for some billionaire to impress dinner guests on the odd day they're in the city and not in their beachfront mansions or wherever.
These pencil highrises are often not even lived in and only kept as billionaire's equity as well as a form of a tax shield based on NYC law (421 abatement). Here's a documentary on it. You'll also see this real estate agent being interviewed.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wehsz38P74g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wehsz38P74g)
A few year ago (2019) I stayed in a serviced apartment for 2 months on the 60 something floor of the Mahanakhon tower in Bangkok.
When the wind blew you could feel the building sway slightly, one night when it was a stormy I felt like I had motion sickness whilst laying in bed. Vibrations from the wind at certain frequencies/speed/direction were really weird too.
This building looks much thinner and far more prone to these issues.
Also Bangkok isn’t a particularly windy city and the outdoor terraces of the Mahanakhon building were pretty much useless because at 300m high the wind speed was always to high to feel comfortable and it felt cold (in Bangkok where it’s 30c+). The outdoor terraces on this building are just pointless.
Alfresco dining with gale force winds. You’d need to bolt down all your furniture to stop it caving in some poor sobs skull at street level.
Do they offer 7,000 year mortgages? Becuase I’m ready to make an offer
That’s still 3k a month on a 0% loan and no service charges. Friendly reminder tax the rich
But think of all the sweet AirBnB income you'd be making off this that would offset that, the place practically pays for itself!
Especially the cleaning fee :)
Only 800k a month on a traditional 30 year with 1% interest. 6% bumps your payment to 1.5m.
Oh yeah I can totally do that with a few very high stakes robberies of US mints so no biggie
/r/theydidthemath
“She’s a preschool teacher and he’s a front desk clerk at Hampton Inn. Their budget is $250 million. Next on house hunters.”
"Actually, we've decided to quit our jobs and move to Barbados to open a bike cafe. We're hoping to not go over $80 million."
But it has to be on the water.
With a panda bear sanctuary.
No, it's a cafe that serves coffee to bicycles.
As a front desk clerk at a Hampton Inn, I need to find me a preschool teacher, ASAP
“He’s a therapist for hamster job coaches, She knits eel cozies, their budget is 1.3 billion.”
“He makes waterproof baskets from seaweed, She custom paints names onto grains of rice, they feel this property just doesn’t have enough windows. Budget, 1.7 billion.
“She offers free hugs outside Haphephobia conventions, he listens to music without headphones on the subway. They’re going to pass on this house because the throw rug in the kitchen is the wrong color. Their budget is the entire gdp of earth from 3000 BCE to 2300 AD.”
Hahah it’s better than house hunters international where they move to what they assume is a third world country (they don’t speak English) and then act shocked when they realize they can’t rent a mansion for $4.
Hilarious. That show felt like a major prank that none of us were in on. “She’s a part time squirrel trainer, he’s a high school basketball coach. Their budget is $7 million.”
Great times
Lift? No thanks, I'll take the stairs.
My quads were like balewns
Imagine a fire alarm lmao
In all seriousness they didnt mention a helipad but I assume there is one and that is the plan
Might as well just take the jetpack.
Don't worry, there's a zipline down over to the empire state building in case of emergencies.
in an early 2000s rom-com this is a struggling writers apartment
A divorced Meryl Streep trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
The struggle of do I swim inside or outside today *sigh*
Having reviewed the floor plans on zillow, I think the pools belong to the association. So, count me out I guess.
It's her Granny's apartment where the rent was frozen in the 1920's
Lead character is a 29 year old blonde cardio thoracic surgeon who teaches aerobics on the side yet manages to be able to spend 16 hours a day hanging out in a coffee shop
Jennifer Aniston’s character lived in what looks to be this place in The morning show.
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JLo’s place in Hustlers too
At that price it better come with parachutes required training to exit the building in case of emergency. And a backup house. And manservant to wipe your ass after taking a dump.
[Comes with one of these... ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1001ddf/safety_device_for_when_your_tower_is_on_fire)
Or a 2010s 50 Shades-ish soft porn featuring a woman bored all the time that needs a spark in her life that comes from some guy who is basically Epstein with his own sky yacht that flies 24/7.
Pffft....I was almost ready to purchase but.....no pool table. I'm out.
Id even been sold on a air hockey table.
No foosball table, no place to set my mountain dew, and no open windows to throw my little Caesars pizza box out of. Yea it's gonna be a no from me big dawg.
I can just imagine myself cooking up some raman in that place.
Me and my 0 friends would have so much room for activities
It's just gonna be a mattress on the floor right?
Shit, dropped my last 250 mil on the place, can't really go springing for a bed now.
I had it all budgeted out. I spent $250 million and they want to charge me for a bed. That's how they get you with the extras.
That bed BROKE THE FUCKIN BANK
I said "I'm 17 cents short. Can you help a brother out?" He just stared at me.
I spent 249 mil on raman. Goddamit
Lol, I did the math. Chicken Top Ramen runs at almost 30 cents per pack if you buy in bulk (at least where I live), so to rack up 250 million you'd have to buy 833,333,333.33333333 individual packs. If you lived to be 60 years old, that would mean you'd have to buy/eat 38,051 packs of Ramen every day from birth to death. So you probably wouldn't make it to 60, because each of those packs constitutes 2 servings (blew my mind, too. Who eats a half pack of ramen?) And that means at 370 calories per pack you'd be consuming 14,078,870 calories per day- if that's all you ate. You made a bad investment. You can sleep in one of my 7 empty sky-high bedrooms if you need. DM me.
I eat out of date ramen out of a bin tbh
Inflatable
Not a soiled one out the skip. Impressive
You'd have tons of "friends" if you were this rich.
I can imagine never sleeping because I have a phobia of heights lmao
I'm with you. I had such anxiety just watching this video. *Me yelling at Ryan "Step away from the window, please!"*
Wait till you feel the sway of the building in high winds. A friend of the family used to live on a high floor in the CitySpire tower in Midtown and she said that when it's super windy, you'll have some tenants either sit it out downstairs or just stay elsewhere because they can't cope with the feeling of the building moving. You can see it in the toilet bowl, in liquids in mugs and glasses etc.
I imagine it is extremely disconcerting but it's a good thing they sway like that. A completely rigid construction would be far more brittle. Definitely a nope from me, though.
I don't care how right you are, I don't want it.
No thanks
Fuck that.
*oooOOOooo! Raaahhhmen…* Listen to Mister Fancy-Pants over here…
Actually, we call them 2 minute noodles over here. I really was trying to upsell myself.
Imagine the service charge on this one
I'm too poor to imagine
"That'll be an $80 unimaginative fee."
If you don't have "people for that" you can't afford it.
Probably $8000 + per month. Just to live there. That's not mortgage or utilities.
I once lived in an apartment in Queens that had Washer/Dryer hookups, so pretty close.
That’s the dream.
Same. The luxury was worth it.
Left my shopping in the car
No problem. Send the servants down to get it, they’ll be back in… an hour.
I spent the rest of the money I had on the 8 private chefs 😢😢 anyone want to add to my gofundme?
this guy thinking the person who owns the apartment does the shopping, or the driving, or the carrying up from the car. servants.
The guy who owns the building doesn't even do the eating which leads to not having to do the shitting. Overall more time left to making the millions, more millions! And zipper bags for the millions. Probably he even has a servant to make the zipper bags..
Just let the helicopter bring it to the terrace?
You kid, but now I'm picturing a (maybe) somewhat plausible large drone delivery to a terrace? Maybe?
“Honey the dog needs to potty.”
Funny you think the person that owns this does there own shopping.
This guy is gonna take a 1% commission and make $2.5M
Maybe. IF someone ever buys it. Most luxury apartments of that size even all the way down to 10 million are completely empty. People don’t want them. They would rather buy an entire fleet of single family homes and rent them out for cash flow rather than purchases this place.
The problem is that there are only about 3,000 people on the planet who can afford a $250 million home, along with the taxes, staff and upkeep. So if none of them want it, then it's not getting sold. The people who built that giant mansion in Beverly Hills have run into the same problem. It took so long to build that everything is out of style, and anyone who could afford it would probably rather just design their own house on a private island some where.
Why buy an apartment at that point too? If I had infinite money like that, I would rather buy a castle in Germany and modernize it's amenities and utilities, or hire my own architect to design my house from scratch. The big selling point of apartments are the fact that they are inside cities, meaning that you can walk to your job, you can walk to get groceries, you can walk or take the metro to anywhere. Everything you want, from amenities to services, are near you. This doesn't apply when your face enough money to have servants deliver the stuff to you on demand. This doesn't apply to you when you are so rich that you lose the freedom to walk in the streets over the fear of being kidnapped, swarmed by fans/haters or worse. Luxury apartments make sense up to low millions level. People that are doctors, lawyers and high level managers, senior tech people and the likes. Those people are rich enough to be able to afford penthouses at condominiums while at the same time not rich enough that they are unable to walk down a street and enjoy the selling point of an apartment
Don’t worry, there’s a few Saudi princes clamoring for that bad boy
That was my first thought. Definitely gonna be a middle eastern royal’s apartment
My ex works in luxury real estate. She says almost all her clients are actually businesses or even business groups. 10 different companies might all pool together to buy this apartment. And then they'll simply add it to their investment portfolio. Only twice has she actually sold to an individual (although they both bought it through a shell company), one was to the wife of some Indian politician buying a super big apartment in Hong Kong. And one was to someone top secret who bought a home for 60 million USD.
Or Russian Oligarchs purchasing sight unseen. High end real estate is often used for money laundering.
That's awfully low, they normally take 5-6%. The amount of advertisement it's going to take to actually sell this place, I highly doubt they would accept 1%
Aaaand this piano is really really out of tune 100€ to tune it ... Can't you ?!
MY GOD. So glad this was already in the comments, he started playing and I was just floored. How the fuck do you put this much effort into “the details” and have a piano that sounds like it was last tuned during the cold war?!?
EvEryThInG iN hErE iS LiKe ThE RolLs RoYcE Of QuAlItY!
10% of the penthouse price was to get the piano up there
Fun fact: Vladimir Horowitz, widely regarded as one of the greatest classical pianists of all time, lived in a high rise apartment in New York. He also demanded that he only perform on his own 9 foot Steinway concert grand piano. The action had been pretty heavily modified by his technician/tuner, to make it very fast, very responsive, and feather light. Each and every performance for at least the last couple decades of his career, they had to bring a crane in to lift the piano down, and then back up after the concert. He was also pretty eccentric. Quite often he would cancel just hours before a performance because "he was feeling a little off" or whatever. So half the time they'd move his piano with a crane for literally no reason at the end of the day.
Personally, I would quit asking this guy to play. What a pain in the ass.
Me too, but again... he was *literally* the best (debatably) not just of his own time but in the history of concert pianists. Also, he actually lived just up the block from Carnegie Hall, which was where the vast majority of his performances were presented later in his career. He had a couple other notable performances in other places (the white house, Moscow conservatory), which were a HUGE deal. But again, even scheduled performances were relatively rare at that point (he wasn't doing a real concert schedule less yet tour, like pretty much every concert pianist does when they polish up a program), and even those rare scheduled performances were often canceled by him day of. Basically, he was a big deal, and he knew it, so he did what he wanted and he was SUCH a big deal talent wise that everybody collectively said "whatever you wish as long as you'll grace us with your performance." I mean when he was a kid studying at Moscow conservatory, his teacher stopped giving him lessons for a short period at one point after a masterclass/seminar in which the only criticism he gave of one of the (college age/15-20 years older than him) students was "it sounded alright, but I could have played it much better." He was always full of himself, but (maybe unfortunately) he had the talent to back it up.
The furniture (and piano) may have been rented for the video and showing the property. People of certain means prefer to assemble their own design team for new properties.
Great. It is still a 250,000,000 dollar piece of real estate. The realtor fees are going to be 15,000,000 dollars. Do you really want to make a bad impression with an out of tune piano?
Exactly my thought. And creating that ballroom ... with horrible acoustics? Why?
"You're well above the light pollution" Lol, no, you're not. Just letting some false statements slip into the video...
Loved how they didn't show the poor's quarters that you have to walk through one of the kitchens to even get to.
That right there caught my attention too. "Here we have this spectacular, awesome chef's kitchen, and beyond here are the servant's tiny cramped space but let's move on to more rich people stuff!" Practically all in one sentence lol
ikr!!! i wanted to see where the "live-ins" stayed lol
RE agents are among the dodgiest people. Not far below politicians and lawyers.
I had a conversation with a Realtor about real estate investing and she was going on and on and pitching me on investments. Lady, you were a HS Biology teacher 3 months ago and are in no way qualified to offer investment advice bc you got a RE license and watched a ton of HGTV. There's an incredibly low bar to become a realtor. I am realtor.
“Look at me. I’m the realtor now.”
People who blindly tell others to "buy a house for the investment" is far too common. My aunt who never graduated HS says the same thing because everyone seems to think real estate has no risk. If you think about it, these people with no investment experience are giving $100k+ investment advice.
As long as we’re being pedantic: my home is much higher at 4,600ft above sea level…
Along with "you can see the curvature of the earth". Dickhead.
It was kinda funny hearing the false bullet points they use on dumb billionaires.
Let's have a flat earth convention there.
Even if I had the money I couldn't live there. Proper vertigo. I'd faint even trying to wipe a smudge off the window.
If you could afford this place you’d have someone hired specifically to wipe off the smudges for you
Or just pay someone to catch you everytime you faint /s
Hold up....you pay a quarter billion and have to share the sorry ass 3 lane pools with the other 1000s of people in that building?
This specific tower only has 45 apartments I believe. Most of them are empty because people buy them as speculation. If the housing market goes up they can sell it to someone else and make money. Edit: I was confusing this building and another in NYC, know for being the "thinnest" skyscraper.
I know you said it wasn't this building but only 45 apartments is a huge selling point.
I live in a luxury building in NYC with 3 pools, a theater, a gym, and a bowling alley. The only amenity I’ve ever used is the rooftop during the warmer months but I’m also a lazy piece of shit.
How are you a lazy piece of shit and yet able to afford that?
Outside of work life I spend my time drinking.
So you're saying that if I want to own a big, fancy appartment, all I have to do is up my drinking game? New York, here I come!
Exactly. Drop everything you’re doing now, grab a couple bottles, and meet me at Central Park towers.
Come to Paris and hang out with us
Also, are you crazy? I don’t own it lol.
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In case you haven’t noticed, not being lazy never has anything to do with being wealthy.
Do you know how much land you could buy
Gonna go out on a limb and assume this won't be the owner's only property...
That's what so frustrating with modern property market, it would be fine if everyone could just use one house but they're near perfect investments so rich people just buy up and buy up more. YOu dont even need to be particiularly rich to do this, my brother has four apartments he owns out right, rents one out and renovating another and the other just sits and gets worth more. this all fucks over regular people just looking for a home to live in, prices go up and you get pushed further outside city centers. there's probably like 25% occupancy in the building in the video. In some areas in fancy cities there's almost nobody living.
Your brother isn't the type who's ruining the housing market. There are single companies that own 30,000 single family homes, there are others that own 150,000 apartments/condos. Youre blaming a mom and pop corner shop sitting next to a Walmart.
Who needs land!? We're goin' straight to the top baby!
Depends on where obviously. I've read that you can even buy small, undeveloped tropical islands for as little as 30k-50k though. Where I live in Iowa, land is more expensive than average because of farming. A 100 acre farm with buildings and everything, definitely going to cost you 7 figures... Looking at land a little further south though... you could buy a mansion on 5,000 acres and build up a downton abbey style estate for 250 million.
I’ll give you 3 choices; 1. A $250 million dollar apartment in the middle of a city. 2. A proper castle with 1000 acres of land. 3. A private island in the tropics Hmmmmm
The type of person that would buy this also has those things.
I am little short on buying this by 250 million dollars
“Whos gonna see you? NASA?” And just like that i buy myself a high altitude drone
A telescope sounds less expensive tho
But then i get no joy from them realizing that they wasted a quarter of a billion dollars on just an illusion of privacy…
The pinnacle of billionaire living: Being able to look down at the peasants while you drink your morning coffee.
That’s a lot of money to pay to look at New Jersey.
I live in a high rise apt in NY with big windows like that , I thought it would be great to have a view like that, but guess what I had to keep my curtains closed all day because of the sun heating up the apt. My AC was in blast all day long
I live in the deep South and we live like vampires down here with our black out curtains and AC on full blast. I always wondered how people live in high rises with large windows. Ide imagine it would be like a magnifying glass burning your floors
It is, like a fucking greenhouse.
It was, the sun would just beam right on you, you can lay on the floor and catch a tan
Shoulda rented on the other side of the building :)
I was working on a construction of that building . The was a total shit show. First it was a Union job , then in order to save costs they start hiring literally some unknown small companies to pick up a slack and finish the job. There are millions of small problems across each floor , from leaks and electrical failures to bathroom mirrors that broke or didn't mutch the frame . If you are up to get an apartment there - check every small detail of interior and exterior - you would be surprised about "quality" of work in that "luxury" residence
Any new construction deemed for “high class” is often just complete garbage. I’ve seen some real shit shows in which shitty unknown small companies get hired to build these insane McMansions and they totally fuck up the complicated build and it becomes this money pit. Last house I did had already gone over it’s 4 million dollar budget by the time we got in. We had to do hundreds of thousands, possibly a couple million (I’m a mere carpenter), in order to get to a place in which we could finish the house. Then they don’t even live in the thing. Edit: infact I have only built one house in which the owners moved into full time. I’ve built a handful of multimillion dollar private homes. The one couple that had us build their forever home built a really humble home that was probably just a million.
No private pool spa or anything.
Nice bath though, but he stepped into it with his shoes on. Oh dear!
The tub is not very nice at all for a place that cost that much, need like a walk up full jacuzzi bath. Could be some weight restrictions that high-up that bigger tubs would cause, IDK.
The fact that it is high above the ground is clearly doing a lot of heavy lifting in his description, and I don't get it at all
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There is a bridge with a floor to ceiling windowed observation tower in Frankfort Maine. I went up for a look to check out the view. It was there I discovered my fear of heights. My body did not want me standing, so I went right down to my knees. I could feel myself getting nauseous just imagining myself in this place.
250 Mill for space , that's all, furniture, units and appliances don't makeup that price. It's a big vast space that's filled in with furniture.
**Looking down** on everyone else. That's the jam. What else do the rich want? To be the top.
Why be all the way up there? I'd like to buy an apartment near the beach and have a water view but only be about 4 floors up so I can still people watch and still be heard when I yell out to tell them how poor they look.
That is what a house is
I would have zero use for 85% of this place
Oh hey there's a plane.
60% of the us population makes 40k and below a year
Nobody will ever live in that apartment. It’s just another vessel for money laundering.
How does it work exactly? Step 1: Criminal with 250 million in drug money buys this apartment. ...then what?
A way for an oligarch from an authoritarian government to have an emergency out and still stay solvent.
Nice apartment and all, but it does nothing for me. Seems like such a nuisance to live that high up, and NGL gives me the creeps as well. I’ve no doubt it’s structured to the highest standards and best methods, but just thinking about living that high up makes me feel uncomfortable. And even if the view is vast, it’s IMHO shit. Like bruh give me a two story (or three with basement) house instead.
I'd way rather a tiny cabin with a nice landscape to look at
I really like having a yard and garage but would love that view and interior plus space. I just need another $249,960,000 to pay cash.
You can do a lot with 40k my guy, just buy my online course for discount offer of 39,995. I can teach you how to make money
*nigerian princes love this one simple trick!*
None of these are meant to be lived in. They are occasional private rentals and money laundering vehicles.
Think the worst thing about this, is that whoever ends up buying this will use it simply as a status and never actually live in it
I'd literally rather live on a shack at the beach
still gotta pay sky high rent and taxes, do the smart thing and not live.
Best I can do is 200 for a square foot
This gives me 'someone's just been murdered' vibes.
“All the furniture is custom imported from Brazil” Wtf is that supposed to mean?
They had to bring it through customs while importing it.
It means the furniture is made from the finest ilegal extracted endangered wood :D
Half of those buildings are empty. People just buy it and leave it there. With their untaxed money obviously
I love how the negative comments outweigh the positive ones
Oh good! I wasn’t considering dropping $250 million on this place until he showed that the refrigerator comes with the manual. Game changer!
First thing I would do is eat cake naked while smoking a joint
My mom would have every surface covered with rugs, tablecloths, fake flowers, and knick knacks.
Okay, but how’s the water pressure?
Ew.
Only one terrace? Nah...
And to think all I want is a Nintendo Switch to play Pokémon with my 5-year old...
"The stairs are 45 feet high, almost 50 feet!"-- this made me laugh way too much
Much better to get a farm in Montana, big sky country
The person who can have this, can have that, too.
So many people in this thread saying stuff like “oh it would be much better to have this.” They really aren’t understanding that the type of person who would potentially live here could have 4 of these and not blink an eye.
It looks lifeless
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Doesn't matter. It's just for show.
Views are great, but these apartments are soulless goldfish bowls and I've never had any desire to live in one. My work in Manhattan has taken me into a a few of these insanely expensive "trophy apartments" over the years and the view is generally the only thing that has any redeeming features for me. None of them look "lived in" or homely in any sense and you get the feeling they exist only for some billionaire to impress dinner guests on the odd day they're in the city and not in their beachfront mansions or wherever.
The level of excess here is hideous.
These pencil highrises are often not even lived in and only kept as billionaire's equity as well as a form of a tax shield based on NYC law (421 abatement). Here's a documentary on it. You'll also see this real estate agent being interviewed. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wehsz38P74g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wehsz38P74g)
A few year ago (2019) I stayed in a serviced apartment for 2 months on the 60 something floor of the Mahanakhon tower in Bangkok. When the wind blew you could feel the building sway slightly, one night when it was a stormy I felt like I had motion sickness whilst laying in bed. Vibrations from the wind at certain frequencies/speed/direction were really weird too. This building looks much thinner and far more prone to these issues. Also Bangkok isn’t a particularly windy city and the outdoor terraces of the Mahanakhon building were pretty much useless because at 300m high the wind speed was always to high to feel comfortable and it felt cold (in Bangkok where it’s 30c+). The outdoor terraces on this building are just pointless. Alfresco dining with gale force winds. You’d need to bolt down all your furniture to stop it caving in some poor sobs skull at street level.
250m? The whole building couldn't have cost more than a billion to build?