Having just returned from Manhattan, I decided, just for the hell of it, to check out one of the super-fancy pieces of residential real estate there. No doubt about it, it’s quite a view…….
![](https://photos.zillowstatic.com/fp/c255184befc0b876dfcc7597d8797c8c-uncropped_scaled_within_1536_1152.webp)
And that goes for the gawkers on the street as well!
![](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/highup-640x520.png)
It comes with a price, though. About one-fifth of a billion bucks. At that level, it’s comic to see the kinds of associated costs there are. A monthly mortgage of $1.3 million (again, per MONTH!) To say nothing of the $27,000 monthly homeowner’s fee.
![](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/forsale-640x591.png)
It ain’t moving, though. Indeed, it looks like they put it on the market for a quarter BILLION a year prior, and then they chose $195 million (sort of how like cans of food in a grocery are $1.99 instead of $2.00).
![](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/pricehist-640x434.png)
Wouldn’t it be something if a terrorist attacked one of these billionaire skyscrapers one day?