Number of ultra-prime sales ($25 million or above): 32
Average ultra-prime sale: $44.9 million
Central Park South, which is the portion of 59th Street that stretches from Columbus Circle to Fifth Avenue along Central Park, is the most expensive street in New York by median sale price, as Business Insider's Libertina Brandt recently reported.
It had a median sale price of $9.8 million from January through July 2019.
The street is home to 220 Central Park South, the Robert A.M. Stern-designed luxury tower where Ken Griffin bought a $238 penthouse in January 2019, shattering the record for the most expensive home sale in the US.
Many of the major sales of the past five years have been in 220 Central Park South.
In December 2019, billionaire hedge-fund executive Daniel Och closed on a $95 million penthouse in the building. Singer Sting and wife Trudie Styler paid $67.5 million for a penthouse in July 2019, Curbed New York reported. And in January 2019, Brazilian construction heiress Renata de Camargo Nascimento bought a unit for about $30 million.