Huguette Clark: Fifth Avenue apartment that New York heiress used as giant dolls house sells for $24
Manhattan apartment that reclusive heiress Huguette Clark used as giant dolls' house sells for $24 million - just three weeks after it went on sale
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The first of three massive Fifth Avenue apartments belonging to Huguette Clark, the copper heiress who died last year, has been sold after being on the market for less than a month.
While the final price has not been revealed the home, the top floor unit of 907 Fifth Avenue was listed by brokers Brown Harris Stevens at $24 million.
Reclusive Mrs Clark, who was 104 years old when she died, had not lived in any of the apartments for decades but kept her enormous $3 million doll collection at the prestigious address.
Sold? Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani submitted the winning bid for two apartments on the eighth floor of 907 Fifth Avenue at $31.5million
The mother and daughter team of Mary Rutherfurd and Leslie Coleman hold the listing for the 5,000 square foot, 12th floor, 14-room pre-war apartment that overlooks Central Park.
They are also taking care of the remaining two properties in the building which is one of Fifth Avenue's most exclusive cooperatives situated on the southeast corner of 72nd street.
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ShareThe New York Daily News reported that one potential buyer who toured the homes said that all three needed work and that in one kitchen there were appliances from 1915.
Manhattan property experts are claiming that the quick sale reflects the steady value of classic style New York City apartments.
Famously reclusive: Mrs Clark was 104-years-old when she died and had not lived in any of the apartments for decades but kept her enormous doll collection at the prestigious address
'It’s really not surprising at all how quick it sold,' said David Lubell a real estate agent with Prudential Douglas Elliman.
“When these hit the market, they’re snapped up. Every billionaire in the world wants an apartment in New York and these are the trophy apartments.
'They don’t think anything of renovating. They know these apartments can never be reproduced. There is nothing better in the world than a classic New York City pre-war.'
Spacious: A floor plan shows the sold 12th floor apartment, which measures 5,000 square foot
Still available on the market are the other two apartments Mrs Clark owned in the building for $19 million and $12 million respectively.
Known as apartments 8W and 8E, 8W has a view of Central Park and is described as the most liveable, while 8E does not and is described as the plainest.
When she was alive the three apartments cost the Montana copper heiress $28,500 a month in co-op fees, or $342,000 a year.
Up for grabs: Apartment 8W for $19 million and 8E for $12 million are still both on the market
Stunning: Pictures of the New York properties' former resplendence show how desirable they are
Dying in May of last year with an estimated fortune of $400 million, Huguette Clark spent most of the last days of her life at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City checked in under a pseudonym.
As well as the Fifth Avenue apartments, the heiress owned two other mansions across the United States in Santa Barbara, California and New Canaan, Connecticut.
The property in Connecticut at 104 Dans Highway was re-listed in February of this year with Christie's International Real Estate for $19.8 million.
Wealthy family: Huguette (right) is pictured as an 11-year-old with her father and sister Andree in this 1917 photo
Heiress: Huguette Clark is pictured with her father (centre), former U.S. senator William A. Clark, in 1922
And even though Mrs Clark never even lived in her Connecticut home, it like the Fifth Avenue apartments were maintained by staff.
Court documents show that the enigmatic multi-millionaire spent $3.745 million on the up-keep of 907 Fifth Avenue in the last 15 years of life.
Famously, Mrs Clark also kept her $3 million collection of dolls in her Upper East Side homes but now these have been packed away into carefully controlled storage to protect their value.
Other properties: Clark had never visited her Le Beau Château, in wealthy New Canaan, Connecticut
Vacant: Clark's mysterious £100 million estate in Santa Barbara, California, which has been empty since 1963
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