$37M West Village Townhouse Priciest Ever In Lower Manhattan

WEST VILLAGE, NY — A renovated West Village townhouse has sold for $37.2 million, making it the most expensive townhouse ever sold in Lower Manhattan, reported the Wall Street Journal.

The five-story townhouse is nestled on W. 10th street between Fifth and Sixth avenues — the same block where the previous record was set in 2007 for the sale of a $34.53 million townhouse, the newspaper reported.

Initially in dire need of repairs, the townhouse's sellers Rebekah Caudwell, a British interior designer, and her husband Nicolas Dupart, a real-estate developer, bought the property intending to live in it full time, but their plans changed and the couple decided to revamp the building instead, according to the newspaper.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Caudwell and Dupart shopped the W. 10th Street building around off the market and nearly quadrupled the roughly $9.5 million they spent for the building in 2012.

The nearly 10,000-square-foot townhouse boasts a home theater, a lavish heating system that includes the building's stoop for snow removal, a wine cellar, a home gym and a courtyard, the newspaper reported.

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