Jason M. Heim

How expensive is NYC real estate? I made this to get some perspective: http://floorspace.nyc  Let's say a 1,500 sqft place lists for $2M. For that price you could cover the floor with iPad Airs and have money left over. Some real examples:

The most expensive home sale to date in the US was $238M for a penthouse at 220 Central Park South. At 24,000 sqft, you could cover it in $1000 bills for less than that price. Or perhaps you'd rather 4 layers of iPad Airs, with 6 layers of $100 bill insulation underneath.

Consider 12 East 69th St, which originally listed at $114M. At 20,000 sqft that's also asking iPhone XR prices. Apparently that's too much, so the price was reduced recently to $79M, which drops it into 16" MacBook Pro territory. Or five layers of base model iPads.

Going the other direction is 114 Charles St in the West Village. Two years ago this 13,500 sqft listed for $49.5M. That's another 16" MacBook Pro listing. However they've done some work and relisted at $80M, pushing this up with the other iPhone XR properties.

The Woolworth Building's 9,600 sqft penthouse originally listed for $110M. Since it's relatively small, that's up to $1000 bill flooring. However now it's going to list for $79M, which is still pretty high, needing iPhone 11 Pros to cover the space.