Downtown Manhattan Closed the Year With a Record-Breaking $129M Deal

In the final days of 2025, just as Manhattan’s luxury market was settling into its usual year-end slowdown, downtown delivered a jolt that quietly redrew the city’s ultra-prime map: an unknown buyer signed a contract to purchase multiple residences at 80 Clarkson for a reported $129 million, a deal first disclosed by The Real Deal. If it closes at that whopping price, it would become the most expensive home ever sold below 14th Street and the fifth-most-expensive residential…