@@ArvinHaddadOfficial I "love" your business model. Enes invests all the money, time, skill and effort to create video content and then you just add some nitpicking comments and your personal opinions and that's it. It is only a matter o time before he sues you and shuts down your channel.
i feel ya. -35$ in the bank right now. whenever i get super broke I go on a spree of these kinds of videos, trashing expensive but gross design choices so on. Makes me feel better, at least my money was spent on bills!
lol. I'm looking at that overdraft sitting at -600, taking in the estate level mansions that could be sold to retire my entire family starting from my grandparents and their descendants.
That kitchen is a joke. I can’t imagine what they are thinking. 17.5K sq ft and it’s the average size for a 2000 sq ft house. That would be a deal breaker.
Yes, totally agreed with you. With a house this big 17.5K sq ft. I am thinking at least double island, and the cooking space should at least be doubled. In the video, the kitchen is so tiny.... it just shows that the developer(s) are not putting too much effort into thinking how to present/utilize the floor space in a smart way
There's another kitchen on the unit but Arvin skipped it and that's where the work will be done but yeah the "show" kitchen is not impressive that even Enes suggested that it can be redone if the potential buyer wants to do that.
@@scalper3707 Even if they don't cook they don't want guests in their home to think, "Damn. He paide $100M+ and the kitchen in my beach cottage is bigger?!?" Rich people don't need to use the things they show off.
As an interior designer that used to design office spaces, that's exactly what this apartment looks like. It has a very corporate office feel to it. I appreciate a modern esthetic but with an original list price of a quarter billion dollars, so much more detail needed to be done to pull this off. Flat drywall ceilings do not exactly scream elegance. Where is the built-in millwork especially in the closet. I would expect that closet to be fully decked-out and to resemble a boutique, not a storage room with industrial lighting. The one area that was beautifully appointed was the kitchen, small as it is. The Miele lacquered refrigerator panels are gorgeous. I liked when you pointed out the dishwasher door squeaked, that about says it all.
The space is unfinished and staged, that is why it has that look. It has probably never had anyone living in it. A lot of these ultra luxury new houses are like that. Dishwasher squeaked because it has been gathering dust for a year 😂
Ryan is talking about a building like it's a life changing scientific discovery, chill out dude, it's just an overpriced building. Love your work, Mr Haddad
If you're a real estate agent and you got hired selling a $195,000,000 penthouse you will sound like that because a possible $11.7 million in commissions is up for grabs for both him and the buyer's agent.
I was blessed to live in a luxury high rise 55th floor NYC for several years. My apartment was only $2M and looked exactly like this and the views were incredible. Don’t get suckered into the marketing scam that is “billionaires row”
@@Tugela60the piano isn't included in the price lol. The point they're making is that this is probably a prefab design that was just stuck into this tower - 30ft ceilings included because the extra room is a status symbol in a tower- it's extremely common.
Great overall analysis on tall NYC tower comparisons, especially on disconnected "forced" interior circular layout, impact of building core location, use of space, narrow forced areas. The small kitchen here was shocking as no connecton to adjacent areas. Agree 100% on actual views regardless of ceiling/glazing heights e.g. with 75% sky view up & worse when seated , no ground scale reference. As a retired design architect with background in international 5-star hotels/resort operators & owners & high-end residential units within those projects, tallest was 88 floors SOM designed hotel in China. I appreciate your viewpoints, critiques & critical reviews of the original tours. Indeed look forward to more! Cheers!!
I find it bizarre that anyone would even fantasize about living at the top of a skyscraper like this. Gives me the willies. I could never be comfortable there. Nothing says “home” about it. It’s like they stuffed residential furniture into an office building space. Or like looking out of an airplane window.
Ive been watching your videos all day and also discovered your channel today too. You're gonna blow up bro lol this is definitely a new genre of youtube video commentating and you are going to be the godfather of it. inb4 1,000,000 subs
Sorry, but the agent presenting this unit is so inarticulate! “The views are unbelievable” “It’s incredible” over and over…Those words actually mean you can’t believe him, right? And he’s highlighting minor details like pocket doors and the furniture (are they selling the condos furnished?), never mentioning anything about quality, structural or safety features in the building. The kitchen! I thought that was a wet bar or secondary kitchen for the 17,000 sq ft apartment! Where’s the real kitchen? lol
The worst part of this penthouse that I found in the offering plan is that the top floor with the terrace actually is mostly "shared area," meaning that when maintenance needs to go to the "mass damper room" above the penthouse, they actually take the main elevator to the penthouse, enter the penthouse, and then walk over to another elevator that takes them from the penthouse to the maintenance floors above. Yep. You get maintenance workers walking through your $250M penthouse.
As an architect myself, there are too many flaws to be even acceptable, the layout is, as pointed, completely off the mark, there are some finishes that are awful, those massive gaps in the master bathroom vanity doors not to mention the design of it with those horrendous frames, those office shelves misaligned, by the way that entire office is trash, I've designed U$500.000,00 houses that have WAY better materials and finishes than this, I'm Brazilian by the way so I'm not impressed by that furniture at all, we find that furniture here in U$140k houses, if they paid more than U$400 for each those chairs I wouldn't know how to even react to that, the only place i liked it immediately was the Master Bedroom itself, and that was it I know that there is a relevant part of the cost due to the height of the building (every floor you add gets more expensive) and also the buying the neighbor sky space, but please U$250 millions or U$190 millions, is unacceptable for what it is right now, you could get close to figures like U$150 - 180 millions IF you had an impeccable design with real luxury, and this is not the case.
My friend this whole place is horrendous....those hardwood floors already dated...they layout is a joke...all rooms are a joke...looks like a cheaply partitioned office
Totally unacceptable for a property to be not finished from top to bottom with all the bells and whistles. They should've hired the best designer in town to just design the penthouse but instead it looks like they cheaped out on everything.
I love the carefully detailed commentary! A very educational experience to watch your videos! By the way, what's the name of the Lego house in your background? It looks really cool
Is it just me ,but when you get to a certain height the view becomes meh cos everything is so small, great you can see the statue of liberty, except its a dot 😂
My problem with this contemporary builds, in comparison to 220 CPS, is that there isn’t much of a difference in layout and style between here and a penthouse in Long Island City. Imagine what other types of homes one could buy for this price, and yet your general home style is similar to someone earning lower six figures.
I wonder how the views are on days with bad weather? Often you probably will just have fog and no view at all. New York is not known for 300 days of sunshine...
When I saw the original video I just wondered. Enes says the ball room can fit 200 - 300 people for an event. But there are only two tiny powder rooms. That would just be a terrible time for everyone attending... Am I missing something?
I really dislike the cheap looking finishes throughout this penthouse. There's nothing high-end about this, and you're basically going to have to redo the entire unit. The fluorescent light fixtures in the unfinished closets and weirdly low bathroom counter tops were a huge miss. This isn't luxury. It's like a high-rise office building with bedrooms. Imagine the beautiful, elegant upper west side townhouse you could buy for a third of this price, with no HOA fees. Who wants this type of property? It smells of money laundering.
Keep up with the content. I’m a young real estate developer in the making. I’ve done a couple of fix n flips in my past and your videos for me are very educational and helpful. I also like the jokes you include in your videos! I’m staying a loyal subscriber here; excited to watch you grow your channel!
You are correct. Kitchen design is horrendous and outdated. There are more appliances than cabinetry, island stone design is typical for rental places, minimum of drawers, almost no working surface around the cooktops, unreachable wall cabinets. Outdated cherry high-gloss wood decor fronts.
Why are these super luxe spaces fitted out with office furniture, IKEA, and Home Depot? Yes, the features all have expensive designer names attached, but to me it looks like Billy bookcases and Home Depot vanities.
This property has so many flaws, but for me ....the kitchen @14:41 is a real disappointment: it’s way too tiny for the enormous dining room and apartment. A professional chef and his team would need a lot more space to cook for so many guests. And you’re right, the overall distribution of the rooms is very bad and there are a lot of awkward spaces.
I remember watching the video of this place when it came out, even then I thought "when is high too high" and yeah you can see into the distance, but I wouldnt calll it great views, I think a much lower floor would have been better views wise
I'm actually very surprised they didn't redo this video on a day with much clearer atmosphere in New York because the view is really spoiled by the high pollution Brown Haze and that detracts significantly from the video and the appeal of the unit if people realize their views aren't going to be perfectly beautiful each day. Compare that to the Steinway building video that you show where they've chosen a day with the views are absolutely crystal clear and you can see every bug on the sidewalk down at Central park.
hey man, rlly love your vids. My favourite property enes toured was "INSIDE a $16,995,000 BEVERLY HILLS Modern Mansion with Incredible Views!" i rlly loved this house and dont really think anythings wrong with it. if there are any, can you make a video about the flaws of this property and why you pay 17 mil for a 5 bedroom house with views of the mountains??
The worst thing about this Penthouse is that it is overpriced at $250 million. With $250 million I can buy two penthouses for $40 million each in Manhattan and a $50 million mansion in the Hamptons. I would have plenty of money left to pay for furniture, maintenance, bills, and taxes. LOL I like when Arvad states that they clean those tower windows twice a year, if a bird poops in your window you will have to watch the poop for six months
I saw this place when Enes first posted his video. While watching his video I was thinking how there were just a bunch of rooms without any real cohesiveness. The small corner rooms, small kitchen and lack of a sizeable family room are an albatross. They'll need to do some remodeling and open things up if they ever want to sell the place.
Extell did start billioanires row with One57 back in the day, I still remember the articles... Anyway, I do give credit to extell for solving one major issue in their previous building, which was support columns in front of the floor to ceiling windows blocking the view. And new yorkers know how to do scale well, just look at that grand salon. Speaking of architecture, you didnt mention 53w53 by jean nouvel which looks fantastic as well
Been watching alot of you're episodes on the homes Enes toured, and I noticed they are all homes that don't live up to the price tag. My question for you is, which do you believe actually do?
I tought the worst home was the 100 million pencil trash bin, wow, i was incredible wrong. how could a 17.000SQFT home be so hollow inside, without life or personality. This is not a home, is a personification of meaningless life even if you have a quarter billion to spend
They probably should've divided the space into two units. Not sure exactly how that would be done, but it would help with room connectivity. And turn the third floor into a community space for owners in the building.
38:04 Yea the counter height looks like it was designed for the kids' room. Maybe 28" or thereabouts? Isn't a standard adult counter supposed to be around 36" in height?
My favorite youtube channel by far. Find myself anticipating every new video now. Keep doing what you do, and peeling back the layers on these facades.
220 CPS is everything you said it is. Billionaires Row is not on Central Park (it’s 57 Street as you pointed out) but Ryan isn’t lying-Gary Barnett and Extell created that destination so they deserve credit. CP Tower is on arguably the worst “main road” imaginable. No one seeking a prestige location would choose it so I wish them luck at that pricing…
I'm looking out the windows when they show the views, and it's honestly underwhelming. Yes, you can see extremely far away, but you're so high up that you can't really catch any details. I've also noticed that Ryan, and a lot of people working at Serhant say the same phrases about every property they show.
It really bugs me when these agents keep on saying that this is the 'HIGHEST residence in the world', when every basement apartment in Colorado is far higher than this apartment. Language matters and it's a shame to hear it butchered like this.
Consider that most of these apartments are tax heaven. When I walk by 57th St in the evening, most of these towers are dark, as if there is no one living in them, and that is the case, actually. Even if the apartment is purchased, the owners are the kind of people who are perhaps jet-setting somewhere in the world and would spend very little time in the concrete jungle.
Yes while I enjoy his videos and many of his critiques are valid, his taste appears to be somewhat old fashioned and out of touch. In the rest of the world they like industrial type looks in their kitchens. American taste for old fashioned dated cabinetry specially the colours that was popular 40 years ago has moved on.
I lived in 220 and 240 Central Park South. What they don’t mention in the walkthrough, is that 40% of the year, the fog covers everything above the 30th floor. You won’t be able to see anything from this unit when it rains/snows - and it does one or the other frequently in Manhattan. I was in 15R in 240 CPS, and my view of Columbus Circle and Central Park was unrivaled - even when it rained/snowed. To date, the most amazing space I’ve ever inhabited.
None of these supertall penthouses are for "families" with the wife that cooks and everyone hangs out in the family room. They are marketed to the bachelor Saudi prince, the Chinese investor or the money laundering Russian oligarch. They aren't meant to be the primary residence. This residence is actually TOO big. They themselves didn't know what to do with all the space. It feels like they just combined the top two units into one just so they can market the "Most expensive residence in New York". In general, I think we've reached the limit of how high people want to live. But Ryan's Freudian slip of "disconnected" is the best description. Disconnected from the city, disconnected from the views, the rooms are disconnected, the building is disconnected from the park.
Having dated a woman once who lived in a 10,000 sq ft house, I can tell you that 17,000 sq ft is not "too big". As a matter of fact, you can always find something to do with interior space.
Seems reasonable to expect a theatre in some place like this? These people never entertain with movies? You don't even want to have the option? Ultra rich people don't play billiards, or watch movies or use dedicated wetbars? I don't know--it just doesn't seem possible.
I’m beginning to think that architects and upscale developers are all committed bachelors. Too many of these “high end, luxury” homes are not family friendly, which is silly, because even super rich people procreate from time to time.
@@leonk8113 I've seen a home with a bedframe made of steel which looks very aesthetic. Imagine bumping into that? Yeah I can 100% believe these homes are not made for people.
Maybe I enjoy games and books too much, but Ryan Serhant comes off as a villain, perhaps a mastermind-in-training. If he can sell this unit, he can conquer the world.
This place is so expensive and has no charm. Living in it would be like living in a big, empty, lonely motel all by yourself (or with only a few others). I can't recall seeing an intrinsically less attractive "luxury" home anywhere on RU-vid.
Don't forget tall buildings sway during windy weather. I once stayed in a 70th floor hotel room and it rained, i couldn't sleep all night because i can feel the floor shifting
Me too. He’s blunt and he’s right about the kitchen and the family room. They’re kind of silly for the price! They almost feel like they got to them last!
The high winds at that height, is another reason this property has not sold, according to a daily mail article, which references a video tour which aired on CBS. "In a tour of the penthouse, CBS's Brook Silva Braga noted that the terrace was whipped by high winds, especially in the winter, which also caused the door to slam harshly behind him. He also pointed out a high-pitched whistling noise echoing inside the penthouse, which the real estate agent attributed to the cold weather and described it as a 'growing pain.'" All that money to be driven insane by high pitched wind whistling, on top of the horrible layout, smh.
I’m starting to wonder if the marketing and publicity is one of the reasons why this hasn’t sold. A billionaire doesn’t want anyone to know how the inside of their $200 million penthouse looks much less videos of it on the internet.
its not for living, most of these bilionare row buildings are empty yet they are bought, money laundering, tax evasion and investments its all they are.
I used to view these high end property tours and wish I could live there but after watching your videos I've gained a whole different perspective of them.
27:38 One of the worst office I've ever seen! No place to file your papers, no multi-screen computer, no chair for another person, not a cosy place for 3 to 5 persons mini-meetings... Not even a coffee machine!
Interesting commentary, I'm glad I found this channel. You should do a video about how these "salesmen" are constantly exaggerating, or in many cases, lying! Examples: A *terrace apartment* is not necessarily a *penthouse* apartment. A *terrace apartment* is a living space that has direct access to the roof over an inset of a building. A *penthouse* is a dwelling on the top floor of a building, and usually has luxurious finishes. A floor-through apartment is only a *penthouse* if it's on the top floor of a building. (E.g. - recent apartment tour of a floor-through apartment in high floor of 432 Park Avenue.) *432 Park Avenue is not on Park Avenue* *An apartment in SOHO with a brick wall is not a loft apartment.* A *loft* apartment is a large, open space with no interior walls except for the bathroom, usually a converted space which retains some of it's industrial elements such as exposed piping. A 2nd floor apartment in a townhouse that has a view of the back yard is not a *garden apartment.* A *garden apartment* is an apartment that has direct access to private outdoor space. Not every American home built in the *middle of the last century* is a *mid-century modern home.* I've seen countless home tours of say an American Ranch home staged with West Elm furniture, and it's pawned off as a mid-century modern home. Apologies, I work in the architectural industry and we can all get snobbish when it comes to things we understand well!
Great critique. I liked how they got the world’s skinniest man to sit in the bland puffy chair. If my grandmother sat in that chair I would have to call the FDNY to get her out of it. I thought that was more interesting than the unit, which is underwhelming and overpriced. No charm, it erases one’s joie de vivre. Thanks for the great video.
