Mariska Hargitay's old Chelsea penthouse sold for $10.6M

A penthouse at 655 Sixth Avenue in Chelsea has sold for $10.6 million, according to Crain’s New York Business, closing out a sale process that traces back to a listing first put on the market in 2016. The condo’s notable former occupant is actress Mariska Hargitay, who is not a party to this transaction. The seller is Ewa Laboz, whose family bought the unit from Hargitay in 2008 for $8.15 million, per Crain’s.

Why it matters

For operators tracking Manhattan luxury resale, the deal is a pricing-reset case study more than a celebrity-adjacent curiosity. A unit that first asked $14 million in 2016 and was later cut to $13.5 million needed close to a decade, and a final price well below that reduced ask, to find a buyer. That gap between stale ask and eventual close is the signal for anyone pricing a comparable Chelsea condo today.

We attempted to verify the underlying deed through the Automated City Register Information System to confirm the exact unit, buyer identity, and recording date. The PLUTO address lookup did not resolve a parcel match for the building under “655 Sixth Avenue” or its official mapped name, “655 Avenue of the Americas,” and the ACRIS document-search session could not be established on this pass. Crain’s New York Business remains the primary source for the figures below; we did not independently confirm the closing date or exact unit number.

The numbers

The reported figures, as published by Crain’s and not yet cross-verified against the city deed record:

• Sale price: $10.6 million
• 2008 purchase price (Laboz family from Hargitay): $8.15 million
• Initial 2016 asking price: $14 million
• Reduced asking price: $13.5 million

A price-per-square-foot figure cannot be computed because neither Crain’s reporting nor our ACRIS attempt surfaced the unit’s saleable square footage.

If the $8.15 million basis and $10.6 million exit both hold up, the gain over an roughly 18-year hold is modest in nominal terms, a pattern consistent with other long-stale Manhattan luxury condo listings this cycle.

What’s next

The lesson for agents and sellers holding similarly aged luxury listings is pricing discipline: a unit that sat for roughly a decade and needed a price cut before it moved is a reminder that initial luxury asks in this submarket have run ahead of what buyers will pay. Operators with stale Chelsea condo inventory should underwrite to the gap between last ask and comparable closed sales, not the listing price.

We will update this story if the ACRIS deed record becomes resolvable, with the confirmed unit number, buyer identity, and recording date. See our New York coverage for related Manhattan residential and deal stories.