"Related did fantastic with their building prior to the recession — they achieved record-setting prices, so hats off," Mr. Tamarkin said.
(The 14 gunpowder drawings that document this event were bought by an Asian collector, who later sold them at auction for a record-setting price).
There are reports that the bids topped $3 billion, but it was unclear exactly who made what would be a record-setting price for an office building.
One, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," with its record-setting price tag of $65 million, has disproportionately skewed the shows' total costs of more than $135 million.
Having one of these traits did not guarantee a record-setting price, but apartments achieving that milestone tended to have one or more of them.
The record-setting price of Pablo Picasso's Women of Algiers did not seem to be a matter of much excitement at Christie's, which announced the $179 million sale with a casual tweet.
But on second thought, she acknowledged, "they are on a very deep, wide canal, and someone who has a larger boat and wants something more upscale with that kind of boating dockage" might pay a precedent-setting price for the town houses.
