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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos buys new apartment for $16 million in New York

New York: Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has bought a $16 million, 3,000 square foot apartment in New York which is adjacent to condos worth $80 million he already owns.

The newly-bought apartment has three bedrooms and three and a half baths that is a floor below the others he already owns, reports the CNN.

Last summer, Bezos purchased a penthouse and two apartments below the new apartment, in a renovated 1912 neo-Gothic building that overlooks Madison Square Park.

The price represents a 43 per cent premium over the $11.25 million the apartment sold for in 2018.

The Amazon CEO bought the property via a Delaware-registered limited liability company at at 212 Fifth Avenue condominium.

Source: Livemint