The 10 Most Expensive Homes That Sold in 2022, From an NYC Penthouse to a Malibu Mansion

Was last year 2019 all over again? Not exactly. Yes, 220 Central Park South—the Robert A.M. Stern-designed condominium building widely regarded as the country’s most successful residential building of all time—again topped the list of most expensive home sales in the country, but the sale of this year’s highest-selling unit did not cross the $200 million mark like its 2019 counterpart. And despite reports of the luxury home market in the US taking its largest annual hit in the past 10 years for the three-month period ending November 30, 2022’s top 10 sales still totaled roughly $1.165 billion dollars, proving that, impending recession or not, luxury real estate will always be traded (although, as you’ll see, grabbing a discount was not beneath many of this year’s buyers.) Here’s our list of 2022’s priciest residential sales.