Few people would be surprised if Dell Technologies Founder and CEO Michael Dell bought the most expensive house ever sold in Austin.
But the fact that, according to the Wall Street Journal, Dell bought the most expensive home ever sold in New York City is kind of mind-boggling considering the city's plentiful population of billionaire residents like Michael Bloomberg, David Koch and Carl Icahn.
The newspaper reports that Dell bought the $100.47 million penthouse on Billionaire's Row at the edge of Central Park in Manhattan in 2014. The 10,000-plus square foot apartment has six bedrooms and six bathrooms.
His neighbors on West 57th Street include shoe guru Steve Madden, Saudi retail magnate Fawaz Al Hokair and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, according to reports.
Dell, his architects and other developers all declined to talk about the deal with the Wall Street Journal.
The New York property is one of several owned by Dell, who launched his computer business out of a dorm room at the University of Texas in the mid-1980s.
He is also in contract to buy a penthouse at One Dalton, a high rise in Boston. The price of that isn't known, but other penthouses in the building went for about $40 million. It's likely that Dell's condo there is the most expensive -- or almost the most expensive -- ever sold in Boston.
Dell also reportedly owns a $10.9 million condo at the Millennium Tower in Boston, a move he made shortly after Dell acquired EMC Corp, which is based in Hopkinton, just west of Boston. He also owns a $73 million home on the Kona Coast of Hawaii's Big Island. His West Austin property is a 33,000-square-foot home with Lake Austin views, according to Business Insider.
Dell, who is 52 years old, ranks as the 19th richest person in the United States on the 2017 Forbes 400 list with an estimated net worth of $23.2 billion. That puts him ahead of Tesla's Elon Musk and Google's Eric Schmidt and behind Bloomberg, Koch and fellow tech titans Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, who each have more than double Dell's net worth.
