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penthouse

[pent-haus] / ˈpɛntˌhaʊs /
NOUN
aerie
Synonyms
STRONG






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Musician and actor Steven Van Zandt is ready to part with his Greenwich Village penthouse, hiking the price up to a cool $18,995,000 after initially listing it for $15 million in June of this year.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Gorman’s former pad isn’t the only Boston penthouse on the market with a notable seller.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

A property developer has been fined £1m after a window fell from a luxury riverside penthouse in south London and killed a coach driver.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

A private equity firm resides on the fifth floor; an A.I. firm takes up the penthouse property on eight.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

"And then I suppose you wormed your way into this penthouse?"

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

In 2014, she snapped up two penthouses in the chic Tribeca neighborhood for about $20 million and combined them into a nine-bedroom, nine-bath abode with beamed ceilings, a curved staircase, and enormous windows.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026

Neymar is said to have paid $54m for one of the penthouses.

From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2026

In 32 pages of PowerPoint slides, replete with images of coastal high-rises alongside charts and cost tables, the plan outlines steps to take Gaza residents from tents to penthouses and from poverty to prosperity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

Attas has seen it all, from opulent penthouses to homes she describes in her new memoir, “Pets and the City,” as “so squalid I feared for my life just breathing in the air.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

The dwellings of these servants, the kitchens, the offices and the stables were all represented by a row of penthouses and sheds behind the main building.

From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


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