Inside David Bowie’s $3.81M NYC Apartment That Sold For $16.8M 5 Years After Death

David Bowie’s longtime downtown New York City apartment has been sold less than a month after it was listed on the market and about five years after the singer’s passing.

The world-famous English musician’s lavish Manhattan property was sold for $16.8 million, the New York Post reported Friday. The amount means a huge profit for the seller since the late singer bought it for only $3.81 million in 1999.

The apartment was well maintained by Bowie and his wife, Somali-American fashion model and entrepreneur Iman, until his demise in 2016 when he lost his battle with liver cancer at the age of 69.

“By all accounts, Bowie loved living in SoHo/Nolita. He felt at home, semi-anonymous, among New Yorkers too cool to act star-struck at celebrity sightings,” author Will Brooker wrote of Bowie in his book “Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe.”

The apartment, which is situated in a mid-rise building built in the late 1800s, spans about 5,000 square feet and comes with an outdoor space that’s a little more than 1,000 square feet, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Bowie’s former residence houses four bedrooms, a 56-foot-long great room and a library. It also has its own elevator access. Additionally, the massive 1,000-square-foot main bedroom features a fireplace and a dressing room, as stated in the official listing.

The building where the apartment is located used to be a Hawley & Hoops candy factory. It was only in 1999 when the structure was converted into a full-service condominium building. It was also in the same year when Bowie decided to invest in the property.

Even though it has been five years since the artist succumbed to liver cancer, the apartment was only listed recently with an asking price of $16.8 million. And less than a month after it hit the market, records showed that it found a buyer. However, specific details surrounding the deal and the buyer have been kept under wraps.

The newly sold apartment was just one of the late superstar’s NYC properties. He also owned a Central Park property located at the JW Marriott Essex House with Iman from 1992 to 2002.

Brooker noted in his book that Bowie really loved staying in the Big Apple as he enjoyed strolling through Washington Square Park and frequenting local bookstores.