Turns out, one of Liam Neeson's very particular set of skills includes selling residential real estate in New York City.
Neeson — whose real name is William John Neeson — sold his condominium unit in Manhattan for $10.3 million late last month, and the transaction hit New York City property records this week. The Hollywood actor bought the unit in 1999 for $3.9 million. Property records list the buyers as Martin and Joanmarie Zetterberg.
The star of "Taken" and the newly released "Naked Gun" reboot sold his former Lincoln Square home at a time when sales of condos and co-ops have climbed. The number of closed sales for those properties grew 5% in the second quarter to 3,257, while the median sales price climbed 3% to $1.24 million, according to data from brokerage The Corcoran Group.
Manhattan's sales activity continues to grow, with new contracts for co-ops, condos and one- to three-family homes rising sharply compared to last year, brokerage Douglas Elliman said in its July analysis. "The increase in new listings is being overshadowed by the rise in new signed contracts," Douglas Elliman said.
Born in Ireland, Neeson has appeared in more than 100 films — including "Batman Begins" and "Schindler's List." The former boxer also played roles in "Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace" and "The Chronicles of Narnia." He owns a 37-acre estate that's two hours north of Manhattan in Millbrook, New York.
The condo Neeson sold has five bedrooms and five bathrooms stretched across three units on the 28th floor of the Park Millennium.
Celebrities buying and selling real estate is a regular occurrence in the Big Apple, and this year has been no different.
In February, Norman Reedus — who portrayed Daryl Dixon on AMC's hit show "The Walking Dead' — sold his three-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom penthouse in Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood for $5.4 million. Reedus bought the 2,575-square-foot condo in 2013 for $3.8 million.
Last month, Tim Daly, a New York City native and actor who played Joe Hackett in the 1990s sitcom "Wings," was in the final stages of selling his Upper West Side two-bedroom co-op unit for slightly more than $1.6 million.
