• Beny Alagem, the founder of Packard Bell Electronics and now the owner of the Beverly Hills Hilton, has found a buyer for his three-bedroom condo at 15 CPW. The 15th-floor apartment, which Alagem and his wife Adele bought for $15.4 million in April 2008 and put up for sale three months ago for $24 million, went into contract this week. [Cityfile, BHS]
• Gotham Makker, an investor and former portfolio manager at Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group, has taken a loss at 15 CPW. Makker and and his wife Vicky paid $18.8 million for NASCAR chairman Brian France's 34th-floor apartment at 15 CPW in September 2008. Their old apartment in the building, however, which they acquired for $13.3 million in March '08, sold to a buyer listed in property records as Garnet 15CPW for $12.5 million. [Cityfile]
• Jonathan Zrihen, the president and CEO of the cosmetics company Clarins Group USA, and his wife Laetitia have paid $2.075 million for a three-bedroom condo at the Belaire at 524 East 72nd Street. [Cityfile]

♦ James Frey has cut $500,000 off the price of his condo at 505 Greenwich Street, less than a month after first listing the place. The four-bedroom spread, which Frey bought as two separate units and later combined, is now on the market for $4.5 million. [Curbed, Corcoran]
♦ Farid Naib, founder of the finance software company FNX Limited, paid $2.29 million for a seventh-floor loft at 288 West Street. [Cityfile]