Photos: Hot Property: Pistons star Blake Griffin eyes $11-million score for L.A.-area home

Billionaire Ken Griffin set a new price record for residential sales in the U.S., paying $238 million for a penthouse apartment in New York City. The sale price is about $100 million more than the previous record: the 2014 sale of a Hamptons estate for $137 million.  (Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Images)