I thought this was going to be about the pizza transaction, and I said to myself "not again". Good to see a change for once. Maybe as time goes by, people will unearth more of these exotic kinds of transactions from when Bitcoin was still in the early age.
Anyway, I don't think it mattered whether or not it went through, more than the fact that a two-bedroom NYC apartment sells for 14 million dollars? WTF? Was he trying to rent out floors on a skyscraper or something?