There were 169 deals, totaling about $383 million, recorded in New York City on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
🏆Residential: The top residential sale recorded in New York City was for a condominium at The Katharine in Greenwich Village. A sponsor unit and storage unit at Slate Property Group’s 118 West 13th Street, once a dorm for The New School, sold for $10.2 million to James Stephen Turner III. The four-bedroom pad spans about 3,500 square feet and went on the market in April for $9.9 million. The listing agents were: Leonard Steinberg, Amy Mendizabal, Calli Sarkesh, Herve Senequier and Niklas Hackstein.
🏆Commercial: The priciest commercial transaction recorded was in Hamilton Heights, where five apartment buildings traded for $62 million, or about 6 percent off their last trade price. Bonjour Capital sold 601, 605, 607, 609 and 611 West 137th Street to Janusz Sendowski; Bonjour purchased the properties in 2012 for $66 million. JPMorgan Chase provided $46.5 million in financing for the latest deal.
📊Commercial: Atlanta-based Storage Post purchased two commercial properties for $40 million. A nine-story self-storage building at 491 Bergen Street in Prospect Heights was valued at $30 million, and a seven-story self-storage site at 4396 Broadway in Fort George was valued at $10 million. The seller in both transactions was Sofia Bros., which had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this year. The acquisitions follow another recent transaction between the parties: the sale of 473 Amsterdam Avenue for $60 million, bringing the total deal price so far to $100 million.
📊Commercial: BLDG Management Co. offloaded 100 percent of its interest in what appears to be a Crown Heights development site for just over $21 million. The buyer was 980 Atlantic Building LLC. The properties involved in the deal are adjacent and were: a four-story parking garage at 984 Atlantic Avenue, a parking lot at 534 Grand Avenue and vacant land at 971 Pacific Street and 946 Pacific Street.
📊Residential: Forecast Blue LLC scooped up a sponsor unit at Witkoff Group and Access Industries’ 500 West 18th Street, also known as One High Line, in Chelsea for just under $10 million. The more than 2,500-square foot, three-bedroom unit went on the market in April for about $10.5 million. The deal pencils out to about $4,000 per square foot. Corcoran’s Deborah Kern and Steve Gold had the deal.
📊Residential: In Lenox Hill, a combined, four-bedroom co-op at 880 Fifth Avenue changed hands for $9.5 million. The seller was a trust tied to Frederick Piumelli, who paid $5.8 million for the spread in 2009. The buyers were Steven and Elivra Blakey. The apartment went on the market with Serhant’s Ryan Serhant and Jordan Hurt in April 2024 for $11.5 million.
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