There were 186 transactions totaling $853 million recorded in New York City over the 24 hours before 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.
🏆 Residential: The top recorded home sale in the Big Apple was on the Upper West Side. Abigail Hoffman and David Aboodi, who works in finance, scooped up a condo at Extell Development Company’s 50 West 66th Street for $7.3 million. The three-bedroom unit spans about 2,500 square feet, pricing the transaction at roughly $2,900 per square foot.
🏆 Commercial: The Garment District had the top recorded commercial transaction in the city. The University of Oxford offloaded its office space at 198 Madison Avenue, or 355 Fifth Avenue, the B. Altman and Company Building, for $40 million. The buyer was Benchmark Properties, which intends to renovate the space. Records show the transaction covers two units: one spans 99,700 square feet and the other 20,100 square feet. The space was used for the university’s academic press, which acquired the space in 1994. A JLL team led by Drew Isaacson, Stephen Godnick, Clint Olsen and Vickram Jambu represented the buyer and seller.
📊 Commercial: United Properties Corp. shed a retail property with 16 units at 71-26 Main Street in Queens for $12 million. The buyer of the one-story, 28,000-square-foot property was an LLC linked to Gil Zaburov. The seller had owned the site for decades.
📊 Residential: A condo at 157 West 57th Street on Billionaires’ Row sold for $7 million, down from its prior trade price of $7.2 million in 2018. The seller in the latest deal was an LLC managed byt Vlad Torgovnik, chief information officer of Millennium Management Global Investment, and the buyer was O57 LLC. The pad has two bedrooms and two and a half baths across more than 2,400 square feet. The sale pencils out to about $2,900 per square foot. The unit went on the market in February 2024 with a list price of just under $8 million. Serhant’s Scott Francis, Sara Gore and Ashley Brooke represented the seller.
📊 Residential: Amy Pollner Moritz, daughter of oil executive Ben R. Pollner, parted with a 21-foot-wide townhouse in Kips Bay for $5.8 million. The property, at 308 East 30th Street, has an owner’s duplex and two additional apartments. It also has an in-ground lap pool in the backyard. In total, the townhouse has 5,100 square feet of living space and more than 1,800 square feet of exterior space. It went on the market in August 2024 for $6.3 million. Douglas Elliman’s Nadia Bartolucci and Alyssa Rainford represented Moritz, who acquired the property in 2014 for $6.2 million. The buyer was an LLC linked to Peter Maglione and Christine Reilly.
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