Socialite Finally Snags Pending Deal For UES Co-op

Socialite Shafi Roepers finally found a buyer for her Upper East Side co-op.

Roepers’ apartment on the third floor of 4 East 66th Street, asking $30 million, snagged a contract, roughly a decade after she first listed it with a $65 million price tag, according to a StreetEasy listing.

Roepers bought her ex-husband, hedge funder Alexander Roepers, out of the property for $15.8 million in 2013. She started shopping the five-bedroom abode two years later, though it underwent multiple price chops before landing a pending deal.

The full-floor home has seven bathrooms and four fireplaces. It also features a Juliet balcony and library with views of Central Park.

Brown Harris Stevens’ Mary Fitzgibbons and Martha Kramer had the listing.

The building has been home to a number of pricey deals, including last year, when Sarah Solomon, the widow of pharmaceutical executive Martin Solomon, sold her apartment for $37 million. Similar to Roepers’ co-op, Unit No. 7, which initially asked $55 million, had multiple price chops after hitting the market in 2022.

The co-op was the priciest of 21 homes in Manhattan asking $4 million or more to land inked deals between Jan. 12 and Jan. 18, according to Olshan Realty’s report. The total was on par with the previous period, when 20 luxury properties in the borough found buyers.

Co-ops nabbed the No. 1 and No. 2 spots topping Manhattan’s luxury market last week, which has only happened three times since June 2021, including in May. The two pricey signed contracts come as deals for co-ops have been outpacing condo sales in the borough, according to Miller Samuel’s fourth quarter report.

The second most expensive home to enter contract was a co-op at the Dakota, with an asking price of $24 million. Apartment No. 33, which hasn’t traded in more than 40 years, overlooks Central Park and has three bedrooms and four bathrooms. It also features a staff room, corner living room, library and four wood-burning fireplaces.

Brown Harris Stevens’ John Burger had the listing.

Built in 1884, the landmarked building at 1 West 72nd Street is among the most well-known buildings in New York City. It has a long list of storied residents, including Judy Garland, Paul Simon and Yoko Ono, who continued living at the Dakota after her husband, John Lennon, was shot and killed outside the building in 1980.

Of the 21 properties to find buyers, nine were condos, seven were co-ops, one was a condop and five were townhouses.

The homes asked a combined $201 million, which works out to an average of $9.1 million and a median of $6.1 million. The typical home was on the market for more than a year and had a discount of 6 percent.