There were 222 transactions totaling $354 million filed in New York City records from 4 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 30, through 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026.
🏆 Residential: The top home sale to hit records was in Midtown, where a nearly 6,500-square-foot sponsor unit at Pontiac Land Group’s 53 West 53rd Street sold for $29.5 million. The buyer was DXG Property, LLC. The deal works out to about $4,600 per square foot. The unit has four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms and direct elevator access. The transaction is about 37 percent off its most recent listing price of about $46.7 million. Douglas Elliman’s Renee Micheli, Jade Chan, Frances Katzen and Michelle Griffith had the listing.
🏆 Commercial: The top commercial deal recorded in New York City was in Long Island City. Real estate firm Wilbee Corporation offloaded a one-story, 18,400-square-foot building at 35-25 Steinway Street for $17.7 million. The buyer was an LLC tied to Great Neck, New York-based ZD Jasper Realty. Wilbee had owned the property for decades. The deal works out to roughly $970 per square foot.
📊 Commercial: An East Williamsburg development site — currently a grocery store — at 639 Grand Avenue traded for $12.5 million. The seller was the Scaturro family, which had owned the site for decades. The buyer was an LLC tied to developer Joseph Banda.
📊 Commercial: In Nolita, a six-story, mixed-use walkup with 15 apartments at 17 Prince Street changed hands for $12.5 million. Both the buyer and seller were LLCs named after the building’s address. The seller had owned the property since at least 1997, records show. The building does not appear to have any apartments available, but a one-bedroom pad was on the market for $3,800 a month in September. The ground floor is home to a cafe.
📊 Residential: For $12.7 million, RhinoRoost LLC purchased two pads at The Greenwich at 65 West 13th Street in Greenwich Village. Joel and Suzette Solomon sold one of the units, valued at $6.5 million, and Elizabeth Daisy Helman sold the other, which went for $6.1 million. Tamir Shemesh and Patty Lehan of the Shemesh team at Nest Seekers International represented all sides of the transaction.
📊 Residential: A sponsor unit at The Cortland at 555 West 22nd Street in Chelsea sold for $8 million. The buyer was Cortland PH16BE, LLC. The 2,800-square-foot penthouse has three bedrooms and three and a half baths; the deal works out to about $2,900 per square foot. The unit’s asking price was $8.5 million. Core’s Shaun Osher had the listing. The project’s developers are Related Companies and Mitsui.
By the Numbers: Data center spending surges as AI demand reshapes construction
As the rise of artificial intelligence accelerates infrastructure and energy needs, data centers continue to gain ground in construction spending.
Spending on data center construction in October was 18.4 percent higher compared to the same time last year, and the highest year-over-year growth among the major non-residential asset classes, according to a TRD Data analysis of the most recent data available from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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